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Song based on a real-life drunk driving crash [9] and the impact of a subsequent organ donation. "Lights on the Hill" Slim Dusty: 1973: The song describes a trucker driving at night with a heavy load being blinded by lights on the hill, hitting a pole, falling of the edge of a road and realising his impending death. "Limousine" Brand New: 2005
The song is about the joys of driving a lorry through a rainy night, until dawn. Although the chorus is based upon a gay liberation chant, this is not clear to the casual listener, so the song is in contrast to their far more blatantly political later songs, covering subjects such as homophobia (" Glad to Be Gay ") and civil disorder ("Long Hot ...
The song ostensibly concerns the pleasures, and legal pitfalls, of driving under the influence, after dark, as an antidote to limited leisure opportunities. The song references a number of popular alcoholic beverage brands: "When you're driving down the highway at night And you're feelin' that Wild Turkey's bite Don't give Johnnie Walker a ride
Before Memorial Day, the Free Press offered a 24-song summer driving playlist. That prompted a number of reader suggestions, so here's Round 2.
Driving at Night may refer to: "Driving at Night", a song in the musical State Fair "Driving at Night", a song by Jaws from the album The Ceiling
The unofficial start of summer brings to mind riding with the windows down and good tunes on the radio.
Throughout the rest of the song, the narrator restores the car and begins driving it. On some occasions, he claims to have visions of a soldier sitting in the passenger seat (i.e., Private Malone's ghost) and the radio would tune itself to an oldies program, "especially late at night."
The song was covered with slightly reworked lyrics by Tom Waits in July 1975 at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles and released in October on his third album, the pseudo-live double-LP Nighthawks at the Diner, under the title "Big Joe and Phantom 309". (To establish mood for the studio audience, Waits refers to the studio as "Raphael's Silver ...