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  • nice flick leakedmovies . biz

  • callete la boca.

  • ►¡con esta canción hace su entrada mi compadre el Mago miadou! ♥

  • Luke 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. Luke 4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. Luke 4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

  • KILLA !!!!

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  • magician music

  • I'm playin this in band! Haah!

  • Great Song Great Band, never heard of them before???

    I´, allways a Chicago Fan, but like to hear more of this, very good!

    Please post more of the band here.

    Cheers R:K

  • @terrykathforever try The Flock which features Jerry Goodman who went on to join The Mahvishnu Orchestra & semi solo work with Jan Hammer (Like Children)

  • The B-side of the 45 was also a very good tune: "Lead Me Home, Gently". This was worthy of air-time as well. ;-)

  • great instrumentals! great song!

    

  • to all who lost in 9 11 the vehicle being 2 jets good

    great lets do the whole usa with nukes

  • the 9 11 song sung by the airplane that hit the towers lololo

  • loved then..love it now!

  • Like if Adam Carolla brought you here.

  • Man, loved the horns in this one! Great song!

    

  • Much sympathy sixtiesrockboy; you did not receive an adequate education. Your response to my comment regarding pedophillia tells me you lack the ability to comprehend the written word. You probably shouldn't read comic books because you will jump off a building and believe that superman will rescue you. Toodles dunce boy!

  • @sharonscorpioful your insane.

  • sounds just like blood sweat & tears

  • @hangas1 Yea, for years thats who I thought did this tune. anywho, its a really cool song.

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  • KICK ASS!

  • I am the friendly stranger in the black sedan.

  • 7 people got in the car with the friendly stranger. ;-)

  • This was a warm up song for my highschool jazz band. Used it to recruit young ones into band. playing trombone and glancing over the sheet music for this song gives me goosebumps. XD

  • 7 people don't have a drivers license.

  • Greatest BST gene-splice ever!

  • Great song...memories!

  • I have always loved this song. One of the best, drivin' smokin' songs ever in the Universe! Thank you for creating this! This is truly timeless!

  • hey wait a minute im playin this in jazz band

  • Peace 2 All!!

  • Reminds me of my DJ days in the early '70's...Vehicle...I Am, I Said (Diamond) If (Bread)....Those Were the Days (Mary Hopkin, '68 I think)

  • @catman5169 'Those Were the days' came out--on radio--in late 1968.

  • This song really has that "Wow!" factor. In other words, the wow from the off-center LP album hole is incredibly obvious in this video. I still love it though.

  • Blood, Sweat, & Tears? Nope...but the vocal on Vehicle sure sounds like David Clayton Thomas, doesn't it? And the horns sound like BS&T, too. Creating a "mimic" cut like "Vehicle" was smart marketing. BS&T was a major act at that time, getting tons of airplay. A song like "Vehicle" was a no-brainer for radio music directors to add. So, they did. And Ides of March's record label laughed all the way to the bank. That's how the biz works sometimes.

  • @Helivz: I was in second grade when the song came out and was elated when it played on the radio; never did receive enough air time. The late 60's early 70's made some great rock music. Who can forget Spirit in the Sky, Green Eyed Lady, In-a-Godda-Da-Vidda, Conquistador, Thank you, Get Ready...the list is endless.

  • God damn it! Do you know I looked for this song forever and bought every Blood Sweat and Tears album to try to find it because I never knew what the song title was. I have never even heard of this band hahaha. Thanks for the upload.

  • I want to get the Designated Driver version!

    In this sad age we need all the heroes we can get! and this spirited DD would be up to this good basic task.

  • This song would sound great in a new (American) car commericial!!!

  • just a great song.....timeless!

    thanks you

  • i love this song but it was very awkward the moment my band director told me that my favorite song to play was about a child molester

  • @vegeetas The song is about the singer/songwriters then girlfriend, current wife, who had him driving her all over the place. Peterik also wrote the lyrics for the Poli Genova song, "One Lifetime Is Not Enough". In some ways, that song could be the decades after sequel to "Vehicle". Yeah, it's not blue-eyed soul/funk. But, it is written by someone who has been married to the same person for decades which adds to the meaning of the song.

  • @vegeetas

    Could you do it as the Designated Driver version? That one rocks!

  • Great song, utterly creepy lyrics.

  • Every time this song came on the radio I became spellbound. It made me feel invincible and all powerful. One of the all time best.

