Auto-Mo-Billy

This one started on the stupid idea of the name. I wanted to get Rockabilly songs on this pick that all had something to do with cars. Automobiles. I am not really a car guy. My wife. She knows cars. People all around me know cars. My next door neighbor was a champion racer. Friends that love cars. I've actually had some cool cars in my life, but mostly it wasn't on purpose. I always wanted a VW Bus, so I had one of those. I've had English sport cars. An MG-B GT (which was fun just because of all the letters), a Spitfire (wouldn't mind getting another one of those.) I once had a car that had parts of five different model names on it (and five different shades of red paint - I called it my Hot Tamale). My fastest car ever was not my 1964 Mustang which I ruined by making it fast and loud and modern, but an old VW Bug that was also converted to be fast. Porsche engine. It was fun, but I got too many tickets in it. This comp is missing some big name car songs, but I don't care.

Auto-Mo-Billy

01 Psycho Devilles - Psycho Cadillac

02 Bob Cass - Corvette Baby

03 The Crew - Red Chevrolet

04 Wally Hughes - Convertible Car

05 Jack Kitchen - Hot Rod Boogie

06 Harry Hutchins - Rockin' Rollin' Cadilac

07 Rocky Davis - Hot Rod Baby

08 Flyin' Cats - Hot Rod Gang

09 Billy Burnette - Hot Rod Hillbilly

10 Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps - Race With the Devil

11 Sonny Wallace - Black Cadillac

12 Bobby Brown & The Backup Boosters - She Knows Cars

13 Brian Setzer Orchestra - Drive Like Lightning (Crash Like Thunder)

14 Tom Tall - Hot Rod Is Her Name

15 Arkie Shibley & His Mountain Dew Boys - Hot Rod Race

16 Gene Simmons - Peroxide Blond And A Hopped Up Model Ford

17 Jimmy Carroll - Big Green Car

18 The Camtwisters - Hotrod Twist

19 Pat Davis - Spinner Hub Caps

20 Session '57 - Cool Cruisin' Car

21 Richie Deran - Girl And A Hot Rod

22 Bill Sherill - Cadillac Baby

23 Bobby Verne - Red Hot Car

24 Tommy Lam - Speed Limit

25 Joyce Green - Black Cadillac

26 Larry Dowd - Pink Cadillac

27 Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rod Lincoln

28 Bill Parsons - Hot Rod Volkswagen

29 Eddie Ringo - Full Racing Cam

30 Stray Cats - Look At That Cadillac

What's The Connection? Oldsmobile

More car types in this connection. Today we have Oldsmobile. And there used to be lots of these. Older songs, older bands. Less people made these into hotrods and probably fairly rare now. But people loved this brand for quite some time. I never owned one. Never drove one either. But I knew a guy who knew a guy who tricked one out. That's all I got. I just know they must have been a merry car. The cover is another comic version with similar background. And I did add a jingle for Oldsmobile.

What's The Connection? Oldsmobile

01 Mark Free - Oldsmobile (Jingle)

02 Clark Murray - In My Merry Oldsmobile

03 Doug DeJoe and The BloomLaters - Jesus Drives An Oldsmobile

04 Tommy Collins - Loud Mouthed Talking Oldsmobile

05 Rick Kokan - Working For An Oldsmobile

06 Hal Ketchum - Daddy's Oldsmobile

07 Ray Stevens - This Is Your Daddy's Oldsmobile

08 Brennen Leigh - Great Big Oldsmobile

09 Billy Murray - In My Merry Oldsmobile

10 Back to Blonde - Last Chance Oldsmobile

11 Bix Beiderbecke - In My Merry Oldsmobile

12 Gerhard Graml's Lunapark - Oldsmobile Tornado

13 Al Hirt - In My Merry Oldsmobile

14 Nipsey Hussle - Summertime In That Cutlass

15 Jamie Lin Wilson - Old Oldsmobile

16 Romancers - She Took My Oldsmobile

17 Larry Heagle - Rocket Action Oldsmobile

18 Greenleaf - Sold My Lady (Out The Back Of An Oldsmobile)

19 Lou Wamp - Oldsmobile Brokedown

20 Hot Mulligan - If You Had Spun Out In Your Oldsmobile, This Probably Wouldn't Have Happened

21 Howard Livingston & Mile Marke - Red 69 Oldsmobile

What's The Connection? Corvettes

I included songs with titles that had Corvette in it as well as Stingray. I know the connection cover has a yellow Corvette on it and that red Corvettes are especially popular in song, but I liked this rendering of a yellow Corvette. Prince is probably the most popular song about the car, but there are other versions that are good and many other great songs about Corvettes and Sting Ray Corvettes. The Marketts and Jan & Dean come to mind. It's crazy but this car  has been popular among artists for as long as the car has been out. And still today. This one will go by fast. I've unfortunately, never owned one, but I've driven several. They are fun.

