"Jump in My Car" is a song originally recorded by Australian rock band

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in 1975. The song was written by Australian singer

Ted Mulry Martin Albert Mulry (2 September 19471 September 2001) professionally known as Ted Mulry, was an English-born Australian singer, songwriter, bass player and guitarist. As a solo artist, his second single, "Falling in Love Again" (February 1971 ...

and guitarist Les Hall, and was the first hit for the band in Australia. "Jump in My Car" was number one in Australia in 1976 for six weeks.

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David Hasselhoff version

American actor

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recorded a cover of "Jump in My Car" that was released in Australia on 26 June 2006 ahead of his first tour there. The song was later released in the UK and debuted at number three on the

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in October 2006. It received publicity from the "Get Hasselhoff to Number 1" campaign, which originally campaigned to get " Looking for Freedom" released but later switched its attentions to "Jump in My Car". The song also received backing from

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and '' The Sun'' newspaper. The music video for the song was filmed in

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and was ranked number 2 in MAX music's World's Worst Ever Video countdown in 2008. According to Hasselhoff, the video was intended as a joke, a parody of himself. The 1983

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in the video has been modified to look like

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from ''

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''. Most notably, due to the video being filmed in Australia, the car was

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. Hasselhoff sang this song on an episode of the TV show ''

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''. His cover of the song was a running gag on ''

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''. In 2019, Hasselhoff re-record the song for his fourteenth studio album '' Open Your Eyes'' (2019), with American rock musician

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being a featured artist in the song.

Track listing

# "Jump in My Car" (Ted Mulry) 2:58 # "Jump in My Car" (EMC Remix) (Ted Mulry) 3:17 # "Jump in My Car" (Hoff's Housed up Mix) (Ted Mulry) 5:02 # "Jump in My Car" (Video) 3:01

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Guitarist

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released the song as a 45 (RAK 228) in January 1976. The song was also included on his self-titled album released the following April.

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External links

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