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Tailfins gave a Space Age look to cars, and along with extensive use of chrome became commonplace by the end of the decade. 1950s American automobile culture has had an enduring influence on the culture of the United States, as reflected in popular music, major trends from the 1950s and mainstream acceptance of the "hot rod" culture. The American manufacturing economy switched from producing ...
Born Shirley Ann Roque in Burlington, Vermont, on June 19, 1940, [4] Muldowney began street racing in the 1950s in Schenectady, New York. "School had no appeal to me. All I wanted was to race up and down the streets in a hot rod," declared Muldowney. [3] When she was 16, she married 19-year-old Jack Muldowney, [5] who built her first dragster.
Hot Rod Girl "was the first car flick to marry music with the exhaust note" and in scenes in Yo-Yo's diner "the gang snaps their fingers to bebop, [18] not rock music. But soon other filmmakers "were cashing in on the fad" of films about "the rampant juvenile delinquency problems that fueled hot rod culture in the U.S."
The 1950s was a pivotal era in music, laying the groundwork for the rock and roll songs of the 1960s and the rebellious tunes of the 1970s. ... songs of the 1950s not only defined an era but also ...
Hot rod music was largely a product of a number of surf music groups running out of ideas for new surfing songs and simultaneously shifting their lyrical focus toward hot rods. Hot rod music would prove to be the second phase in a progression known as the California Sound, which would mature into more complex topics as the decade passed. Hot ...
Girls in Prison is a 1956 American sexploitation women in prison drama film about a young woman who is convicted of being an accomplice to a bank robbery and is sent to an all-female prison. The film was directed by Edward L. Cahn , and stars Richard Denning , Joan Taylor , and Mae Marsh .
"I really honed in on the 1950s because of my grandparents," Fay explained to AOL Lifestyle. "They got married in 1955 and her [grandmother's] stories...just made it sound like the best time ever."
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.