Bring Em On! Post Your Songs about Cars! (OK Bikes too)

Hey All,

Great songs!

Mercury Blues has been covered by everybody from Steve Miller to Meatloaf to Alan Jackson to Ry Cooder but the one by Steve Miller is perhaps the one most relate to - and in some respects is close to the original. In 1949 a bluesman K C Douglas recorded Mercury Boogie which was renamed Mercury Blues. Here it is:

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Com on folks I know you all know a lot more car songs.

-Ed-
 
Hey All,

I knew somebody would get to the Beach Boys - 409 - a song about the Chevrolet 409. I have always liked like Jr Brown's version (with the Beach Boys singing background).

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I never knew Paul Revere and the Raiders did a car song! I did a search and they even did one about the best engine Chevy ever produced (next to the 300 straight 6).

Keep em coming!

-Ed-
 
Here's a few from my youth. :icon_lol:

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EasyEd said:
Hey All,

I knew somebody would get to the Beach Boys - 409 - a song about the Chevrolet 409. I have always liked like Jr Brown's version (with the Beach Boys singing background).

[youtube]16qsYreBJZE[/youtube]

I never knew Paul Revere and the Raiders did a car song! I did a search and they even did one about the best engine Chevy ever produced (next to the 300 straight 6).

Keep em coming!

-Ed-
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Wow! that sounds better than The Beachboys version! Never heard of Jr. Brown. Thank you for posting that!
 
Hey All,

Amazing the diversity out there.

If you go back to before the Beatles there was a music called Rockabilly. It was an era of hopped up cars, rat rods, t-shirts, wildroot in your hair, songs about dead mans curve. When I was a kid some of the first books I recall reading were stories about 50s teens and their rods. I remember one well. The plot line was like sheriff has pretty daughter, guys like fonz ended up dead as the sheriff would wait for them on the highway and when they ran he would nerf em off the road at a particular curve. Of course one guy who got killed had an older brother who returned to town in his hot rod falls in love with the daughter but he knows what the sheriff does and works on his car alot (suspension actually). Finally the sheriff is after him on the same road and as they approach the corner he slows the sheriff steps on the gas and then the older brother steps on the gas and goes around the corner like he's driving a porsche. Sheriffs car doesn't have suspension that good and he goes off the road and he gets killed. Of course they live happy ever after. I always liked the era and the music.

This one is cause I used to own a 66 Mustang.

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A song about a Ford...

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When I was in the 8th grade the high school kid next door had a two door 56 chevy - dark blue chrome wheels dual exhausts - he used to work on it at all hours of the evening and night. I used to watch him out my bedroom window and loved it when he roared that engine.

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This one is actually far more western swing... band is from Sweden I believe.

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Back to some rockabilly..

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This one is not entirely about a car but I love the harp! :bump:

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Keep em coming.

-Ed-

PS as I think about this it seems like rockabilly is making something of a comeback - hopefully more 50s music does as well.
 
I've been too busy catching up on what's already here. LOL. Brian's Blues are right there with me and Ed, man, Jr. Brown, I've loved that rascal's music ever since I first saw him on Austin City Limits. Never heard that 409 version, thumbs up. Being as how I'm an old folkie, here's my contribution, goes back a tad bit further than the other songs, just a little sing-along that'll have you singing too.

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