| "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" | ||||
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| Single by Billy Ocean | ||||
| from the album Tear Down These Walls | ||||
| B-side | "Showdown" | |||
| Released | 18 January 1988[1] | |||
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| Label | Jive | |||
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| Producer(s) | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | |||
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| "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" on YouTube | ||||
"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" is a song by the Trinidadian-British singer Billy Ocean, based on a line in the Sherman Brothers' song "You're Sixteen". It was released as the first single from Ocean's seventh studio album Tear Down These Walls (1988). Part of its popularity lay in its cutting-edge (for the time) music video, which features animation mixed with live-action sequences. The saxophone solo is performed by Vernon Jeffrey Smith.[4]
"Get Outta My Dreams" became Ocean's third and most recent US no. 1 single, going to number one on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Black Singles charts. It was also his seventh and most recent single to reach the US top 10. The song also peaked at no. 1 in seven other countries, including Canada, where it was the country's most successful single of 1988, and at no. 3 on the UK Singles Chart, making it Ocean's sixth and final top 10 hit there.
- ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 8.
- ^ Coplan, Chris (1 October 2013). "GWAR covers Billy Ocean's "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car", and it'll make you swoon". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ Kantor, Justin. "Billy Ocean - Billy Ocean | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ "V. JEFFREY SMITH (TORS-Producer/Sound Engineer)... - The Outlet Radio Show". Theoutletradioshow.tumblr.com. 15 March 2015. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.