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Expressway to Your Heart

"Expressway to Your Heart" is a song written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and performed by the Soul Survivors. It appeared on their 1967 album, When the Whistle Blows Anything Goes,^[2] which was produced by Gamble and Huff.^[3]

The song reached No.3 on the R&B chart and No.4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967,^[4] and was ranked No.18 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1967.^[5]

Other versions[edit]

• Gil Now, with French lyrics, titled "Les Oiseaux dans la ville" in 1968.^[6]
• Don Bryant, on his album Precious Soul.
• The Vibrations with Gamble & Huff producing, in 1969 on Neptune Records.
• Amen Corner as the B-side to their single "Judge Rumpel Crassila" in 1969 in the Netherlands.^[7]
• Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, in 1973.
• Margo Thunder, as a single in 1975. It reached No.25 on the R&B chart.^[8]
• Mike Finnigan, as a single in 1978.^[9]
• The Blues Brothers, as a single in 1981.^[10]
• Breakfast Club, as a single in 1988. It reached No.30 on the Dance chart in 1989.^[11]
• King Tee sampled The Soul Survivors version on their song "Do Your Thing" which was featured on their 1990 album, At Your Own Risk.
• Bruce Springsteen performed it on his 2009 Working on a Dream Tour.
• Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

In popular culture[edit]

• The 1987 film Adventures in Babysitting featured a version of the song performed by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes.^[12]
• The 1987 Disney Channel TV special D-TV: Doggone Valentine used the Soul Survivors version, shown with clips of Goofy and other Disney cartoon dog characters in their cars, fighting their way through various traffic jams.
• The Soul Survivors rendition was used in the 1996 movie, Striptease.

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