Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car

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"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"
Get Outta My Dreams.jpg
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Single by Billy Ocean
from the album Tear Down These Walls
B-side "Showdown"
Released18 January 1988 (1988-01-18) [1]
Genre
Length
  • 5:36 (album version)
  • 4:43 (single version)
Label Jive
Songwriters
Producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Billy Ocean singles chronology
"Love Really Hurts Without You (1986 Dance Mix)"
(1986)		"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"
(1988)		"Calypso Crazy"
(1988)
Official video
"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" on YouTube

"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" is a song by the Trinidadian-British singer Billy Ocean, based on a line in the Sherman Brothers' song "You're Sixteen". It was released as the first single from Ocean's seventh studio album, Tear Down These Walls (1988). Part of its popularity lay in its cutting-edge (for the time) music video, which features animation mixed with live-action sequences. The saxophone solo is performed by Vernon Jeffrey Smith. [4]

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"Get Outta My Dreams" became Ocean's third and final US number-one single, topping both the US Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Black Singles charts. It was also his seventh and most recent single to reach the US top 10. The song also peaked at number one in seven other countries, including Canada, where it was the country's most successful single of 1988, and at number three on the UK Singles Chart, making it Ocean's sixth and final top-10 hit there.

Music video

The music video for "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" consists of Billy Ocean driving, sometimes involving scenes with different cartoon characters. It was featured in the 1988 American teen comedy film License to Drive .

Chart performance

"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of April 9, 1988, staying for two consecutive weeks, tying with his previous chart-topper, "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" as his longest chart-topper on the chart. [5] [6] It was subsequently replaced by Whitney Houston's "Where Do Broken Hearts Go", which made history as Houston's seventh consecutive number one single on the chart, breaking a chart record set by the Beatles. [7]

Track listings

  1. "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" (extended version) – 8:59
  2. "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" (7-inch version) – 4:43
  3. "Showdown" – 4:58
  1. "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" – 4:10
  2. "Showdown" – 4:58
  1. "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" (extended version) – 8:59
  2. "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" – 4:02
  3. "Showdown" – 4:58

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [48] Platinum70,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [49] Gold50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [50] Silver250,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Covers and parodies

The song was later covered by pop punk band Fenix TX for the soundtrack of NASCAR Thunder 2003 . In 2013, heavy metal band Gwar covered the song in a video featured on The A.V. Club website as part of the site's A.V. Undercover series. Approximately three minutes into the performance, the band incorporates the Who's "Baba O'Riley" into the song. The song is mentioned in a 2014 television advertisement for Twix Bites.

The song was parodied by comedian and actor Jason Sudeikis as 1980s fake singer Ocean Billy in the "Worst of Soul Train" sketch on Saturday Night Live with the title "Get Out of My Car, Get into My Trunk". [51] Amazon Prime later included a version with lyrics rewritten and performed by Jon Batiste in an advertisement to promote Prime Day. [52]

In 1989, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the telecommunications company ENTEL Chile, this song was parodied as "ENTEL está aquí" ("ENTEL is here").[ citation needed ]

The song was featured on the soundtrack of the 1988 film License to Drive . It appears in a 2018 commercial for Applebee's. [53]

It was used in the climax of season 2, episode 3 of Digman! , "A Sari Sight."

References

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  2. ↑ Coplan, Chris (1 October 2013). "GWAR covers Billy Ocean's "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car", and it'll make you swoon". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved 21 June 2015.
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  4. ↑ "V. JEFFREY SMITH (TORS-Producer/Sound Engineer)... - The Outlet Radio Show". Theoutletradioshow.tumblr.com. 15 March 2015. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
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  7. ↑ "Billboard Hot 100 (week of April 23, 1988)". Billboard. 23 April 1988. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  8. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St Ives, New South Wales: Australian Chart Book. p. 221. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988.
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