  • @sharonscorpioful I remember this tune in the fall of 1969, as I entered the third grade. I was only a lad of eight. Now, in a few days I'll be turning 51. Posted November 30th, 2011.

  • Ides of March, Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, & Tower of Power...the great horn bands of all ages. I always wondered how Bill Conti didn't get sued...his "Gonna Fly Now" from "Rocky" was another one I loved, but it's almost a carbon copy of "Vehicle".

  • We play this at football games at my high school. It's my favorite out of all the ones we play.

  • I thought this was my theme song in 1970 just graduated hs and driving dad's black dodge custom 880 and thinking I was Miss Cool, picking up guys. until one got wacko and raped me. He went off to vietnam and I went off to college and had his baby. Yes there is more tothe story but this was the 70's where the woman was at fault because she let him ride in her car

  • thumbs up too. hey any can returns to the seventy .

  • I stand corrected they sound very similar, but on further listening there is a slight difference from David Clayton Thomas.

  • Hey that's Chicago...that's what everybody thought the first time they heard this song. It still rocks though.

  • Thumbs up if Nos Energy Drink brought you here :D

  • @spartenbeny what that my radio brought me here

  • @spartenbeny Thumbs up, but a Google search brought me here. (I needed a unicorn chaser after listening to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and I'd been thinking about "Vehicle" recently, so here I am.)

  • Sorry, but this is Blood Sweat & Tears

  • @peachfuzz31 buy the album by Ides of March with this song on it and you will see/hear.

  • @peachfuzz31 ... no, it's not, although the sound is similar.

  • @peachfuzz31 not

    

  • Great God in heaven you know i love you!

  • Amazingly good !

  • Donkey brought me here!

  • Great Marching band song played this in high school

  • @mellieki ugh we have to play this in band and no one knows how to freakin count its so frustrating!! So I really don't like this song.........

  • BBOYS LIKE :)

  • This song inspired me to try and make a mini clip with it as background music , 80' style D:!!

  • ridiculous killer tune

  • Nice to hear this one again after such a long time....beautiful!!

  • Awesome!

  • total pedo song, but its still awesome haha

  • DO YOU HAVE THE LYRICS???

  • the u.s.c. marching band was the horns on this song!

  • The horn section sounds like no other horn section. That's because they are all from Illinois! Although I was raised in Chicago, I was born in Berwyn, Jim Peterik's home town. How proud I am for my home town boys, The Ides of March!

  • Playing this in my school's pep band. It's pretty great! :D

  • Thumbs up if your listening to this as it was on strictly come dancing today- brill tune!

  • Great song. when compared to todays music it's number one IMO. Horns drums real band and a voice that is giving it hell! great stuff

  • This song always reminds me of Jerry Cornelius, Biba, and the greatness of early 70's London!

  • My marching band played this as one of our stand music pieces. It sounds really great out on a football field.

  • We play this in our jazz band. I like our version better though :)

  • i feel like people just accidentally hit the dislike button

  • replay button = happy face

  • Brass in rock bands = awesome.

  • so good. my jazz band is playing this. eargasm every rehearsal.

  • loving it

  • ggggrrrreeeaattt! just great!

  • Had a twenty yr old over for th game and this song came up in conversation. Brought him hear to listen to real music. Yea baby...

  • Wow great song, Ilove Itt, great performance too.

  • Played this in high school jazz band. Good times.

  • this song is the epitome of bad-ass

  • Hey man -- this is great. I worked with these guys back in July 2010 - they created the soundtrack on a revised version of my song "Turpentine Wine." My original studio version was deemed too long -- so, they kind of re-engineered my song -- and well, I was very impressed. In fact, I've submitted it as a video response in case anyone is interested in how they sound today. They are truly GREAT GUYS -- and so professional. It was an honor to work with them. Your taste in music is great!!

  • THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO ALL THE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD THAT LISTEN TO THIS SONG, I DON'T GET TIME TO REPLY TO EVERY COMMENT BUT YOU ARE MUCH APPRECIATED, MAY IT CONTINUE TO GIVE PLEASURE TO MUSIC LOVERS.

    THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME, BEST REGARDS

    STEVE (YCSMusic)

  • @YCSMusic Right On Steve!!

  • @YCSMusic bravo YCSMusic thank you very much,, great song congratulations amigo

  • i remember as a kid the first time i heard this song i thought it was by 'chicago'. i used to do this tune in a cover band and it was one of my favorites to sing. what an ass kickin' powerful tune.

