Model A Blues/Rockabilly Songs

I'd give my right arm to be down there with you all. I'm sure you will have an amazing time. Good luck with your song selection, looks like you have a lot of great songs to select from. Have lots of fun.
 
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OK, Hoogah, Please let us know how the weekend went, especially your music.
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The radio program was a heap of fun, Synchro.
Full of stuff like these Ford tunes:

Broken Down Old Ford (Rockbottom James & The Detonators)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7KvDNzAQ6o

Henry Ford's Model A (Oscar Ford)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztTOOreJRpQ

V8 Blues (Three Tobacco Tags)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCw6lrKoq0Q

Ford V-8 (Cedar Creek Sheik)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4528DErEY

No Money Down (Chuck Berry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK_ZP6dN6sU

Me and My Chauffeur Blues (Maria Muldaur)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8eYScakrK4

For the past three or four years, my grandson (now 12) and I have made this a bonding day for just the two of us. We both look forward to it each year, both the hot rod and the vintage displays, and he's learning heaps. That's him by the Pilot (a car that I lusted after as a kid!).

It was great to see the love of classic machinery being instilled in kids via their very own push car or motorised model car (the black '32!).

Here are a few photos from the hot rod part of our day. Purists, don't look, and if there's not enough relevance here for Ryan, I'll understand. :) I have purposely included the Stude pickup for Tom Wesenberg. Don't know what the purple monster was - nothing like having the motor right there in your face!
 

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This is an old thread, but it's two years on and I'm still presenting my weekly community radio blues program, and we are approaching the local car shows weekend again.

This time there are three shows within 45 min of me:

1. The hot rods at Port Fairy (expecting 100-200 cars)
2. The veteran, vintage and classic car display at Warrnambool (expect 100+ cars - this year "celebrating" the demise of our own Holden as a special feature section)
3. For the first time, the Camperdown Car and Bike Show (expecting up to 500 cars and 250 bikes - I reckon there'll be a heavy leaning toward muscle cars).
Such choice!

So, inspired once again, on Tuesday night I cranked out another 2-hour playlist full of blues and rockabilly songs about cars on 3WAY-FM 103.7.

Here it is. Still hoping to use some of the good suggestions received earlier in this thread for next year's special program!

Sean Costello-Motor Head Baby (Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile Rocket 88)
Billy Boy Arnold-Nadine (Cadillac)
Chuck Berry-Maybelline (Cadillac, Ford V8)
Rockbottom James & The Detonators-Burn Rubber Burn (Holden Grey Motor 1948-62.
Buick pre-war design)
John Lisi-Big Ol' Broke Down Buick (Buick)
The Johnny Shines Blues Band-Dynaflow Blues (Buick's auto trannie 1948-63 a.k.a. Dynaslush!)
Tommy Ball & Kenny Sultan-It Should've Been Me (Buick, Cadillac)
Mark Lemhouse-Electra 225 (Buick)
Cecil B Fardoulli & The Big Boo*-Take The Tin Lizzy (Ford T)
Oscar Ford-Henry Ford's Model A (Ford A)
Bill Gaither (Leroy's Buddy)-Old Model A Blues (Ford A)
Rockbottom James & The Detonators*-Broken Down Ford (Ford)
The Three Tobacco Tags-V8 Blues (Probably Ford!)
Eddy & Blues On The Boyle*-51 Ford (Ford V8)
Steve James-The Change (Ford Fairlane 500, 1963)
Omar & The Howlers-Big Chief Pontiac (Pontiac - Star Chief models 1954-66)
Sonny Boy Williamson with The Animals (Pontiac Blues-Pontiac)
Robert Johnson-Terraplane Blues (Hudson/Essex)
Archer*-Nasty Swing (Packard)
Chickenbone Slim-Hemi Dodge (Dodge)
Chuck Berry-No Money Down (Cadillac)
Carey and Lurrie Bell-Cadillac Assembly Line (Cadillac)
Watermelon Slim-Dumpster Blues (Tip truck!)
Rockbottom James & The Detonators*-Hot Rod Tip Truck (Tip truck!)
Craig Horton-Ridin' In My Jaguar (Jaguar)
Flattop Tom and His Jump Cats-Rocket 88 (Oldsmobile Rocket 88)
Sonny Landreth-U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile (Oldsmobile)
Sonny Landreth-Broken Hearted Road (No particular make, just the vibe!)
The Doors-Roadhouse Blues (No particular make, just the vibe!)
 

