Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST Date: 05 Nov 04 - 09:39 AM that should be Rapid roy |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Splott Man Date: 05 Nov 04 - 08:45 AM I once stumbled upon a whole website dedicated to songs that mention Ford Mustangs You could try a search |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 05 Nov 04 - 07:47 AM Not Folk yet (wait a few more years!), but try "Baby Driver" |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Steve-o Date: 04 Nov 04 - 12:24 PM A fabulous one from the great Phil Ochs called "My Kingdom For a Car" can be found on an album by Gene Parsons (himself great). |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST Date: 04 Nov 04 - 09:14 AM Rocket Roy the stock car boy by Jim Croce Grey Cortina by Tom Robinson Dont Worry Baby - the Beach Boys Terraplane By R.Johnson |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST,Lin in Kansas Date: 04 Nov 04 - 12:40 AM Dang it! That last one was me--my cookie's crumbled AGAIN...Sorry. Lin |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST Date: 04 Nov 04 - 12:39 AM Since several people have mentioned songs that were about trucks, rather than fast cars, I figured I'd throw in this one about a motorcycle (and a *typical?* rider): "He wore black denim trousers, and motorcycle boots, and a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back...that fool was 'The Terror of Highway 101'-- And a whole bunch of C.W. McCall songs about trucks, including his classic "Wolf Creek Pass," where the narrator and Earl are headed at horrendous speed down the hill with a load of frightened chickens, straight through a tunnel at the bottom of the hill. "I looked at Earl, and his eyes was wide, his teeth was clenched, and his leg was fried..." LOL Lin |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: HuwG Date: 03 Nov 04 - 08:18 PM Chuck in my Car I was drivin' in my automobile last night Turnin' up my radio to rock 'n roll loud You know the way it is sometimes when you stop at a red light And some dude wants to burn you up Now, I don't usually bother with guys like this But when he sneered at me I couldn't resist Sayin' "OK, pal, let 'er rip I've got Chuck in my car" CH I've got Chuck in my car I've got Chuck in my car I think you pushed your luck just a bit too far I've got Chuck in my car Well, he got away first in a cloud of burning rubber But he crashed his gears, so I took him in third I knew that I could hold him 'cause the road was real narrow So I turned up the music and flew like a bird I flashed by a sign by the side of the road That said "Dangerous bend, go slow" But all I could hear was the sound of my motor And Chuck saying "Go, go, go!" CH As I came around the bend he was right on my tail So I decided to do something rash I flashed him a victory sign and took a sharp left And all I recall was the crash And a cop standing there with a torch in my face By now Chuck was in no particular place But I ended up as a hospital case With Chuck in my car CH CH CH |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: muppitz Date: 01 Nov 04 - 09:02 AM Not exactly Folk, but "Ride like the wind", I think by Michael Morrison (Could be very wrong on that one!) Cos I've got such a long way to go To make it to the border of Mexico So I'll ride like the wind Ride like the wind muppitz x |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Splott Man Date: 01 Nov 04 - 05:49 AM I thought "90 miles an hour down a dead end-street" was from a Dylan song. There's also MGB-GT by Richard Thompson "2 in the front, 2 in the back, 110 down the old Hog's Back" (which is a straight stretch on the A31 near Guildford) |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: beardedbruce Date: 29 Oct 04 - 09:58 PM This does not appear to be in Digitrad, so... Nash Rambler song Beep beep beep beep His horn went beep beep beep While riding in my Cadillac What to my surprise A little Nash Rambler was following me About one third my size The guy musta wanted to pass me up As he kept on tooting his horn Ill show him that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn Beep beep beep beep His horn went beep beep beep I pushed my foot down to the floor To give the guy the shake But the little Nash Rambler stayed right behind He still had on his brake He musta thought his car had more guts As he kept on tooting his horn Ill show him that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn Beep beep beep beep His horn went beep beep beep My car went into passing gear And we took off with gust Soon we were going ninety Musta left him in the dust When I peeked in the mirror of my car I couldnt believe my eyes The little Nash Rambler was right behind Youd think that guy could fly Beep beep beep beep His horn went beep beep beep Now we were doing a hundred and ten This certainly was a race For a Rambler to pass a Caddy Would be a big disgrace The guy musta wanted to pass me up As he kept on tooting his horn Ill show him that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn Beep beep beep beep His horn went beep beep beep Now were going a hundred twenty As fast as I can go The Rambler pulled along side of me As if we were going slow The fella rolled down his window And yelled for me to hear Hey buddy how do I get this car outa second gear? |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: