| "Roll with It" | ||||
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| Single by Steve Winwood | ||||
| from the album Roll with It | ||||
| B-side | "The Morning Side" | |||
| Released | May 1988[1] | |||
| Genre | Funk[2] | |||
| Length | 4:30 (single/video edit) 5:20 (album version) | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Steve Winwood, Tom Lord-Alge | |||
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"Roll with It" is a song recorded by Steve Winwood for his album of the same name, released on Virgin Records. It was written by Winwood and songwriter Will Jennings. Publishing rights organization BMI later had Motown songwriters Holland-Dozier-Holland credited with co-writing the song due to its resemblance to the Junior Walker hit "(I'm a) Roadrunner".
The song was the last #1 hit of Casey Kasem's 18-year run as the original host of American Top 40 (he would return to host the program 10 years later), as well as being the first #1 song of Shadoe Stevens' hosting tenure. The 1990 movie Nuns on the Run also made use of the song, as well as the movie Short Time released that same year.
- ^ Bacon, Tony (2006). Singles. Backbeat UK. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-871547-73-3.
- ^ Evans, Paul (2004). "Steve Winwood". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 882–883. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.