Take It on the Run

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"Take It on the Run"
File:Take It on the Run cover.jpg
Single by REO Speedwagon
from the album Hi Infidelity
B-side "Someone Tonight"
Released January 1981
Format Vinyl
Recorded September 18, 1980
Genre Hard rock
Length 4:02
Label Epic
Writer(s) Gary Richrath
Producer(s) Kevin Beamish
Kevin Cronin
Alan Gratzer
Gary Richrath
Certification Gold (RIAA)
REO Speedwagon singles chronology
"Keep on Loving You"
(1980)		 "Take It on the Run"
(1981)		 "Don't Let Him Go"
(1981)

"Take It on the Run" is the fifth track on the REO Speedwagon album Hi Infidelity. It was released as a single in 1981 and reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[1] It also reached #19 in the UK Singles Chart.[2] The song was written by lead guitarist Gary Richrath. "Take It on the Run" was the follow-up single behind the group’s #1 hit, "Keep on Loving You". The single went gold on April 17, 1989. "Take It on the Run" has appeared on dozens of 'various artists' compilation albums, as well as several REO Speedwagon greatest hits albums.[3]

This is technically the ninth video played on MTV's first day, August 1, 1981. However, the video went to black just a few seconds into the song and didn't finish.[4][5]

This song was released as a downloadable add-on for the Rock Band video game franchise on April 21, 2009. The cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes covered this song as a punk version for their live album Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah.

The song was most recently sampled in "Messin' Around", released by American rapper Pitbull in 2016.

Parody

Chicago radio personality Steve Dahl recorded a parody version called "Better Get a Gun", which made light of then Chicago mayor Jane Byrne moving into the Cabrini–Green public housing development.

Personnel

REO Speedwagon

Charts

Sources

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  7. ↑ CHART NUMBER 1271 – Saturday, May 23, 1981 at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 November 2006). CHUM. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
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  16. ↑ CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending MAY 30, 1981 at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 September 2012). Cash Box magazine. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  17. ↑ RECORD WORLD 1981 at the Wayback Machine (archived July 15, 2004). Record World. Geocities.com. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  18. ↑ REO Speedwagon
  19. ↑ Charts!
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  22. ↑ The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1981 at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 September 2012). Cash Box magazine. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
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External links

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