It's cool of you to do what you do,I always put that song on for my granddaughter sadie when we drive,check out ARLO GUTHRIE motorcycle song live version,and blues brothers RUBBER BISKET
@Jamel_AKA_Jamal It's more than a cover. Charlie Ryan 'answered' a 1940s song called "Hot Rod Race (Part 1)" by Arkie Shibley. It actually has 8 parts!
This song, combined with you mentioning "Highway Star" by Deep Purple, it seemed appropriate to pass this one along (one of my favorites). Great song from a great band (and make sure your seat belt is fastened and keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle when they get to the solos). Blackfoot - "Highway Song" ua-cam.com/video/fBu4rdZdOSk/v-deo.html
"Hot Rod Lincoln" is a song by American singer-songwriter Charlie Ryan, first released in 1955. It was written as an answer song to Arkie Shibley's 1950 hit "Hot Rod Race" which describes a race in San Pedro, Los Angeles between two hot rod cars, a Ford and a Mercury, which stay neck-and-neck until both are overtaken by "a kid in a hopped-up Model A"
I was hoping someone would bring this up! “Hot Rod Lincoln” is actually a sequel! 😀 The original “Hot Rod Race” is more of a country shuffle, but it is the first part of the story! Look for the Red Foley version.
Ha, this was my daughters favorite song when she was four. She loved the “pappy said son you’re gonna drive me to drinkin if you don’t stop driving that hot... rod... Lincoln”
Me too, Keith. This is the one I rem. I mean if George Thorogood covered it like it said at the end of the video, he did a great job. I was going to say it sounds like it was remastered but, hey...I could see George singing it. Great old song.
@TJ Tampa, I only knew the Commander Cody version. Didn’t know George Thorogood covered it too. Prefer the Cody version, nostalgia I think. Oh, the originals good too. Guessing you’re in Tampa, Sarasota here.
He's still rocking, too! Just saw him live a couple years ago, and he recently contributed to a collection of John Lilly songs called "April in Your Eyes". He's great! You are so lucky to have played with him!
This always amazed me that they were making all these sound effects with just their instruments. EVERYTHING... the tire squeals, engine noises sirens, the whole shebang.
Nice.😊😊..My late Pops would play this...Among MANY other 'fun/goofy/unique...songs from long ago...And this was DEFINITELY one of them...They are a great go-to...When I'm missing him.🥺...Have a peaceful rest of your evening...✌
Commander Cody's original lead guitarist, Bill Kirchen, has several fun UA-cam videos out there of him and his band going through classic riffs from rock history while performing this song.
RON WARMICK, you read my mind. Bill Kirchen has an amazing live version of this with a band called the TWANGBANGERS, which includes Dallas Wayne, and Red Volkeart.
That’s good but I prefer ; colonel claypool’s bucket of Bernie brains or even Les claypools fearless flying frog brigade. Come to think of it Les does an even better cover of this.
I was in college in upstate NY. It was about 1974-75. A bunch of us went to a concert at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo. Commander Cody was the warm-up. The headliner was Jessie Colin Young..... what a great show1
Hell YEA! I'm a gal and I had a 1973 Lincoln Continental 2 door (the one with the tire hump on the trunk lid) when I was about 19. Let me tell ya, if I was on a long stretch of interstate when this song came on, I let those horses RUN. That thing had a HUGE engine and rode like a dream. I LOVED that car, it would SAIL! So much fun!
The full band here was Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen. George Lucas was a fan, & paid tribute by having a character in the Star Wars prequels named Commander Cody.
This song was originally released 1955, however, this song was a sequel song to Hot Rod Race released in 1950. I have both the original 45's. Another cool hot rod song that is not super well known, The Ballad of Thunder Road sung by Robert Mitchum in 1957.
Came to suggest that too. It explains parts of Hot Rod Lincoln. I never understood "Have you heard the story of the hot rod race where the Fords and Mercury's were setting the pace" when this race involved a Lincoln and a caddy, until I heard Hot Rod Race.
Grateful Dead had a TON of country influence. Byrds / Flying Burritos / Gram Parsons, Linda Ronstadt, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Commander Cody etc etc. West coast country scene was something special.
I'm 55 and I've never heard of Charlie Ryan. I learned something new today. I remember this song from when I was a kid. I just always thought it was older. Knowing it's a cover from a rockabilly song from the 50s makes a lot of sense now.
Johnny Cash sang it in our house anyway, and I'm same age as you. Sunday was Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads in our house and my Dad would be making chili, or ham hocks and beans.
when you hear the one from charley ryan you're gonna discover he started and influenced others to rap music. yes i said it. this is rap. i wanted to say it was walter brennen and his rap song "old rivers" but no this is the original rap song.
That was on a tape of oldies my Mom made, which we would listen to while driving up to Grandma’s when I was a kid. We loved trying to keep up with the words as the song got faster and faster, lol! Lots of other goodies, too: Tell Laura I Love Her, Spirit In the Sky, In the Year 2525, Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In, at least 5 songs by the Supremes, and a ton of other fun sing-along songs. IIRC, Hot Rod Lincoln was on there, too. :)
My first car was a '59 Rambler 2-door station wagon.. It had Nash Motor Company stamped on the bumpers and had a red "R" in the middle of the hubcaps. I was mortified when my dad bought that for me to drive to school in 1974... But it wound up being a guy magnet 😉, so it wasn't so bad after all. All the seats folded down flat and we could cram 10 kids in it if I left the tailgate down. We would go cruising the drag on the weekends. My dad used to play that song for me and we'd have a good laugh! Sweet memories...
