In the vast universe of sound, where rhythms interlace with heartbeats and lyrics dance like fireflies under the moonlight, the Cadillac stands as a shimmering emblem of aspiration, freedom, and the bittersweet tales of life. It is not just a vehicle; it is a vessel that carries dreams, a mythical chariot that traverses the highways of the soul. From the sultry echoes of rhythm and blues to the booming choruses of rock, the Cadillac glides through the corridors of music, embodying desire, rebellion, and the eternal search for meaning.
From a massive amount of Cadillac songs I cherry-picked 23 tracks and made sure to cover a wide range of styles.
I skipped a few classics (e.g. Bo Diddley’s Cadillac) and in some cases selected a cover instead of the original track (e.g. Boz Scaggs doing Moon Martin’s Cadillac Walk, Nathalie Cole tackling Springsteen’s Pink classic)…
While searching for musical Cadillacs I encountered a few weirdo’s, e.g. Guy Drake’s Welfare song which actually is embarrassing, but I doubt many of you had heard it before...
Whereas similar styled compilations tend to focus on older songs I deliberatly added some more recent ‘Cadillacs’ for your musical education, all free of charge!
Besides this new car compilation post, make note of our new banner offering valid advice courtesy of our resident guru, the one and only Mr. Stinky!
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Question: What's your favourite car song?
As it happens, my favorite car song is the Warren Smith track you've chosen to include in this very compilation! So, since THAT one's already been picked, I clearly have no choice but to suggest five more (all of which are indeed on the older side):
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwW8mT4HPL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-9sdtxEe7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9MShAuYXNQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=779H0WUWFKM
Cool candidates! Thanks Crab Devil!
DeleteMost of the older ones I like. Maybe it helps that I am becoming an older one myself. Mazdaratti by Mazdaratti. That, for me brought the whole AOR, MotR thing definitely to the scrapyard. Best played loud in the car at night DEFINITELY TAKING DRUGS. Mixed with Spiral Tribe and other greats. Golden Earring – Still Got The Keys To My First Cadillac is a sentimental fool for when you are savely back home. I am aware that Mazdaratti is also 30 years behind us.....
ReplyDeleteThanks Richard, as usual I missed that Golden Earring – Still Got The Keys To My First Cadillac completely, otherwise I would have included it for sure, listening to it now, cool!
DeleteWe are all getting older, but at least have good memories of those classic cars songs...
I doubt if the new generation will come up with a Tesla Boogie or Tesla Walk!
Brand New Cadillac is the best song about this for me. Great version by The Clash, The Fall, The Slickee Boys, The Purple Helmets etc.
ReplyDeleteClassic indeed, I was tempted to include a version, but...
DeleteIf it's Cadillacs, I'd go for John Hiatt's "Tennessee Plates", maybe "Cadillac Ranch", maybe "Willie The Wimp (and his Cadillac Coffin)" as well as the great songs on Koen's excellent comp.
ReplyDeleteIf the question is open to all makes and models, "Hot Rod Lincoln" would have to be there -- wow, so many to choose from! Especially if you include police cars, ambulances and hearses (the "Big Black Mariah"). There have been car songs since the days of the Terraplane and the "Bucket T"!
And don't forget Stinky's CAR TROUBLE series: https://jonderblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Car%20Trouble
DeleteStinky's CAR TROUBLE series... I had no idea, thanks Jonder!
DeleteBTW, do you think there ever will be a lot of songs about present day cars? Toyota Blues? Pink Suzuki??
Was the Bottle Rocket's "1,000 Dollar Car" in the the car trouble series? The Handsome Family did a nice cover of it too.
DeleteArtist Series - The Nude Party's "Hey Monet"
Songs about present day cars? Good question. "Traded In My Tesla"? "Candy-Colored Kia"? I tried to think of songs today that mention a specific brand of car, like the aforementioned "Hot Rod Lincoln", "Terraplane Blues", "From A Buick 6" and Chuck Berry's classic "Jaguar And Thunderbird". A personal favorite is "Drive Me To The Park" by The Embarrassment, which rhymes "operetta" with "Isetta" (a 3-wheeled single cylinder microcar from the 1950's).