  • its awesome but trumpets are out of tune..

  • @greymon767 Probably the same as you do

  • This song went to  U.S # 2. On The Billboard Hot 100- A Frickin Smash

  • @jameycruz2  Actually, this song did make it to #1

  • One of my favorite tunes of all time!

  • The horns!  Love the HORNS!!!!

  • pretty sure this was a bigger hit in US and Canada

  • I love this song but if you listen to the beginning lyrics,

    I'm the friendly stranger in the black sedan won't you hop inside my car.

    And the next line says something about having candy.

    I hate to say this but we only heard those lyrics alone, it sounds like a stranger your mother warns you about that tries to lure kids to their car.

    Obviously the group either didn't think about that when they wrote this or it was before things like that happened . I just thought those lyrics were a bit odd

  • @Honey059

    Sorry, but this song is not about pedophillia. The song is the attraction of man to woman and how man attempts/succeeds/fails to attract the woman of his dreams. The age old story of lust and pursuit thereof of the finer sex. Think about it, men give chocolates and flowers on special occasions. That is the implication; man as the vehicle, will deliver the desires of the woman whom he wishes to possess, as he views her as the culmination of his own desires.

  • @sharonscorpioful Why would you even need to acknowledge this person making a statement like that?they are just chucking shit to get a rise out of you..you have to be smarter than that

  • @sharonscorpioful you said it all.I am a scorpio too.

  • @sharonscorpioful God, you are a fucking WEIRDO! Don't go into psychiatry! You're either a fucking woman yourself, or you're an apologist "male" flunky of bitches! You sound like you're trying to give these bitches implicit and explicit permission to KEEP using and abusing males! There are more than seven billion people on earth, and few are here because of rape or incest. Women want what men want, but they're too proud to admit it! Let BITCHES ask and pay! Finer sex!? Ha! Ha!

  • @greymon767 I play it on alto sax, this version seems so much worse in comparison.

  • takes me back to that time blasting out of car window's 69 Nova's and Mustangs Cameros what a time to grow up

  • now THIS is REAL music

  • @Tigersharpclaws man I thought i was the only one who rembrs that movie it was the reason I fell for this song , I was only 9 then .and still love it now,

  • I love this song and when those horns blow and guitar play it hits something in me :}

  • I saw this band in St. Francis , Wisconsin (a Suburb of the Great City of Milwaukee) in 1969 at PIO NONO High school and they did this Song it was GRRRReat!

  • The 5 people who didnt like this should be ashamed and then committed...

  • Bad-Ass Jam in 1970, GREAT Tune! Those horns are kickin' it. Excellent Post Thanks.

  • Is this song about a kidnapper or something? The lyrics are very disturbing.

  • Hey what ever happen to those guys was one hell of hit here in the US back in the day:)

  • luv this song!

  • Why does this song make me think of Evel Knievel?

  • @rrrayrrray

    'Specially since he has Red, White, and Blue motorcycle and not a black sedan lol.

  • @StraightOuttaDC lol yeah definitely seems like a non sequitur but I think one of the commercials for the old Evel Knievel action figure had a brass rife that seemed like it was inspired by "Vehicle"--back before anyone used real songs in commercials. And speaking of non sequiturs, I used to be in a band and our drummer swore up and down that he played on this record...of course he was a pathological liar....or was he?

  • rife = riff

    

  • Great God in Heaven you KNOW I LOOOVE this song!!

    I remember when it first came out-- I was a friendly stranger in a (barely street-legal) blue race car... I still LOVE to listen to this raunchy drivin beat, and I still love to sing it (I'm a tenor with a raunchy voice). Alas, I no longer have the blue race car.....

  • Bet Survivor did not know they had a white mother who could chirp like this!

    Great pipes Jim!!!

  • sorry but I thought this was blood S and T

  • this comment might get like 80million thumbs down, but when i first heard this song, i thought they were black

  • @draciel80 I'm half black so no ill will, LOL I thought they were black too!!

  • @draciel80 Don't feel bad at all; so did I. And I am African American .. LOL

  • @draciel80 Hey man, I don't blame you. There are a few bands out there that I've made that mistake with: Average White Band and Blood Sweat & Tears are another couple, and the list doesn't end there. It's just proof to me that good music crosses all lines.

  • @draciel80 what difference does it make if they are black or white? Its good music and a good song that's all that counts! 

