Fall 2009, Columns
Top 10 Car Songs
You've probably heard many of these at your local car show, but here are the top 10 song titles or passages in a song related to automobiles.
Mustang Sally
by Wilson Pickett
Writer/Producer: Mark Rice
Year Published/Released: 1965
Label: Atlantic
I bought you a brand new Mustang
A nineteen sixty-five huh!
Now you come around
Signifyin a woman
That don’t wanna let me ride
Little Deuce Coupe
by The Beach Boys
Writer/Producer: Brian Wilson
Year Published/Released: 1963
Label: Capitol
Just a little deuce coupe with a flat head mill
But she'll walk a Thunderbird like (she's) it's standin' still
She's ported and relieved and she's stroked and bored.
She'll do a hundred and forty in the top end floored
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)
Drive My Car
by The Beatles
Writer/Producer: John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney, George Martin
Year Published/Released: 1965
Label: Capitol
Baby you can drive my car
Yes I'm gonna be a star
Baby you can drive my car
And maybe I love you
Beep beep'm beep beep yeah
Fast Cars
by Tracy Chapman
Writer/Producer: Tracy Chapman and David Kershenbaum
Year Published/Released: 1988
Label: Elektra
You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Cars
by Fear Factory
Writer/Producer: Gary Numan
Year Published/Released: August 1979
Label: Beggars Banquet
Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It’s the only way to live
In cars
Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
by Billy Ocean
Writer/Producer: Billy Ocean, Robert John “Mutt” Lange
Year Published/Released: 1988
Label: Jive
Get outta my dreams
Get into my car
Get outta my dreams
Get in the back seat baby
Get into my car
Beep beep, yeah
Get outta my mind
Get into my life
Parents Just Don’t Understand
by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Writer/Producer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Year Published/Released: 1988
Label: Zomba/Jive
Parents just don't understand
Oh-kay, here's the situation
My parents went away on a week's vacation and
They left the keys to the brand new Porsche
Would they mind?
Umm, well, of course not
I'll just take it for a little spin
And maybe show it off to a couple of friends
I'll just cruise it around the neighborhood
Little Red Corvette
by Prince
Writer/Producer : Prince
Year Published/Released: 1983
Label: Warner Brothers
Little red corvette
baby you're much too fast.
Little red corvette
you need a love that's gonna last.
Guess I should have closed my eyes
when you drove me to the place
Where your horses run free
'cause I felt a little ill
Car Wash
by Rose Royce
Writer/Producer: Rose Royce and Norman Whitfield
Year Published/Released: 1976
Label: Geffen Records
Drive
by The Cars
Writer/Producer: Rik Okasek and Robert John “Mutt” Lange
Year Published/Released: 1984
Label: Elektra
Who's gonna tell you when
It's too late
Who's gonna tell you things
Aren't so great
You can't go on
Thinking nothing's wrong
Who's gonna drive you home tonight