Brother "JJ", I'm staring at 60 and believe me when I say, I've had a couple of speeding tickets. Being from L.A. you'll know my lay out with cars. From 1972 to 1979 I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. Jr' High through High School. I took auto shop when it was still a thing...my dad was a shade tree mechanic from a family of moonshiners back in the 30's. Getting the picture? Some of my best friends were from Pacoima and bro', did they have talents! I learned from all of these people in my life, by just shutting my mouth...and listening. By 1981 I was helping my good friend, one Walley Mac, keep his business going. Wallie was the best mechanic I had ever known who could make me doubt my dad. He and I built a 1969 Chevy Chevelle SS 396. We spent over 9 months building that car and to this day, the Crawford County Sheriffs Dept. still don't know who ran Blackie Rices Oldsmobile 442 into the dirt...but we do! Peace.
First time ive heard Anyone react to Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen . Good Job ! Down to seeds and stems again blues or Too Much Fun would also be fun :) ✌🏼☮️☕
Released by Charlie Ryan in 1955 by his band Charley Ryan and The Livingston Brothers. He released a second version in 1959 with another band he called Charley Ryan and The Timberline Riders. Charlie Ryan born December 19, 1915 died February 16, 2008. In 1960 the first cover version was released by Johnny Bond (Cyrus Whitfield Bond) The Commander Cody version was released in 1972.
Bill Kirchen was the lead guitar player in this version, he is known as the originator of the “Diesel-Billy” sound. This version was released in 1971. The original was released in 1955.
I am a 64 year-old woman. I have been driving "hot-rods" since I was fifteen! My first car was a '69 Superbee (my brother's hand-me-down). My current ride is an '89 Cadillac Allante. That car can FLY. I always get a kick out of "Hot Rod Lincoln,"
I was 14 my uncle took me to the old waldorf. It's a bar we sat at a table. The first band just finished there set. The next ban was Commander Cody. Cool as shit.
The man and the song that got me to go to college! Yup, was graduating from High School with no desire to go to college. A week or two left in the summer prior to my friends all going and me, working behind the deli counter with my own money. My Mom gives me a letter from the local community college inviting me to a visiting day with a free concert by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. I go to the school alone, meet some nice students a few cool professors and then a free show with the Commander and free beer. Hot Rod Lincoln comes on and a jay gets passed my way. Needless to say, I signed up, went for one year, got grades, transferred to our state's highest rated State school at the time after one year and the rest is history.
Was a child way back when my dad introduced me to Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. My Papy said Son Your Gonna Drive Me To Drinking If You Don't Stop Driving That Hot Rod Lincoln. 😁💗
Ahhh The Commander. I can’t count the number of times I saw him and the boys at the Armadillo World Headquarters. Always a fun time. Thanks for the memory.
Went to the country music hall of Fame a few years ago. They had a huge exhibit about the armadillo world headquarters. And early outlaw country music.
Commander Cody and his band the Lost Planet Airmen played at a club where I was working as a bouncer in 1974 in North Brunswick NJ. The guy drank so much beer I was surprised he could sing.
George and I have been friends for 45 years. We first met at a bar I worked at in Eugene Oregon in the ‘70’s but these last 35 years whenever he comes to Minneapolis we get together for a great time. These days he looks like a frail little old man until he sits at his piano. Then he is transformed into a high energy rocker. You should give a listen to Cody’s “Down to Seeds and Stems Again Blues.” For those of us old enough to remember when weed was full of seeds.
Owsley Stanley Foundation came out with a recent live Bears Journal release . Its called Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airman. Live from the Family Dog at the Great Higway 3-28-1970. Excellent sounding release.
Was still a little too young to drive when this came out, but was definitely a favorite tune.. learned all the words.. Driving songs were pretty huge in the 70's.. C.W. McCall had a massive hit with "Convoy", a trucker song.. but I would recommend another song by C.W. McCall called "Wolf Creek Pass", and it is a great story he tells throughout the song..
Hot Rod Lincoln was written as an answer to the song, 'Hot Rod Race', by Arkie Shibley. Maybe give a listen to that, as well as Charlie Ryan's original version of this tune.
@@rockinredneck57 Charlie Ryan wrote this as an answer to “hot rod race”. That song is about a race between a Ford and a Mercury but they were passed by a Lincoln. Ryan wrote hot rod Lincoln from the viewpoint of this third driver that’s why the first few lines say something like “you’ve heard about that hot rod race” in reference to that song.
The original was called hot rod race by arkie Sibley. The hot rod Lincoln name came along in the 1940's,johnny bond did a version in the late 50's early 60's, commander Cody in the early 70's, asleep at the wheel in the 80's,Jim varney in the 90's,and a few others.
Molly Hatchet. " Flirt'n with Disaster." Is definitely another one of them tunes. And the Doobie Brothers. " Rock'n Down The Highway." This song here, was one of my favorites back in 8th grade.
