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Guthrie wrote "Riding in My Car" during a productive period in the 1940s when he was living at Coney Island in New York. [2] "Riding in My Car" was recorded as part of The Asch Recordings in the mid 1940s. It was released on 78 RPM record, then collected on 12" vinyl LP on Guthrie's 1951 album Songs to Grow on, Volume One: Nursery Days.
The song has been recorded by many artists, including: Peter, Paul and Mary on LifeLines (1995) and LifeLines Live (1996) Dave Guard and the Whiskeyhill Singers (featuring Judy Henske) on Dave Guard and the Whiskeyhill Singers (1962). The Kingston Trio on Time To Think (1963). Cisco Houston on Cisco Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie (1963).
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ θ r i /; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and composer who was one of the most significant figures in American folk music.
When folk music giant Woody Guthrie died in 1967, he left behind written lyrics for hundreds of unrecorded songs. Decades later, his daughter Nora began drafting a new generation of musicians to ...
Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection is a 150-page large-format book with three CDs containing 57 tracks, including Woody Guthrie's most important recordings such as the complete version of "This Land Is Your Land," "Pretty Boy Floyd," "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore," and "Riding in My Car." The set also contains 21 ...
Woody Guthrie in March 1943 Sheet music "This Land Is Your Land" is a song by American folk singer Woody Guthrie. One of the United States' most famous folk songs, its lyrics were written in 1940 in critical response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Its melody is based on a Carter Family tune called "When the World's on Fire".
Woody Guthrie in 1943. American singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie's published recordings are culled from a series of recording sessions in the 1940s and 1950s. At the time they were recorded they were not set down for a particular album, so are found over several albums not necessarily in chronological order.
A car song is a song with lyrics or musical themes pertaining to car travel. Though the earliest forms appeared in the 1900s, car songs emerged in full during the 1950s as part of rock and roll and car culture, but achieved their peak popularity in the West Coast of the United States during the 1960s with the emergence of hot rod rock as an outgrowth of the surf music scene.