What's Your Favorite Racing Song ?

[Bob Kraemer]

Your right Doc it is wicked games... oops

BP Cerwin Vega speakers are awesome, saving my pennies to get mine fixed or to by a new pair. I looked into buying some new ones awhile back and couldn't afford them, then I found out they only come in black if you buy them from store stock if you want wood grain you have to order them.

[draglist]

I was going to get a pair back in the Navy when I was building my "ultimate stereo" (I still have most of the major pieces of it 26 years later). But they were out of them and I had to get Bose 901s instead! Then I sold those to make some money to move down here for my first D.C. job in 1983... I bought some Sound Source speakers, which were supposed to be CW innards into a mom and pop enclosure.. Those worked great for years. I replaced them with some BSR monsters with 15 inch subwoofers that were as big in the front as the CWs I had wanted all those years ago, but only half the depth. They work OK, but are starting to get a little long in the tooth. Probably will downsize one of these days, but they are holding their own for now... I was really in search of the sound of a live club and I came pretty close in my approximation... last ten years, I haven't really taken the time for much critical listening (where that's all I do is sit and listen to the music). Damned Internet and kids! bp

[racersforcoffee]

Car Crazy Cutie off Shut Down pt 2...Springsteen's RITS after changing a few words for accuracy went over well in my band.....all time for no apparent reason is Maria Muldaur's Midnight at the Oasis..a musical contact high I love to have on in the garage. I've had Miles Davis' Bitches Brew on deck during Street Legal..and Coltrane! Drummer Elvin Jones plays contrapuntally on a 5-tenths tree........

[Gator]

Mine is Stevie Wonder's Superstition.
This happened back in 1972 > 1974 when I was 12 or 14 at the time my brother was helping Trueman Fields out on his S/S car & took me with him to the points race at Edgewater Sports park when all NHRA classes ran point's meets.
We were traveling down a very steep hill on the way to the track and Superstition came on the radio. Don't know why but this song has always been my favorite racing song.
This was also my first live experience with drag racing.
Watched it on TV but never got to be up close to the cars.
Damn I sure miss those days

409!.....

[dnewnova]

Surfer Dan by I think the Safaris
I think I was the only person in England who knew or had that record
Thats it

[WildcatOne]

Lots of people in the US didn't know about it, either! Good call, man...WC1

[dnewnova]

Sorry it was the Turtles



http://www.theturtles.com/documents/54.html

"SURFER DAN

Words and Music by

Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan



Moving so fast you can't see him go by



Everybody's talking bout Surfer Dan

Doheny to Nirvana in his Chevy Sedan

Moving so fast you can't see him go by

(ooh....)



He's a gremmie Mahareshi in his baggies and beads

Super Stock surfer jock down to his knees

He's so ripped he can't see you go by



Surfer Dan someone that everyone knows

(he's so cool you know his cool is cool)

27 girls follow wherever he goes



Everybody's looking for Surfer Dan

Skinny Minnie, mom & dad and Uncle Sam

He's so cool they can't see him go by



SOLO (Whahooo, Wah, Wah Wahooo..)



Surfer Dan someone that everyone knows

(he's so cool you know his cool is cool)

27 girls follow wherever he goes

(Boss, Stoked, Groovy)



Everybody's talking bout Surfer Dan

Doheny to Nirvana in his Chevy Sedan

Moving so fast you can't see him go by

He's so ripped He can't see You go by

He's so cool you can't see him go by



Surfer Dan 6x

(fade out)

[Mike-Casella]

I just spent an hour looking for a book I have that has every song ever recorded from 1947 on, because I knew The Safaris didn't do it, but I couldn't remember who actually did. Unfortunately I couldn't find the book, but it looks like I didn't have to after all.

[WildcatOne]

There was the band, the Surfaris, that did "Wipeout" and the flip side on the 45 was "Surfer Joe"...any relation to the Safaris and "Surfer Dan"? Cheers, WC1

[WildcatOne]

OK, I Googled 'em. No relation. Distant cousins, maybe, but not blood...