Hitch Hike

Album: That Stubborn Kinda Fellow (1962)
Charted: 30
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  • I'm goin' to Chicago
    That's the last place my baby strayed
    Yeah, hitch hike
    I'm packin' up my bags
    Gonna leave this old town right away
    Hitch hike
    I've got to find that girl
    If I have to hitch hike 'round the world
    Hitch hike

    Chicago City Limits
    That's what the sign on the highway read
    Hitch hike
    I'm gonna keep movin' till I get to that
    Street corner 6th and 3rd
    Hitch hike, yeah
    I've got to find that girl
    If I have to hitch hike 'round the world
    Hitch hike, baby

    Hitch hike, now hitch a hike
    It's all right hitch hike Jenny
    Hitch hike, hitch hike
    Yeah, hitch hike, hitch hike Jenny

    (Hitch hike baby, hitch hike Susan)
    (Hitch hike baby, hitch hike Susan)
    (Hitch hike baby, hitch hike baby)

    I'm goin' to St. Louis
    But my next stop just might be L.A.
    Now what'd I say
    Got no money in my pocket
    So I'm gonna have to hitch hike all the way
    Yeah
    I've got to find that girl
    If I have to hitch hike 'round the world
    And what'd I say

    Come on, hitch hike
    Come hitch hike Jenny
    Hitch hike now hitch hike baby
    Hitch hike hitch hike baby
    Now hitch hike
    To the hitch hike Writer/s: CLARENCE O. PAUL, MARVIN GAYE, MARVIN P GAYE, WILLIAM STEVENSON
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Jennifur Sun from RamonaI can remember when you could do this without being scared to death, sadly those days are gone.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 2nd 1963, a rock 'n roll show titled 'Limbo Party' was held at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, CA...
    One of the eight* acts appearing on the show was Marvin Gaye; at the time his "Hitch Hike" was at #33 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and eight days later on March 10th it would peaked at #30 {for 1 week} and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100 {See next post below}...
    * the other acts were the Four Seasons, the Crystals, Lou Christie, Paul & Paula, Dick & Dee Dee, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, and Chubby Checker {who hosted the show}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 2nd 1965, Marvin Gaye performed "Hitch Hike" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Just under two years earlier on January 6th, 1963 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #96; and nine weeks later on March 10th, 1963 it peaked at #30 {for 1 week} and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #12 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1962 and 1983 he had thirty-seven Top 100 records; thirteen made the Top 10 with three reaching #1; "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" for 7 weeks in 1968, "Let's Get It On" for 2 weeks in 1973, and "Got to Give It Up - Part One" for 1 week in 1977...
    He just missed having a fourth #1 record when "What's Going On" peaked at #2 {for 3 weeks} in 1971...
    Plus he made the Top 100 eighteen more times in duets; eleven times with Tammi Terrell, three times with Diana Ross, and two times each with Mary Wells and Kim Weston...
    Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. passed away on April 1st, 1984; the day before his 45th birthday...
    May he R.I.P.
  • Hal from Atlanta, Gai always thought stubborn kind of fella was marvin's first hit. according to sources, marvin recorded the tune thinking he was doing a demo for another motown artist, gino parks. but it was a move by producers to persuade gaye to "scream". gaye had designs on a singing career to emulate idol nat king cole
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