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"
ReleasedJanuary 1988
Genre
Length
  • 5:36 (album version)
  • 4:43 (single version)
Label Jive
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) 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 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 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. [3]

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"Get Outta My Dreams" became Ocean's third and most recent U.S. no. 1 single, going to number one on both the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Black Singles charts. It was also his seventh and most recent single to reach the U.S. top 10. The song also peaked at no. 1 in seven other countries, including Canada, where it was the country's most successful single of 1988, and at no. 3 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 .

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) [45] Platinum70,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [46] Gold50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [47] 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". [48] Amazon Prime later included a version with lyrics rewritten and performed by Jon Batiste in an advertisement to promote Prime Day. [49]

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. [50]

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