Roll with It (Steve Winwood song)

"Roll with It"
File:Steve Winwood Roll with It single.jpg
Single by Steve Winwood
from the album Roll with It
B-side	"The Morning Side"
Released	August 11, 1988
Format	12", 7"
Genre	Pop rock, blues
Length	5:20 (album version) 4:30 (single edit)
Label	Virgin
Writer(s)	Steve Winwood, Will Jennings, Holland-Dozier-Holland
Producer(s)	Steve Winwood, Tom Lord-Alge
Steve Winwood singles chronology
"Talking Back to the Night" (remix) (1988) "Roll with It" (1988) "Put on Your Dancing Shoes" (1988)

"Roll with It" is a song recorded by Steve Winwood for his album, Roll with It, released on Virgin Records. It was written by Winwood and songwriter Will Jennings. Publishing rights organization BMI later had Motown songwriters Holland-Dozier-Holland credited with co-writing the song due to its resemblance to the Junior Walker hit "(I'm a) Roadrunner".

The single spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the summer of 1988. It topped the Billboard adult contemporary chart for two weeks, and also spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard mainstream rock chart. In addition, the song reached No. 30 on the R&B chart. In the United Kingdom, the song reached No. 53 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song "Roll with It" was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1989, Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal performance. The album Roll with It was also nominated as Album of the Year.

Credits

• Steve Winwood: lead & backing vocals, piano, Hammond organ, Fairlight programming, drums, bass guitar
• The Memphis Horns
  • Wayne Jackson: trumpet & trombone
  • Andrew Love: tenor sax & solo
• Tessa Niles & Mark Williamson: backing vocals

External links

• Single release info at discogs.com
• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Preceded by "Hold On to the Nights" by Richard Marx	Billboard Hot 100 number one single July 30, 1988 - August 20, 1988	Succeeded by "Monkey" by George Michael
Preceded by "Make Me Lose Control" by Eric Carmen	Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single August 6, 1988 - August 12, 1988	Succeeded by "I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That" by Elton John