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Back in Stride

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ4839278 ↗
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"Back In Stride" is a 1985 single by Philadelphia based R&B group Maze. As with all of Maze's releases, the vocals were performed by Frankie Beverly, who also wrote and produced the single. The mid-tempo single claimed the number one spot on the soul singles chart, remaining there for two weeks, and reached number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100, in early 1985.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Back in Stride” is single. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Back, Stride and single, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Back, Stride and single is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4839278. The first chronological checks are 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “Back in Stride” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.