Expressway to Your Heart

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"Expressway to Your Heart"
Single by The Soul Survivors
from the album When the Whistle Blows Anything Goes
B-side "Hey Gyp"
ReleasedJuly 1967
Genre
Length2:21
Label Crimson 1010
Songwriter(s) Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
Producer(s) Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
The Soul Survivors singles chronology
"Expressway to Your Heart"
(1967)
"Explosion in Your Soul"
(1967)

"Expressway to Your Heart" is a song written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and performed by the Soul Survivors. It appeared on their 1967 album, When the Whistle Blows Anything Goes, [3] which was produced by Gamble and Huff. [4]

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The song reached No.3 on the R&B chart and No.4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967, [5] and was ranked No.18 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1967. [6]

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