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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.
The three unreleased songs were "Wiameah Bay", an instrumental by the Wrecking Crew, and two Rip Chords hot-rod songs ("Sting Ray" and "XKE") which had been in Columbia's vault since 1965. The fourth song was "Red Hot Roadster", originally scheduled for release as a single but instead appearing on the soundtrack of 1965's A Swingin' Summer . [ 41 ]
The song is credited for initiating the hot rod music craze of the 1960s. [1] Composition "409" was inspired by Gary Usher's obsession with hot rods. [4]
"Hot Rod Race" is a Western swing song about a fictional automobile race in San Pedro, California, between a Ford and a Mercury. First recorded by Arkie Shibley , and released in November 1950, it broke the ground for a series of hot rod songs recorded for the car culture of the 1950s and 1960s. [ 1 ]
In Duane Cozzen's book, Surf & Hot Rod Music of the 60's: Collectors Quick Reference, it says that "Penetration" is believed to be the last major surf instrumental song. [2] On the day of the recording session, Will Glover was in the studio and he was not "feeling it" so he decided to go across the road to have a bite to eat and a soft drink.
Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or ' 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock music that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals.
According to The Ultimate Hot Rod Dictionary, by Jeff Breitenstein: "While cars and, to a lesser degree, hot rods have been a relatively common and enduring theme in American popular music, the term hot rod music is most often associated with the unique 'California sound' music of the early to mid-1960s ... and was defined by its rich vocal ...
Shut Down is a multi-artist compilation album released by Capitol Records in mid-June 1963. [2] It contains hot rod music from acts such as the Beach Boys, Robert Mitchum, the Cheers and the Super Stocks. [3]