Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rod Lincoln by CC & LPA - Original 1972 release

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  • Опубліковано 23 лип 2020
  • Video of Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen first released on paramount records in 1972, this legendary classic has been selling ever since; its #2 on Hot Rod Magazine's 25 all time car songs. This video has been accepted at a video festival in Cannes for feb 2021

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  • @pwokus
    @pwokus 4 місяці тому +92

    This song should be in the Library of Congress.. 100% meets the standard of “culturally, historically or aesthetically important”

  • @johnnyfreedom3437
    @johnnyfreedom3437 5 місяців тому +40

    Why does this bring back some good memories, I remember when it was originally done! God I'm getting old, what happened to the generation that wasn't supposed to get old?!

    • @user-wo1fk5iw7r
      @user-wo1fk5iw7r 4 місяці тому +7

      Unfortunately, we did. But it's better than the alternative.

    • @james-jg8iu
      @james-jg8iu 4 місяці тому +4

      I could tell you because we had all the fun and we really were drag racing on the interstate m 74 and started 1965 drag racing

  • @joebufford2972
    @joebufford2972 Рік тому +42

    That was one of the first records I ever bought, and I'm 62 now so I loved it back then. I still live it today😊

  • @topperbishop2539
    @topperbishop2539 2 роки тому +117

    RIP Commander Cody. Thanks for everything! You added so much good fun to the music world.

  • @STEELERBUM
    @STEELERBUM 6 місяців тому +48

    Whoever put this video together deserves an award! Well done!! Excellent vid for the song!!! Damn good of ya!!

    • @jimmiller5600
      @jimmiller5600 2 місяці тому +1

      Was that Jack Lord? And the Stooges?

  • @kirkmorrison6131
    @kirkmorrison6131 Рік тому +56

    I remember when this was a giant hit, i still love it. Rest in Peace Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen

  • @keithmccready3158
    @keithmccready3158 2 місяці тому +16

    Thank you for making an excellent video out of a really great song. I loved that song back in the day. I am 70 years old now and still love that song reminds me of my younger days and the things I did with my 69 427 Corvette.
    Amazing I am still alive. God must have a plan for me.

  • @michaelhillman2959
    @michaelhillman2959 Рік тому +38

    RIP Commander. You and your band The lost planet airmen were totally awesome.

  • @chazer200
    @chazer200 6 місяців тому +11

    I bought this 45 rpm record in 1971, in a Circle K store in Tucson AZ. It was the 1st record I had ever bought, I was 9 years old. At that time Circle K had a big kiosk up front with ALL the weeks top 40 hits. I, being 9, didn"t care about any of those, but the title: "Hot Rod Lincoln". Caught my eye! BEST BUY, I ever made!

  • @spacemissing
    @spacemissing Рік тому +29

    One of the best car songs of all time, and it sounds Clean here.
    Super.

  • @guymichel101
    @guymichel101 8 місяців тому +19

    What absolutely makes this version a killer, besides of course the amazing killer-level music, is the really clever understated vocal, makes you kinda lean in to listen. And then lets the song shake you like a hot dog with a wet towel! Woof forever dig this.

  • @bwtv147
    @bwtv147 Рік тому +17

    I'm an old guy. I remember Charley Ryan's original version in which the Ford and the Mercury were setting the pace
    and the hot rod Lincoln had 12 cylinders.

  • @ricksweetser1683
    @ricksweetser1683 4 місяці тому +7

    Saw Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Maria Muldaur and the Greatful Dead at the Hollywood Bowl (Just can't remember the year) Best concert I ever went to.

  • @thekingsilverado3266
    @thekingsilverado3266 7 місяців тому +112

    Ya know when the state cop that took my license 45 years ago said to me You belong on a race track kid... I didn't wait long... Even did the Craftsman Trucks which is where I wanted to stay if not for my nasty divorce and sticky stuff... By age 37 I have 5 Northeastern Modified Championships and never looked back even after the trucks.. Those were greatest days of my life... I want to be 16 all over again

    • @deborahwilliams4411
      @deborahwilliams4411 5 місяців тому +1

      ME too 😄 the best years of my life.