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Very nice compilation Art58Koen! First thing I checked for was Lightnin' Hopkins...CHECK!! The song that unfortunately comes to mind is the Boss that was all over the radio in high school when the jocks accepted him as one of their own with B.I.T.U.S.A. called Cadillac Ranch I think but didn't see it...CHECK!!! HA HA keep up the good work youse guys, CHeers! HANX!
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DeleteI'm surprised by the absence of Vince Taylor's Brand New Cadillac (covered by the Clash). Surely one of the classics you skipped or another cover I don't know.
ReplyDeleteBesides, the car making firm was named in 1901 after Antoine Laumet, chevalier de la Mothe-Cadillac, founder of fort Pontchartrain and Detroit city in 1701. The guy thought there was a détroit (strait) nearby while there isn't. He actually came from the Bordeaux region in SW France where the Cadillac village is situated. Today there they have France's biggest insane asylum !
J from Europe.
Interesting additional info, thanks J! I already explained about the absence of BNC...
DeleteI do love car songs, and for future Caddy-lac editions, here's a doity dozen of my faves...
ReplyDelete---Emerald City Bandits - Full Blown Caddy
---Wall Of Voodoo - Elvis Bought Dora A Cadillac
---Albert Lee - Cadillac Assembly Line
---Buddy & Ella Johnson - A Pretty Girl, A Cadillac And Some Money
---Smokehouse - Cadillac In The Swamp
---Aquatones - Wanted: A Solid Gold Cadillac
---Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Cadillac In Model A
---Les Chats Sauvages - Ma Vieille Cadillac
---Papa John Creech - The Janitor Drives A Cadillac
---Peppermint Harris - Cadillac Funeral
---Vettes - Happy Hodaddy (With A Ragtop Caddy)
---Sammy Master - Pink Cadillac (a different vehicle than the Bruce song)
Thanks efredd, it looks like a Volume 2 might become necessary...
DeleteSome songs from my collection. I like 'Chevy Baby' by Barracudas. Chevrolet Corvette Stingray by Mark Almond- very nice. Lydia Lunch - When I Get My Cadillac, great song. Modest Mouse - Black Cadillacs. Camper van Beethoven - Joe Stalin's Cadillac. Generation X - Night Of The Cadillacs. Bronski Beat - Cadillac Car. Kiss - Cadillac Dreams (last pair is it trash :-))
ReplyDeleteWoohoo, lots of cool stuff, great!
DeleteOnly today did I remember "Bring My Cadillac Back" by The Customs, a Cincinnati band with Peter Greenberg on guitar. As featured here in this very blog! You can also get the song here: https://disorderareyouexperienced.blogspot.com/search/label/CUSTOMS
DeleteAnother one! Thanks Jonder!!
DeleteCool as hell cover art, as usual, Koen, thumbs way up
ReplyDeleteAnd my two cents for a follow-up: Geronimo's Cadillac!
No, not the one by Modern Talking! The one by Michael Martin Murphy!
Thanks OBG! I had Modern Talking's on the list but skipped it, BUT wasn't aware of Michael Martin Murphy's!!!!
DeleteMMM's version is great!
DeleteJamie Clarke's Perfect - Green Cadillac
wanted to check if Mink Deville's Cadillac Walk was on it
ReplyDeletehalf my comment did not come through. I couldn't get the car troubles posts, mediafire blocking both
DeleteMediafire does that sometimes.., refresh the page or try later again?
DeleteIt looks like those MF'n links are dead. "Cadillac Walk" was not part of that series because there was no TROUBLE involving the car in that song. To quote the series' creator, "the cars should be rusty, wobbly, or otherwise troublesome."
DeleteNere are new links for CAR TROUBLE Vol. 1: https://pixeldrain.com/u/ktgTvrA9
and Vol. 2: https://pixeldrain.com/u/bcryr868
I just double checked the links for my MOON MARTIN compilations, so if you want to hear "Cadillac Walk" performed by its composer (and a hot cover version by Cub Koda), cruise over to https://jonderblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/moon-martin-songbook.html
Thanks for the Moon Martin
DeleteThese remind me of the old driver training class video "Red Asphalt"
DeleteA few others for vol. 3 ;)
Little Red Car Wreck - Crashing Cars
Silent Order - Always Crashing In The Same Car
U2 - Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Cheers! CC
Those are some great CAR TROUBLE nominations, CC -- thanks! I assume that "Always Crashing In The Same Car" is a Bowie cover?
