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Songs about truck driving or the truck industry. Pages in category "Songs about truck driving" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Songs About the Working Man: 19 Mercury Travelin' with Dave Dudley: 8 Talk of the Town: 16 1965 Rural Route No. 1 — Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun: 3 Greatest Hits — 1966 There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere: 12 Lonelyville: 6 Free and Easy: 10 1967 My Kind of Love — Dave Dudley Country: 29 1968 Greatest Hits Vol. 2: 39 Thanks for ...
Folk songs adopt, adapt, and incorporate colloquialisms, slang, and occupational terms into verbal snapshots. In truck-driving country, such specialized words and terms as truck rodeo, dog house, twin screw, Georgia overdrive, saddle tanks, jake brake, binder and others borrowed from the lingo of truckers are commonly utilized. [10]
About the crash of a truck driver bringing a load of bananas into Scranton, Pennsylvania, based on a real truck crash. "The 30th" Billie Eilish: 2022: From the EP Guitar Songs. About a real-life crash involving a close friend of Eilish's. "7–11" The Ramones: 1981: From their album Pleasant Dreams. The arrangement of this song suggests a ...
Woodrow Wilson "Red" Sovine (July 7, 1917 – April 4, 1980) was an American country music singer and songwriter associated with truck-driving country songs, particularly those recited as narratives but set to music. [1] His most noted examples are "Giddyup Go" (1965) and "Teddy Bear" (1976), both of which topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs ...
The first big truck-driving hit from Sovine, "Giddyup Go" is the tale of an emotional father-son reunion at a highway truck stop. The reunion is played out near the end of the song. In the setup, the elder truck driver—who shares his experiences in first person—explains that he had spent the better part of 25 years on the road, most of them ...
Songs about truck driving (38 P) T. Songs about trains (1 C, 137 P) V. Vehicle wreck ballads (3 C, 24 P) Pages in category "Songs about transport"
The song was also covered by Saddle Tramps and appears on the multiple-artist compilation album "Nev Nicholls Presents Truckin Towards 2000". [3] It has also been covered by Aaron Tippin on his 2009 album "In Overdrive". Country music band Old Dominion covered the song from the television special CMT Giants: Alabama.