Destination Unknown (song)

"Destination Unknown"
Single by Missing Persons
from the album Spring Session M
ReleasedSeptember 1982
Recorded1980
StudioUMRK (Los Angeles)
GenreNew wave
Length3:40
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Ken Scott
Missing Persons singles chronology
"Windows"
(1982)
"Destination Unknown"
(1982)
"Walking in L.A."
(1983)

"Destination Unknown" is a song by American band Missing Persons. It was written by Dale Bozzio, Terry Bozzio, and Warren Cuccurullo with production by Ken Scott at Frank Zappa's Utility Muffin Research Kitchen studio.[1] Originally released on the band's self-titled EP (1980), the song was released as a single in September 1982 and appeared on their debut studio album Spring Session M (1982).[citation needed]

In the United States, it was a minor hit spending 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, narrowly missing the Top 40 by peaking at #42 in November 1982.[2][3]

  1. ^ Scott, Ken; Owsinski, Bobby (2013). : Off the Record with the Beatles, Bowie, Elton & So Much More. United States: Alfred Music. pp. 305–6. ISBN 0-7390-7858-5.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  3. ^ "Missing Persons - Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 2017-03-25.

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