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Baby Wants to Ride

CTL-W-0089 · Work

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Combined Graph record U-00401 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0089. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Song title: 'Baby Wants to Ride' Artist as framed by GRAMMY.com (Recording Academy, tier 3): the single is headed 'Frankie Knuckles & Jamie Principle — Baby Wants To Ride / Your Love (1987)'; the text states Trax Records released 'Your Love' as a B-side to 'Baby Wants To Ride' in 1987 and 'only credited it to Knuckles' — matching the stored solo Frankie Knuckles credit for the release Year: 1987, as framed by the source's heading and release account Jamie Principle wrote and sang the vocals on the pair's tracks (per the same source); the stored entity carries no collaborator prop, so no collaborator claim is stamped beyond the release credit above

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Song title: 'Baby Wants to Ride' Artist as framed by GRAMMY.com (Recording Academy, tier 3): the single is headed 'Frankie Knuckles & Jamie Principle — Baby Wants To Ride / Your Love (1987)'; the text states Trax Records released 'Your Love' as a B-side to 'Baby Wants To Ride' in 1987 and 'only credited it to Knuckles' — matching the stored solo Frankie Knuckles credit for the release Year: 1987, as framed by the source's heading and release account Jamie

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Song title: 'Baby Wants to Ride' Artist as framed by GRAMMY.com (Recording Academy, tier 3): the single is headed 'Frankie Knuckles & Jamie Principle — Baby Wants To Ride / Your Love (1987)'; the text states Trax Records released 'Your Love' as a B-side to 'Baby Wants To Ride' in 1987 and 'only credited it to Knuckles' — matching the stored solo Frankie Knuckles credit for the release Year: 1987, as framed by the source's heading and release account Jamie Principle wrote and sang the vocals on the pair's tracks (per the same source); the stored entity carries no collaborator prop, so no collaborator claim is stamped beyond the release credit above

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