Favorite Car or Cruising Songs

[Prunepicker]

This ought to be fun. What were your favorite songs about cars?
What songs did you like to listen to when your were cruisin' the strip?

Car songs
Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys
409 - Beach Boys
Dead Man's Curve - Jan & Dean

For cruising
In the Summertime - Mongo Jerry
Anything by Chicago

[sam greenroyd]

Anything Mitch Ryder did was pretty good cruising music.

[CarltonsKeeper]

Hot Rod Lincoln Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen

Transfusion Nervous Norvous

SS 396 Paul Revere & The Raiders

Beep Beep The Playmates

Drag City Jan and Dean

Little GTO Ronnie & The Daytona's

[Prunepicker]

Anything Mitch Ryder did was pretty good cruising music.

Mitch Ryder was a fave. Jenny Take a Ride! Sock it to Me!

[mugofbeer]

"Damn, This Traffic Jam!" - James Taylor (LOL)

[RealJimbo]

Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonfull

[papaOU]

Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonfull

Hot Rod Lincoln Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen
Transfusion Nervous Norvous

Any Steppenwolf, CSN&Y,

Borrowed the first two from CarltonsKeeper.

[gen70]

Just about anything by the Allman Bros..

[skyrick]

Radar Love - Focus

Autobahn - Kraftwerk

Layla, the entire album, especially "Key to the Highway"

ditto Gen70's Allman Bros, especially "Live at Fillmore East"

Truckin' - Grateful Dead

almost anything by the Ventures from the '60s.

Like a Rollin' Stone - Dylan. When I play this on the CD I'm always singin' along at top volume...not a pretty sight. "and he says, "would you like to make a deeee-ullllllll!?"

[gen70]

Radar Love - Focus

Autobahn - Kraftwerk

Layla, the entire album, especially "Key to the Highway"

ditto Gen70's Allman Bros, especially "Live at Fillmore East"

Truckin' - Grateful Dead

almost anything by the Ventures from the '60s.

Like a Rollin' Stone - Dylan. When I play this on the CD I'm always singin' along at top volume...not a pretty sight. "and he says, "would you like to make a deeee-ullllllll!?"

I'am hearing ya!!

[RedDirt717]

Anything by Tom Petty

Anything by Mumford and Sons

Taddy Porter - King Louie (Oklahoma band about to make it big, check'em out)

Dave Matthews - Ants Marching

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

Billy Brag and Wilco - Way over Yonder in the Minor Key

Counting Crows - Hangin Around

Boston - Peace of Mind

CCR - Down on the Corner

Dire Straights - Sultan of Swing

U2 - beautiful day

I've driven either a BMW or a Chevy Blazer my entire life but this next year I'm going to buy a project El Camino convertible to fix up and throw in a decent sound system. I'm pretty excited about this.

[Ezrablum]

Ah to cruise around in a '62 Chevy Corvair.



And yeah, Jan and Dean is GREAT cruising music. I love it.

[papaOU]

City of Tiny Lights Frank Zappa.

Yo' Momma Frank Zappa

Any Dead tune......

[SoonerQueen]

1. Ventura Highway
2. Born to be Wild

[Prunepicker]

Radar Love - Focus

Wasn't that by Golden Ear Ring?

[skyrick]

City of Tiny Lights Frank Zappa.

Yo' Momma Frank Zappa

Any Dead tune......

Zappa's Hot Rats was in heavy rotation on cassette in my '71 GTX! Rory Gallagher too.

[skyrick]

Wasn't that by Golden Ear Ring?

Good catch! I was thinking of Radar Love and Hocus Pocus by Focus in the same flashback!

[osu cowboy]

Anything by Creedence for me.

[Generals64]

Anything by Tom Petty

Anything by Mumford and Sons

Taddy Porter - King Louie (Oklahoma band about to make it big, check'em out)

Dave Matthews - Ants Marching

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

Billy Brag and Wilco - Way over Yonder in the Minor Key

Counting Crows - Hangin Around

Boston - Peace of Mind

CCR - Down on the Corner

Dire Straights - Sultan of Swing

U2 - beautiful day

I've driven either a BMW or a Chevy Blazer my entire life but this next year I'm going to buy a project El Camino convertible to fix up and throw in a decent sound system. I'm pretty excited about this.

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An El Camino Convertible????never have I seen one of those.....

[Generals64]

Personally, I liked all of the "Doo Wop" music......And then I skipped the rest and went to Country....Merle Haggard to Zac Brown Band......George Jones to Alabama.....

[CarltonsKeeper]

Personally, I liked all of the "Doo Wop" music......And then I skipped the rest and went to Country....Merle Haggard to Zac Brown Band......George Jones to Alabama.....

How about Wiley & Gene (Wiley Walker & Gene Sullivan) singing "When my Blue Moon turns to Gold Again" OR Ernest Tubb singing "Too Old to cut the Mustard Anymore" I can see you cruising to those tunes............LOL

[FRISKY]

Ghost Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Heavy Metal - Don Henley
Riders On The Storm - Doors
Walk, Don't Run - Ventures
American Pie - Don McLean
Surfin' Bird - Trashmen
Ballroom Blitz - Sweet
Steppenwolf - all...
Mrs. Robinson _ Simon and Garfunkle
Chevy Van - Sammy Johns
Can't Drive 55 - Sammy Hagar
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show
Lunatic Fringe - Red Rider
Groovin' - Rascals
We Are the Champions - Queen
Downtown - Petula Clark
Uncle Albert, Admiral Halsey - Paul McCartney and Wings
Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Paradise By the Dashboard Lights - Meatloaf
Classical Gas - Mason Williams
La Bamba - Los Lobos
Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Me and Bobby Mcgee - Janis Joplin
Popcorn - Hot Butter
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Running Down A Dream - Tom Petty
Saturday Nights Alright For Fighting - Elton John
Life In The Fast Lane - Eagles
Going Up The Country - Canned Heat
Rapture - Blondie
Revolution - Beatles
Kokomo - Beach Boys
Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
City Of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
Journey to the Center of the Mind - Amboy Dukes
Aquarius - 5th Dimension
A horse With No Name - America

[papaOU]

Gee. Nobody listens to Yoko Ono?

[gen70]

Wild Thing - The Troggs

[OKCisOK4me]

This thread reminds me of "American Graffiti"....lol