did you ever listen to this while cruzin in a shoebox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRjviO8negQ&feature=share
Oh yah, sure do !!! Only I wasn't cruizn in a ShoeBox....I was in a 1947 Nash Four door.... Cheers......
Im 64, no shoebox, but a tail draggin chopped 36 three window. When you went into a driveway the bumper would drag. Wish it was still like that. Cruise the blvd all night for a buck, gas was 33.9 and cigarettes were 40 cents a pack. Days gone by. Foot
That song sounded pretty good on the stock radio with front and "rear" speakers with a Fader switch under the dash to balance them in my 51 Merc in 1963. Especially when my buddy convinced me to cruise up the street from the high school and pick up Jackie and Diane when they were walking to school. Never did figure out which he wanted a date with.
Yep...my shubox was a 50 crestliner.......day I dragged it home...litteraly..on a chain behind the folks' 55 olds on my 16th birthday. Built a 255, 53 merc motor for it with 4 barrel, dual exhaust with headers and a port/relieve job...with the factory AM radio. Saweet!
Wish I would have...my dad gave me exactly 1 day to "Get those fuckin cars offa my propitty!"..was making car payments on my 56 Olds ragtop so all my old fords went to the junkyard including the crestliner. I saved the merc engine and sold it to a guy who put it in a 61 ford ranchero!
My cruisin' in a shoebox was a few years earlier, and my favorite volume-up, windows-down song was What'd I Say, parts 1 & 2 by Ray Charles. Barry
I cruised to the very first Lead East in my 1958 Chevy Belair listening to Dion and the Belmonts. The Belmonts (minus Dion) were the featured entertainment at the show!
OH YA! I was in high school '60 - '63, Artesia High School Artesia,California and my car was a '49 Ford Tudor lowered, flat black (shot stock paint!), no hub caps (most of the time) and no grille. I'd like to have pictures of it but I don't, maybe some day my sister will find one in an old family album! At 66 all I have are the memories!
Sure on WEAM AM until sunset when they had to go off the air and then we had to switch over to WCAO AM in Baltimore. No rock and roll on FM and not many AM/FM radios to receive it.
Sure do ! It was not one of my favorites but I had a 1956 Buick Convertable then and would always crank up the tunes put the top down and with the shades on I thought I was something else. (Wish I had that car back with that Wildcat engine) Tom
Sure did, in my 55 Ford convert. Probably in my 40 tudor also if it had been eqipped with a radio. It wasn't.
Yep....I cruised all over E WA from 1959 to 1965. Listened to it....played it (band out of Clarkston) lived it. And I still cruise and listen to that music. I have about a thousand "oldies" on DVDs and a flash drive. I did an oldies radio show up in Kodiak AK and recorded every inch of tape, LP and cassette they had in the library. hard to beat those sounds with your windows down on a September evening...your squeeze of the week/month/year next to you and the duals singin' the best song ever out the back...
Ya, 1963? was on the juke box, was cruisin with a 'Torys and Mizu' at the 'Bar Magnet', Honcho st. Yokosuka Japan. USN Doin my time for Uncle Sam.
I listened...in my '63 Impala SS. Saw Dion in Concert last year at Resorts Casino in Atlantic City. Met him in a small casino restaurant about an hour later. Introduced myself and got had a good conversation with him. The show was excellent and he just gets better with age.
remember hearing that on KRLA. my first station and watching Loyed Thaxton and trying to get mom to buy me some butch wax Lol
Yes, I had just put a reverb in my 60 olds conv. I was the coolest , at Richards Drive In in Quincy Ma.
I'm another one who was too young for a driver's license at that time, but I remember listening to it while riding in my mom's '61 Catalina (and my dad's '40 Plymouth).
OH YES....... just turned 16 and the only thing i had to drive was mom and dad's '60 four door station wagon... My mom's name was Ruby and i would sing it to her when it came on... what great times and songs..
Oh yeah but a few years earlier, cruzzin Fremont down to the "Onion",back up Charelston and 5th to Sill's , maybe to the "Round Up" ,back down Main to Fremont and if you hadn't found a chick ,race,party or fight ,might as well go home .I thank the city of Las Vegas for the great times we had back then , American Graffitti on steroids !!
I sure did and even had an old Ford back then. My first and only Ford, as I was a Chevy kind of guy. This shot was back in 63 when chrome wheels were cool. I looked a bit younger then. Note the Pontiac grill and the club plaque in the rear window. I was only 20 then and living in Alhambra, California.
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