(Off Topic) Hot Rod Playlist 50's / Early 60's

Well summer driving season is here. I was working on a playlist to play in my car. I only dug up 52 songs from my iTunes library and I know there is a lot more than that. So post some of your favorite 1950's & early 60's songs so the whole board can benifit from your fine musical tastes.

Here are some of mine

Run Around Sue - Dion
That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly
Hound Dog - Elvis
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis

 

Come go with me and Whispering Bells - the Dell Vikings
Shboom-The Chords
Over the mountain-Shirley & Lee
Love is Strange-Mickey & Sylvia
Smookey Joes Cafe-The coasters
Get a Job-Silhouettes
Still of the night-Five Satins
These are just a few. Check out this website.
http://www.geocities.com/dancefest/Articles/Fifties.html

 

Muleskinner Blues - The Fendermen (later covered by The Cramps)

 

These are "must haves"!

http://www.amazon.com/Aint-Im-Dog-R...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1245902199&sr=8-3

and,

http://www.amazon.com/Whistle-Bait-...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1245902286&sr=8-1

 

The Graffiti soundtrack is pretty easy on the ears....

Lots of threads on here about music too.

 

Great suggestions guys! I did a search and found a bunch of threads but there were more pertaining to wrenching tunes and weren't limited to 50's early 60's music so I decided to start a new thread.

Keep the suggestions coming!

 

**** Dale for sure!

 

A few C - W cl***ics

El Paso - Marty Robbins
I've Been Everywhere - Hank Snow
Hey Good Lookin' - The other Hank
Rebel Rouser - Duane Eddy
Cattle Call- Eddy Arnold
Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean-BS before sausage
Six Days on the Road - Dave Dudley
Crazy - Patsy Kline
Cool Clear Water - Sons of the Pioneers

 

the rip chords - hot rod usa
jan and dean - drag city
beach boys - cherry cherry coupe

 

1) Buddy Holly has been mentioned, but he needs to be mentioned again.

2) Some Chuck Berry stuff, probably Johnny B. Good.

3) Definetly some **** Dale stuff.

4) You know what, how 'bout some Surfites pieces. They might as well be from the era.

5) Any collection of music for my use will have a healthy dose of the Bobby Fuller Four!! BOBBY FULLER IS WAY TOO NEGLECTED THESE DAYS!

6) Don't forget some Ventures. Got to have Walk Don't Run.

7) The Trashman's Surfer Bird, if you like things like that.

8) Did I mention **** Dale. Needs to be mentioned again. You need Miserlou, Pipeline, hell, everything he did.

9) Oh yeah, need some Everly Brothers.

10) 96 Tears, by ? and the Mysterians.

 

A little 60's garage band-punk music

Psycotic Reaction - Count Five
We ain't Got Nothin' Yet- The Blues Magoos
I Had too Much to Dream Last Night - The Electric Prunes
Talk Talk - Music Machine
Hey Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound
Inna Gadda Da Vida - Iron ****erfly
Seven X Seven - Love

 

Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenson.

'Nuff Said!

 

oldies? everybody knows the best road trip music comes from ZZTop

 

anything by Slayer.....

 

Hey! It's 2009. ZZ Top are now an oldies band too.

 

50s-60s......

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/group.php?groupid=262

 

Link Wray and Carl Perkins. Can't go wrong.

 

... you are right. I must be an oldie also.

 

Johnny Horton - I'm Coming Home
Sandy Nelson - Casbah
Ventures - All Songs

 

Wouldnt be a ride without Hot Rod Lincoln!!!!!!

 

SPEEDO-THE CADILLACS!!!!

thats my song!

RACE WITH THE DEVIL-GENE VINCENT!

i got plenty more but those two are just a couple of a long long list of favorites

 

anything by Three doors down

 

Maybe not early '60s, but perfect. Parlament evolved to become Funkadelic. Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ_13s__eck

 

Mercury Blues: David Linley

 

Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n' Roll Trio
Jerry Lee Lewis
Johnny Cash
Billy Lee Riley
Eddie Cochran
Chuck Berry
Little Richard

All good driving music!

 

Saturday Night Drag Race by
Joe Darensborg and the Flatout Five,
aka Kid Ory's Dixieland Jazz Band
with ****man Crothers on vocals.

Here's a bit of trivia about the record.


"In 1948, Robert E. Petersen began publishing Hot Rod Magazine, the first national publication for a small but growing group of enthusiasts. Arguably the first hot rod cartoonist, Tom Medley created the "Stroker McGurk" cartoon character while he was also the ad salesman for Hot Rod. Subsequently, he became publisher of Rod & Custom Magazine and helped create the first-ever hot rod swap meet, in the early '50s at the L.A. Roadsters' Father’s Day get-together, and the first Street Rod Nationals in 1970. A top photographer and enthusiastic automotive entrepreneur, Medley also had the idea for Colossal (Enterprises’) Hot Rod Records in the early '50s (although the music was the work of Kid Ory's Dixieland Jazz Band, fronted by ****man Crothers). Colossal's "big hit" was the double-sided "Saturday Night Drag Race," which received an unexpected plaudit in Time magazine and paralleled Arkie Shibley's "Hot Rod Race".

The only way you could buy the record was mail order through Hot Rod Magazine.. for the extravagant price of $1."

 

since this is off topic .
faraha fawcett died yesterday . bless her heart , she was a fighter !!! .... steve

 

60 minute man - The Dominos

 

Surfer Joe
Bucket T
mmmy Generation
Road Runner
Not 60's songs but Stray Cats :
Look at that Cadillac
Built for Speed.
Mabelline