    • @johnnyfreedom3437
      @johnnyfreedom3437 5 місяців тому +3

      Did you ever get your license back? I lost mine in 79 but didn't stop driving until 2005!

    • @pwokus
      @pwokus 4 місяці тому +3

      haha 19 year old here just getting into cars trucks and riding dirt bikes, i’m older than you were but i’ve got a long life ahead of me regardless :)

    • @thekingsilverado3266
      @thekingsilverado3266 4 місяці тому +1

      @@pwokus As I always say with my advice forum is that fat drunk & stupid is no way to thru life son. Lol Make the most of it all over again. On occasion you will see older folks doing stupid things other wise we wouldn't need an Emergency room at the hospitals!!!!

    • @pwokus
      @pwokus 4 місяці тому +2

      @@thekingsilverado3266 i’ve already learned enough lessons about drinkin for a lifetime LOL

  • @harleydavidson6851
    @harleydavidson6851 18 днів тому +2

    Was in JHS Wen this sonv came out. Fond Memories, Gravesend Bklyn, Mini Bikes, Great Food, Hottt Lookin Babes & GREAT Music! God Bless...😊

  • @markmiller9163
    @markmiller9163 Рік тому +13

    Had the pleasure of seeing these guys many times. Even better, George and I knocked back quite a few shots of tequila.

  • @kentdixon5716
    @kentdixon5716 7 місяців тому +6

    I fondly remember hearing this song being played on the radio in the mid 70,s, and as young boys my cousin and I would learn the lyrics word for word as we were riding in the car on the way to "Town" in rural Saskatchewan, many laughs, and good times, we thought the hot rod depicted in that song was the coolest thing ever, I still know the words today, thanks for posting!!

  • @Dan0948
    @Dan0948 Рік тому +10

    I saw Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen live ... I think it was 1970
    Happy trails

    • @jimf6427
      @jimf6427 4 місяці тому +2

      Saw them 5-10 times in upstate NY. OH!! to be that kid again.

  • @kathybrenneman1868
    @kathybrenneman1868 2 роки тому +55

    Pappy said "you're gonna drive me to drinking if you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln."

    • @elfritts9895
      @elfritts9895 Рік тому +5

      The jukebox guy used to give me 45s and hot rod Lincoln skipped right at low on gas low on gas low on gas low on gas 😅😅😅 memories 😊😊

    • @AllisonHaefner-on2cl
      @AllisonHaefner-on2cl 15 днів тому

      Yeah, well. Our Dad left him behind in a cloud of dust. 👍

  • @starmnsixty1209
    @starmnsixty1209 Рік тому +44

    This was very popular when I was quite young. Rest in peace, Commander Cody.😟

  • @samanthabloggins1775
    @samanthabloggins1775 Рік тому +17

    This is a very good compilation that goes very well with the music!!
    Thankyou!

  • @davidstaudohar6733
    @davidstaudohar6733 Рік тому +16

    This is one of Our favorite R😎 CK and R 😎 LL hits , 🔥🚙 🎼🎼🎶🎶🎹🥁🎸🎹 Great memories of iconic American bands ♥️🇺🇸♥️

  • @watchgoose
    @watchgoose 8 місяців тому +8

    doesn't get any better than this!

  • @NickSharpe-ky6ky
    @NickSharpe-ky6ky 3 місяці тому +7

    I’m 19 and I love to play this song while driving my Chevy

    • @jimmiller5600
      @jimmiller5600 2 місяці тому

      Enjoy life. Don't miss the tube tires. Points & rotors. Carbs. Engine belts that lasted a year. Hoses that failed at two years. Brakes that spewed asbestos. Vinyl seats that would absolutely brand you in the summer and frostbite you in the winter. Seat belts were an expensive option. Glass that shattered & splintered. Ah, the "good" old days.

