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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.
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He recorded seven albums and scored 12 hits on the American country music charts, including "Hitchin' a Ride", "Repeat After Me" and "I Want One". [1] In addition, he was a long-time country music DJ, with stints in Cincinnati, Ohio and Omaha, Nebraska. He was named the Country Music Association's Disc Jockey of the Year in 1978. [1]
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]
Boston is an American rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1975 by Tom Scholz.The band's core members include multi-instrumentalist, founder and leader Scholz, who played the majority of instruments on the band's 1976 self-titled debut album, and former lead vocalist Brad Delp, among a number of other musicians who varied from album to album.