Hitch Hike (song)

"Hitch Hike"
Single by Marvin Gaye
from the album That Stubborn Kinda Fellow
B-side"Hello There Angel"
ReleasedDecember 19, 1962
Recorded1962; Hitsville, USA, Detroit, Michigan
GenreR&B
Length2:32
LabelTamla
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)William "Mickey" Stevenson
Marvin Gaye singles chronology
"Stubborn Kind of Fellow"
(1962)
"Hitch Hike"
(1962)
"Pride and Joy"
(1963)

"Hitch Hike" is a 1962 song by Marvin Gaye, released on the Tamla label. Another song Gaye co-wrote (this time with Clarence Paul and William "Mickey" Stevenson).

The single was successful enough to land Gaye his first top forty pop single in 1963 with "Hitch Hike" reaching number thirty on the pop singles chart while reaching number twelve on the R&B singles chart.[1]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 225.