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SKU: A0.1377685
By Tracy Chapman. By Tracy Chapman. Arranged by John Ivor Holland. 20th Century,21st Century,Film/TV,Pop,Singer/Songwriter. 44 pages. John Ivor Holland #962278. Published by John Ivor Holland (A0.1377685)."Fast Car" is a song by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, released on 6 April 1988 as the lead single from her self-titled debut studio album. Chapman's appearance on the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute helped the song become a top-ten hit in the United States, reaching number six on the Billboard Hot 100. In the United Kingdom, it reached number five on the UK Singles Chart in 1988. The song went on to receive three Grammy Award nominations: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, the latter of which it won. It also received an MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Female Video in 1989. Since the release of Chapman's original, the song has had success in two electronic dance versions by Swedish DJ Tobtok and British DJ Jonas Blue, as well as a country music cover by singer Luke Combs. Combs's version was a number-one single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts in 2023, and won Chapman the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year, making her the first Black person to win the award. This version for concert band features the distinctive enigmatic guitar riff, transposed to cor anglais and has been arranged as part of an ongoing project to bring more music by women into the worldwide concert band repertoire. #ArrangeMeGoals2023.
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