    • @martinwinfield857
      @martinwinfield857 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@jimmiller5600YES those were the good old days. Fifty years from now, these will be the good old days.

  • @robertkincaid
    @robertkincaid Рік тому +18

    commander Cody not well known here in the UK but due to youtube i look forward to hearing much more of there music

    • @dsparkman6315
      @dsparkman6315 6 місяців тому

      Pull up "Lost In the Ozone". CC&TLPA were really a country band that got lost in the Austin Ozone.

  • @navret1707
    @navret1707 7 місяців тому +6

    This is my all time favorite song. Bar none.

  • @sandrabonner8208
    @sandrabonner8208 10 днів тому +1

    "...telephone poles looked like a picket fence" says it all.

  • @faithd2439
    @faithd2439 2 роки тому +12

    RIP George, thanks for the entertainment! 💛🎶🎸

  • @Patrick_Cooper
    @Patrick_Cooper Рік тому +7

    A guy has just got to come back to these old classics once in awhile. As I get to the point were driving is just the thing I do to get my prescriptions and a six pack of cheap beer and maybe a some jalapeno poppers. Hey there are all kinds of addictions. Don't Judge... Any songs like this take me back to the old days when I owned a V8 Chevy Vega, which I traded up for a VW Beetle.

  • @chrisester2910
    @chrisester2910 6 місяців тому +15

    My father loved this song because it reminded him of his stock car racing and drag racing days!

  • @MexicoDigDoctor
    @MexicoDigDoctor 12 днів тому +1

    My dad and my uncle used to take me to the Demolition Derby at Gardena Raceway by the time I was 2 or 3. We always had such a blast! It's been gone a long time now, but once I could drive, my friend and I would go to faithfully to the NHRAs. I have always loved cars, and got the biggest rush out of watching top fuel and funny cars. I saw ALL the greats race! Guess I'm giving away my age here, but I'm glad I'm old now because it means I lived through some of the greatest times ever!!

  • @frankwall5177
    @frankwall5177 4 місяці тому +3

    Reminds me of me and my little brother. Only difference we were buying old cop cars at the city auction. Cop motor cop transmission you get the picture. It’s a wonder we are still alive. We raised so much hell some 50 years ago. Damn that was so much fun. 😎🇺🇸

  • @wrericdog
    @wrericdog 7 місяців тому +3

    another lost am radio classic remember it well as kid, one reason why I learned and worked on cars and trucks in my teens and 20's)!! at a junkyard and got paid as well! got free cars,gas, and met my wife there, went too college later!

  • @patrickcoy7096
    @patrickcoy7096 2 місяці тому +3

    When I was 19i bought lincoln mark8 with the 5.0 and I remember my dad driving it and singing the lyrics to this song after

  • @DPenturf
    @DPenturf 2 місяці тому +2

    Buddy of mine had a 69 or 70 Olds 442, I recall hitting 130 on some 2 lane straightaways back in early 70's. We deserved to die... but didn't and now I'm reminded of those times by this song!

    • @lawrencelewis2592
      @lawrencelewis2592 Місяць тому +1

      I was once driven in a 71 or so Buick Skylark in 1973, driven by a stock car driver. The speedometer needle was buried. Never been so fast in a car before or since.

  • @michaelnobles6774
    @michaelnobles6774 Рік тому +13

    Love this song.

  • @drwisdom1
    @drwisdom1 Рік тому +19

    "Hot Rod Lincoln" was a huge hit when I was in high school. Especially since I lived in Michigan and Commander Cody was a Michigan band. It wasn't until decades later I found out it was a 1950s song that they covered. Not realizing the history, we never understood how a Lincoln, huge four door sedans at the time, could be a hot rod.

    • @chasvonplatten1298
      @chasvonplatten1298 Рік тому

      Exactly!?

    • @therealniksongs
      @therealniksongs Рік тому +8

      Yeah, it was a "hot rod"...he stuffed a Lincoln engine into a lightweight Ford Model A body. Back in those days, Lincolns had much more powerful engines because they had so much more car to move.

