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,^[1] which was produced by Gamble and Huff.^[2]

The song reached #3 on the R&B chart and #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967,^[3] and was ranked #18 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1967.^[4]

Other versions

• Amen Corner released the song as the B-side to their single "Judge Rumpel Crassila" in 1969 in the Netherlands.^[5]
• Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders recorded a version of the song in 1973.
• Margo Thunder released the song as a single in 1975. It reached #25 on the R&B chart.^[6]
• Mike Finnigan released the song as a single in 1978.^[7]
• The Blues Brothers released the song as a single in 1981.^[8]
• Breakfast Club released a version as a single in 1988. It reached #30 on the Dance chart in 1989.^[9]
• 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 sang the song on his 2009 Working on a Dream Tour.

In popular culture

• The 1987 film Adventures in Babysitting featured a version of the song performed by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes.^[10]
• The 1987 Disney Channel TV special D-TV: Doggone Valentine used the 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 version was used in the 1996 movie, Striptease.

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