Star Car Tunes
STAR CAR TUNES:""RIDERS ON THE STORM" THE DOORS JUNE 1971 #14 BILLBOARD HOT 100
The last song Jimmy Morrison and The Doors recorded was “Riders on the Storm”. Jimmy subscribed to the “live fast-die young” book of life – he was on self destruct autopilot mode but he ended the trip by performing one of the finest rock songs ever recorded.
This song begins with falling rain and the sound of thunder-it’s not going to be a nice sunny day at the beach. That’s good because Riders on the Storm is about a hitchhiking mass murderer-“If ya give this man a ride, Sweet family will die, Killer on the road”-yeah, it’s not supposed to be fun.
Read more: STAR CAR TUNES:""RIDERS ON THE STORM" THE DOORS JUNE 1971 #14 BILLBOARD HOT 100
CARTUNES-'CAN THE CAN' SUZI QUATRO RELEASED 1973
Suzi Quatro was a placeholder in 1973 when she released ‘Can the Can’. Janis Joplin was three years past completion of her plan to live fast, die young, and leave a good looking- well at least a corpse.
There was a vacancy in the hard ass rock and roll bitch category and it was unlikely to be filled by Laurie Partridge.
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MY STAR CAR TUNES:'MR. BRIGHTSIDE' THE KILLERS RELEASED SEPT 29 2004
The Killers are a relative newcomer in pop music but they have learned the fine art of the pop tune.
In ‘Mr. Brightside’, they seem to have forced punk music into a new punk-lite formula that has a dance floor beat where paranoia and jealousy get wrapped up into a bubbly beat that can be easily translated into seizure-like movements by uncoordinated white kids on a dance floor.
Read more: MY STAR CAR TUNES:'MR. BRIGHTSIDE' THE KILLERS RELEASED SEPT 29 2004
STAR CAR TUNES:”IN THE COOL, COOL, COOL OF THE EVENING” ROSEMARY CLOONEY 1951
In our never-ending quest at MSCC to cover music heard over your car radio we usually reach back a few years-in this case, nearly 60. The legendary Hoagy Carmichael teamed up with the even more legendary Johnny Mercer on this Oscar winning (1951 Best Original Song).
Read more: STAR CAR TUNES:”IN THE COOL, COOL, COOL OF THE EVENING” ROSEMARY CLOONEY 1951
Rosemary Clooney did a great version of this song and at the time, she was a female Frank Sinatra so her version resonated really well with the early 50s pop music crowd because Rosie herself resonated really well with red-blooded males…
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