"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.[3]
"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 video
The music video for "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" consists of Billy Ocean driving, sometimes involving scenes with different cartoon characters. It was featured in the 1988 American teen comedy film License to Drive.
Track listings
12-inch single (BOS T 1)
"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" (extended version) – 8:59
"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" (7-inch version) – 4:43
"Showdown" – 4:58
7-inch single (BOS 1)
"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" – 4:10
"Showdown" – 4:58
CD maxi-single (BOS CD1)
"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" (extended version) – 8:59
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
Covers and parodies
The song was later covered by
pop punk band
Fenix TX for the soundtrack of NASCAR Thunder 2003. In 2013,
heavy metal band
Gwar covered the song in a video featured on
The A.V. Club website as part of the site's A.V. Undercover series. Approximately three minutes into the performance, the band incorporates
the Who's "
Baba O'Riley" into the song. The song is mentioned in a 2014 television advertisement for
Twix Bites.
The song was parodied by comedian and actor
Jason Sudeikis as 1980s fake singer Ocean Billy in the "Worst of Soul Train" sketch on Saturday Night Live with the title "Get Out of My Car, Get into My Trunk".[48] Amazon Prime later included a version with lyrics rewritten and performed by
Jon Batiste in an advertisement to promote
Prime Day.[49]
In 1989, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the telecommunications company
ENTEL Chile, this song was parodied as "ENTEL está aquí" ("ENTEL is here").[citation needed]
In popular culture
The song was featured on the soundtrack of the 1988 film License to Drive. It appears in a 2018 commercial for
Applebee's.[50]
^Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St. Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 221.
ISBN0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by
ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988.