Kenny Gamble of the songwriting team of Gamble & Huff wrote Expressway to Your Heart, the 1967 hit by the Soul Survivors, while being stuck in traffic on I-76. He writes of wanting to get going to see his girlfriend, which is what he really wanted to do. It is well documented on the Web, for example, at http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=14328.
Publication date | Jun 24, 2018 |
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Kenny Gamble of the songwriting team of Gamble & Huff wrote Expressway to Your Heart, the 1967 hit by the Soul Survivors, while being stuck in traffic on I-76. He writes of wanting to get going to see his girlfriend, which is what he really wanted to do. It is well documented on the Web, for example, at http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=14328.
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Comments : //www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inthemix/Richie-Inqui-of-Expressway-To-Your-Heart-Philly-sound-hitmakers-has-died.html. About this song, it says that [Kenny] Gamble wrote the timeless Philadelphia lyric that likens an out-of-gas love affair to a traffic jam on the Schuylkill Expressway while stuck in traffic on his way to see his then-girlfriend, Mashed Potato time singer Dee Dee Sharp.
Date : 2017-01-16