The revving engine sound in the middle, is the sound of a Triumph TR6 roadster
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Friday, June 26, 2026
ever enjoy the song Summertime, by Mungo and Jerry?
The revving engine sound in the middle, is the sound of a Triumph TR6 roadster
Saturday, November 22, 2025
what is it called when several interesting things collide at one time of interest? Synchronicity, a term coined by Carl Jung, or maybe Concurrent
Dalis Car, the music duo of Murphy and Karn, made an album of music, and used Maxfield Parrish's most famous painting for the album cover... as you can sell about anything if you slap incredible art on it, (ie, advertising) referencing Salvador Dali, because Murphy had a friend that had dreamed of buying a car from Dali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalis_Car
Dali's vehicles, which I've thoroughly explored (VW Bug, Datsun, Cadillac, etc https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=dali) and ,
So, music, art, and cars. Bingo: obscure music album no one ever heard of, The Waking Hour, made in 1984, which might have been trying to get people to buy it my mistake, as it was using the Parrish painting Daybreak, which was used the year before by the Moody Blues
Daybreak by Parrish, is the most popular art print of the 20th century, based on number of prints made: one for every four American homes.
According to the National Museum of American Illustration, it has outsold Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans and Leonardo's Last Supper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreak_(painting) the models were his regular models, Kitty Owen (granddaughter of William Jennings Bryan), and Parrish's daughter, and the 16 year old nanny of his son, who then modeled for him, then they had an affair, then his wife and son left him, and the young woman stayed with him until age 71
Mel Gibson's wife bought it for 7.6 million. Sold it for 5.2
Mel's son in law is Kenny Wayne Shepherd, a Mopar guy, and motivator to Year One to remake the Road Runner horn. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Kenny%20Wayne%20Shepherd and KWS has a logo made by Foose https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/11/kenny-wayne-sheppards-newest-mopar-and.html for his '63 Super Stock 330 Dodge.
KSW is most famous for a song, Blue on Black, that is my favorite of his music, and it was rereleased for a charity fundraiser for the Gary Sinise Foundation, and the metal gods got Brian May of Queen to do a guitar solo in it... https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/04/coffee-and-dunts-video-these-artists.html and I'm sure we all respect the hell out of Gary Sinise!
And this incredible heavy metal remake is similar to the remake of Sound of Silence, which was amazingly performed by Disturbed in 2015.... the gradual strengthening and build up is amazing.
For similar stings of things, see Connections, one of my favorite tv shows, a series of science documentaries created by James Burke
It is known for showing how seemingly unrelated events and discoveries throughout history are interconnected and led to modern technology, because of its engaging presentations, and the "aha!" moments it provides by revealing the connections between past events and present-day inventions, scientific discoveries and historical events building upon one another to create modern technology.
The show creator and host, James Burke, traces the links between diverse historical events, scientific achievements, and the inventions we use today.
Example: The series might show how 18th-century merchant concerns about ship bottoms led to the creation of nylon, or how medieval European use of fire in winter contributed to the development of the motor car.
It's enthusiastic and humorous presentation, historical re-enactments, and detailed working models, resulted in it being a widely considered as a classic documentary series.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Thanks to Doug for telling me about a post on Curbside (good blog for over a decade) about a grammy nominated country singer, Neko Case, and her song about a Rambler American
I can't add anything to the outstanding post that Curbside Classic did.... I can only share it so you don't miss it if you want to be wowed by a deep country sounding song about a Rambler American
Like my parents, hers weren't together long. She was emancipated at 15. And my parents had a Rambler before the divorce, and Neko had one that she liked so much that she wrote that song.
She taught herself to drive at 18, in a 64 Falcon she bought for 350! Since she didn't have a license or insurance, she only went out at night to reduce her risk with running afoul of cops!
She sold the Falcon, and got the Rambler for 50! "Its radio glowed aqua blue-green, and I listened to the oldies station "
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/media/the-only-song-about-a-1963-rambler-classic-neko-case-my-63/#more-583654
Monday, September 15, 2025
the song “The Tennessee Waltz” was written in a truck cab on a Tennessee highway on a matchbox
Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart were driving to a show when Bill Monroe’s “Kentucky Waltz” came on the radio. They wondered why Tennessee didn’t have a waltz, too.
They got to work. Stewart, a country singer/songwriter, grabbed a matchbox and started writing lyrics on the inside. King, who is credited with bringing the Musicians Union to the Grand Ole Opry, worked out the melody.
Patti Page recorded it as the B-side to “Boogie Woogie Santa Claus.”
https://americansongwriter.com/from-matchbox-to-masterpiece-how-the-tennessee-waltz-danced-into-history/
They got to work. Stewart, a country singer/songwriter, grabbed a matchbox and started writing lyrics on the inside. King, who is credited with bringing the Musicians Union to the Grand Ole Opry, worked out the melody.
