Let's talk about songs that mention in title or lyrics the Great American Dream of automobile ownership.14 responses total.
I'll try to do this the easy way this time:
The Dr. Demento Show #95-29 - July 16, 1995
Topic: Car tunes
NOTE: This show is almost entirely a rerun from June 19, 1994. Most
of the spoken announcements used on that show are repeated here.
Mercury Blues - David Lindley
Cadillac Heaven - The Baltimores
Maybellene - Chuck Berry and His Combo
Sunday Driving - Jerry Lewis
Learn How To Drive - Barry & The Bookbinders
Driving Instructor (pilot script for a new TV series) - Bob Newhart
Demented News With Whimsical Will [compilation]
Fifteen Days Under The Hood - Jack Tempchin
Car Noises - The Frantics
Can't Get My Motor To Start - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports
Harv Kirshner's Happy Face Motors - The Fabulous Deluxe Brothers
One Piece At A Time - Johnny Cash
He'd Have To Get Under - Get Out And Get Under (To Fix Up His
Automobile) - The Hoosier Hot Shots
Schlock Rod - Jan & Dean
Dance Of The Hours - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Hymn #694 - Free Hot Lunch
Carphone - Sheeler & Sheeler
Driving In San Francisco - Bill Cosby
No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry
Medley:
* The Car Song (excerpt) - Woody Guthrie
* My Mother The Car (excerpt) - Jerry Van Dyke
* In My Merry Oldsmobile (excerpt) - Billy Murray
* Bitchin' Camaro (excerpt) - The Dead Milkmen
Contact - Phish
#5 Stop Draggin' My Car Around - "Weird Al" Yankovic
#4 Making Love In A Subaru - Damaskas
EXTRA: The Hot Rod Race - Ramblin' Jimmie Dolan
#3 Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
#2 Beep Beep - The Playmates
#1 Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
nplaylist courtesy of the Dr. Demento show
The list of car songs is seemingly endless.. I could probably come up with another 50 songs without really breaking a sweat.
No doubt-- Brian Wilson came up with dozens more for the Beach Boys. Some examples: Still Cruisin' * Little Deuce Coupe * I Get Around * Fun, Fun, Fun * In My Car * Shut Down Then I can think of various artists: My Testerosa - Sir Mix-A-Lot Deadman's Curve - Jan and Dean Drive My Car - The Beatles Maybelline - Chuck Berry Get Out Of My Dreams (Get Into My Car) - Billy Ocean Jesus Built My Hot Rod - MaxiPriest Fast Car - Tracy Chapman Drive - The Cars That's all I can think of off the top of my head; I surely can't do 50 titles. :P
How about this track listing for my CD "The Beach Boys -- Greatest Car Songs" 1. "I Get Around" 2. "Little Deuce Coupe" 3. "Shut Down" 4. "Fun, Fun, Fun" 5. "This Car Of Mine" 6. "Help Me Rhonda" 7. "409" 8. "Drive In" 9. "Then I Kissed Her" 10. "Little Honda" 11. "Custom Machine" 12. "Spirit Of America" No, I don't know what "Help Me Rhonda" had to do with cars. Ditto "Then I Kissed Her," which is a gender-reversed cover of "Then He Kissed Me" by the Crystals.
Dig Me - King Crimson Neal and Jack and Me - ditto Baby You can Drive my Car - the Beatles Silver Thunderbird - Mark Cohn Cars are Cars - Paul Simon 303 - Kula Shaker Drive - Blind Melon Galaxie - Blind Melon pretty much every other song on Joni Mitchell's album Hejira Strangers in a Car - Mark Cohn Highway Chile - Jimi Hendrix Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
And don't forget another Joni Mitchell classic -- "Big Yellow Taxi."
But of course...silly me.
I already listed "Drive My Car" by the Beatles, and the title has no more words than that :P
Fine, be that way.
What about that "Route 66" song?
Now people, we're starting to lose our focus here.. We're talking songs about cars. Songs about The Road and songs about driving are complete genres of their own (and well-established ones, at that..)
So where do you draw the line?
re 12: Down the middle of the road!
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