[LM_NET] HIT: Old car songs

[mshaffer@TCPS.K12.MD.US]

Many thanks to: 
JK, Rachel, Georgia, Gail, Laurie, Gloria, Mary, Nell, Jean, and Ginny
for their suggestions 
to my target.

My original post:
My husband is driving me crazy!  He is directing a play and needs some
old time car 
songs to go along with it.  (Don't worry, we've discussed copyright!)  He 
isn't looking for 
the Beach Boys but songs from the 1900's to the 1940's.  We already have
"My Merry 
Oldsmobile" and would like others.  Searching has come up with little.
Any help would be 
appreciated.

Responses:
In the Good Old Summertime would be one.

"Since Henry Ford Apologized To Me" by The Happiness Boys, 1927
1916 - In The Back Seat Of The Old Henry Ford

Have you tried cartalk.com which is related to Click and Clack the tapit
brothers on pbs 
radio. They often put some car songs on the show and might have them online.

How about the commercial about on "the road today in a
Chevrolet." I don't remember all the words. I think there is one about a
Ford, but I can't 
remember.
Tooling around in a model T will probably be too early? I can't think of
anymore off hand. 
You might be able to check looking under car jingles if you haven't already?

Woody Guthrie had a children's ditty, going in my car or something like that.

Do a Google search for "old timey car songs"  There are lots to choose from.

You can try  http://dmarie.com/timecap/   --  put in a date  - go to
"Quick Page" and it 
will give you the hit songs for the year.


        I looked through some of my personal reference books and could only come 
up with 
the Andrews Sisters "Get Your Kicks on Route 66" from 1946. 
        I'm also sending you a link to a website about a book I borrowed last
year from a 
library.  It lists songs by subject, and was very thorough.  It helped me 
find what I was 
looking for. I would have purchased a copy, but it was a little out of my 
price range.  A 
really good book.  Hopefully you can find it at a library somewhere.  http://
www.greenbookofsongs.com


This is a link to the site that plays the entire song "See the USA in
your Chevrolet" by 
Dinah Shore. It also includes all the lyrics in written form. 
http://vintagechevrolet.org/articles/VCO_2001019_dinahshore.htm

http://local.aaca.org/junior/cartunes/mp3/1930.htm

http://www.southernmusic.net/1920.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/music.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/jazz.html

http://search.1millionpapers.com/cgi-bin/query?mss=1millionpapers&q=Music
+1920s&source=googleppc

1930s
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug03/Jukebox/front.html

http://www.yesterdaysmusic.net/

http://www.dismuke.org/

1940s
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/3448/music.html

http://www.1940.co.uk/history/sound/sound.htm

http://www.jilldaniels.com/

http://www.dovesong.com/MP3/MP3_Popular.asp

http://www.southernmusic.net/1940.htm


Marge Shaffer
Library Media Specialist
Easton High School, MD
http://www.tcps.k12.md.us/index.php?page=Media_Center

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