{{Short description|1980 song by Andy Gibb}} {{Infobox song | name = Warm Ride | cover = | alt = | type = | artist = [[Bee Gees]] | album = [[Bee Gees Greatest]] | released = September 2007 | recorded = February{{snd}}April 1977 | studio = | venue = | genre = [[Disco]] | length = 3:16 | label = [[Rhino Records|Rhino]], [[Reprise Records|Reprise]] | writer = [[Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb]] | producer = Bee Gees, [[Albhy Galuten]], Karl Richardson }} {{Infobox song | name = Warm Ride | cover = | alt = | type = | artist = [[Andy Gibb]] | album = [[After Dark (Andy Gibb album)|After Dark]]<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/after-dark-mw0000031818|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 8, 2023}}</ref> | released = February 1980 | recorded = November 1979 | studio = [[Criteria Studios]], [[Miami]] | venue = | genre = [[Pop music|Pop]] | length = 3:30 | label = [[RSO Records|RSO]] | writer = [[Barry Gibb|Barry]], [[Robin Gibb|Robin]] & [[Maurice Gibb]] | producer = [[Gibb-Galuten-Richardson]] }}
"'''Warm Ride'''" is a song written by [[Barry Gibb|Barry]], [[Robin Gibb|Robin]] and [[Maurice Gibb]], and recorded by the [[Bee Gees]] and during the 1977 ''[[Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)|Saturday Night Fever]]'' sessions in France. The Bee Gees original, if unfinished, recording remained unreleased until 2007 when it was mixed and included on a reissue of ''[[Bee Gees Greatest]]''. The song was an outtake from the soundtrack.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/77.html Gibb Songs 1977]</ref>
==Personnel== *[[Barry Gibb]] – lead vocals, [[guitar]] *[[Robin Gibb]] – vocals *[[Maurice Gibb]] – vocals, [[Bass guitar|bass]] *[[Blue Weaver]] – [[Electronic keyboard|keyboards]], [[synthesiser]], [[piano]] *[[Dennis Bryon]] – [[Drum kit|drums]] *[[Joe Lala]] – [[Percussion instrument|percussion]]
==Cover versions== * The song was recorded by [[Rare Earth (band)|Rare Earth]], for whom it was originally written by the Bee Gees. The song reached number 39 on the US [[Hot 100]],<ref>{{cite book |title= Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2013 |publisher=Record Research |page=690}}</ref> and number 68 on the Australian charts.<ref name=Kent>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, New South Wales|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=246}}</ref> * [[Graham Bonnet]]'s version was released as a single and reached number 2 in [[Australia]] in August 1978.<ref name=Kent/> * [[Andy Gibb]]'s version of the song was recorded in 1979 and released in 1980 on his last studio album, ''[[After Dark (Andy Gibb album)|After Dark]]''. It was the last song recorded for the album with backing vocals done by older brother Barry Gibb.
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{{Rare Earth}}
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