I distinctly remember one Saturday watching American Bandstand when Dick introduced the new hit "Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf with "a short movie to go along with it". It was one of the first "music videos" broadcast on national TV. Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" tour was the second concert I went to, January 31, 1969. Ticket price was $4.50. I can still remember Goldie McJohn with his huge afro rockin' his Lowery organ. The group wrote this based on the bass line their bass player, Rushton Moreve, came up with. The only words he had written for it were, "I like my job, I like my baby." Lead singer John Kay wrote the rest of the lyrics. He got inspired when he put the demo tape in a home stereo system he bought with the royalties from their first album. That's where he came up with the line, "I like to dream, right between my sound machine." The single version differs noticeably from the album version with a different vocal take by Kay used for the first verse of the song and differing instrumental balances, most notably the introduction feedback. The single version is also much shorter than the album version, with a running time of 2 minutes and 55 seconds. (The album version is 4 minutes and 25 seconds long.) Singer, (John) "Kay was born in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany, now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. His father Fritz was killed a month before he was born. When Kay was a baby in early 1945, his mother fled with him from the advancing Soviet troops during the Evacuation of East Prussia in harsh winter conditions. https://archive.is/cAdy2. What a way to start a life.