Cab Driver

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"Cab Driver"
Single by The Mills Brothers
from the album Fortuosity
B-side "Fortuosity"
ReleasedSeptember 1967 (1967-09)
Genre Traditional pop
Length2:45
Label Dot
Songwriter(s) Carson Parks
Producer(s) Charles Randolph Grean, Tom Mack
The Mills Brothers singles chronology
"Honeysuckle Rose Blues Bossa Nova"
(1966)
"Cab Driver"
(1967)
"My Shy Violet"
(1968)

"Cab Driver" is a song written by Carson Parks and performed by The Mills Brothers featuring Sy Oliver and His Orchestra. It reached #3 on the Easy Listening chart, #21 on the Cashbox chart, and #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968. [1] It was featured on their 1968 album Fortuosity. [2]

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The song was arranged by Sy Oliver and produced by Charles Randolph Grean and Tom Mack. [3]

The song ranked #86 on Billboard magazine's Top 100 singles of 1968. [4]

Other charting versions

Other versions

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