    • @therealniksongs
      @therealniksongs Рік тому +2

      Too bad the video doesn't show a Model A but shows instead a Model B or 32 V8. Guess footage of a hot rod model A pretty hard to find

    • @lylejohnston4125
      @lylejohnston4125 6 місяців тому

      What blew me away was when I read a story in a magazine that it was a REAL car the song is about. And it still exists!

    • @B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont
      @B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont 4 місяці тому

      Those big four-door luxury sedans could fly was well - just not on a road with sharp curves.

  • @celticfury7328
    @celticfury7328 3 роки тому +15

    Hot damn, I love this song!

  • @jandeband
    @jandeband Рік тому +10

    great song,

  • @user-vy6yz9ly7w
    @user-vy6yz9ly7w 4 місяці тому +3

    Oh to live them times again!!! Yes Dad left me in Jail.

  • @bigwoody4704
    @bigwoody4704 11 місяців тому +3

    Damn when you could have fun with cars,music and Life really RIP CC

  • @MexicoDigDoctor
    @MexicoDigDoctor 12 днів тому +1

    I have loved this song ever since it came out, and I I have loved this song ever since it came out, and I never knew there was a video associated with it. Very cool! Thanks for posting it!

  • @boataxe4605
    @boataxe4605 4 місяці тому +2

    I love how the tires are good but the brakes are only fair!

  • @williambrown1095
    @williambrown1095 Рік тому +10

    this boomer says: "Now that's real music!".

  • @badideaboys4714
    @badideaboys4714 4 місяці тому +2

    My grandfather wrote this song.

  • @edwinking5510
    @edwinking5510 10 місяців тому +5

    Man, what a great video edit! Super enjoyable!!!

  • @blackscotydog
    @blackscotydog Рік тому +10

    Nice job on the video thanks for posting

  • @jimmiller5600
    @jimmiller5600 2 місяці тому +1

    Gawd help me, I remember when this came out.

  • @ericenglehardt1966
    @ericenglehardt1966 4 місяці тому +2

    This song fits right now in this time, same as it did first time around...

  • @charlielaudico3523
    @charlielaudico3523 Рік тому +3

    I had this song in my home on my 45 rpm seeberg jukebox

  • @danhouy4626
    @danhouy4626 4 місяці тому +1

    I had this record, it's a great version of the original.

  • @thomassanderson5811
    @thomassanderson5811 4 місяці тому +1

    I'm still listening and I'm 66 myself

  • @askshadowthewerewolf1294
    @askshadowthewerewolf1294 4 дні тому

    God bless Mr Ford 🙏 ♥ 🙌

  • @ceciliapreziose3783
    @ceciliapreziose3783 11 місяців тому +1

    college song........brins back fond memories

  • @user-yo6ud2nm1y
    @user-yo6ud2nm1y Місяць тому +1

    Saw the band at North Texas State University in 1973

  • @shirleyjennings5787
    @shirleyjennings5787 5 місяців тому +2

    Awesome!

  • @romanace3432
    @romanace3432 Рік тому +1

    Was in my Spotify discover weekly now I can’t stop listening

  • @josemoreno3334
    @josemoreno3334 Рік тому +5

    Cool song , Good video.

  • @michaelsamerdyke108
    @michaelsamerdyke108 6 місяців тому +1

    Terrific job! A lot of fun.

  • @JohnnyHawkins-mt9rc
    @JohnnyHawkins-mt9rc 11 місяців тому +1

    Bought this in the early 70S !

  • @grannyjudi1
    @grannyjudi1 Місяць тому

    what a great old song....rock on kids...life is good

  • @mikemealey3661
    @mikemealey3661 4 місяці тому +1

    🐸🍿sounds just as cool as it did back in '72🎶📻

  • @raoulcaliente1030
    @raoulcaliente1030 Місяць тому +2

    There are car songs, there are highway songs. And then there is this.
    By the way, nice job on the video.

