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"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 ...
Lost in the Ozone is an album by American rock band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.Their first album, it was released in 1971. it contains their hit cover version of "Hot Rod Lincoln" as well as the band's live staples "Lost in the Ozone" and "Seeds and Stems (Again)".
"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 ]
Frayne’s seminal group was popularly best known for a remake of the 1955 rockabilly-flavored song “Hot Rod Lincoln” that made the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972, peaking at No. 9 ...
The first two singles from Western Standard Time – "Walk on By" and "Hot Rod Lincoln" – registered on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. Western Standard Time received mixed reviews from critics. Several commentators praised the band's choice of songs to record on the album, which were described as "fun" and "light-hearted".
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.
Hot Rod Lincoln Live! (1997) Raise a Ruckus (1999) Tied to the Wheel (2001) Dieselbilly Road Trip (2003) King of Dieselbilly (2005) Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods (2006) Word to the Wise (2010) Bill Kirchen's Honky Tonk Holiday (2012) Seeds and Stems (2013) Tombstone Every Mile (Reissue) (2019) The Proper Years (2020) Waxworks: The Best of the ...
"Hot Rod Lincoln" (1955) is Charlie Ryan's a response to "Hot Rod Race", (1950) Arkie Shibley and His Mountain Dew Boys and is arguably the more well known of the two songs. "Can't Do Sixty No More", written and performed by The Dominoes , was a response to their own hit song from four years earlier (1951), " Sixty Minute Man ".