Go For Soda

"Go For Soda"
Single by Kim Mitchell
from the album Akimbo Alogo
Released	1984
Format	7" Vinyl 12" Vinyl
Recorded	McClear Place, Toronto
Length	3:25
Label	Alert, Bronze
Songwriter(s)	Kim Mitchell, Pye Dubois
Producer(s)	Kim Mitchell, Nick Blagona
Kim Mitchell singles chronology
"Go For Soda" (1984) ""All We Are" (1984)
"Go For Soda" (1984) ""All We Are" (1984)

"Go For Soda" is a song by Canadian singer Kim Mitchell. It was released in 1984 as the lead single from his first full-length solo album, Akimbo Alogo.

History

The song reached number 22 in Canada, and was Mitchell's only charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, reaching number 12 on the Billboard Main Stream Chart. It became an international hit and the campaign theme song for Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) in the United States; it remains his best known song outside of his native Canada. It was featured in the opening scene of the 1985 Miami Vice episode "Buddies" and popularized in a series of television commercials for the soft drink Mr. Pibb. More recently, that ad campaign was lampooned by American Dad!, in the episode "A.T. the Abusive Terrestrial". The song was later used in the Trailer Park Boys seventh-season episode "We Can't Call People Without Wings Angels So We Call Them Friends".

Music video

The music video was directed by Robert Bouvier.

Charts

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