Whats your favorite Hotrod song?

Anybody mention 455 ROCKET by Kathy Mattea? Not an oldie but an new favorite of mine.

 

ZZ-top: Buy me a mercury, Rob Zombie: Dragula, Talas (Billy Sheehan): High Speed Ice, Jim Croce: Rapid Roy. Hot rod lincoln is a given.

Buy me a mercury has got to be my favorite though

 

Little GTO by Ronny and the Daytonas

 

CW McCall...Amazing! I thought I was the only one, so maybe now just the youngest one.."Leave a pint of blood at the door for a deposit..."

Three Bad Jacks has a few good car songs

Im In Love with my Car-Mike Ness

Ghost Town Blues - Social Distortion, mentions his Pontiac

RFFR-Roger Miret and the Disasters

Wild In the Streets -Circel Jerks -not exactly a car song, but works.

One Piece at a Time- Cash - just amazing.

 

anybody have "chrome smoke and fire" the collection by robert williams??? awesome collection of hot rod tunes!

 

By far Hot Rod Lincoln in the Commander Cody version.

 

my honey, my goat

by Billy Nightpipe and the Swollen Arches

 

OK not really a hot rod song but, I love Silver thunderbird by marc cohn.

Dave

 

Jim A ..Timing is ...everything.... .....

Not quite a Hot Rod Song ..but...
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys " Cadillac and a Model A"

Thanks,
Ken

 

Look at that Cadillac - Brian Setzer
Hot Rod Lincoln - The Jim Varney, Ricky Scaggs version.
Al

 

aha the first one of course--ROCKET88--1951, ike turner label says jake benson and the delta kats but for some reason it was ike turner(way before tina)some also say its the first r&r record but then some say bill haleys version is the first,but ikes was first ,also back in the late 50s there was one called drag race cant remember who by or most of the words but one cool line was--i was sitting at a signal with my chick,waiting for the light to turn green when i heard the rumble of a bad exhaust,and a chopped coupe made the scene,wish i could find it now

 

On one of the Gretsch web sites a guy posted that he now owns the 6120 that was used on "Little Forty Ford." I always liked that song and thought that was cool that he got the guitar from it.

 

The label actually reads " Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats ". Brenston recorded Rocket 88 on March 3rd 1951 & Haley followed with a cover version which he recorded in July 1951. Ike Turner played piano on the record. At the time Jackie Brenston sang & played sax in Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm.

 

The Hot Rod Race. A precurser to Hot Rod Lincoln, done by Red Foley.

 

Gotta be Curtis Gordon - DRAGGIN'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pp8gaaJbxw

 

I have been waiting for a thread like this!! 57 Deathtrip by the Spectres on the Blood Sweat & Nitro album!!! good stuff makes me want to push the go pedal through the floor board.

 

First record I ever bought was a 45 of Comander Cody and his Lost Airmen's Hot Rod Lincoln. Still have that 45 even though I have nothing to play it on.

 

Robert Johnson did Terraplane Blues long before Rocket88.

 

Heres a couple more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuBCFyVyKHM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Zdf7uu2m8

 

Lots of favorites, but did anyone mention "Bucket T" by Jan & Dean? Another one I really like is "Hot Rod Mercury" by Don Walser

 

Bill Haley - Rocket 88

 

LONNIE MACK
50s/60s Man
Plain Jane (in a Mustang)
Satisfy Suzie
Me & My Car
Asphalt Outlaw Hero

 

Hot Rod Lincoln I traded for a worn 45 at school in the early 1970's

More of a biker song but
Black Denim Trousers & Motorcycle Boots
Had it on a 78 that was my Mom's but broke it

Highway Star-Deep Purple

 

For the record, my brother was named Cody thanks to Commander Cody. Years later Commander Cody was in Duluth, and my father and bro. met him. What a hoot!

Personally I laugh every time I hear Beep Beep. But to get the juices flowing I put on just about any Ventures albums....but I'm a guitar player, so...

And not sure if it was mentioned, but: Jesus built my Hot Rod by Ministry.

 

Hot Rod Lincoln and Rocket 88

 

"My Pappy said Son, going to drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that haaaat....raaaawd.....Linkin!"

Classic rock n' roll.....makes me drive faster every time it come on the oldies station!

 

Not on Youtube anymore, but here it is:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x431bx_ike-turner-rocket-88_music

 

Holy shit! This thread still lives?

 

I don`t know the name of it But the last line goes "It was a kid,in a hopped up Model A"

 

"KRLA King of the Wheels"
by the Bobby Fuller Four...

KRLA was a Top Fuel Eliminator in the 60's