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Thanks for the update. Great songs on the list. I just wasted an hour or so here at work listening to a lot of them on Spotify. Hope the shows are good.
 
This is a rock/blues song that I wrote a while back but never set to music yet.


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]My Little Twenty-Nine[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]The Beach Boys sang about a thirty-two.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I’ve got me a decent little rat-rod, too.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]It’s a sweet little truck. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I drive it all the time.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]That’s my bone-crushin’ hot-rod.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]That’s my little twenty-nine.[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]She accelerates so hard it’s pretty hard to control.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I wouldn’t trade it for her weight in gold.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]It just keeps on pullin’[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Right on down the line.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]That’s my tire-smokin’ pickup.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]That’s my little twenty-nine.[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]It ain’t that pretty, but it’s pretty mean.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Meanest little pickup drinkin’ gasoline![/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]It won’t win any trophies[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]But it’s mine, all mine.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]That’s my primered-up rat-rod.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]That’s my little twenty-nine.[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]The girls line up to take a ride with me.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]They get all dolled up for everyone to see.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]They want to be the one[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Wavin’ out the other side[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Wavin’ at the people who are [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Wavin’ at my little twenty-nine.[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I put her all together all by myself[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I don’t want her belongin’ to no-one else[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Nah, nah, she ain’t for sale[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Not now, not any time[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Mister, you ain’t got enough money[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]To buy my little twenty-nine.[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]She likes blarin’ out rock-a-billy rock-n-roll[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]She’ll make you feel young down to your very soul[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I know they broke the mold[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Aw, I got me one of a kind[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]No, man, there ain’t another like my[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Like my little twenty-nine![/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Tod Buttermore[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]11/8/2016[/FONT]
 
Hoogah, do you speak on your program and introduce the songs or do they just play .

If so, tell us the local time you are on air and for how long and I will tune in .

http://3wayfm.org.au/

The rest of the world can tune in too when they work out their own time zone compared to Warrnambool.

They will prob get a kick out of your OZ strine.
 
Now that Rocket 69 Rocks,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,so to say. :D I just down loaded that from ITunes to my Ipad. Never heard that one before. Still cant beat Rocket 88, though. A lot of good road tunes out there. Thanks for your involvement Hoogah . ;)
 
Tod, you’re “Little 29” works to the tune of “Little Deuce Coupe” but needs a 2-Line refrain to be fully compatible. Didn’t know you were a songwriter. Good job! How about a photo to go with the song?
 
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pooch said:
Hoogah, do you speak on your program and introduce the songs or do they just play .

If so, tell us the local time you are on air and for how long and I will tune in .

http://3wayfm.org.au/

The rest of the world can tune in too when they work out their own time zone compared to Warrnambool.

They will prob get a kick out of your OZ strine.
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Yeah, we stream from that URL in your post, Pooch. My program is called JuzBlooz (not booze!) and goes to air Tuesdays at 8:30 - 10:30pm, Eastern Australian Standard Time (currently Eastern Australian Summer Time, 1 hr advanced for daylight saving).
And, sorry to say, but you DO get to hear my dulcet tones throughout the two hours in addition to the music. Let Stalk Strine!
 
Pontiac by Lyle Lovett. A bit slow and melancholy but fits men with a past and times alone in their cars.
 
Hoogah said:
Yeah, we stream from that URL in your post, Pooch. My program is called JuzBlooz (not booze!) and goes to air Tuesdays at 8:30 - 10:30pm, Eastern Australian Standard Time (currently Eastern Australian Summer Time, 1 hr advanced for daylight saving).
And, sorry to say, but you DO get to hear my dulcet tones throughout the two hours in addition to the music. Let Stalk Strine!
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Will listen in next tues.

Maybe you could dedicate some appropriate songs to ford barn members....
 
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