1960s Car Songs

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:32 pm

Hey, Bob, I can actually remember the DJ on WCFL announcing the Impalas record when it first came out, and making that claim, and it stuck with me all these years...

The doubled baritone/bass riff on FFF is Tedesco on Fender Bass VI and Carole Kaye on Jazz Bass. I thought.

karl_teten · Post by **karl_teten** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:03 pm

R.C., my dad liked that song.

There was a LOT of White Lightning coming out of the piney woods of E. Texas way back when.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:50 pm

You're probably right about Fun Fun Fun, I also figured it was a Fender VI, just didn't know who played it, can hear the sound. I can get that sound out of my Rics with a pick and hand muting the strings. I googled "first stereo 45" and came up with a lot of stuff, most of the first ones were demos and there is a lot of controversy surrounding which one was first. I didn't see The impalas but it's probable they did a stereo version as it was in 1959 when they made the first ones.
The first one I ever saw was "Wishful sinful" BW/ "Who Scared You" by the Doors.

wmthor · Post by **wmthor** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:09 pm

Karl, there was also a lot coming out them backwoods of Mississippi, where my grandfather was raised. The best moon that I've ever had came out of Arkansas in 2 lt. Pepsi bottles.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:08 pm

When I lived in the backwoods of VA in '87, there were at least three stills operating within smellin' distance...

Not to mention hit-by-a-car venison barbecues out of season...

admin · Post by **admin** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:29 am

"In the still of the night."

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:48 am

I think that's: within a-smellin' distance Paul.

I like that old doo wop stuff, that's a great song, my favorite is "Get A Job". Great lyrics besides that fact that is was a good song.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:24 am

We could combine the two into:

Get a still in the night...

wmthor · Post by **wmthor** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:24 pm

Does anyone remember the original road rage song:

Beep Beep (Little Nash Rambler)

dale_fortune · Post by **dale_fortune** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:41 pm

By The PlayMates.

revolver323 · Post by **revolver323** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:11 am

I not only remember the song, my dad had a Nash Rambler. BTW, how DO you get that car out of second gear?

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:00 am

That was a great song.

revolver323 · Post by **revolver323** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:31 am

Terrible car, though. I remember that the carburetor jets plugged up once and a kid beat me uphill -- and he was walking.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:46 am

My sister had a Rambler American, wasn't exactly a rocket either.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:06 am

I had a '68 Rambler American station wagon...the former family car; I bought it from my old man for $50 my senior year in high school. You could fit a lot of gear in the back and fix everything under the hood yourself, usually with a ball-peen hammer, which I carried under the seat. I found, on weekend excursions to LA, that if I hit the freeway in Phoenix at dusk and really got on it, I could have it up to 90 mph by somewhere west of Gila Bend...

My old man promptly bought a Gremlin. Now there was a rocket...