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"Magic Carpet Ride" is a rock song written by John Kay and Rushton Moreve from the Canadian-American hard rock band Steppenwolf. The song was initially released in 1968 on the album The Second . It was the lead single from that album, peaking at number three in the US, and staying in the charts for 16 weeks, longer than any other Steppenwolf song.
The song "Hey Lawdy Mama" was recorded in the studio, but edited in a manner to segue directly into "Magic Carpet Ride", thus retaining the album's "live" feel. [2] On original LP copies of Steppenwolf Live, "Hey Lawdy Mama" and "Magic Carpet Ride" are banded together as a single track, with a total running time of 7:13. A differently edited ...
The album contains one of Steppenwolf's most famous songs, "Magic Carpet Ride". The background of the original ABC LP cover was a shiny "foil", in contrast to later (MCA Records) LP issues and the modern CD sleeve.
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Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Note: The version of "Magic Carpet Ride" is not the original single version, but rather, the ...
The First Contact soundtrack was released by the independent label GNP Crescendo Records—which distributed all of the Star Trek film and television soundtracks—on December 2, 1996, [7] [8] The album contained 51 minutes of music, with 35 minutes of Jerry Goldsmith's score, 10 minutes of additional music by Joel Goldsmith, and two licensed songs—Roy Orbison's "Ooby Dooby" and Steppenwolf ...
The song followed on the heels of the band's two 1968 hits, [12] "Born to Be Wild" which peaked at #2 and "Magic Carpet Ride" which peaked at #3. Cash Box particularly praised the "pulverizing vocal performance." [3] Dave Grusin used the song when he scored the 1968 psychedelic sex farce movie Candy, in which it is the culmination to the ...
"The Pusher" is a rock song written by Hoyt Axton in 1963, made popular by the 1969 movie Easy Rider which used Steppenwolf's version to accompany the opening scenes showing drug trafficking. The lyrics of the song distinguish between a dealer in drugs such as marijuana —who "will sell you lots of sweet dreams"—and a pusher of hard drugs ...