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#289931 - 06/27/05 11:40 AM
Re: car songs...need help!
[Re: Steve Moskowitz]
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invicta592
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Registered: 05/06/04
Posts: 309
Loc: Scunthorpe, UK
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I haven't heard "In my merry Oldsmobile", and somehow I think I may not have missed anything earth shattering. It sounds like something Bing Crosby would have sung, so I'm guessing "old sounding" means pre-50's?
I could do some low quality samples for you to listen to over the web, although it won't be until tomorrow evening before I get chance.
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#289932 - 06/27/05 12:24 PM
Re: car songs...need help!
[Re: invicta592]
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De Soto Frank
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Registered: 01/03/02
Posts: 1654
Loc: Scranton, PA. USA
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The Merry Oldsmobile is more a-kin to something the Buffalo Bills (BarberShop Quartet) might've sung in "The Music Man"...it's really a Gilded-Age /Gay Nineties kind of tune...a good song, but definitely "period", especially some of the lyrics: " Down the road of life we'll fly, automobubbling [sic], you and I...".
Speaking of SPEBSQSA, I remember singing a barbershop ditty called "Cruisin' in my Model T"...
here's couple more titles, though I think they might just be intrumentals:
"The Chevy Chase" - by Eubie Blake...don't know if it was about the DC suburb, or a car chase involving a Chevrolet...
"Steppin' on the gas"...a 1920's dance tune...
Then there was the "Dodge Bothers March", composed by Victor Herbert...
And while not quite what we're after, I have (somewhere) in my collection of several thousand 78's, a little square brown fibre advertising record touting the "new Chevrolet...(blah-blah-blah) only $695, FOB Flint, MI"...I'm guessing late '20s - early '30s.
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1941 De Soto, 1948 Chrysler NY,
1941,1954, 1955-first, 1989 Chevy trucks,
1960 Chrysler Windsor,
1964 Valiant Signet Convertible,
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#289933 - 06/27/05 01:10 PM
Re: car songs...need help!
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Ron Green
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Registered: 05/24/00
Posts: 1820
Loc: Camp Hill, PA. USA
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Dinah Shore sang the "See the USA in your Chevrolet". Now was that turned into a song or just a commercial jingle?
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#289935 - 06/27/05 08:21 PM
Re: car songs...need help!
[Re: Dave@Moon]
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Terry Bond
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Registered: 05/02/00
Posts: 1004
Loc: Chesapeake VA
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Great stuff Dave. I think what we need is a separate section on the website that we can go to and listen to a variety of old car songs. My all-time favorite is indeed Little GTO. In fact, when its played around here, we usually stand up.
Now-nobody has yet mentioned Springsteen's Racin in the Street!
"Got a '69 Chevy with a 396,
fulie heads and a hurst on the floor..."
Terry
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#289937 - 06/27/05 08:45 PM
Re: car songs...need help!
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De Soto Frank
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Registered: 01/03/02
Posts: 1654
Loc: Scranton, PA. USA
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Hows-about the theme-song from "My Mother the Car"...? 
You kind find and listen to it through Google... ( I didn't add the link to my "Favorites"...)
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Frank McMullen
1941 De Soto, 1948 Chrysler NY,
1941,1954, 1955-first, 1989 Chevy trucks,
1960 Chrysler Windsor,
1964 Valiant Signet Convertible,
etc, etc...
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#289938 - 06/27/05 09:34 PM
Re: car songs...need help!
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Dynaflash8
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Registered: 03/03/01
Posts: 838
Loc: Sebring, FL USA
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Steve Moskowitz says: "I started to like the Chuck Berry tune, Riding around in my automobile, until I read the lyrics." Awe Steve, you're just too young, you must be from that Humperdink era in the 70s!! Old Chuck Berry's Maybelline was as "upbeat" as you can get!! Well, if you really want to get modern, how about country music star Alan Jackson's "Gonna Buy Me a Mercury"? Hey, I think at one time (and maybe still) Alan Jackson was an AACA member.
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#289939 - 06/27/05 10:37 PM
Re: car songs...need help!
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Dave@Moon
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Registered: 12/14/99
Posts: 7373
Loc: Fairfield (Cincinnati), OH
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#289941 - 06/28/05 02:49 AM
Re: car songs...need help!
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D Binger
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Registered: 11/21/99
Posts: 1042
Loc: Cheyenne, WY, USA
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Steve,
The "Route 66" theme song would be good and not distract form folks reading the web site.
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#289942 - 06/28/05 07:00 AM
Re: car songs...need help!
[Re: Randy Berger]
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Dynaflash8
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Registered: 03/03/01
Posts: 838
Loc: Sebring, FL USA
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To Randy Berger: Nope, I don't mean Buick 59.....don't think I ever heard it even, as that was after my time (teenage time)....I got married in '59. I never heard Buick 49, or 1949 Buick, or whatever it was, but was only told about it by a teenage buddy, around 1954-55......there may never have even been such a song, but if there was, it was around the time of Hank Ballard, one of the earliest of the '50s Rhythem & Blues groups were recording. Since I don't know more, it's a non-starter....if you want to attract the younger generation, probably the Alan Jackson song (Gonna buy me a Mercury) of only a couple years ago is the most recognizable. On the other hand Maybelline is a Classic, probably known by almost everyone.
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#289943 - 06/28/05 10:03 AM
Re: car songs...need help!
[Re: D Binger]
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De Soto Frank
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Registered: 01/03/02
Posts: 1654
Loc: Scranton, PA. USA
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I'll cast a second vote for "Route 66"...
Preferably Nat Cole's version or Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters...
A good "middle-of-the road" song that evokes the golden age of auto travel, w/o "favoring" a given make or model...
Did someone already suggest a spot on the site to set-up a "juke-box" of car songs?
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Frank McMullen
1941 De Soto, 1948 Chrysler NY,
1941,1954, 1955-first, 1989 Chevy trucks,
1960 Chrysler Windsor,
1964 Valiant Signet Convertible,
etc, etc...
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#289944 - 06/28/05 10:15 AM
Re: car songs...need help!
[Re: Randy Berger]
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invicta592
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Registered: 05/06/04
Posts: 309
Loc: Scunthorpe, UK
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I used Buick 59 on a little web page I knocked up for the "Me and my Buick" forum in the BCA section. If you want a listen, my page is here
Apologies if it gets a bandwidth exceeded msg, but you know how it is with free webspace.... 
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