Patti Page recorded it as the B-side to “Boogie Woogie Santa Claus.”
https://americansongwriter.com/from-matchbox-to-masterpiece-how-the-tennessee-waltz-danced-into-history/
Cool story I just read and wanted to share, Buck Owens got the idea for his 1965 hit " I’ve Got a Tiger By the Tail" after seeing an Esso gas station billboard with the company’s slogan, “Put a tiger in your tank.”
He moved to Bakersfield with his wife and two young children in 1951 while working as a truck driver.
I also didn't know Merle Haggard was the first bass guitarist of Buck Owen & His Buckaroos
I'm shocked to learn that the 1963 hit "Act Naturally" in June of 65, (Owens's first top hit) was covered by the Beatles in 1965 with Ringo Starr as lead singer
Thursday, April 11, 2024
MoTown
the Motown label, which came out of Detroit (The “Mo” in “Motown” refers to the Motor City). Plus, Motown founder and Detroit native Berry Gordy Jr. — the man who signed the band in 1962 — had spent the early part of his career as an assembly line worker at the Ford Motor Company. That time profoundly influenced the music he would later produce.
“The quality control element of Motown was something that [Gordy] picked up directly from working in a car factory,” says Adam White, author of "Motown: The Sound of Young America." “He understood how everything had to be at a level of quality and integrated it, which was unusual for a music company, in his business. So some records were thrown out because they weren't good enough, just like a car that would come through and a part wasn't fixed on well enough.”
Gordy wrote songs while on the assembly line, but didn’t fully make the leap into music until 1958, when he got an $800 loan from his family
https://www.wgbh.org/music/2018-11-16/motown-the-history-of-a-hits-factory
Monday, November 20, 2023
obscure train trivia... the Beach Boys sampled the sounds of a 3 engine diesel cargo train at about 70 mph, and closed the last song on the legendary album Pet Sounds with it
As the flutes from “Caroline, No” fade away, the melancholic sound of a passing train is heard while dogs wail. The locomotive whistle was sampled off a 1963 effects album called Mister D’s Machine (“Train #58, the Owl at Edison, California”)
Thursday, September 07, 2023
Tommy James named his hit song MONY MONY because he saw an insurance billboard across from his apartment, Mutual Of New York
I had the track done before I had a title. I wanted something catchy like "Sloopy" or "Bony Maroney," but everything sounded so stupid. So Ritchie Cordell and I were writing it in New York City, and we were about to throw in the towel when I went out onto the terrace, looked up and saw the Mutual of New York building (which has its initials illuminated in red at its top).
Monday, August 07, 2023
another booth at Comic Con I look forward to seeing every year is Patrick Ballesteros' as he always has new fun illustrations, this years cool thing is this composition of music, movies, and the vehicles in them
you can see a big assortment of his work on his facebook page too https://www.facebook.com/patrickballesteros
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
in the USA, "Pop Goes the Weasel" announced the ice cream van's entry into your neighborhood... in Sri Lanka, Beethoven's Bagatelle No. 25 In A Minor (Für Elise) announced the Tuk Tuk bakery van. Both are only memories now
The music from three-wheeled tuk-tuks, "choon paan" Sri Lanka’s musical, mobile bakeries, fitted with glass cabinets and a rooftop speaker system.
The higher cost of imported flour, inflation, and the government quota of four liters of fuel per week has killed the small business operator of the mobile bakery.
Top Ten Ice Cream Truck Themes
10. Turkey in the Straw – Originally based on an Irish folk song called The Old Rose Tree, it was adapted into minstrel music shows in the 1820s, even though the 1910’s.
9. Camptown Races (1850) and Oh! Suzanna (1848) were written by America’s first professional songwriter, Stephen Foster.
8. Dixie (1861) Dixie was about Antebellum (the wealthy southern lifestyle) prior to the civil war
7. Jimmy Crack Corn (1840s) was a song about a slave’s lament after his master’s death.
6. La Cucaracha (1800s Mexican folk song) probably the most popular song about a cockroach who cannot walk
5. Pop Goes The Weasel (1852) began as a social dance in England. The ambiguous phrase has been used in many pop culture mediums – books, film and television. In the 1930s, it became the tune for Jack-in-the-Box windup toys.
4. I’m a Little Teapot (1939) Probably the last Nursery Rhyme to be a radio hit.
3. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star – the lyrics were written by Jane Taylor in 1806 (England), and the melody came from Ah! vous dirai-je, maman, (1761, France).
