I’m telling you won’t believe this story. Today’s rocker Jim Peterik used to give this beautiful girl a ride home from school… He was head over heels in love with her. But she had no idea. He wanted this girl to notice him but he was already stuck in the friend zone so he wrote a song about her called Vehicle and brought it to his band Ides of March. They put some relish on it, and it blew up… it became the fastest-selling song in Warner Brothers history. Unfortunately, Vehicle would be a one-hit wonder.. but Jim was a fighter… He not only won over the girl’s heart with this song, he married her and he rose from the ashes to form Survivor, a band that would become one of the biggest rock acts of the 80s and he even got to the top of the charts again. Up next, the interview and story on Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightening where we celebrate a song that was king for a day or for many days. We honor artists and bands and that one glorious hit they had that rocketed up the charts…and for reasons unknown didn’t have another hit. We all know them for the term one-hit wonder but we try to step beyond that and celebrate them as Lightning in a bottle. Today’s bottled lightning classic comes from a man with purple hair. He’s written or co-written hits for everyone from The Beach Boys to Sammy Hagar to Lynyrd Skynyrd to 38 Special and for his own bands… Jim Peterik. He started performing in 1964 with some of his schoolmates in Illinois as the Ides of March. When their early Local hit came out and did well on the local charts, Future Reo Speedwagon frontman Kevin Cronin begged them to be the band at his high school’s senior prom.. much later that experience would come full circle but I’ll let Jim tell you.
So it was in the late 1960s and early 1970 that the Ides of March started to really make their mark when Jim wrote a little ditty called Vehicle that ended up going all the way to #2 becoming the fastest-selling single in Warner Bros history. He wrote the song about a girl that he was stuck on that moment that he felt used him only for transportation, getting her to and from modeling school. The energizing horns and fierce lead vocal turned this song into a classic of the 70s and has some funny stories tied to it.... I’ll let Jim tell you the rest.
Peterik graduated from Morton Junior College in 1970 and attended college classes while "Vehicle" became a national hit. Unfortunately after 3 more albums and many singles, they couldn’t snag another top 40 hit. SO THE IDES OF MARCH broke up and in 1976 Jim released a solo album, Don't Fight the Feeling, touring....