I don't think I've heard this song since about 1973. I had it on a 45 and played it all the time. My fave line was always when he said "the telephone poles looked like a picket fence". What an old random memory you've brought back. :)
JAJ u done it again! RIP George Frayne aka commander cody...JAJ you put me in touch with what you used to be old fashioned DJing pre digital and pre 90s
Just watched this...Commander Cody and Lost Planet Airmen among my all-time favorites. Also just watched your good time with Charlie Daniels and "The Devil went down to Georgia." You guys were awesome with your appreciation of CD, his humility...sharing the limelight with other TALENTED musicians. Your reactions to the keyboard player were perfect. So-o-o...don't overlook the Boogie-WoogieCommander (George Frayne), especially in light of his recent death; and his Tom MacDonald-style battle with Warner Brothers. Checking them out...a path less traveled: "Beat me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" "Rock That Boogie" "2 Triple Cheese (Side Order of Fries)" "Smoke, Smoke Smoke that Cigarette" "Riot in Cell Block #9" "Lost in the Ozone Again" "Truck Stop Rock" "Seven Eleven" "Rock that Boogie" Slow it down with: "Down to Seeds and Stems Blues" Have a little church: "Family Bible" Another "drivin' tune"... Elvin Bishop "Travelin' Shoes" Just for good listening, Midnight Special venue... Elvin Bishop "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" featuring Mickey Thomas (on to Jefferson Starship) as lead vocal. Thank you for your your love of music. Keep up the great work! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏...in Christ
Bill Kirchen, the guitarist on this track with Commander Cody, has a great extended version of Hot Rod Lincoln he does live that is well worth a listen. I think you'd really enjoy it, Jamel_AKA_Jamal. Love your Channel. Thanks so much.
The original Charlie Ryan song went "got 12 cylinders and uses 'em all". Lincoln built v-12 engines from 1932 thru 1948. The Commander Cody version is the one I heard first, and still my favorite, but there are many cover versions.
This version of the song was instrumental in the 50s music revival that started with Sha Na Na’s appearance at Woodstock. It would hit its peak after the movie American Graffiti came out, followed by Happy Days. It revived the careers of many Rock and Roll pioneers like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc. Oh, and it’s impossible to drive slow when this song is on the radio.
Jamal thank you for these reactions! Great for me to re live these songs. Your genuine enjoyment reminds me of when I heard them for the first time. THABK YOU!
I saw commander Cody with JJ Cale and Jerry Jeff Walker at Red Rocks back in “75” I was 15 it was my first concert at Red Rocks one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen
A great mix of country, rockabilly and blues. Sure could tell you loved this! Just a great patter, groove and story. Raise your hands if you got ticketed while driving to this! Oh yeah. Good times.
While I've never gotten a ticket for speeding while having this on in the car, the urge is almost overwhelming, particularly on an open highway. My other, need-to-watch-my-speed song is Tom Petty's Running Down a Dream. Both songs give you the sound and feel of driving down the road punctuated with the breaks in slabs of concrete that are especially reminiscent of older roads that had tar strips between the slabs. Thanks for playing this one. 😎
RECORD FACT: It's more than a cover! "Hot Rod Lincoln" was an answer to a 1940s song called "Hot Rod Race (Part 1)" by Arkie Shibley. In fact, it's a whole story with 8 parts! The original "Hot Rod Lincoln" was by Charlie Ryan in the mid 50s.
Okay Jamal... I'll raise my hand. When I was an eighteen-year-old kid, and in submarine school serving in the U.S. Navy, I was heading home to visit for the weekend. It was a one-hundred-and-ten-mile trip. I had fast paced hard rock playing on the radio. The red lights and siren came on behind me. I just let off the gas and pulled over and turned off the radio. The cop came up to my window and he said, "Boy, do you know how fast you were driving?" "No. Sir. I don't know. My speedometer only goes to one-twenty. The needle was buried." "I got you clocked at one-thirty-four. Do you always drive that thing floored?" "No Officer. I'm afraid to. I never drive it floored" The cop talked to me a while, lectured me, and made me show him my license and military I. D. I thought I was going to jail. He let me off with a verbal warning, because I was training for the submarine service. "Have a nice night. And... Please, slow down a little." I was driving my 1968 Buick Electra 225 with a 430 V8.
I love the story telling, and how the song ends the same way it begins. Classic, classic song! Another fun car song, that I have loved since I was a little kid, is "Beep Beep (Little Nash Rambler)".
The playlist on a DVD I once made had this song and was followed by "I get Around" by the Beach Boys. On the Interstate it helped keep the RPMs where they needed to be.
Fun fact, another version of this song has 12 cylinders, instead of eight. There was a car built, had a Lincoln V12 stuffed in the Model As engine compartment..........
The original was by a man named Bill Kirchen. I've never heard Charlie Ryan's version. The version of it that I'm most familiar with is the one by Commander Cody. The Western swing group Asleep at the Wheel once performed a version of at a live concert.
My favorite Commander Cody song is Two Triple Cheese because Turkey TV on Nickelodeon used to play the video when I was a kid. For years it was the only song I knew and I had to track down the album a few years back. It still rocks.
