

Retrieved May 19, 2017.Progressive Rock, Folk Rock, Hard Rock, Blues Rock - Progressive Rock Project ^ "Pepper Mashay's "Freeway Of Love" Out Now On Capp Records".^ "Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs: Year-End 1985".^ "1985 The Year in Music & Video: Top Pop Singles".^ "Aretha Franklin Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)".^ "Aretha Franklin Chart History (Dance Club Songs)".^ "Aretha Franklin Chart History (Adult Contemporary)".^ "Aretha Franklin Chart History (Hot 100)".^ " Aretha Franklin – Freeway of Love".^ " Aretha Franklin – Freeway of Love" (in Dutch).Top 40 Hits: The Essential Chart Guide 1975-present. ^ a b " Aretha Franklin – Freeway of Love" (in Dutch).Clarence Clemons is featured in the video, and performs saxophone on the song.Īlthough the video is set to the original version of the song, the tempo of the song is noticeably faster in the video. Portions of the "Freeway of Love" video were also filmed at Doug's Body Shop, located at 22061 Woodward Avenue, in Ferndale, Michigan. as well as dancers in and around cars, sky shots of freeways, the Detroit skyline, and other ephemeral visuals. "Freeway of Love" is interspersed with videos of automobiles being manufactured in the early 1970s ( Ford Mustang) and a then-current Cadillac Cimarron. Franklin's "Another Night" music video was also filmed there. It was filmed at Club Tattoo on Woodbridge Avenue (which Franklin co-owned) and is mostly a performance video. The video was filmed primarily in black and white. Owing to the pink Cadillac appearing on the cover art and several times in the lyrics, more than 100 pink Cadillacs accompanied Franklin in her funeral procession in August 2018. "Freeway of Love" earned Franklin her 12th Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. The accompanying promotional music video was filmed entirely in the Detroit, Michigan area, and became one of the most popular videos of the year. In a remixed "rock" version, the song also topped the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. It reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while topping the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for five weeks from July 27, 1985, to Aug(her milestone twentieth number-one hit on the chart). Released as the album's lead single on June 5, 1985, by Arista Records, the song became Franklin's highest-charting single in twelve years. Sylvester, Martha Wash, and Jeanie Tracy provided backup vocals on "Freeway of Love". The song features a notable contribution from Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist from Bruce Springsteen’'s E Street Band. It was written by Jeffrey Cohen and Narada Michael Walden and produced by the latter for Franklin's thirtieth studio album Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985). " Freeway of Love" is a song by American singer Aretha Franklin.