  • @draciel80 I don't see how in God's name you thought these ppl were black. I heard this song waaaaay back and new they were white. That man's voice sounds very white. He reminds me of that other white singer that sang, "Into the Night". He also sounds a little like Tom Jones and the lead from Blood, Sweat and Tears.

  • @Pllm30

    ass hat

  • @draciel80 Me too!

  • We played this song last year in my marching band :) We played Takin' It To The Streets, Play That Funky Music White Boy, Vehicle, and Let's Groove :) I miss our show from last year!

  • The theme has been sampled by someone... who???? I'm goingcrazy if I can't find out

  • Last year I rented a black Kia Rio sedan and this song came on the radio while I was driving. I couldn't help laughing.

  • I wouldn't call 31'st place a "hit"...still, I love this song.

  • @drgonzo71 Neither would I really, back in those days only the top 30 was broadcast but now everything that enters the top 75 is considered to be a hit... even though the record companies wouldn't agree.

  • @YCSMusic

    this thing got tons of radio play at night......and rocks!...hit?..just a number.......great tune? surely.....the "chicago sound"..no matter where from, similar to the "memphis beat" horn sections, in your face vocals, great hood, yea, a hit

  • @YCSMusic The Song hit #2 on the U.S. Pop Charts and was a Million Seller. So needless to say It was a Big Hit

  • @drgonzo71 big band sound, one of the first . love this

  • @drgonzo71  Thirty one out of ??? Where is YOUR #Thirty one, ?

  • @drgonzo71  Sorry for sounding like an a%%, but I used to play this tune. Thx and peace.

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  • @drgonzo71 #31 in the UK, #2 in the US

  • my marching band is playing this =)

  • The first concert I ever attended was The Ides of March in a small theatre in my home town in the very early 70's. I was probably 12 or 13.. Jim Peterik was amazing! I spent the next several years catching every concert I could. Can't count them all. Everyone from Mott the Hoople to Lynyrd Skynyrd to Kiss to Ralph Stanley. Loved them all!

  • One song that will be listened forever

  • ides of march from where i was born berwyn chicago.............BBEERRRWWY­YYYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

  • is that Tower of Power? holy fuck ~!

  • This album came out when I was 4 but my dad was a professional musician and he had this album.....I love it.....Takes me way back........He had some pretty awesome old records......

  • I used this song for a parody trailer I made for school:

    Search 'Grenade Lawyer' and you'll find it. Great song!

  • Bo Bice did this great on American Idol!

  • The best of times! White Soul. High School screwin song!

  • always a favorite.

  • Like a '69 Ford Mustang.

  • and its great for karaoke..

  • MY ABSOLUTE FAVE SONG, THIS IS.

  • @getula4003 He was 19. There was a new Ides of March album released last year, called "Still 19". The title song tells the story of the band.

  • only cover ive ever liked on American Idol /  i think it was bobice / would of givin him the crown right there / check out the vid on u tube / not a big fan of that show either

  • the greatest bst record never made

  • @getula4003 I once read that he was 16; but the writer may have mixed him up with the guy who sand incense and peppermints.

  • Brings back lots of great memories from high school. Thanks for posting!

  • i played this song in my schools "jazz band" and had a solo im putting it on youtube coming soon then chameleon and anything u wanna here after that

  • This song is so far before my time. I know this for a fact not only because of the style, but because it sounds good.

  • The horns in this song are RIDICULOUS!!!!! They don't make music like this anymore (damn shame too).

  • One of the best groups ever.....Jim was probably the best rock singer ever

  • @TheBogband He also would go on to be the lead singer for another great Chicagoland band-Survivor.

  • FIERCE!

  • My dad went to high school with these guys. Morton West i think?

  • My favorite song of all time!

  • Love the tune, but the lyrics leave me creeped out. Sounds like they are singing about a pedophile!

    "Hey, well I'm the friendly stranger

    In the black sedan

    Oh won't you hop inside my car?

    I got pictures, got candy, I am a lovable man"

    "By now I'm sure you know

    That I love ya (love you)

    Need ya (need you)

    I want to, got to have you child"

    Anyone else?... Buehler..... Buehler...

  • @ACEactivities I thought the exact same thing when I actually listened to the lyrics. LOL

  • I love this song. I was about 16 when it came out. Vehicle was one of those rare songs' the more you heard it, the more enjoyable it was. It brings back fantastic times.