What's The Connection? Corvettes

01 The Marketts - Sting Ray

02 The Swimming Pool Q's - Stingray

03 Beck - Corvette Bummer

04 Hi-Fives - Stingray

05 Jan & Dean - Sting Ray

06 Animal Collective - Two Corvettes

07 Boppin' B - '64 Stingray

08 Code Blue - Sting Ray

09 Marty Friedman - Fuel Injection Stingray

10 Meeks - Little Red Corvette

11 Marc Almond - Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

12 The Rippingtons - Stingray

13 Prince - Little Red Corvette

14 The Tornados - Stingray

15 John Mayer - Little Red Corvette

16 Tory Lanez - ‘87 Stingray

17 Gear Daddies - Little Red Corvette

18 Bob Cass - Corvette Baby

19 The Shadows - Stingray

20 Andy Summers - Stingray

21 Jill Johnson - Red Corvette

22 Barry Gray - Stingray

23 George Jones - The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)

24 Four Speeds - My Sting Ray

On The Road Again 1

Everyone makes a driving tape at one point or another (if you make mixtapes). I've made several. Been driving a lot. Used to have CD changers in my cars and I would just swap out the carousel depending on which car I was driving (all pioneer at one point although I had an alpine change in one, but pioneer was more reliable). Then it was iPod connections. Now everyone just packs a phone with your pick. But the concept is the same. Put in a bunch of songs that are conducive to driving. I had this set of volumes that I used forever. Here is volume one. I've used it on many a highway. My only complaint about this one is that you have to play Kraftwerk right away. It's not much good for in the middle of the night or after driving for awhile. But that's why it is the first song.

On The Road Again 1

01 Kraftwerk - Autobahn

02 Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper

03 Doobie Brothers - Rockin' Down the Highway

04 AC-DC - Highway To Hell

05 Sniff 'N' the Tears - Driver's Seat

06 The B-52's - Dirty Back Road

07 Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic

08 War - Low Rider

09 Bachman Turner Overdrive - Roll On Down the Highway

10 Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild

11 Doors - Riders On The Storm

12 Grateful Dead - Truckin'

13 Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man

14 Cristina - Drive My Car

15 Depeche Mode - Route 66

16 Willie Nelson - On The Road Again

What's The Connection? Cars 1

You could make a thousand WTC with the word Car in the title. All but two of these do. But you'll agree they are car songs. I have made several comps about being on the road and about driving and drive songs. But this is the first Car one. Won't be the last. I am working on car brand names and those will be coming up. If you have some good suggestions, please leave a comment. For example, I only know of one song with Barchetta in the title. And a lot less VW songs than I thought I knew. But maybe I can group sporty race cars together? Barchetta with Ferrari and Porsche? I don't know right now. Still working it out. But you get this in the meantime. My first pick of Car songs. And amazingly none by the Cars.

What's The Connection? Cars 1

01 The B-52's - Devil in My Car

02 Buzzcocks - Fast Cars

03 Radiohead - Killer Cars

04 Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time

05 Toy Dolls - Tommy Kowey's Car

06 Paul & Linda McCartney - The Back Seat Of My Car

07 Violent Femmes - Gimme The Car

08 Chris Spedding - Jump In My Car

09 Keith Urban - Somewhere In My Car

10 L'Trimm - Cars with the Boom

11 Yes - White Car

12 Madness - Driving In My Car

13 Primus - Jerry Was a Race Car Driver

14 Kip Winger - Drive My Car

15 Rob Zombie - Dragula

16 Gary Numan - Cars

17 The Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running

18 Beach Boys - In My Car

19 Queen - I'm In Love With My Car

20 Cabaret Voltaire - White Car

21 Ringo Starr - In My Car

22 Go-Go's - Stuck In My Car

23 Robyn Hitchcock - The Cars She Used to Drive