beardedbruce Date: 29 Oct 04 - 09:07 PM several sets of songs here... |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST,Barrie Roberts Date: 29 Oct 04 - 08:54 PM Didn't Oscar Brand do an album in the 60s called 'Songs For Sports Car Lovers'? |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 29 Oct 04 - 08:39 PM There is a good video clip of the song 'Addicted to Bass' - the original version - which was about a couple of ladies in a fast car, who take off with the loot from a bank heist. I've recently seen a new clip which is quite different. The song is not in itself about fast cars. |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Bob Hitchcock Date: 29 Oct 04 - 04:25 PM How about Chuck Berry "You Can't Catch Me" great song which was also covered by the Rolling Stones, another car song is "Crazy 'bout an Automobile" which I heard from Ry Cooder. I can't believe Fortunato forgot about "Hot Rod Man" by his old buddy Tex Rubinowitz and the Bad Boys, and a rip off of that song "Hot Rod Gang by the Stray Cats. Bob. |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST,Eddie O'Hara Date: 29 Oct 04 - 11:53 AM I agree Mbo! 455 Rocket sung by Kathy Matea, I think is a classic. The video clip of the song was nothing short of sensational! I saw it about three or four years ago on CMT. The best car video clip that I've seen. I wish it would come on the CMC channel, again! |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: TheOldMole Date: 11 Mar 00 - 04:32 PM Jim and Jesse have a great version of Thunder Road (Mitchum's, not Springsteen's). |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Margaret V Date: 11 Mar 00 - 04:17 PM Gillian Welch's "Pass You By" on her album "Revival." Very cool. Margaret |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: reggie miles Date: 11 Mar 00 - 10:54 AM Hey, I've got one no one's mentioned yet, "Diesel Smoke And Dangerous Curves" by Billy Strange. This is one I've been meanin' to add to my list of favorite songs I love to perform. It's about an out of control truck going too fast down a steep grade because the driver fell asleep at the wheel from being up too long the night before entertaining some dangerous curves. I've got it on a 78 rpm around here somewhere. It was damaged, cracked and broken but nevertheless a fine example of speeding down the road.
"Drivin' that truck down a mountain road,
Then there's Rusty Draper's 1956 recording with the Halloran Singers of "Pink Cadillac", I regularly perform this rockabilly hit.
"It's got four carbuerators and a hydramatic drive and I'm tearin' down Main at a hundred and five." |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST,Jim Dixon Date: 10 Mar 00 - 11:00 AM Tom and Ray Magliozzi (a.k.a. "Click and Clack, The Tappet Brothers"), the "Car Talk" guys on NPR, maintain a truly impressive list of the car-related songs they've played on their radio program. You can access it at http://cartalk.cars.com/Radio/Music/ |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Mbo Date: 10 Mar 00 - 09:59 AM What about Queen's "I'm in Love With My Car"? "Told my girl I'd have to forget her, rather buy me a new carburettor..." Classic! And for maybe a differend approach, try Jeff Carson's "The Car." --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST,The Beanster Date: 10 Mar 00 - 01:21 AM ddw, I think you IS messin' wit me! There ought to be a symbol on the keyboard that denotes when a sarcastic remark is being made, don't you think? :) |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: ddw Date: 10 Mar 00 - 01:10 AM Back to the thread: A couple nobody's mentioned are Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me" and Robert Johnson's "Terraplane Blues." The two are pretty similar, now that I think about it. david |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: ddw Date: 10 Mar 00 - 01:07 AM Oh. Really? |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST,The Beanster Date: 10 Mar 00 - 12:56 AM ddw, Is you messin' wit me?? lol What I meant was--and I was trying to be tactful--(!)--the title of that song refers to...a certain body part, not a car... |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: MarkS Date: 09 Mar 00 - 11:07 PM Dead Mans Curve - Jan and Dean. It's kind of definitive when thinking about fast cars. BTW - I'll keep this thread in mind soon. It's almost time for my '68 GTO to come out of hibernation. |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST,ddw Date: 09 Mar 00 - 10:45 PM Yeah, Beanster — I never thought Corvettes were cars either....;-) david |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST,The Beanster Date: 09 Mar 00 - 09:02 PM I can't believe you guys mentioned "Beep Beep!" I think it was The Playmates, right? (Was that the same band as Gary Lewis & The Playmates, I wonder...?) What a funny song! The Nash Rambler... lolol Didn't mean to get off the subject. The only songs I can think of are "Leader of the Pack," of course and Prince's "Little Red Corvette," although that may not be about a car... |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:54 PM "Greased Lightning" from Grease. |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Mooh Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:47 PM annap...Radar Love, right, thanks. Did you ever ride around in some chum's car listening to that on an 8-track? Hey ho away we go...but that's another pre-car tune... |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST,chainlighting@webtv.net Date: 09 Mar 00 - 07:06 PM How about Runnin Moonshine by Ron Wiggins |
