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"Airport" is a single by English power pop/new wave band the Motors. Released on 19 May 1978 by Virgin Records, [3] the song reached number four on the UK Singles Chart. [1] [4] [5] On 1 July 1978, the single was awarded a silver certification by the BPI in the UK for sales of over 250,000 units.
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 song originated in March 1971 when the band were on tour promoting The Yes Album (1971), travelling from Aberdeen to Glasgow after a gig in Aviemore, Scotland. [7] [8] They encountered many roundabouts on the way; Anderson claimed "maybe 40 or so", which inspired Anderson and Howe to write a song about the journey as they sat in the back of the band's transit van, and include the ...
Country music star Luke Combs’s cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has helped her take home the award for Song of the Year at the Country Music Awards – 35 years after the song was ...
The song ends with a CB radio conversation between the narrator and a truck driver inquiring about the "psychobilly Cadillac", in which the singer replies, "you might say I went right up to the factory and picked it up; it's cheaper that way". When asked what model it is, the narrator describes it as model years 1949 up to 1970.
Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" ended up driving her right to the coveted CMA award for song of the year — 35 years later.. The Country Music Association donned the 59-year-old singer with the song ...
It was everywhere — even the soundtrack to a TikTok trend, one of the coveted ways to have a song go viral — and hit 1 billion streams on Spotify, making it the first solo recording by a ...
"Steal My Sunshine" is a song by Canadian alternative rock band Len from their third studio album, You Can't Stop the Bum Rush (1999). The song was initially released on the soundtrack to the 1999 crime comedy film Go, which resulted in the song receiving heavy airplay.