2. It’s a Small World, written by brothers Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman in 1962, and inspired by the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is probably the only popular ice cream truck music that needs a royalty payment. Why? Because it may be the second most well-known song in the Western World, behind Happy Birthday.
1. The Entertainer (1902) written by Scott Joplin, is one of the most famous instrumentals of the recorded sound era. It was the biggest ragtime hit, and brings the perfect ‘nostalgia’ feeling for both children and adults when it comes to ice cream.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Ann Margaret was just interviewed about riding her Harley in the press junket about the release of her latest musical collaboration album. She says she still rides her Harley, at age 81.
It's fascinating to me to read interviews that dive into a celebs life before they became famous, because it's discovering what they did and who they were before the Hollywood machine took over to pump up their "buzz" or ratings, or whatever.
I had no idea she grew up in Sweden, and didn't realize she was in Tommy, the Who's movie
One of the great beauties, and such a pleasure to enjoy in the Grumpy Old Men movies. Why Triumph or some chopper company isn't courting her to be in their advertising is a mystery to me. She absolutely is the most famous photo of a woman on a motorcycle that I can think of, in that 1971 Douglas Kirkland photo:
Her new album, Born To Be Wild, was released April 14 by Cleopatra Records and features guest appearances by the Who’s Pete Townshend, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, soul legend Steve Cropper, and Yes’ Rick Wakeman, among many others.
The first single is a cover of the Everly Brothers’ “Bye Bye Love,” which features Townshend, Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom, and veteran country singer/songwriter T.G. Sheppard. Throughout Born To Be Wild, Ann-Margret covers a host of vintage rock favorites, such as “Son of a Preacher Man,” “Rock Around the Clock,” “Earth Angel,” and “Splish Splash.”
“Being offered an opportunity to work with Ann-Margret, especially on an Everly Brothers song, was just too romantic to pass,” Townshend says. “Ann-Margret’s work on the Tommy movie back in 1974 (when she was most certainly not old enough to pretend to be Roger Daltrey’s mother) was a joy from beginning to end. Her sonorous voice, her Scandinavian beauty, her sense of humor, her stamina, and her strength all shone through.”
The first single is a cover of the Everly Brothers’ “Bye Bye Love,” which features Townshend, Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom, and veteran country singer/songwriter T.G. Sheppard. Throughout Born To Be Wild, Ann-Margret covers a host of vintage rock favorites, such as “Son of a Preacher Man,” “Rock Around the Clock,” “Earth Angel,” and “Splish Splash.”
“Being offered an opportunity to work with Ann-Margret, especially on an Everly Brothers song, was just too romantic to pass,” Townshend says. “Ann-Margret’s work on the Tommy movie back in 1974 (when she was most certainly not old enough to pretend to be Roger Daltrey’s mother) was a joy from beginning to end. Her sonorous voice, her Scandinavian beauty, her sense of humor, her stamina, and her strength all shone through.”
Her Vegas show back in 71 incorporated a Triumph, possibly the one above, but that era for her was around bikes, and she even did a biker movie with Joe Namath in 1970 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-1970-american-biker-film-starring-joe.html
Saturday, December 31, 2022
Oh, this ain't sung well, but, it's the lyrics are spot on... Ford G.T. by Jackie and the Giants - who seem to be ripping off the melodies from My Little GTO, a AND Little Deuce Coupe
She was dreamed up in Detroit, on a Saturday afternoon
and she looked good on paper at the time
then they started to producer her back in 1964,
and she's become a legend in her time
She's the Ford GT, hottest in the Gran Prix
set a track record
for the low et
the Ferrari couldn't catch her
the Maseratti couldn't take her
the Lola's couldn't shake her
She's the GT Ford
She lined up with the best
then she lasso them in
(Can't make out the next two lines)
Written by B Russell, who also wrote the no.1 hit "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", the Grammy Award-winning "Little Green Apples", and Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey"
he was the husband of Vicki Lawrence between 1972 - 1974
Sunday, October 23, 2022
"She got a head of full of air, and a foot full of lead" ... thank you Keith! Thank you Kim!
no video, all audio. Not great, just a bit of fun. Every day needs more fun, so get a bit of happiness from this bit of honky tonk from steel guitar picker, a song listed on the Hagerty 10 unknown automobile songs.
Junior Brown isn't too smart either, anyone with a clue would make a terrific video that follows the lyrics, or at least plays some clips from 60s drag racing
Here's a song he did that IS terrific, but again, LAME video when he came up with a song that had fantastic possibility for epicness. Thank you Kim!
