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[chimpchoker]

A new topic for 10.

What sorts of music are you all into and does it reflect your passion for the cars such as era of cars is the same era as the music?

I'm into virtually everything me......

[buzzy bee]

Hi

Well like said in another thread, I found my self listening to the Arches, on an old bakerlite wirless I found im my grandads garage. I love the smell of an old radio as it gets hot and burns off all of the dust ect! Bit strange for a 21 year old but hey! I quite like listening to the radio, local or national, any really but Radio 1 is a favourite for me!

Cheers

Dave

[gillberry]

My favorite cars are rover sd1's and Ilike 80's music , having said that Ialso like music from the 3 previous decades and also the cars from those decades . I think a lot of it is what you grew up with ( My old man likes his rock and roll ) .

[PACresta]

Yep i enjoy the music i grew up with in the 60's but also enjoy 70's some 80's and 90's. Nothing better that travelling along in the Cresta, sun shining, shades on, arm out window with some great 60's sounds

[Rick]

Like a bit of everything me! 50s, 60s I like when driving around (Beach Boys and Jan & Dean I like to sing along to ) and some 80s stuff I can tolerate a bit more now than when it was current!

PS will move this over to the Off Topic chat y'all!

Rick
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[giggles]

Before I had the kiddies I used to work in HMV, so I had to have a broad interest in music. I do like rock-a-billy and listen to the Stray Cats quite a bit, as well music from the 1950's, 60's and right up to date.

Funny enough my 7 year old son loves Chuck Berry & the Beach Boys!

[chimpchoker]

[giggles]

Cheers for that.
There is a band local to us called The Fat Cat Trio do the rounds of the Hot Rod shows and they are great.

[Scotty]

Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys - anything like that.

Beachboys, Commander Cody (great song - "Son you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln!"), Ink Spots, Cab Calloway (sings "Minnie the Moocher" in the Blues Brothers film), the list is endless.

Still love Kraftwerk - try their web site its interesting, Roxy Music, 10 CC and a touch of AC/DC, but I've got to be in the mood.

[gillberry]

Giggles are you following us

[kaybee]

Hey Scotty, with you on Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, top stuff. Spent the last 2 Sunday afternoons listening to a local Western Swing combo, The Moonee Valley Drifters, playing all the popular favourites and a lot of their own original material. There's a huge music scene here in Vic, plenty of good talent too. We went to a 40's big band concert a few weeks ago, a 22 piece outfit called the Moovin' and Groovin Orchestra, they do all the regular big band standards like Miller, Basie, etc, plus a lot of original material in the same vein. Swing and Jitterbug dancing is very popular too, lots to do here apart from gettin' dirty on old cars , cheers, Col.

[buzzy bee]

Hi scotty

"Son you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln!"

Who sings this, I reconise it from somewhere? I may have to get hold of a copy!

Cheers

Dave

[Uncle Joe]

Buzzy: the song 'hot Rod Lincoln was written about 1950, and released in 1955, on Souvenir records. The writer was Charlie Ryan. Originally, the artists were 'Charlie Ryan and the Livingston Brothers' later changed to 'Charlie Ryan and the Timberline Riders' Its been covered many times over the years. The song is about a real car that still exists, or at least, it did when it was repainted 1986! I think that one of the later covers is still available on CD

Heres the lyrics:

My pappy said, 'Son, you're gonna drive me t' drinkin' ...
If you don't quit drivin' that - Hot ... Rod ... Lincoln!'

Well, you've heard the story of the hot rod race,
When the Ford and the Mercury were settin' the pace.
That story's true I'm here to say,
Cause I was a'drivin' that Model A.

It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up;
That Model A body makes it look like a pup.
It's got 12 cylinders and uses them all;
And an overdrive that just won't stall.

It's got a 4-barrel carb and dual exhausts,
4:11 gears that really get lost -
Safety tubes and I'm not scared,
The brakes are good and the tires are fair.

We left San Pedro late one night;
The moon and the stars were shinin' bright.
We were drivin' up Grapevine Hill,
Passin' cars like they were standin' still.

Then, all of a sudden, in the wink of an eye,
a Cadillac sedan passed us by.
The remark was made, "That's the car for me."
But, by then, the taillights wuz all you could see.

Well, the fellers ribbed me for bein' behind,
So I started to make that Lincoln unwind.
Took my foot off the gas and, man alive,
I shoved it down into overdrive.

Well, I wound it up to 110;
Twisted the speedometer cable right off the end.
Had my foot glued right to the floor;
I said, "That's all there is - there ain't no more."

Now the fellas thought I'd lost all sense;
The telephone poles looked like a picket fence.
They said, "Slow down, I see spots."
The lines on the road just looked like dots.

Went around a corner and passed a truck;
I crossed my fingers just for luck -
The fenders clickin' the guard rail post;
The guy beside me was white as a ghost.

Smoke was rollin' outta the back
When I started to gain on that Cadillac
I knew I could catch him and hoped I could pass
But when I did I'd be short on gas.

There were flames comin' from out of the side;
You could feel the tension; man, what a ride.
I said, "Look out, boys, I've got a license to fly"
And the Cadillac pulled over and let me by.

All of a sudden a rod started knockin';
Down in the depths she started a rockin'.
I looked in the mirror and a red light was blinkin';
The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln.

Well they arrested me and put me in jail.
I called my pop to make my bail.
He said, "Son, you're gonna drive me t' drinkin',
If you don't quit drivin' that - Hot ... Rod ... Lincoln!"

[Scotty]

Now that's what I call foot-tappin' music!

[buzzy bee]

Cheers UJ!