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The car crash song emerged as a popular pop and rock music teenage tragedy song during the 1950s and 1960s at a time when the ... "The Country & Western Supersong ...
According to both Dave Marsh and Patrick Humphries, Bruce Springsteen's song "Wreck on the Highway" on his 1980 album The River was directly inspired by Dorsey Dixon's song. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The two songs have the same title, same theme (the singer coming across a fatal highway crash), and same mood (gloomy, reflective), although the lyrics and ...
"The Carroll County Accident" is a 1968 country song written by Bob Ferguson, and recorded by Porter Wagoner that year. It was a hit for Wagoner and became one of his signature songs. "The Carroll County Accident" won CMA's Song of the Year in 1969. [3] It has been covered by numerous musicians.
Several years before the song's release, Townes performed for a high school in Grand Manan, New Brunswick.After hanging out with several students during the day, she learned afterwards that four of them were survivors of a car crash in which the driver, a 17-year old star of the town’s basketball team and the valedictorian, was killed.
The song portrays a fictional account of the incident played in the form of a country song. With each verse, the song gets faster to, as Chapin explained in the live recording, "build up intensity and excitement." During the chorus, Chapin sings the phrase "thirty-thousand pounds" followed by Big John Wallace singing the bass line "of bananas ...
Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" ended up driving her right to the coveted CMA award for song of the year — 35 years later.. The Country Music Association donned the 59-year-old singer with the song ...
List of car crash songs; 0–9. 30,000 Pounds of Bananas; The 30th; B. The Ballad of Thunder Road; ... (1938 song) Wreck on the Highway (Bruce Springsteen song)
The song is sung from the perspective of a man who has, temporarily, survived a mid-air collision.In his dying words, he describes in graphic detail what he remembered of the collision and his current condition: his arms have been severed, his co-pilot is already lifeless beside him, blood is rapidly leaving his body and pooling underneath him, and a paramedic indicates that no medical ...