Songs you cranked up on the car radio

Either you heard these songs for the first time while driving down the road listening to the radio and you reached down and turned that volume knob several notches to the right, or when they come on the radio now, you do that. Here's a couple:

"Sausalito Summer Nights" - Diesel

"Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress" - Hollies

 

Snortin' Wiskey - Pat Travers Band

 

Rusty Cage, Soundgarden

 

Once, in a heavy-duty traffic jam, we put in a cassette of Joe Walsh "The Smoker You Drink The Player You Get" and cranked the intro to "Meadows" - (best described as psychotic screaming) - played it over and over with the windows down - seemed to get the traffic moving!

(note to those who would prefer a peaceful commute - this was a long time ago in my seriously misguided youth )

 

Current Examples:

"Cold Hard B*tch" - Jet
"Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand

 

Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis
Kicks - Paul Revere & The Raiders

 

You can actually find a radio station that plays that????

 

Mississippi Queen!!!!

 

Yep. Chicago 94.7 (modern hard rock) for the Jet song, and the famous 93.1/WXRT for Franz Ferdinand. Heck, I actually heard the latter during two consecutive drives home one week, and it convinced me to get the CD! Good stuff...

 

Chicago is a much better place to be for radio than NY. I remember the great XRT from my days growing up in Chicago. You're lucky to have it.

 

Golden Earring - "Radar Love"
Ram Jam - "Black Betty"
Commander Cody - "Hot Rod Lincoln"
Bruce Springsteen/E Street Band - "Born To Run"
Spencer Davis Group - "I'm A Man"
Rolling Stones - "B*tch"
Elton John - "Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting"

 

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
99 Red Balloons
LA Woman

 

Awright, RickH!

Add The Five Americans' "I See the Light" and The Beatles' "Rain" for me.

Frank G

 

Midnight Confessions-The Grass Roots
Rescue Me-Fontella Bass
Black Is Black-Los Bravos
Frankenstein-Edgar Winter Group
Sundown-Gordon Lightfoot
Oh What A Night (December, 1963)-Four Seasons
Fool (If You Think It's Over)-Chris rea
Grazing In The Grass-Hugh Masekela

 

Jumpin' Jack Flash--Rolling Stones
Barracuda--Heart
Paradise By the Dashboard Light--Meatloaf

 

Here's one I heard in the car at lunch:

"Ah Leah" Donnie Iris

 

I remember Grazing in the Grass by the Friends of Distinction. Is this the same song as the Hugh Masekela title in your list?

I'm with you on Midnight Confessions, Frankenstein and December '63!

 

"Spooky" Dennis Yost/Classics IV.

"Get Out Of Denver" Bob Seger

"Smile Away" McCartney

 

I'll chime in here: Hugh Masekela's is the instrumental version, Friends of Distinction did the vocal version. I seem to recall they came out the same year, but I really don't remember which one I heard first, both are great!

I crank up the radio on that and:

Stairway to Heaven
Ramble On (from Led Zepplin II)
Back in the USSR
Kodachrome (Paul Simon)
Ode to Billy Joe
I Am the Walrus
I'm Eighteen

to name just a few.

 

I will always turn up Ballroom Blitz.

 

Thanks Joe. I didn't know that there was an instrumental version. WFIL AM-56 in Philadelphia played the Friends of Distinction version to death when it was on the Billboard Hot 100.

 

Jumpin Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
Back in the USSR - Bealtes
Like A Rolling Stone - Dylan
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

 

You're welcome!

OMG!! I lived in Philly that year and heard it many, many times on that station! What a small world! I heard the instrumental on one of the Philadelphia FM stations. I hated how AM sounded and always listened to FM when in the house as our family car didn't have FM.

 

The songs which always have a spastic effect on the "volume" knob of my car radio are:

"Hang On Sloopy" (The McCoys)
"Mony Mony" (Tommy James & The Shondells)
"The Last Time" (Rolling Stones) (love that guitar riff!)