Lake Shore Drive (song)

"Lake Shore Drive"
Single by Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah
from the album Lake Shore Drive
B-side"Snow Queen"
Released
  • 1972 (1972)
  • Reissued 1973 (Snow Queen)
RecordedDecember 31, 1971
StudioParagon Recording Studios, Chicago
GenreRock
Length
  • 2:48 (single version)
  • 3:50 (album version)
Label
  • Bang (single)
  • Snow Queen (Reissue single)
  • Big Foot (album)
Songwriter(s)Skip Haynes
Producer(s)Scott Gibbs

"Lake Shore Drive" is a song written by Skip Haynes of the Chicago-based rock group Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, initially recorded on December 31, 1971, and released on their 1973 Lake Shore Drive album on Big Foot Records. The song is an homage to the famed lakefront highway in Chicago. Despite the fact that "LSD" had long been an abbreviation for the Drive, many people thought the song referred to the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide. Numerous fans of the song and residents of Chicago believe the song paints an accurate musical picture of living and driving in downtown Chicago.