C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)

"C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)"
Single by Quad City DJ's
from the album Get On Up and Dance
ReleasedFebruary 27, 1996 (1996-02-27)
Length
  • 7:31 (album version)
  • 4:09 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • C.C. Lemonhead
  • Jay Ski
Quad City DJ's singles chronology
"C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)"
(1996)
"Hoop N Yo Face"
(1996)

"C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" is a song by American Florida-based musical group Quad City DJ's, released in February 1996 as a single from their debut album, Get On Up and Dance (1996). It is based on a sample of Barry White's 1974 main theme from soundtrack to the film Together Brothers. The song peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top 40 in Australia and New Zealand. It was ranked the number-one song of 1996 by Village Voice magazine, and in 2010, Pitchfork Media included the song as one of their "Ten Actually Good 90s Jock Jams".[1] In 2022, Rolling Stone ranked it number 86 in their list of "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time".[2] The song is also used in a wide variety of sports events.

  1. ^ "Staff Lists: A Feature About Nothing: The 1990s in Lists | Features | Pitchfork". Archived from the original on December 27, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
  2. ^ Dolan, Jon; Lopez, Julyssa; Matos, Michaelangelo; Shaffer, Claire (July 22, 2022). "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 30, 2022.