Steve Moskowitz Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 I know this has been covered before but please help me with titles to car songs that are <span style="font-weight: bold">NOT</span> Hot Rod related! Yes, I already know the Oldsmobile song! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_MrEarl Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 My Buick My Love and IA Buick Honeymoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manikmekanik Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 How 'bout "BEEP, BEEP" the song about the guy who could'nt get his Rambler out of 2nd gear, as he passed the caddy at excessive speed. Circa 1960? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Off the top of my head:Buick '59, Beep-Beep, Antique '32 Studebaker Dictator Coupe, The Lonely Stocker, GTO, Bite Bite Barracuda, Mustang Sally, Pink Cadillac (2 songs, same title), Black & White Thunderbird, Red Cadillac, White Cadillac, Black Cadillac, (I want a) Lavendar Cadillac, Rocket 88, Lets Go for a Ride, Gas Money, Wild Wild Mustang, Super Fine 289, Terraplane Blues, SS 396, Camaro, '64 Ford, Corvair BabyI'm sure there's many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 ...like One Piece at a Time, Hey Little Cobra, Litle GTO, Baby Blue Mustang, The Blonde in the 406, Backseat '38 Dodge, & Fun Fun Fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest De Soto Frank Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Here's a few more: "He'd have to get out and get under" ("to fix-up his automo-bile") (c. 1910) "Gasoline Gus and his jitney bus" "Ray and his little Chevrolet" "Henry's made a lady out of Lizzie" ( 1927 ?) "Keep away from the fellow who owns an automobile" (pre-WW I ) "It's de-lightful, it's de-lovely, it's De Soto" (adaptation of Cole Porter's "De-lovely" ; De Soto theme from the 1950's)Steve, if you're seeking more titles than we can dredge up, try visiting the Lester Levy Sheet Music Library, on-line. This collection was donated to Johns-Hopkins, and contains thousands of titles from the mid-20th century back to the 18th century.They have an excellent on-line search feature, and in most cases, you can download scans of music that is in the public domain... (but beware, there's some stuff in there that would be considered "politically incorrect" these days; for those who are sensitive...)Plan to spend several hours there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted June 24, 2005 Author Share Posted June 24, 2005 Thanks everyone...I am looking for a great song...I do like Mustang Sally but oh my gosh, an Olds guy touting a Ford song! Looking for something for the new site. Don't worry guys, you will not be forced to listen. The new home page is drastically different but I really think it is a HUGE improvement for us and the navigation is outstanding. I had better find the right song as my singing voice will never work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gariepy Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Post deleted by Peter J Heizmann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sixpack2639 Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Peter, I don't think thats quite what Steve is looking for. LOL Although you are probably correct in stating most of us have had one at some point! CarlSteve, How about some beach music like....409 or Little old lady from Pasadena? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbking Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 How about "Rocket 88" by Jackie Bernston. First released on Chess 113 in 1950, re-released in 1951 on Chess 1958, and again re-released in 1984 on Chess 91012.I have a listing of roughly 1500 car records if you are interested; however, other than "In My Merry Oldsmobile", this seems to be the only one Olds related.Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bollman Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Thunder Road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Bond Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Steve-I've got over 200 pieces of auto sheet music in my collection and could send you the titles separately, but I suspect from your last post you are interested in real music you can attach to the website right? If its real music you need, the California Antique Phonograph Society sells a CD with auto songs including the following:Reuben Haskins rides a cyclone auto (1903)I think I oughtn't auto anymore (1907)On the back seat of the old Henry Ford (1916)Gasoline Gus and his Jitney Bus (1915)The little ford Rambled Right Along (1914)In My Merry Oldsmobile (1905)O'Brien's Automobile (1908)Keep Away from the fellow who owns an automobile (1912)Uncle Josh on an automobile (1903)Ray and his little Chevrolet (1923)Cohen phones about his auto (1922)Since Henry Ford apologized to me (1927)Henry Made a Lady out of Lizzie (1928)Poor Lizzie, What'll become of you now (1928)I'm Wild about horns on an automobile (1928)That brand new model of mine (1928)You might also want to contact Bill Truesdell at Management Advantage Inc in Walnut Creek, Ca. Bill has produced a video tape with auto songs and sheet music images that he sells on behalf of the Diablo Model A club Inc. You can reach Bill at www.hrwebstore.comThere have been a couple of record albums published over the years that also contain auto songs but I don't know how easily obtainable they are or if they might be available on tape or CD. Some research would be required.Most of the music has been recorded from original records or even early cylinder records so it often lacks quality, but it does have character! Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Randy Berger Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 My push-button automobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moepar Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 toot toot chug a lug big red car (yes, actually a song that I have on CD)409little old lady from pasadenabuilt for speedchevy vantruckin'big black chevroletlittle red corvetteon the road again (well, sorta a car song, maybe)road runner theme (played at most mopar car shows anyway)this is your daddy's oldsmobile (this is great for an olds guy!!)race with the devilking of the road (??)stand on itmotor head babyfreeway of loveIf you'd like any of 'em Steve, just pm me & I'll see about getting you a copy (I only have on CD-don't have actual sheet music, but is interesting listening) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gariepy Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 just a friendly reminder - copyrights apply here. We cant just post any tune we choose.Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted June 25, 2005 Author Share Posted June 25, 2005 Therein lies one of the problems! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nearchoclatetown Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Does "I can't drive 55" qualify as a car song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I am looking for a great song...Looking for something for the new site. </div></div> I had to transcribe these lyrics myself from one of my cds, so they might not be perfect. This is "Antique '32 Studebaker Dictator Coupe" by Ronny and the Daytonas (the <span style="font-style: italic">"Little GTO, You're really looking fine, 3 deuces and a 4 speed, and a 389"</span> guys). It's not an easy song to find, but check out these lyrics:<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">[color:\\"green\\"]"Got my girl and it's Sunday,Gonna have some fun 'fore Monday,Heading on out to the freeway,With the coolest thing on the highway.(chorus) "Me and my antique '32 Studebaker Dictator coupe!"Continental kit and a rumble seat,Roll-back rooftop sure is neat,Free-wheel style is back in town, Straight 8 drive really moves around."My little antique '32 Studebaker Dictator coupe!"Move out little Dictator,You're a cool road operator,Leave the late-styles far behind,Gonna get us to the beach on time."Me and my antique '32 Studebaker Dictator coupe!"</span></span>Corny as hell, I know, but the whole song is 2 minutes and 4 seconds long, <span style="font-weight: bold">it's about what <span style="font-style: italic">we</span> do</span> (still today), and it's pretty catchy for not being released as a single. I seriously believe that I own a copy of every car-centered song released since 1950 (about 200+ cd's & lp's), and a dozen or so earlier car songs. This is the closest I can come to a song that is about the joys of <span style="font-style: italic">our</span> (authentic car) hobby. I believe that Sundazed Records currently holds the copyright to the song, and I'd be very surprised if they had any issues with a non-profit use of it given their corporate philosophy. I don't think you could do better musically for the AACA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbking Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 Dave - I suspect there are a few you are missing. At 600 + LP's and over a 1000 45's, I'm not even close to having them all Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
41Merc Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 WoW... I can't believe no one's said "Hot Rod Lincoln." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 "41"The very first post asked for NON Hot Rod.I guess Dead Man's Curve would be inappropriate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 Well, in his original message he stressed not hot rod related so that is probably why no one put it.How about Jan and Dean's "Dead Man's Curve"?Or "Oh where, oh where can my baby be"? (Not sure who did that one.)Or "Tell Laura I Love Her"? (This song FREAKS Bill out when he hears it. Twice when he was going into the pit area of the race track with his '55 Ford Crown Victoria dirt car that song came on. Both times he wrecked badly in the race. Once he barreled rolled it several times and once he plowed the wall and cracked his hip joint. The damage to the hip was not found until his physical for the Air Force several years later.