Fast Car

~ Recording by Tracy Chapman

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.2Fast Car4:57Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present), BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions)9 60774-2, D 153582
1.2Fast Car4:57Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)CD 60774
1.2Fast Car4:57Tracy ChapmanTracy Chapman (WE 835, old Elektra logo and new cat# on disc, approx. 1994/95)Tracy ChapmanAlbum
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)7559-60774-2, 960 774-2

Relationships

engineer and mixer:Kevin Smith (American DJ, producer and hip hop pioneer based in New York City)
producer:David Kershenbaum
acoustic guitar, electric guitar and percussion:Tracy Chapman (American singer‐songwriter)
bass guitar:Larry Klein
drums (drum set):Denny Fongheiser
steel guitar:Ed Black
vocals:Tracy Chapman (American singer‐songwriter)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Elektra/Asylum Records (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor within the US) (in 1988)
Elektra Entertainment (company, DO NOT USE as release label, for releases use “Elektra”) (in 2015)
recorded at and mixed at:Powertrax Studio in Hollywood
sampled by:Promo by Ley Rico feat. Romo (Spanish MC)
Sometimes I Rhyme Slow by Nice & Smooth
part of:Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 71) (order: 71)
BILLIONS CLUB (order: 86)
Rolling Stone: The 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time (number: 113) (order: 113)
Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 165) (order: 166)
Billboard: The 500 Best Pop Songs (as of October 2023) (number: 275) (order: 275)
stream for free:https://open.spotify.com/track/2M9ro2krNb7nr7HSprkEgo [info]
recording of:Fast Car

Related works

Fast Car

lyricist and composer:Tracy Chapman (American singer‐songwriter)
publisher:April Music Inc.
EMI April Music Inc.
Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd. (UK)
Purple Rabbit Music
Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc. (song publisher, never a release label)
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label)
sub-publisher:Kobalt Music Publishing France
Kobalt Music Publishing Italia Ltd
Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd. (UK)
later parody versions:Fast Dick
I Write a Fast Song (In Living Color parody)