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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]
While "few if any of these [hot rod] films warrented a soundtrack release," [16] Hot Rod Rumble is an exception as its soundtrack was issued by Liberty Records in July 1957. [17] The LP contains 14 songs, including the main title and end title music, composed by Sandy Courage and performed by "The Hot Rod Rumble Orchestra," a group of 34 jazz ...
"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 ]
"Hot Rod Lincoln" is a song by American singer-songwriter Charlie Ryan, first released in 1955. It was written as an answer song to Arkie Shibley 's 1950 hit " Hot Rod Race " (US #29). It describes a drive north on US Route 99 (predecessor to Interstate 5 ) from San Pedro, Los Angeles , and over " Grapevine Hill " which soon becomes a hot rod ...
Free Spirit ("She's a Free Spirit") – Steve Dorff and John Bettis; French and Saunders – Rowland Rivron; The Fresh Beat Band ("The Fresh Beat Band!") – Matter Music (Sung by Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Thomas Hobson, Shayna Rose/Tara Perry, and Jon Beavers) Fresh Beat Band of Spies – Peter Zizzo
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]
The song was also included in the soundtrack of the 2007 film Hot Rod, which parodies the punchdance scene with Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg) in a forest. [6] [7] More recently, on April 27, 2014, the song was used in "Baby Got Black", the eighteenth episode of season 12 of Family Guy, with Peter Griffin parodying the Footloose punchdance scene. [8]