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"Hitchin' a Ride" is a song written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander issued as a single by the English pop/rock band Vanity Fare in late 1969. It reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1970 but was a bigger hit in the United States, reaching number 5 on the Hot 100 on June 27, 1970.
"Hitchin' A Ride", written by Peter Callander and Mitch Murray, gave them a second million-selling hit, [3] reaching No. 16 in the UK (January 1970), No. 1 for two weeks each on Chicago radio stations WCFL (May 1970) and WLS (June 1970), No. 5 on the Hot 100 (June–July 1970), and No. 3 in Canada.
Hitchin' a Ride may refer to: The act of hitchhiking "Hitchin' a Ride" (Green Day song) "Hitchin' a Ride" (Vanity Fare song) This page was last edited on ...
"Hitchin' a Ride" is a song by American rock band Green Day. It was released in September 1997 as the first single from their fifth album, Nimrod , and is the second track on the album. The single reached number five on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, number nine on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, and number 25 on the UK Singles ...
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In the mid-1980s, just before the privatisation of British Telecom, Murray wrote and starred in a series of comedy programmes, The Telefun Show, which were only available for listening via the telephone (by dialling 01–246 8070 in the UK) in a similar way to the contemporary Dial-A-Disc service, which he also presented and which attracted up to 300,000 calls per day.
Smokin'," was written and recorded in 1973 and called "Shakin'." "Hitch a Ride" was originally titled "San Francisco Day," [17] with lyrics starting in New York City and then planning to hitch a ride to "head for the other side." This was the first song Delp re-recorded after the original Mother's Milk vocalist left. [9]