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Cruisin' is the third studio album by the American disco group Village People, released on September 25, 1978. Its name carries a double meaning: it may mean just driving around or gay cruising. This became obvious even for straight audiences in 1980, when William Friedkin's movie Cruising was released. Features the hits " Hot Cop" and " Y.M.C.A." which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The album was briefly rereleased in 2003 as YMCA in continental Europe.
"Cruisin'" is a 1979 single written, produced, and recorded by Smokey Robinson for Motown Records' Tamla label. One of Robinson's most successful singles outside of his work with The Miracles, "Cruisin'" hit #1 on the U.S. Cash Box Top 100 and was also a major Billboard Pop hit, peaking at #4. It was a Top Five hit on the Soul chart as well.
The song was co-written by fellow Miracle Marv Tarplin . "Cruisin'" was an even bigger hit in New Zealand, hitting #1 on that country's chart. It is included on Robinson's ninth studio album, Where There's Smoke....
Cruisin' may refer to:
- Cruisin' (album), a 1978 album by the Village People
- "Cruisin'" (Smokey Robinson song), a 1979 song performed by Smokey Robinson and covered by D'Angelo and by Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow for the movie Duets
- "Cruisin'" (Michael Nesmith song), a 1979 song written and performed by Michael Nesmith, formerly of The Monkees
- Cruisin', another name for the Jaleco video arcade game City Connection
- Cruis'n (series), a game series or Cruis'n, a Wii video game
- Cruisin' (sampler series), a pop music sampler series that covered the years 1955-1970
Cruisin', aka Lucy and Ramona and Sunset Sam, is the last single to date released by Michael Nesmith as a solo artist. The song was released in 1979 under Pacific Arts (PAC 108) from the album Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma. The B-side of the single was Carioca. Cruisin' tells the story of three individuals who live on the streets of Los Angeles and are related by their lifestyle.
A promotional video was made for Cruisin' and was released on Nesmith's Elephant Parts. Contrary to popular belief, the video did not debut Hulk Hogan, but rather, featured wrestler Steve Strong who resembles a young Hulk Hogan. Nesmith mistakenly stated in 1989 that Hogan played the role, but he corrected his statement in 2003.
The song received considerable airplay on AOR rock stations during the summer of 1979. Cleveland AOR station WMMS music director Denny Sanders had the song in "high rotation" during the months of July and August. Although it did not chart in the USA, it peaked at #6 on the New Zealand singles chart.
Cruisin' was an American Rock-and-Roll and pop music sampler series covering the years 1955-1970 released by Increase Records, originally in 1970 on vinyl (Years 1955 to 1963, with later years being released in the 1980s, and in 1993 on CD and audio cassette. The covers were stylized after the works of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.
Each album of the series purported to be an authentic roughly 40-minutes recording of a contemporary radio station from that year, complete with contemporary ads, station jingles, and a radio DJ from that era introducing each song, reading out local news, and inviting the listeners to join in competitions.