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
the Staple Singers’ bestselling 1972 title Be Altitude ..... 50 years ago
Beginning in 1948, Roebuck “Pops” Staples and daughters Cleotha, Mavis, and Yvonne began singing in churches across Chicago. Pops had grown up in Drew Mississippi, next door to Charlie Patton, and played guitar with him, and Robert Johnson (legendary guitarists)
Staple Singers songs including 1955's "This May Be the Last Time" (later adapted by The Rolling Stones as "The Last Time") and "Uncloudy Day"
posted for the fantastic music, but mostly, because of that album cover (I've posted a lot of album cover art over the years, even an album cover photographer) is unusual, using a airliner engine
Songs Respect Yourself, and I'll Take You There are simply wonderful groovy stuff.
posted for the fantastic music, but mostly, because of that album cover (I've posted a lot of album cover art over the years, even an album cover photographer) is unusual, using a airliner engine
Thursday, December 30, 2021
John Fogerty was working at a gas station in high school when the Beatles hit big with Please Please Me in Feb 1963, and it motivated him to work harder on music
Fogerty got the inspiration for the song Working Man from the jobs the band members had before turning professionals. They worked in a gas station, and as truck drivers and janitors
https://sites.google.com/site/theelectricbayou/songs/the-working-man
CCR was the only American band that beat the Beatles head-to-head in record sales
John Fogerty gets his first guitar when he is 12 years old. Due to the family’s tight financial circumstances, he and elder brother Tom club together to rent this guitar for five dollars per month. John takes guitar lessons from Barry Olivier, the creator/producer of the Berkeley Folk Festival.
https://rockportraits.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/creedence-clearwater-revival/
He wrote the Proud Mary line about "Left a good job in the city, working for the man every night and day" to celebrate his honorable discharge from the Army Reserves
Saturday, April 24, 2021
getting the band on the road in a van, the quintessential road trip tour, is the theme of a new documentary by Dave Grohl
a new documentary is on the way for next Friday that looks back at the early days of some of music's biggest stars: Ringo, Flea, Slash, Steven Tyler, Metallica, No Doubt, and the Foos.
"This film is my love letter to every musician that has ever jumped in an old van with their friends and left it all behind for the simple reward of playing music," Grohl said in a statement. "What started as a project to pull back the curtain on the DIY logistics of stuffing all of your friends and equipment into a small space for months on end eventually turned into an exploration of 'why?' 'What drives us?'"
What Drives Us is set for release April 30 via the Coda Collection, a music-centric streaming service, via Amazon Prime Video Channels.
https://ew.com/movies/trailers/dave-grohl-what-drives-us-trailer
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
the album cover of Hal Blaine and The Young Cougars, 1963
Wrecking Crew musicians on this LP were Hal Blaine, Bill Pitman, Glen Campbell, Tommy Tedesco, Ray Pohlman, Leon Russell, Jimmy Bond, Ron Smith, Marshall Cram, Richard Leith, Steven Kreisman adn Frank Capp.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6296#post-13003556
if you want to listen to some!
Thanks Steve!
Sunday, October 04, 2020
Forgotten travel song, from about 1980. A catchy tune
Steep grade up ahead, slow me down, makin' no time, But I got to keep rollin'
Those windshield wipers slappin' out a tempo,
Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio,
But I got to keep rollin'
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away, lookin' for a better way for me
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away, lookin' for a sunny day
Well the truck stop cutie comin' on to me,
Tried to talk me into a ride
Said I wouldn't be sorry
But she was just a baby
Hey, waitress, pour me another cup of coffee,
Pop it down, jack me up, shoot me out, flyin' down the highway,
Lookin' for the mornin'
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away, lookin' for a better way for me
Pop it down, jack me up, shoot me out, flyin' down the highway,
Lookin' for the mornin'
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away, lookin' for a better way for me
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away, lookin' for a sunny day
Friday, April 24, 2020
Learning to Fly lyrics... I'll be darned, I never paid attention to the words before
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction is holding me fast how
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue tied and twisted just an earth bound misfit, I
Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone
A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
Friction lock, set
Mixtures, rich
Propellers, fully forward
Flaps, set, ten degrees
Engine gauges and suction, check
Mixture set to maximum percent, recheck
Flight instruments
Altimeters, check both
(Garbled word) on
Navigation lights, on
Strobes, on
Confirm three-eight-echo ready for departure
Hello again, this is now 129.4
129.4, it's to go
You may commence your takeoff, winds over ten knots
Three-eight-echo
Easy on the brakes, take it easy, its gonna roll this time
Just hand the power gradually, and it
Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapor trail in the empty air
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night
There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Driving home for Christmas, 1986
groovy slow christmas song I've never heard before
And if you dig that song, here's one of a similar sound by the same singer... with more of the slow driving around on bad snowy roads video
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