Free Ride (song)

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"Free Ride"
Free Ride Edgar Winter.jpg
Single by Edgar Winter Group
from the album They Only Come Out at Night
B-side "When It Comes"
ReleasedAugust 1973
Recorded1972
Genre Rock [1]
Length3:08
Label Epic
Songwriter(s) Dan Hartman
Producer(s) Rick Derringer
Edgar Winter Group singles chronology
"Frankenstein"
(1973)		"Free Ride"
(1973)		"Hangin' Around"
(1973)
Audio
"Free Ride" on YouTube

"Free Ride" is a song written by Dan Hartman and performed by the Edgar Winter Group from their 1972 album They Only Come Out at Night , produced by Rick Derringer. The single was a top 15 U.S. hit in 1973, reaching number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 [2] and number 10 on Cash Box. In Canada, it peaked at number 8. [3]

Contents

Personnel

Other versions

Tavares recorded a version of the song for their 1975 album, In the City . Their version peaked at number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 [2] and number 8 on the Hot Soul Singles chart. Hartman himself re-recorded the song and released it on his 1979 album Relight My Fire . Audio Adrenaline recorded the song and released it on their 1996 album Bloom.[ citation needed ]

Charts

The song was featured in the 1990 film Air America and in The Drew Carey Show episode "The Dog and Pony Show". [11] The song is featured in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused , while Hartman's recording appeared in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and on its soundtrack album. [12] It was also featured as a song in the video game tie-in for the 2006 film Cars , [13] and is also used in the Disney California Adventure ride, Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: Breakout! [14] It was sampled on the Girl Talk mash-up album Feed the Animals (2008).

References

  1. ↑ Greenwald, Matthew. "Free Ride by The Edgar Winter Group - Track Info | AllMusic". allmusic. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 – ISBN   0-89820-089-X
  3. 1 2 "RPM100 Singles". RPM . 34 (2). Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada. October 20, 1973. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 341. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  5. ↑ "The Edgar Winter Group Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100 10/20/73". Archived from the original on 2015-06-09. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
  7. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, January 10, 1976". Archived from the original on October 18, 2018. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  8. ↑ Canada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Item". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  9. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN   0-89820-142-X.
  10. ↑ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1973". Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
  11. ↑ Archerd, Army (October 16, 1997). "Hello, 'Monty': Drew drops drawers". Variety . Retrieved January 19, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Dazed and Confused (1993)". IMDb.com.
  13. ↑ Cars (Video Game 2006) - Soundtracks - IMDb , retrieved 2023-05-17
  14. ↑ Tuttle, Brittani (2017-04-26). "Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT! to have its own Awesome Mix". Attractions Magazine. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
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