{{Infobox song | name = Ride! | type = single | artist = Dee Dee Sharp | album = All the Hits (Volume II) | B-side = The Night | released = {{Start date|1962|10}} | recorded = | genre = * Soul<ref name= "Stanley 2013">{{cite book|first=Bob |last=Stanley|title=Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop|chapter= This Is My Prayer: The Birth of Soul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9emZAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT7|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-28198-5|page=161}}</ref> * bossa nova<ref name= "Stanley 2013">{{cite book|first=Bob |last=Stanley|title=Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop|chapter= This Is My Prayer: The Birth of Soul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9emZAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT7|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-28198-5|page=161}}</ref> | length = {{Duration|m=2|s=24}} | label = Cameo | writer = Kal Mann, Dave Appell<ref>{{cite web|title=discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/Dee-Dee-Sharp-Ride/release/2008129|website=discogs.com|year=1962 |accessdate=June 23, 2021}}</ref> | producer = | prev_title = Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes) | prev_year = 1962 | next_title = Do the Bird | next_year = 1963 }}
"'''Ride!'''" is a song written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell and performed by Dee Dee Sharp. It was featured on the 1963 album ''All the Hits (Volume II)''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dee Dee Sharp, ''All the Hits (Volume II)''|website=Discogs |year=1963 |url=https://www.discogs.com/Dee-Dee-Sharp-All-The-Hits-Volume-II/release/9856287|accessdate=March 7, 2019}}</ref> The single sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">{{cite book | first= Joseph | last= Murrells | year= 1978 | title= The Book of Golden Discs | edition= 2nd | publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd | location= London | page= [https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/152 152] | isbn= 0-214-20512-6 | url-access= registration | url= https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/152 }}</ref>
==Background== The song begins with Dee Dee Sharp yelling : "Let's Pony Again". The male backup singers repeatedly sing the words: "Get It". This song was meant to rejuvenate Chubby Checker's dance hit song from the previous year "Pony Time" (1961).
==Chart performance== "Ride!" reached No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 7 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1962.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dee Dee Sharp, "Ride!" Chart Positions|url=http://musicvf.com/song.php?title=Ride%21+by+Dee+Dee+Sharp&id=11285|accessdate=March 7, 2019}}</ref> In Canada it reached No. 15.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chumtribute.com/62-11-26-chart.jpg| title=CHUM Hit Parade - November 26, 1962}}</ref>
==Other versions== *The Orlons released a version of the song on their 1963 album ''All the Hits by The Orlons''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Orlons, ''All the Hits by The Orlons''|website=Discogs |year=1963 |url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Orlons-All-The-Hits-By-The-Orlons/release/2686292|accessdate=March 7, 2019}}</ref>
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