Guitarist Bill Kirchen has a live version of this where he uses the volume knoband pick to make all the police siren, horn, and even big rig sounds as he's playing and singing. The highlight is a break that has him riffing through about two dozen different guitar styles, all songs in the key of E
This song is the only one most people know of Commander Cody. They have a live album, "Live from deep in the heart of Texas" that is great. It shows more of their country side.
This was the first record I ever bought, a 45 single in perhaps 1972. Enjoyed your presentation and love the shirt. I try to live that way, and my phrase is "don't steal anyone's joy", or happiness, either way.
Always love hearing this song. Another cool old car toon you might try is beep beep by the playmates, and if you ever want to start down the C.W. McCall path with songs like convoy, wolf creek pass, and 4 wheel drive.
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Thank you SO much! This was a favorite karaoke song of a close friend who’s passed & this was a flood of amazing memories 🤠🥰
It's cool of you to do what you do,I always put that song on for my granddaughter sadie when we drive,check out ARLO GUTHRIE motorcycle song live version,and blues brothers RUBBER BISKET
@Jamel_AKA_Jamal It's more than a cover. Charlie Ryan 'answered' a 1940s song called "Hot Rod Race (Part 1)" by Arkie Shibley. It actually has 8 parts!
This song, combined with you mentioning "Highway Star" by Deep Purple, it seemed appropriate to pass this one along (one of my favorites). Great song from a great band (and make sure your seat belt is fastened and keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle when they get to the solos).
Blackfoot - "Highway Song"
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Another good song similar to this is beep beep(little Nash rambler) by the playmates
Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airman!!
This is the classic version of Hot Rod Lincoln. More Commander Cody, please! How about "Seeds & Stems Again Blues"?
Ozone!
Or "Everybody's Doin' It Now"
Down to Seeds and Stems Again Blues.
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hell ya!
"Hot Rod Lincoln" is a song by American singer-songwriter Charlie Ryan, first released in 1955. It was written as an answer song to Arkie Shibley's 1950 hit "Hot Rod Race" which describes a race in San Pedro, Los Angeles between two hot rod cars, a Ford and a Mercury, which stay neck-and-neck until both are overtaken by "a kid in a hopped-up Model A"
I just went and found that "Hot Rod Race" by Arkie Shibley. Thanks!
I was hoping someone would bring this up! “Hot Rod Lincoln” is actually a sequel! 😀 The original “Hot Rod Race” is more of a country shuffle, but it is the first part of the story! Look for the Red Foley version.
Where did the Cadalac come from????
Thanks - you just saved me from having to explain it!
Came to say the same thing.
Ha, this was my daughters favorite song when she was four. She loved the “pappy said son you’re gonna drive me to drinkin if you don’t stop driving that hot... rod... Lincoln”
Me too, Keith. This is the one I rem. I mean if George Thorogood covered it like it said at the end of the video, he did a great job. I was going to say it sounds like it was remastered but, hey...I could see George singing it. Great old song.
@TJ Tampa, I only knew the Commander Cody version. Didn’t know George Thorogood covered it too. Prefer the Cody version, nostalgia I think. Oh, the originals good too. Guessing you’re in Tampa, Sarasota here.
Bill Kirchen (guitarist) was my guitar teacher when I was teen. He has many amazing stories.
He's still rocking, too! Just saw him live a couple years ago, and he recently contributed to a collection of John Lilly songs called "April in Your Eyes". He's great! You are so lucky to have played with him!
Wow, didn't remember Bill Kirchen was the guitarist for Commander Cody. I opened a gig for him a few years back - really nice guy.
Not what I read in a story about Danny??
Bill Kirchen is STILL ROCKIN' on Facebook LIVE. He performs live on fb every week with his wife.
Thats him dang it braintooted! Couldnt remember his name... Played that Tele like a mutha.
Everytime I hear this songs it reminds me of Charlie Daniel's Uneasy Rider for some reason. 😂😂✌️
Old SOUTHERN song🤠👍
Been some time since the 📻played that one... Ole 🤢teeth
And Wallace for prez.. 🤣😅💙✌
Uneasy Rider needs to be reacted to...
@@watsonroadster3707 The original not the later version after they went country.
Jamel, Uneasy Rider by the Charlie Daniels Band tells a great story and would be a fantastic one to react to.
OMG, I have a funny story about Uneasy Rider. Nevermind, had to be there...
This always amazed me that they were making all these sound effects with just their instruments. EVERYTHING... the tire squeals, engine noises sirens, the whole shebang.
My late father loved this song I was having a bad day. Just what I needed
Nice.😊😊..My late Pops would play this...Among MANY other 'fun/goofy/unique...songs from long ago...And this was DEFINITELY one of them...They are a great go-to...When I'm missing him.🥺...Have a peaceful rest of your evening...✌
I was just going to post that my late father loved this song and here you all are! 💕
This was the smash hit 1972!
Commander Cody's original lead guitarist, Bill Kirchen, has several fun UA-cam videos out there of him and his band going through classic riffs from rock history while performing this song.
RON WARMICK, you read my mind. Bill Kirchen has an amazing live version of this with a band called the TWANGBANGERS, which includes Dallas Wayne, and Red Volkeart.
You can't do this one without listening to the classic novelty tune "Beep Beep" by the Playmates. Great surprise ending. Check it out.
