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"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 ...
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.
In 1950, Shibley recorded the song "Hot Rod Race", suggested to him by George Wilson, who was credited but according to some sources was the father of the actual songwriter, 17-year-old Ron Wilson. Shibley offered the song to 4 Star Records in Los Angeles, but was turned down, and Shibley decided to release the song on his own Mountain Dew ...
Songs That Made Him Famous — — 1965 Ten Little Bottles: 12 142 1966 Famous Hot Rodders I Have Known — — The Man Who Comes Around — — Bottles Up — — The Branded Stock of Johnny Bond — — 1967 Ten Nights in a Barroom — — Sick, Sober and Sorry — — Drink Up and Go Home — — 1968 Three Sheets in the Wind — — 1969 ...
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 Old School Hot Rodders of Virginia Fall Cruise In and Swap Meet is on Saturday, November 2 from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at 19621 Namozine Road in Sutherland. The rain date is Sunday, November 3. The ...
The song spent nine weeks on the Billboard chart and peaked at number 23 on January 23, 1958 and reached number 36 and spent eight weeks on the Cashbox chart. It was Vincent's last American hit single. [22] The song was used in the movie Hot Rod Gang for a dance rehearsal scene featuring dancers doing the West Coast Swing. [20]