Peak
32
Weeks
14
Score
1,256
Chart Year
1969
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This song is about a love affair that only exists on the weekends. It's hot, passionate and loving, but when Sunday night/Monday morning rolls around the guy goes away. For most of the song the girl is almost begging him to stay and wishing and hoping they can be together, but then finally giving him an ultimatum towards the end of the song which goes: We gotta let this feeling grow Or Let it end You say you care Well if you do/Don't ever go I'm begging you... >> "Will You Be Staying After Sunday?" was the biggest hit by Baltimore, Maryland's sunshine-pop band The Peppermint Rainbow. Sung by the Lamdin sisters Bonnie and Patty, the song is about a woman who has grown tired of being "the other woman" in an affair and wants something longer-lasting. She never comes out and says this directly, but her sentiments make it clear. She gets the man on weekends, but once Monday comes he goes back to his regular life. "We gotta let this feeling grow or let it end," sings Rainbow frontwoman Patty Lamdin Phipps. The rest of the lyrics leave us doubting the strength of her conviction, as she sounds more pleading than demanding. "I won't try to own your soul, you can be free," she promises. "I only want you here each night, loving me." Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn wrote they song. They also wrote "The Morning After" by Maureen McGovern. The song was on the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks, peaking on May 3, 1969 at #32. The song's theme is very similar to the only other Peppermint Rainbow song to crack the charts, "Don't Wake Me Up in the Morning, Michael." Both were also thematically similar to "Sunday Will Never Be The Same," by fellow sunshine-pop group Spanky & Our Gang.
Don't let a lonely Monday come again... Will you be staying after Sunday? Or go home on Monday? Will you be staying after Sunday or go home? Your lips are warm on Friday night The next two days you hold me tight But when it's done you always go and I'm alone Will you be staying after Sunday? Or go home on Monday? I'll keep waiting for that one day You'll be mine I'd give the world to keep you here Why do you need to disappear And When I press you do your best To stall for time I wouldn't try to own your soul You can be free I only want you here each night Loving me Will you be staying after Sunday? Or go home on Monday? We gotta let this feeling grow Or Let it end You say you care Well if you do Don't ever go I'm begging you Don't let a lonely Monday come again... Will you be staying after Sunday? Or go home on Monday? (Repeat last line 4x)
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan 18, 1969 | 96 | 30 |
| 2 | Jan 25, 1969 | 95 | 31 |
| 3 | Feb 1, 1969 | 94 | 32 |
| 8 | Mar 8, 1969 | 92 | 34 |
| 9 | Mar 15, 1969 | 82 | 44 |
| 10 | Mar 22, 1969 | 74 | 52 |
| 11 | Mar 29, 1969 | 67 | 59 |
| 12 | Apr 5, 1969 | 52 | 74 |
| 13 | Apr 12, 1969 | 39 | 87 |
| 14 | Apr 19, 1969 | 39 | 87 |
| 15 | Apr 26, 1969 | 39 | 87 |
| 16 | May 3, 1969 | 32 | 94 |
| 17 | May 10, 1969 | 32 | 94 |
| 18 | May 17, 1969 | 44 | 82 |