Absolutely. I had to look-up the song name, it had been so long since I'd heard it. (I thought it was Nash Rambler)
Might as well check out Transfusion by Nervous Norvus
Followed by, hello muddah, hello faddah. Lol
@@markuhlman3767 throw in some dead puppies and fish heads and we got a show!
I concur. Beep Beep is a great novelty song!🎶 You'll love it. 😂
One of my all time favorite songs, Commander Cody is a wonderful rabbit hole.
The full name of the band is the best ever. "Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen" :)
Well. Maybe as good as Mojo Nixon and the Toadliquors. Maybe.
...and wasn't the album "Lost in the Ozone"?
@@PJ818 I do believe so :)
That’s good but I prefer ; colonel claypool’s bucket of Bernie brains or even Les claypools fearless flying frog brigade. Come to think of it Les does an even better cover of this.
Check out "Commando Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen", 1951.
The original Rocketman.
I was in college in upstate NY. It was about 1974-75. A bunch of us went to a concert at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo. Commander Cody was the warm-up. The headliner was Jessie Colin Young..... what a great show1
I'm 39 and grew up jammin to this song man, Brings back so many memories. Between this and JR Browns Highway Patrol. Thanks for the flashback.
he should react to Jr. Brown
@@pedrolopez8057 Absolutely!!!!
Imagining him reacting to the video for Venom Wearing Denim 🤣🤣🤣
@@pedrolopez8057 Yes to Junior Brown
In that spirit, you should listen to "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash!
Oh yes! I love that one. Always funny!
So very much agreed.
UPVOTE
Flirtin' With Disaster by Molly Hatchet is an amazing fast driving tune.
Yep, with a speeding ticket, I can attest to that...
Should see his reaction 🙂
He already did that one. Check his playlist.
Yes he already did this one. I've been requesting Dreams I'll Never See.
yes sir and Stranglehold Ted Nugent another petal to the metal song .
Hell YEA! I'm a gal and I had a 1973 Lincoln Continental 2 door (the one with the tire hump on the trunk lid) when I was about 19. Let me tell ya, if I was on a long stretch of interstate when this song came on, I let those horses RUN. That thing had a HUGE engine and rode like a dream. I LOVED that car, it would SAIL! So much fun!
The full band here was Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen. George Lucas was a fan, & paid tribute by having a character in the Star Wars prequels named Commander Cody.
@odeerg I stand corrected, then. Thanks so much!
Jamal my brother. You are an old soul and you are discovering why the music from this era was great! Rock on!!
This song is one of the reasons I play guitar
This song was originally released 1955, however, this song was a sequel song to Hot Rod Race released in 1950. I have both the original 45's. Another cool hot rod song that is not super well known, The Ballad of Thunder Road sung by Robert Mitchum in 1957.
I just recommended the same exact song
@Jon Williams Movie was great!
Came to suggest that too. It explains parts of Hot Rod Lincoln. I never understood "Have you heard the story of the hot rod race where the Fords and Mercury's were setting the pace" when this race involved a Lincoln and a caddy, until I heard Hot Rod Race.
Grateful Dead had a TON of country influence. Byrds / Flying Burritos / Gram Parsons, Linda Ronstadt, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Commander Cody etc etc. West coast country scene was something special.
L.A. in the 70's was about cars,the beach and the girls in that order...
There's a saying.."If you can remember the 70's,You weren't there."
CLAP FOR THE WOLFMAN
@@rranger1014,"American Graffiti" I've been working that movie in on several channels,hopefully someone will appreciate it,lol
Hooooowwwwoooooo!
Imagine that visual..."telephone poles look like a picket fence"...definitely moto-vatin'! LOL 🚙 🚓 🤣
motor-vatin
I'm 55 and I've never heard of Charlie Ryan. I learned something new today. I remember this song from when I was a kid. I just always thought it was older. Knowing it's a cover from a rockabilly song from the 50s makes a lot of sense now.
56 and same. Local stations only played the Commander Cody version. Now I need to go hunt up the original.
I'm 70, saw Commander Cody in 1971 backing the Jefferson Airplane, and I've never heard of Charlie Ryan. And I know and have seen a lot of artists.
49 and who the F is Charlie Ryan ?
Johnny Cash sang it in our house anyway, and I'm same age as you. Sunday was Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads in our house and my Dad would be making chili, or ham hocks and beans.
when you hear the one from charley ryan you're gonna discover he started and influenced others to rap music.
yes i said it. this is rap. i wanted to say it was walter brennen and his rap song "old rivers" but no this is the original rap song.
I used to love listening to this as well as Beep Beep(little Nash Rambler) as a kid.
I was coming on here to request this one. The kids loved shouting the "beep, beep" parts.
That was on a tape of oldies my Mom made, which we would listen to while driving up to Grandma’s when I was a kid. We loved trying to keep up with the words as the song got faster and faster, lol!
Lots of other goodies, too: Tell Laura I Love Her, Spirit In the Sky, In the Year 2525, Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In, at least 5 songs by the Supremes, and a ton of other fun sing-along songs. IIRC, Hot Rod Lincoln was on there, too. :)
My dad used to own one of those cars.
That song is equal parts fantastic and ridiculous all the same time...
