“Freeway Of Love” by Aretha Franklin

"Freeway of Love" put Aretha Franklin behind the wheel of a pink Cadillac in 1985. Narada Michael Walden wrote it with Jeffrey Cohen, then produced and arranged it as the lead single from Who's Zoomin' Who?, her thirtieth studio album, for Arista. Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band blows the sax solo, and Sylvester, Martha Wash and Jeanie Tracy sing backup.

It was her highest-charting single in twelve years, reaching number three on the Hot 100 and holding the top of the Hot Black Singles chart for five weeks, her 20th number one there, while a remixed rock version topped the dance club chart. The Detroit-shot video was one of the year's most popular, and the song won her a 12th Grammy. That Cadillac, on the cover and in the lyric, stuck: more than 100 pink ones joined her funeral procession in 2018.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.