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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 Cars were an American rock band who recorded 89 songs during their career, of which included 86 originals and 3 covers.Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, the group consisted of singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter Ric Ocasek, bassist and singer Benjamin Orr, lead guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, and drummer David Robinson.
Tailfins gave a Space Age look to cars, and along with extensive use of chrome became commonplace by the end of the decade. 1950s American automobile culture has had an enduring influence on the culture of the United States, as reflected in popular music, major trends from the 1950s and mainstream acceptance of the "hot rod" culture. The American manufacturing economy switched from producing ...
The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...
Best of the ’50s. The 1950s welcomed a slew of car models, contributing to a postwar boom of nearly 60 million vehicles. ... Chevy’s Bel-Air is one of the most well-known classic cars today ...
A song about a treacherous stretch of Maine highway where truckers often met fatal crashes. "Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel" Barenaked Ladies: 2000: From Maroon. Accompanied by a drum march and calliope, the song is recited by the narrator who has just died in a car crash. "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!" Jethro ...
Cadillac Ranch (Bruce Springsteen song) Cadillac Tears; Calcutta (Taxi Taxi Taxi) Car 67; Car Song (Elastica song) The Car (song) La Carcacha; Cars (song) Cars with the Boom; Chasing Cars; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (song) Cop Car (Keith Urban song) Crash (Gwen Stefani song) Cruise (song)
The unofficial start of summer brings to mind riding with the windows down and good tunes on the radio.