My first car was a '59 Rambler 2-door station wagon.. It had Nash Motor Company stamped on the bumpers and had a red "R" in the middle of the hubcaps. I was mortified when my dad bought that for me to drive to school in 1974... But it wound up being a guy magnet 😉, so it wasn't so bad after all. All the seats folded down flat and we could cram 10 kids in it if I left the tailgate down. We would go cruising the drag on the weekends. My dad used to play that song for me and we'd have a good laugh! Sweet memories...
Commander Cody was born here in the great state of Idaho, so the legend has it the original writer was referring Lewiston Hill
Highway Star and Red Barchetta are my two favorite driving songs.
Can't go wrong with either of those.
I'll add Roadhouse Blues by the Doors
Don't Stop Me Now by Queen
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And Led 2!
@@sv3931 The ONLY Led Zep album!
Brother "JJ", I'm staring at 60 and believe me when I say, I've had a couple of speeding tickets. Being from L.A. you'll know my lay out with cars. From 1972 to 1979 I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. Jr' High through High School. I took auto shop when it was still a thing...my dad was a shade tree mechanic from a family of moonshiners back in the 30's. Getting the picture? Some of my best friends were from Pacoima and bro', did they have talents! I learned from all of these people in my life, by just shutting my mouth...and listening. By 1981 I was helping my good friend, one Walley Mac, keep his business going. Wallie was the best mechanic I had ever known who could make me doubt my dad. He and I built a 1969 Chevy Chevelle SS 396. We spent over 9 months building that car and to this day, the Crawford County Sheriffs Dept. still don't know who ran Blackie Rices Oldsmobile 442 into the dirt...but we do! Peace.
First time ive heard Anyone react to Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen . Good Job !
Down to seeds and stems again blues or Too Much Fun would also be fun :) ✌🏼☮️☕
All hail Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen!
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Released by Charlie Ryan in 1955 by his band Charley Ryan and The Livingston Brothers. He released a second version in 1959 with another band he called Charley Ryan and The Timberline Riders. Charlie Ryan born December 19, 1915 died February 16, 2008. In 1960 the first cover version was released by Johnny Bond (Cyrus Whitfield Bond) The Commander Cody version was released in 1972.
The legendary Bill Kirchen on guitar, the titan of the telecaster. Check out his solo version, but make sure there's video., pretty amazing.
Titan of the Telecaster !
Bill Kirchen was the lead guitar player in this version, he is known as the originator of the “Diesel-Billy” sound. This version was released in 1971. The original was released in 1955.
One of my dad's favorites. He loved the Lincoln's and oldsmobiles.
I am a 64 year-old woman. I have been driving "hot-rods" since I was fifteen! My first car was a '69 Superbee (my brother's hand-me-down). My current ride is an '89 Cadillac Allante. That car can FLY. I always get a kick out of "Hot Rod Lincoln,"
I was 14 my uncle took me to the old waldorf. It's a bar we sat at a table. The first band just finished there set. The next ban was Commander Cody. Cool as shit.
Yaaaaaaas, awesome memory!
@rib bit My dad does rock. It was my uncle my mom's little brother that took me. Sad to say there both gone.
These guys used to open for the Grateful Dead back in the 70’s. Great times.
The man and the song that got me to go to college! Yup, was graduating from High School with no desire to go to college. A week or two left in the summer prior to my friends all going and me, working behind the deli counter with my own money. My Mom gives me a letter from the local community college inviting me to a visiting day with a free concert by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. I go to the school alone, meet some nice students a few cool professors and then a free show with the Commander and free beer. Hot Rod Lincoln comes on and a jay gets passed my way. Needless to say, I signed up, went for one year, got grades, transferred to our state's highest rated State school at the time after one year and the rest is history.
Sammy Hagar "I Can't Drive 55" is the one song that I could get in trouble driving to.
Yes you could... and yes I did
Was a child way back when my dad introduced me to Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. My Papy said Son Your Gonna Drive Me To Drinking If You Don't Stop Driving That Hot Rod Lincoln. 😁💗
Ahhh The Commander. I can’t count the number of times I saw him and the boys at the Armadillo World Headquarters. Always a fun time. Thanks for the memory.
Went to the country music hall of Fame a few years ago. They had a huge exhibit about the armadillo world headquarters. And early outlaw country music.
Good times. I wasn’t legal until 73 so missed some big shows like Springsteen and little feat
Commander Cody and his band the Lost Planet Airmen played at a club where I was working as a bouncer in 1974 in North Brunswick NJ. The guy drank so much beer I was surprised he could sing.
OMGoodness such a CLASSIC❣️❣️❣️😎😎😎😎
George and I have been friends for 45 years. We first met at a bar I worked at in Eugene Oregon in the ‘70’s but these last 35 years whenever he comes to Minneapolis we get together for a great time. These days he looks like a frail little old man until he sits at his piano. Then he is transformed into a high energy rocker. You should give a listen to Cody’s “Down to Seeds and Stems Again Blues.” For those of us old enough to remember when weed was full of seeds.
Jamel, being where you live, I know you'd have to go to San Pedro and run the Grapevine to live this song out at least once. Lol
Your wife's going to arrest you Jamel! 🤣
Owsley Stanley Foundation came out with a recent live Bears Journal release . Its called Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airman. Live from the Family Dog at the Great Higway 3-28-1970. Excellent sounding release.
