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"Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" is a popular rhythm and blues song, composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup. The lyrics relate a westward roadtrip on U.S. Route 66, a highway which traversed the western two-thirds of the U.S. from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California.
Robert William Troup Jr. (October 18, 1918 – February 7, 1999) was an American actor, jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the composer of the rhythm and blues standard "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" and for the role of Dr. Joe Early with his wife Julie London in the television program Emergency! in the 1970s.
Among them was Pennsylvania-born songwriter Bobby Troup, who while on the road in 1946 penned a song about the highway: "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66." It was made famous by Nat King Cole and has ...
Pages in category "Songs written by Bobby Troup" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66; T. Their Hearts Were ...
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66, written by Bobby Troup, was recorded for the first time, by the Nat King Cole Trio, making United States Highway 66 the most famous numbered road of all time. The song has been covered many times since, most recently by John Mayer. [35]
American pop-culture artists publicized US 66 and the experience, through song and television. Bobby Troup wrote "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66", which was popularized by Nat King Cole with the King Cole Trio, and later covered by artists ranging from Chuck Berry and Glenn Frey to The Manhattan Transfer, John Mayer, and Brian Setzer, as well as ...
Route 66 took shape in 1926 and debuted in 1927, resulting in a meandering 2,445 mile highway hodge podge that began in Chicago and ended in LA.
Now, the names of all 66 songs he wrote about have been revealed, thanks to the dissemination of a table-of-contents page for the highly anticipated book, which comes […]