Help: Fast Cars Songs

Subject: Fast Cars Songs
From:
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 02:10 PM

Hi I am looking for Songs dealing with fast cars ,Racing, dragging , Running moonshine or Running from the law If you can Help lease send them to Me Any songs or singers will help Thanx

Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs
From: Gary T
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 02:25 PM

Ronnie & the Daytonas: Spring Little Cobra, Little GTO
Various artists: Hot Rod Lincoln
Jan & Dean: Dead Man's Curved
Beach Boys: 409, Shut Down
Robert Mitchum: Thunder Road
I'm sure there's a jillion more, but that should do for a start

Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs
From: Fortunato
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 02:31 PM

Race with the Devil, Gene Vincent

Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs
From: Mbo
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 02:59 PM

Pat of from Mullingar, if it's not TOO un-PC!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs
From: Metchosin
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 04:09 PM

Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson, about a motorcycle not a car, but he was running from the law.

Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 05:19 PM

Whast is the quote "90 miles an hour down a dead end-street"from?

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

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: Amos
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 09:15 PM

Maybelllllline! by the King of Fast his own self!

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
Jerry Lee Lewis's "Crown Victoria"
There's a blue — can't remember who did it — called "Rocket 88"
The Beach Boys did several completely forgetable songs about cars (which I have dutifully forgotten)
Bruce Springsteen wrote a song (the version I have is by Johnny Cash) about a Michigan State Trooper chasing his ne'r-do-well brother to the Canadian border.

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: 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: 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: 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,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 - 08:23 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: 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 - 08:40 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: 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: Bert
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 11:39 AM

'his horn went beep.....'

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Lyr Add: Fast Car^^
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 06:40 PM

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere

Anyplace is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
But me myself I got nothing to prove

You got a fast car
And I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
We won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living

You see my old man's got a problem
He live with the bottle that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
I say his body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
We leave tonight or live and die this way

I remember we were driving, driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car
And we go cruising to entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job
And I work in a market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a big house and live in the suburbs

You got a fast car
And I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so you can fly away
You gotta make a decision
You leave tonight or live and die this way

Subject: RE: Help: Fast Cars Songs
From:
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 07:06 PM

How about Runnin Moonshine by Ron Wiggins

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: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 Mar 00 - 08:54 PM

"Greased Lightning" from Grease.

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: 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: 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,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: ddw
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 01:07 AM

Oh. Really?

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: 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: 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,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: 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,
got a hotrod rig and I'm flyin' low,
my eyes are filled with diesel smoke,
hairpin turns ain't no joke,
diesel smoke, dangerous curves."

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 09:07 PM

several sets of songs here...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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