  • @justinreedflynn
    @justinreedflynn 7 днів тому

    When he says "Boys that's the "marque" for me", he's talking about the brand. Incidently, at the time, "Lincoln" was FoMoCo's "Cadillac"

  • @lescobrandon3047
    @lescobrandon3047 Місяць тому

    My years. The 411 rear mentioned was great for street racing. Mine got a Chevy V8 when old Olds engine blew.

  • @lesleyshaw5670
    @lesleyshaw5670 2 місяці тому

    This would be my dad in his younger years (He'd be 102 now if still here)! He was a race car driver in the 40's & 50's. Very interesting and scary!

  • @johnlarson111
    @johnlarson111 Місяць тому

    I saw them at the shaboo inn in Willimantic conn. about 1975 or 76

  • @WALTERBROADDUS
    @WALTERBROADDUS 4 місяці тому +1

    I Miss my Hot Rod 1997 Lincoln Mark VĪĪĪ LSC.😢

  • @lincolnschweizer3166
    @lincolnschweizer3166 Місяць тому +1

    This was for real ❤

  • @sweetwolfasmraudio6726
    @sweetwolfasmraudio6726 Рік тому +5

    me and my grandpa are actually building a 1926 ford. custom frame, 300 six, 3 speed. prob 150hp but more torque than a 12v cummins

  • @DavidLouisLouis-qh9ni
    @DavidLouisLouis-qh9ni 10 місяців тому +1

    My pop's would always say you're driving me to drinking, David , you stole my Hot rod Lincoln again, , the Mark 2 ,1958 was a great car, So fast , nobody could pass, 🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸‼️♦️♦️♦️

  • @StevenConstantine-fw2kn
    @StevenConstantine-fw2kn 10 місяців тому +1

    So good

  • @Acein3055
    @Acein3055 Рік тому +4

    Been there.
    Now the boys all thought I had lost my sense....
    And the guy beside me was white as a ghost....

  • @AndresRodriguez-sm1fr
    @AndresRodriguez-sm1fr 18 днів тому

    Great music.

  • @jerryreeder9715
    @jerryreeder9715 7 місяців тому +1

    Still a classic!

  • @russsharp6419
    @russsharp6419 2 місяці тому

    At the 30th second of the video that looks like David Nelson in the (Ozzie & Harriet, "The Nelson's Show" in the 1960's) in the passenger seat. The car, (Duce Coupe) is his brother's, the late Rick Nelson.

  • @jennycraigadventures3314
    @jennycraigadventures3314 2 місяці тому

    Something reminded me of this song, so I looked it up on YT to hear it. I always thought it was a mid to late 60’s song. Like Boy Named Sue.

  • @VroodenTheGreat
    @VroodenTheGreat 11 місяців тому +2

    Very well edited.

  • @bwilliams463
    @bwilliams463 14 днів тому

    This is actually a good compilation of clips.

  • @dsparkman6315
    @dsparkman6315 6 місяців тому +1

    Bill Kirchen picks it flawlessly!

  • @Geoff_G
    @Geoff_G 2 місяці тому

    Such a good cover of the Charlie Ryan original that most people don't even remember the original.

  • @thecampion2420
    @thecampion2420 2 місяці тому

    My dad was commissioned by this band to create a poster for a show, this would have been in the late 60s to early 70s, I've always wanted to find that poster, just to see it. I don't even know if it exists anymore.

  • @terriwronker5444
    @terriwronker5444 3 місяці тому +2

    Make ya wanna STAND ON IT!!😊

  • @ErikGriffith-oo7zv
    @ErikGriffith-oo7zv 4 місяці тому

    Happy Lincoln's Birthday!

  • @overnitedave4455
    @overnitedave4455 20 днів тому

    Salute to the original version by the great Charlie Ryan...

