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Sam Hummer is a local truck driver from Tucson, Arizona who works for a Tucson-based produce-shipper called "Red River". His driving partners are Duane Haller and "Pops" Dinwiddie.
An instrumental version was used in the movie White Line Fever (1975), as was another David Nichtern song, "Drifting and Dreaming of You". It was performed in American Pie at the prom. The song is sung by the singer from the lounge band in Bob Harris's (Bill Murray) hotel room shower in Sofia Coppola's film Lost in Translation.
The song's lyrics plead with a lover to reconsider ending a romance. The singer recalls their first winter together, when they lived in a poorly heated place, with their only entertainment watching the "Late, Late Show", featuring films such as Casablanca and Key Largo, both of which starred Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
On February 1, 2011, a song titled "The Cheval Glass" was released on the band's Facebook, YouTube and Myspace page. [20] On February 17, 2011, the band announced that We Do What We Want would be released through both Tooth & Nail and their hardcore/metal subdivision Solid State Records reflecting the heavier sound of the album.
White line fever may refer to: Highway hypnosis, an altered mental state induced by driving great distances; White Line Fever, a 1975 American film "White Line Fever", a 1977 song by Motörhead from their debut album Motörhead; White Line Fever, an Australian-rules football show; White Line Fever, a 2002 autobiography by Lemmy
The band supplied six songs for the soundtrack as well. As the band was about to film their cameo, however, drummer Pete Gill was fired and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor rejoined after having quit in 1984. In his autobiography White Line Fever, Lemmy states the sacking of Gill was a long time coming:
Artists who have covered "Giddyup Go" include Dave Dudley, Del Reeves, Tex Williams, Ferlin Husky, and Australian country singer Nev Nicholls. The song also received Dutch covers by Gerard de Vries in the mid sixties, and later on in the early 1990s by Paul de Leeuw, as his character Bob de Rooy. The later version, however, was a satire version ...
The song was referenced beforehand in the show as well, during episode 6 of season 5, "Don't Cross the Sh*t Line." While in J-ROCs trailer filming a "greasy film" Ray drinks a whole quart of liquor and rolls backwards into the shot where Bubbles is introducing himself in Trailer Park Girls Gone Wild , where J-ROC calls Ray a ""Phantom 309 ...