"Smoke, Smoke, Smoke" another killer cover by Cody
Was still a little too young to drive when this came out, but was definitely a favorite tune.. learned all the words.. Driving songs were pretty huge in the 70's.. C.W. McCall had a massive hit with "Convoy", a trucker song.. but I would recommend another song by C.W. McCall called "Wolf Creek Pass", and it is a great story he tells throughout the song..
Hot Rod Lincoln was written as an answer to the song, 'Hot Rod Race', by Arkie Shibley. Maybe give a listen to that, as well as Charlie Ryan's original version of this tune.
I'd forgotten about Arkie. Seems his version was actually closer to this than Ryan's. Cody changed the description of the car a bit but it fit anyway.
@@rockinredneck57 Charlie Ryan wrote this as an answer to “hot rod race”. That song is about a race between a Ford and a Mercury but they were passed by a Lincoln. Ryan wrote hot rod Lincoln from the viewpoint of this third driver that’s why the first few lines say something like “you’ve heard about that hot rod race” in reference to that song.
This band made this song famous. saw them live in NYC central Park in 82
Check out "Uneasy Rider," by Charlie Daniels. I think you might like that one, too. 😉😊
Then once you're done checking out "Uneasy Rider", check out the sequel: "Uneasy Rider '88" :)
The original was called hot rod race by arkie Sibley. The hot rod Lincoln name came along in the 1940's,johnny bond did a version in the late 50's early 60's, commander Cody in the early 70's, asleep at the wheel in the 80's,Jim varney in the 90's,and a few others.
Molly Hatchet. " Flirt'n with Disaster." Is definitely another one of them tunes.
And the Doobie Brothers. " Rock'n Down The Highway."
This song here, was one of my favorites back in 8th grade.
I don't think I've heard this song since about 1973. I had it on a 45 and played it all the time. My fave line was always when he said "the telephone poles looked like a picket fence". What an old random memory you've brought back. :)
JAJ u done it again! RIP George Frayne aka commander cody...JAJ you put me in touch with what you used to be old fashioned DJing pre digital and pre 90s
A guy called Bill Kirchen covers this song but did it as a medley of decades of rock songs and bands. He did it very differently
Bill Kirchen plays lead guitar on this. He’s an absolute beast of a player, a true legend
Just watched this...Commander Cody and Lost Planet Airmen among my all-time favorites.
Also just watched your good time with Charlie Daniels and "The Devil went down to Georgia."
You guys were awesome with your appreciation of CD, his humility...sharing the limelight with other TALENTED musicians.
Your reactions to the keyboard player were perfect.
So-o-o...don't overlook the Boogie-WoogieCommander (George Frayne), especially in light of his recent death; and his Tom MacDonald-style battle with Warner Brothers.
Checking them out...a path less traveled:
"Beat me Daddy, Eight to the Bar"
"Rock That Boogie"
"2 Triple Cheese (Side Order of Fries)"
"Smoke, Smoke Smoke that Cigarette"
"Riot in Cell Block #9"
"Lost in the Ozone Again"
"Truck Stop Rock"
"Seven Eleven"
"Rock that Boogie"
Slow it down with:
"Down to Seeds and Stems Blues"
Have a little church:
"Family Bible"
Another "drivin' tune"...
Elvin Bishop "Travelin' Shoes"
Just for good listening, Midnight Special venue...
Elvin Bishop "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" featuring Mickey Thomas (on to Jefferson Starship) as lead vocal.
Thank you for your your love of music.
Keep up the great work!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏...in Christ
Bill Kirchen, the guitarist on this track with Commander Cody, has a great extended version of Hot Rod Lincoln he does live that is well worth a listen. I think you'd really enjoy it, Jamel_AKA_Jamal. Love your Channel. Thanks so much.
Now thats some REAL ROCKABILLY! Love the old tunes. GREAT Show
You should do Asleep At The Wheel’s version.
Or anything by Asleep at the Wheel
No you shouldn't
I like there version better
Gotta love those Detroit bands... George Freynes (Commander Cody) passed a few months ago... He used to teach music at my high school in the mid-60s..
Great song!! Need to check out Johnny Cash, 1 piece at a time:) So funny
@Jason Gilbert ~ ~ I LOVE all of Johnny Cash’s songs but I have to say that One Piece at a Time is one of HiS BEST!
The original Charlie Ryan song went "got 12 cylinders and uses 'em all". Lincoln built v-12 engines from 1932 thru 1948. The Commander Cody version is the one I heard first, and still my favorite, but there are many cover versions.
Have you ever been asked to react to anything by the blues Brothers? Dan Aykroyd and John belushi? Good stuff as always brother
Personal favorite is Rubber Biscuit
This version of the song was instrumental in the 50s music revival that started with Sha Na Na’s appearance at Woodstock. It would hit its peak after the movie American Graffiti came out, followed by Happy Days.
It revived the careers of many Rock and Roll pioneers like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, etc.
Oh, and it’s impossible to drive slow when this song is on the radio.
I would love to see Jamal react to some Sha Na Na!
Great reaction to some old school story telling.
George Frayne (A.K.A Commander Cody) sadly passed away on Sept. 26 2021. May he rest in peace.