  • @donnapsisk2992
    @donnapsisk2992 2 місяці тому +1

    Love this

  • @Falconlibrary
    @Falconlibrary Місяць тому

    Written as an answer song to Arkie Shibley's 1950 hit "Hot Rod Race"

  • @kennethhummel4409
    @kennethhummel4409 Рік тому +8

    I’m still trying to figure how my stepdad managed to put an Allison 1710 V-12 aircraft engine into a model A ford back when he was a teenager!

    • @dirtpounder
      @dirtpounder Рік тому +1

      Hot damn, I'll bet that thing screamed if/when it ran

    • @jameswebb9659
      @jameswebb9659 6 місяців тому

      I met a crazy kid in Topeka, KS in the late 70's who put a 440 magnum Mopar engine in a corvair which was a rear engine car. The 440 went all the way to the back of the front seats. I don't know whether he got it to run successfully or not without killing himself.

    • @soaringvulture
      @soaringvulture 6 місяців тому

      @@jameswebb9659 That's a heavy motor. Probably weighs more than the rest of the Corvair.

  • @user-wj7mc2nj6n
    @user-wj7mc2nj6n 10 днів тому

    Saw Commander Cody at The Golden Bear in Huntington Beach, CA, back in the early 80s... Great Show...

  • @markmark2080
    @markmark2080 8 місяців тому +1

    I remember it well as a child of the '50s and '60s, this song was a precursor to the great hot car songs of the early mid '60s... Before Ford and Chevy really kicked off the horsepower race in '55/'56, the most impressive muscle motors were the early '50s OHV V8s of Lincoln, Caddy, and Olds. Big, back in that day, was around 300 cu.inches, my dad had a '53 Olds 98 with the 303 "Rocket V8" engine, which at the time was hot sh!t compared to the average flathead six... Great memories of a very special time... Cheers

    • @lawrencelewis2592
      @lawrencelewis2592 Місяць тому

      As I understand it, the original Lincoln engine referred to in the song was the V-12 that Lincoln had prior to 1948. Pretty sure I saw that somewhere.

    • @markmark2080
      @markmark2080 Місяць тому

      @@lawrencelewis2592 In the song..."got eight cylinders, and uses them all" ... I can only imagine how cool it would have been to score a V-12 or any other 'great motor' back in those hard days, for an average poor boy hot rod builder.

    • @lawrencelewis2592
      @lawrencelewis2592 Місяць тому

      @@markmark2080 Very true- those guys in the two roadsters are having all kinds of cheap fun, aren't they?

  • @user-tp6bt4wh2r
    @user-tp6bt4wh2r 2 місяці тому +1

    Hot Rod Lincoln Indeed 98 4.6 Town car Cartier edition 👌 a cop car in dugise awesome song 🎵 about a great automobile 🚘

  • @dangeroreilly2028
    @dangeroreilly2028 Рік тому +1

    A snippet from "Yankee Doodle Dandy"! I didn't expect that.

  • @davekent4829
    @davekent4829 2 місяці тому

    You need to drive up the Grapevine to really appreciate this!

  • @PaulHarris-sl1ct
    @PaulHarris-sl1ct 5 місяців тому +1

    This is a 0:21 continuation of a piece called "hot rod race" from 1950 by Arkie Shilby

  • @thomassanderson5811
    @thomassanderson5811 4 місяці тому +1

    You got that right!!!

  • @thatguyinelnorte
    @thatguyinelnorte 2 місяці тому

    The best of the best.

  • @evangelineyap4990
    @evangelineyap4990 3 місяці тому

    One of my ex favorite song till he retired his madol A then sell his 58 Chev.

  • @myyoutube887
    @myyoutube887 7 місяців тому +1

    Ol Pirates Way............Universal Joints Land Who Are We By the Way Shabby Shiek? Forever Gentle on Our Minds.........?

  • @SereneOakTree-spqr
    @SereneOakTree-spqr 29 днів тому

    Livin' in Longview, WA in '72', We terrorized KLOG fer this tune!

  • @jsamc
    @jsamc Рік тому +4

    you tube's algorithm is amazing