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moepar Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 And here's some more....Ridin' around in my automobile Our Car ClubCarsdaddy took the t-bird awaytruck driving manbig blue plymouthcar washharley davidson bluespontiac gto judgeworkin at the car wash blues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Dave - I suspect there are a few you are missing. At 600 + LP's and over a 1000 45's, I'm not even close to having them all Jon. </div></div>I was talking about lp's and cds exclusively devoted to just "hot rod music", mainly surf and rockabilly with a few country, rock and doo wop records tossed in. A few are privately made compilation cds I lucked into. My regular music collection is much larger, although I own less than a hundred 45's. They're too expensive (these days) and the sound quality (especially after 1960/65) really suffers by comparison to lp's. Most of the 45-only releases are available on compilation discs, including everything from any "major" artist. There are several dozen minor/local 45-only releases listed in <span style="font-style: italic">The Illustrated Discography of Hot Rod Music 1961-1965</span> that I'm missing, but these are almost unobtainable (especially in the mid-west). Otherwise if it's out there i'm pretty sure I have at least one copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbking Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 Dave - so was I.Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolffe53 Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Maybelline by Chuck Berry is all about a Cadillac and a V8 Ford. Does it count if there isn't a car in the title? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 One for the young and the young at heart, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 How about "One Piece at a Time," by Johnnie Cash. It's about a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56, '57, '58' 59' [Cadillac] automobileIt's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67, '68, '69, '70 automobile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynaflash8 Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 I still like "Hot Rod Lincoln"....okay, two more:Mary Lou by Young Jessie, Rythem & Blues song, 1955, has a line: "I had a 55 Ford and two dollar bill, the way she took that Man, it gave me a chill".Maybelline by Chuck Berry, Rythem & Blues song, 1955, has lines: "Cadillac rollin' about 95, bumper to bumper, side by side, .......Ford got hot and wouldn't do no more."There was another one around that time called Buick49, but I don't remember anything more about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest invicta592 Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Are we looking for any song at all? or just those that refer to Oldsmobiles?Chuck Berry - You Can't Catch MeJules Blattner - No Money Down (has the edge on Chuck's version IMHO)Jimmy Carroll - Big Green CarChuck Miller - Bright Red ConvertibleGene Vincent - Cruisin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted June 27, 2005 Author Share Posted June 27, 2005 Lots of good ideas guys and no we are not looking for a specific kind of car just a upbeat song that isn't old sounding like "In My Merry Oldsmobile"! I started to like the Chuck Berry tune, Riding around in my automobile, until I read the lyrics. Back to the drawing board...you guys have given me way too much to check out!If there is a site I can listen to any of these let me know. Lots of songs are great in lyrics but we want something catchy, upbeat and fun. Some of the car songs are just too much like ballads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest invicta592 Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest De Soto Frank Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Green Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Dinah Shore sang the "See the USA in your Chevrolet". Now was that turned into a song or just a commercial jingle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted June 27, 2005 Share Posted June 27, 2005 Steve, I've found that the Sundazed.com listing for Ronny and the Daytonas' "Best of" cd has a 30 sec. RealPlayer snippet of <span style="font-style: italic">Antique '32 Studebaker Dictator Coupe</span>. If you'd like give it a click and see if it's what you have in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Bond Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted June 28, 2005 Author Share Posted June 28, 2005 Thanks Dave...it is a very good possibility but I am still looking for something a bit more upbeat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest De Soto Frank Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 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"...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynaflash8 Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thanks Dave...it is a very good possibility but I am still looking for something a bit more upbeat... </div></div>I <span style="font-weight: bold">hope</span> this is facetious! <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> "Got a '69 Chevy with a 396, fulie heads and a hurst on the floor..." </div></div> I've purchased every release by Bruce on it's release day since <span style="font-style: italic">Darkness on the Edge of Town</span>, usually first thing in the morning. The guy that owned the record store in Iowa in 1980 thought I was nuts waiting for him to open to buy <span style="font-style: italic">The River</span>! I think he sold his second copy the next week. However, I must say that it is on this lyric you learn whether Bruce is a poet or a car guy. (There are no big block "fuelie heads"!) Either that or he really is <span style="font-style: italic">one he!!</span> of a car guy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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