Long has the link between music and cars been known.
Rocket 88 by
Ike Turner and sung by
Jackie Brenston in 1952 is about cars. Bill Haley covered it with his clankety-clank style of rock-a-billy. Buick 59 by the Medallions and many others. Artist
Robert Williams http://robtwilliamsstudio.com/ put out a double elpee set of music covering the late 1940s to early 1960s.
Von Dutch http://www.vondutch.com/, a patron saint of pin-striping, is even mentioned in on of the songs from about 1959. Not what one hears, although he should, on KRTH or some 'oldies' collection hawked by a baby-boomer on television celebrating his or her graying hairs.
Of course no collection of cars, not matter what fancy gagets is has, is complete without a Ford Thunderbird; simply is not possible. In the 1950s and '60s a golden age of hotrod and kustom kulture thrived in Southern California. While I had posters of
Sandy Koufax and
Don Drisedale on my bedroom wall. I also had pictures of
Mickie Thompson,
A.J. Foyt, and
Parnelli Jones. Robert Williams and Ed Roth were favorite artists and still are. Black, White, and Brown were enamored with kustom kulture.
In the musical tradition of cool and cars
Big Sandy and
his Fly-Rite Boys http://www.bigsandy.net/ and
Los Strait Jackets http://www.straitjackets.com/ loom large. I have seen both
several times and felt as though I had not paid enough to attend their
excellent shows.
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