"Don't Cha Stop" | |
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Song by The Cars | |
from the album The Cars | |
Released | June 6, 1978 |
Genre | New wave |
Length | 3:01 |
Label | Elektra |
Songwriter(s) | Ric Ocasek |
Producer(s) | Roy Thomas Baker |
The Cars track listing | |
9 tracks | |
Audio | |
"Don't Cha Stop" on YouTube |
"Don't Cha Stop" is a song by the American rock band the Cars. The song appears on their 1978 debut album The Cars . The song is sung by bandleader Ric Ocasek.
Rolling Stone critic Kit Rachlis said in his review of The Cars that "the songs bristle and -- in their harsher, more angular moments ('Bye Bye Love,' 'Don't Cha Stop') -- bray." [1] On the Billboard review of The Cars, "Don't Cha Stop" was named one of the albums "[b]est cuts[.]" [1]
After being released on the 1978 album The Cars, "Don't Cha Stop" saw release as the B-side to "My Best Friend's Girl" in the U.S. and Japan. That single hit #35 in America. However, in Europe, the song "Moving in Stereo" was used as the B-side instead.
"Don't Cha Stop" later appeared on the compilation album Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology , as one of the six songs from The Cars to appear.
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