Subject: Lyr Add: Fast Car^^ From: Charlie Baum Date: 09 Mar 00 - 06:40 PM Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
You got a fast car
Anyplace is better
You got a fast car
You see my old man's got a problem
You got a fast car
I remember we were driving, driving in your car
You got a fast car
You got a fast car
You got a fast car |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: annamill Date: 09 Mar 00 - 04:28 PM Mooh, that Golden Erring song is called "Radar Love" and is on Harley Davidson's Road Songs album ;-) Love, annap |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: jeffp Date: 09 Mar 00 - 04:17 PM And who could forget "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena?" |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Mooh Date: 09 Mar 00 - 03:14 PM Didn't read all of the above...how about Highway Star (Deep Purple), that Golden Earring song ("Got my eyes on the road..."), Hot Rod Lincoln, several Chuck Berry songs, Commander Cody's "Truckin'" or "Everyone's Doin' It Now" or whatever its called. |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: annamill Date: 09 Mar 00 - 01:53 PM If you don't mine RnR, there is an album called "Road Songs" produced Harley Davidson (yes as in motorcycles). It has many great fast car songs. You'll probably have to order it in a Harley Davidson dealership though. Always a big hit a my RnR parties. I lead a double life. Love, annap |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Gary T Date: 09 Mar 00 - 12:53 PM Bert, I think the title of that one is "Beep Beep". And perhaps the grand-daddy of them all is "Hot Rod Race", to which "Hot Rod Lincoln" was an answer song. |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Bert Date: 09 Mar 00 - 11:39 AM 'his horn went beep.....' |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Mbo Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:46 AM Here's the lyrics to 455 Rocket. And "The One I Loved Back Then" also know as The Corvette Song. Enjoy! --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Mbo Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:40 AM Yes! I love "Convoy"! Oops the song above should be "The One I Loved Back Then." --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Grab Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:38 AM Check out pretty much any Meatloaf album! Not exactly folk, but some are feasible acoustically. The Beach Boys "Fun fun fun till her daddy takes her T-Bird away" (anyone know of a parody of that BTW? sounds like a tune dying for a piss-take).And of course, there's the classic "Convoy". |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Mbo Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:23 AM Oh, you gotta do the George Jones classic "The One I Love Back Then". Ahhh...when I hear it I feel like I'm 5 years old again... --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST,Passing Stranger Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:21 AM How about "Tell Laura I Love Her" or "From a Buick 6" |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Mbo Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:00 AM OH MAN! You folks gotta hear Kathy Mattea do "455 Rocket." Yeah! What a great song...awesome blues harp and acoustic dobro in that one! "I heard the angles singin', and it sounded like the Beach Boys...and the cop asked me 'Ma'am, just what'd you have IN that thing?'" Classic! --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: GUEST,jofield, à Paris Date: 09 Mar 00 - 06:25 AM "90 miles an hour..., etc." is from a song of that title by the late, great Hank Snow. George Hamilton IV had a cute little tune on the flip side of "Rose and a Baby Ruth" called "If You Don't Know, I Ain't Gonna Tell You", all about a young man getting wise, getting into the moonshine business, and (naturally) getting all the chicks. James. |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Stewie Date: 09 Mar 00 - 02:16 AM A minor classic of the genre is David Lindley's version of K.C. Douglas' 'Mercury Blues' on his El Rayo-X album, and Terry Allen's 'Wolfman of Del Rio' on his 'Lubbock on Everything' album is not without its charm - or relevance in this context. --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: ddw Date: 09 Mar 00 - 01:15 AM Chuck Berry did several that would fit — Mabeline (SP?), The Jaguar and the Thunderbird and a couple of others that won't come to mind right now. They're all on the 3-CD set that's on the market right now.
The Terror of Highway 101 One of the funniest fast-car songs of all times is Ray Stevens's "The Day I Taught Charlene McKenzie How To Drive." cheers, david |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Amos Date: 08 Mar 00 - 09:15 PM Maybelllllline! by the King of Fast his own self! |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Lonesome EJ Date: 08 Mar 00 - 08:54 PM Hurricane by David Wilcox. Little Deuce Coupe by the Beach Boys. |
Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs From: Mbo Date: 08 Mar 00 - 07:33 PM That's "Small Town Saturday Night" by Hal Ketchum, ain't it? --Mbo |
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