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Trains, Planes and Automobiles

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Chrome dreams

Brigitte Bardot   “Harley Davidson”

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Drive, he said

“Music While You Drive”   Listening to music while you drive can be perfect.   With the windows rolled up or the top rolled down, sometimes music just sounds best in your automobile.   Crank the volume and the outside world becomes a silent background to the songs.

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The velvet smog

Mel Torme with the Marty Paich Dek-tette   Bethlehem Records (1956)   Design by Burt Goldblatt   // Pete Candoli, Don Fagerquist (tp) Bob Enevoldsen (vtb) John Cave, Vince DeRosa (frh) Albert Pollan (tu) Bud Shank (as) Bob Cooper, Jack Montrose (ts) Jack Dulong (bars) Marty Paich (p) Red Mitchell (b) Mel Lewis (d) Mel Torme (vo)

Lulu’s Back In Town / When The Sun Comes Out / I Love To Watch The Moonlight / Fascinating Rhythm / The Blues / The Carioca / The Lady Is A Tramp / I Like To Recognize The Tune Keeping Myself For You / Lullaby Of Birdland / When April Comes Again / Sing For Your Supper

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Cliff Richard with strings

“Thunderbirds Are Go!”   Cliff Richard Sings “Shooting Star” with The Shadows   Columbia EMI Records (UK)   A 1966 film based on the popular British TV series featuring marionettes set in 2065 .

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Take me to the pilot

“JET SCRAMBLE”   Sounds of an Air Defence Command Mission   (from General Electric)   “Dedicated to America’s Defense”   Recorded by Emory Cook (The Cook label produced many sound effect and documentary records)

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Wiiiiiiipe out!

Chrome, Smoke & Fire   A Compilation of Hot Rod Music by Robt. Williams.     Cover art by Robert Williams   Blast Records (1981)   In addition to great lost hot rod songs here’s a cool double album of picture discs!

(Photos courtesy of Bradley Loos)

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Chicago’s finest

The Impressions “Keep On Pushing”   ABC-Paramount Records (1964)   Orchestra arranged by Johnny Pate.   This was the group’s third record and their best-selling one.   Truly a desert island disc – there was no one better than Curtis Mayfield and he’s at his best harmonizing with The Impressions Fred Cash and Sam Gooden.   This album alone produced some of the sweetest, most inspirational, most honest and heart-wrenching soul sounds ever, including “I’ve Been Trying” and “I Made a Mistake” and the hits “Keep On Pushing” “Amen” and “Talking ‘Bout My Baby”.

Wikipedia gives us some interesting side notes:   “Keep on Pushing” was used as the theme to Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address when he endorsed John Kerry;   the car the guys are “pushing” on the cover is a Jaquar XKE; and a glimpse of this record is seen on the cover of Dylan’s “Bringing It All Back Home” (but that’s a whole other LP Cover Lover story)

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Down on thunder road

“Blusoes Negros”   Capsone Records (Portugal)

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The lively ones

The Brisks Belter Records EP with “El Cochecito”

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Tabby Road

Hit ’65   Philips Records compilation

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