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27: 1286: 313:"Driving in My Car" was the 13th in a run of 20 consecutive UK top 20 hits for Madness, and is the only one of those 20 never to have been officially released on a Madness album in the USA. It was later included on the 2010 re-release of the band's 1982 album 133: 297:. It was released as a stand-alone single on 24 July 1982 and spent eight weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number four. It reached number 20 on the Australian Singles Chart. 874: 778: 1372: 854: 1367: 716: 325:
The video shows Madness as car mechanics larking about in their workshop, and in their normal suits driving around in their "Maddiemobile" – a white 1959 model
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The B-side to the single was "Animal Farm", a mostly instrumental reworking of the song "Tomorrow's Dream" from the album
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make a brief appearance, trying (and failing) to hitch a ride to their home town of
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Madness
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New wave
pop
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Stiff Records
Songwriter(s)
Mike Barson
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Clive Langer
Alan Winstanley
Madness
House of Fun
Our House
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