Hot Rod Race - Arkie Shibley - 1950 Wheels - Billy Vaughn - 1961 Tijuana Taxi - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - 1966 The Ballad of Thunder Road - Robert Mitchum - 1958 The song, of course, is about stealing stuff from the Cadillac plant to build a car with parts over a dozen years of production. This one's a fill-in-the-blank entry.
OK, maybe "Peggy Sue." Hot rodding, right? It seems to be a car song based solely on the recall to Drag-u-la, the Tom Daniels-designed coffin-rod seen on the Munsters TV show and Munsters Go Home movie, circa 1966. We never thought of the Highway Star as being a '78 Corvette, but that was the spin on this single artwork that came out well after the song's 1972 release on the Machine Head album.
Even so, it's become one of the standards of hot rodding with your eight-track blaring.Best Lyric: "I like smoke and lightning, heavy metal thunder. Rod goes to his quiet place to punch dance 0 8.7k. Racin' with the wind, a the feelin' that I'm under. The Beach Boys wrote about Chevys in 1962, with "409" referring to the top GM engine of the time, the 409-horsepower 409 used in the B-body platform cars.The opener mentions getting your motor running and heading out on the highway, but aside from that, we barely consider this a car song. We'd rather hear "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" with Jon Schneider.
With Dukes, there was almost no post-'80s population of '68-'69 Chargers.Best Lyric: "Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born. However...because General Lee. We thought we came up with all the possible top hits for the gearhead world, but evidently not. This is quality music right here. 0:13. We remember seeing his Trans Am in Car Craft and HOT ROD back in the early '80s, and we recall an evening at SEMA with him in a private concert. / My memory is not like the other one / Turn to strike my face / Always second place / Tell me again why is it I / Never can do
Even the album was called G.T.O.No song has led more mid-lifers with wives in poodle skirts to paint its title on the quarter panels of a '50s car. "This just isn't a good song. To help solve that for you, we present the top 25 car songs of all time as We think someone stacked the deck somewhere, driving traffic to the poll from a Rush message board or something.
See above.This one wears out after the ten thousandth time you hear it at an oldies cruise night, but check back in with an open mind and you realize this is a really cool tune about street racing.Finally we dip into some alternative. Sammy still has some pretty cool supercars and Mustangs.This is the classic from the soundtrack of Smokey and the Bandit, and while we live the song as our own private anthem, we can't help but feel it dominated Jerry Reed's career in a way he probably wanted to live down. We're a little ashamed that HOT ROD readers picked not one, but two songs about driving slowly.Here's one off the classic-rock plot! There are a ridiculous number of car songs out there, leaving you loopy when it comes to picking out that road-trip playlist. The big question with this song is what kind of vehicles they are really talking about. As a point of trivium, the car on the album cover is Best Lyric: "Just a little deuce coupe with a flat head mill, but she'll walk a Thunderbird like (she's) it's standin' still. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for The Best of the Hot Rod Hits - Various Artists on AllMusic - 1992 Win.
Guaranteed. " Hot Rod Lincoln " is a song by American singer-songwriter Charlie Ryan, first released in 1955. One lyric suggests "driving," another seems to imply motorcycles when the driver is "riding on his horse." And I burn, churning my direction, quench my thirst with gasolineThe ultimate standard car song! But it is one of the best car songs with great imagery.What's really impressive about this one is Mr. Cash's hair on that album cover. It's basically a song about hearing voices in your head.Our fourth most-voted item in our poll of readers was "a song not listed here." Looks like he stole Michael Landon's schtick. You get to pick.While we're partial to "Whiplash" while driving far too fast, "Fuel" is the mainstream car song from Metallica, fronted by James Hetfield who is a legit car guy. Red Barchetta as the best car song of all time? He's had a couple cars built by Rick Dore and featured in HOT ROD over the last half dozen years, and Best Lyric: "Ohhh, on I burn fuel is pumping engines burning hard, loose, and clean.
"Sammy used to be pretty reliable with the car-guy songs, even going back to his days in Montrose.
Surprise to your car fans, Rob might actually be talking about a dude vampire in women's clothes.Because, on your music mix, you usually want to hear Mustang Sally right after a little Rob Zombie. And for the record (pun intended), this is another song with a few too many suggestions about slowing down.This is one of the most legit car songs on the list, certainly hitting some highs not seen since the hot-rodding pop songs of the Beach Boys-influenced '60s. Our fourth most-voted item in our poll of readers was "a song not listed here." Mozart) Arranged by Jim Long Courtesy of Point Classics LLC. … It's about circle-track racing, clearly, but on what?
… We like to think it's a jalopy race.We can't help but wonder if the popularity of this one was boosted by its inclusion in the This band is virtually unlistenable minus the car connection, but this one pulls it together long enough that you can almost sit through the 3 minutes and 11 seconds.Call it Little GTO or G.T.O., this song broke at the same time as the car, and you gotta wonder if the pop single put the Pontiac on the map. Without Dukes of Hazzard, there is no post-'80s car-guy population. The unknown song! Most righteous organ solo ever?This reminds us of the Chevy billboard a few years ago that proclaimed, "They don't write songs about Volvos."