If yer gonna listen to this song... Asleep at the wheel is the version needed
Jamal thank you for these reactions! Great for me to re live these songs. Your genuine enjoyment reminds me of when I heard them for the first time. THABK YOU!
My thoughts exactly
Commander Cody guitarist pays tribute to virtually everybody in rock and roll via Hot Rod Lincoln
I saw commander Cody with JJ Cale and Jerry Jeff Walker at Red Rocks back in “75” I was 15 it was my first concert at Red Rocks one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen
I bet. That's a great line-up at a great venue.
I remember playing this one at the college radio station I worked at. My co-host and I loved this one!
RIP, George Frayne IV, front man of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.
This is one of my all time favorites & love this guy singing it! 😁
A great mix of country, rockabilly and blues. Sure could tell you loved this! Just a great patter, groove and story. Raise your hands if you got ticketed while driving to this! Oh yeah. Good times.
U did it again Comm Cody and his LPA...oh man the guitarist was amazing...is indeed a driving song
While I've never gotten a ticket for speeding while having this on in the car, the urge is almost overwhelming, particularly on an open highway. My other, need-to-watch-my-speed song is Tom Petty's Running Down a Dream. Both songs give you the sound and feel of driving down the road punctuated with the breaks in slabs of concrete that are especially reminiscent of older roads that had tar strips between the slabs.
Thanks for playing this one. 😎
RECORD FACT: It's more than a cover! "Hot Rod Lincoln" was an answer to a 1940s song called "Hot Rod Race (Part 1)" by Arkie Shibley. In fact, it's a whole story with 8 parts!
The original "Hot Rod Lincoln" was by Charlie Ryan in the mid 50s.
Okay Jamal... I'll raise my hand. When I was an eighteen-year-old kid, and in submarine school serving in the U.S. Navy, I was heading home to visit for the weekend. It was a one-hundred-and-ten-mile trip. I had fast paced hard rock playing on the radio. The red lights and siren came on behind me. I just let off the gas and pulled over and turned off the radio. The cop came up to my window and he said, "Boy, do you know how fast you were driving?" "No. Sir. I don't know. My speedometer only goes to one-twenty. The needle was buried." "I got you clocked at one-thirty-four. Do you always drive that thing floored?" "No Officer. I'm afraid to. I never drive it floored" The cop talked to me a while, lectured me, and made me show him my license and military I. D. I thought I was going to jail. He let me off with a verbal warning, because I was training for the submarine service. "Have a nice night. And... Please, slow down a little." I was driving my 1968 Buick Electra 225 with a 430 V8.
I love the story telling, and how the song ends the same way it begins. Classic, classic song!
Another fun car song, that I have loved since I was a little kid, is "Beep Beep (Little Nash Rambler)".
I always got visuals from this song because he told such a visual story. Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen is the actual name of the group.
Love this song. My dad used to crank up the AM radio when this came on.
One of my all time favorite songs!!!!! I use the riff as my warm up when I play my guitar!!! Love it - more rockabilly please!!!
man i remember playing this on a 48 growing up
Listened to these guys in college! Good song to get energized on. Loved their Tennessee Stud!
The playlist on a DVD I once made had this song and was followed by "I get Around" by the Beach Boys. On the Interstate it helped keep the RPMs where they needed to be.
It’s fun to watch folks enjoying music! Rock on Jamel!!!!!
Fun fact, another version of this song has 12 cylinders, instead of eight. There was a car built, had a Lincoln V12 stuffed in the Model As engine compartment..........
"My fenders was clickin' the guard rail post, the guy beside me was white as a ghost." Best line LOL
I remember them from my Ann Arbor days in the 70’s, always playing around town. A lot of smoke in the arena.
In the days before before Vietnam...my older brother would play his guitar over and over to Charlie Ryan's Hot Rod Lincoln.
Commander Cody - Down To Seeds And Stems Again Blues.
Saddest song every written.
My father used to quote this song. He was a teenager in the 50s.
The original was by a man named Bill Kirchen. I've never heard Charlie Ryan's version. The version of it that I'm most familiar with is the one by Commander Cody. The Western swing group Asleep at the Wheel once performed a version of at a live concert.
My favorite Commander Cody song is Two Triple Cheese because Turkey TV on Nickelodeon used to play the video when I was a kid. For years it was the only song I knew and I had to track down the album a few years back. It still rocks.
Great driving song. Another great driving song is Jessica by the "Allman Brothers" and it's a long, long song.
Guitarist Bill Kirchen has a live version of this where he uses the volume knoband pick to make all the police siren, horn, and even big rig sounds as he's playing and singing. The highlight is a break that has him riffing through about two dozen different guitar styles, all songs in the key of E
This song is the only one most people know of Commander Cody. They have a live album, "Live from deep in the heart of Texas" that is great. It shows more of their country side.
This was the first record I ever bought, a 45 single in perhaps 1972. Enjoyed your presentation and love the shirt. I try to live that way, and my phrase is "don't steal anyone's joy", or happiness, either way.
Another really good driving song is "Open All Night" by Bruce Springsteen off his Nebraska album.
Always love hearing this song. Another cool old car toon you might try is beep beep by the playmates, and if you ever want to start down the C.W. McCall path with songs like convoy, wolf creek pass, and 4 wheel drive.