DeleteYou caught that one :) It is a Emo version but the Bowie one is great also. CC
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ReplyDeleteThat's a nice (bootleg) compilation but here at JOKONKY we follow only 1 rule, no posts of existing albums, at most a Deluxe Edition (with additional tracks, etc.), but that's it. Any attempt to break that rule will have serious repercussions, like waking up one morning and finding remnants of your vinyl/cd collection covered in blood next to you...
DeleteLean On It Tribute To Die Kreuzen (plus 8 bonus tracks) are you gonna follow up on your promise, to Jonder?
DeleteBut but but I added extra tracks! Please don't hurt my record collection! My wife has more than once threatened a bonfire worse than the one that followed John Lennon's comment about the Beatles being bigger than Jesus -- and she knows where I live!
DeleteYou're forgiven for now Jonder, but sin no more, otherwise...
DeleteLennon was in the right, not so sure about you. He was bigger, larger and taller than Jesus, and if that's not enough, compare shoe-size!
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The Hep Stars - Cadillac
Dizzy Gillespie – Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
Gang Of Four – Cadillac
Hot Chocolate– Heaven Is In The Backseat Of My Cadillac
Space Surfers - Cadillac and Dinosaurs
Beausoleil – Bayou Cadillac (Also one for Medleys and Accordeon)
The New Clarence Reid – Cadillac Annie
But could Lennon walk on water?! Thanks Richard for more potential car candidates.
DeleteDamn you Koen, damn you, in the damnest of damnation and damn it through the back. Mixing Iggy up with Lennon, what was i thinking
DeleteAnd how do we know who was taller? Jesus was a Middle Eastern carpenter -- not the pale and skinny little hippie depicted in churches and museums. In a bare knuckle fistfight between JL and JC, my money's on the man from Nazareth -- and I don't mean Dan McCafferty!
DeleteHe was a son of a carpenter. My father was a potter, but all his children are crap at it. And further, when he's not that pale skinny little hippie (more likely a jewish/palestinian little man, for people were shorter 2000 years ago) I think a Scouser could beat the crap out of him. Jesus would turn the cheek, and down in two blows, but on the third he'd rise again. Jury's decision.
DeleteGood one. People were shorter and lived near the water -- how could I forget? Still, I'm not sure any God-fearing man would willingly fight Jesus. He'd send his dad after you!
DeleteWhat about Lennon vs. McCafferty, then? The Scotsman KO's the Liverpudlian within 4 rounds, I'll wager.
Koen. Ken je deze nog?! Long Tall Ernie & The Shakers? Arnie (Long Tall Ernie) had een solo elpee "Arnie" met daarop Silver Cadillac.
ReplyDeleteLong Tall Ernie heb ik live gezien een paar keer, maar van Arnie solo weet ik niets, dat is van na mijn tijd in Nederland dacht ik.
DeleteMaar zie nu dat dat van voor zijn Shakers tijd is, 1974! Volledig ontgaan dus... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORKvBOHNiyY
Many Thanks for another great set! Here are a few other Caddy songs:
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Blue Cheer - Ride My Cadillac
Catfish Hodge - Black Cadillac
Clash - Brand New Cadillac
A few of my Favs: John Prine - Automobile, Da Yoopers - Rusty Chevrolet, & Warren Zevon - Studebaker
Cheers! CC
Da Yoopers? I useta go by dere, ya know, when I lived in Scansin. Road salt will rust out your undercarriage PDQ -- pretty darn quick!
DeleteThanks CC!
DeleteHarvest Thieves - Cadillacs in the Sky
ReplyDeleteAnother artist title: Pony Bradshaw - Van Gogh
Thanks Bernie, appreciated!
DeleteGots to mention Aretha Franklin’s all-time classic “Cadillac Song” “Freeway of Love” which I was just reminded as I listen to next weeks “It’s Only Rock & Roll” theme comp. But yeah I have the 12 inch EP and LOVE the song! Y’all understand. Cheers
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