Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. New Car Attitude
2. Action Packed - Ronnie Dee
3. Stick Shift - The Duals
4. Hot Rod Man - Tex Rubinowitz
5. Hotrod Gang - Stray Cats
6. Cruisin' - Gene Vincent
7. Radar Love - Golden Earring
8. Mercury Blues - David Lindley
9. Maybellene - Chuck Berry
10. Ballad of Thunder Road, The - Robert Mitchum
11. Forty Miles of Bad Road - Duane Eddy & The Rebels
12. SS 396 - Paul Revere & the Raiders
13. See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet - Dinah Shore
14. Little Deuce Coupe - The Beach Boys
15. Hot Rod - The Collins Kids
16. Mr. Highway Man - Howlin' Wolf
17. Lost Highway - Hank Williams
18. Highway Patrol - Junior Brown
19. Heavy Traffic Ahead - Bill Monroe
20. Radar - Mr. Bear & His Bearcats
21. Motor Head Baby - Johnny "Guitar" Watson
22. Led Sled - Denny Freeman
23. Rev Off - Steve Wertheimer's '51 Mercury Custom/Mike Young's '60 Chevy "Exotica" Impala
DISC 2:
1. Rockin' Down the Highway - The Doobie Brothers
2. Hey Little Cobra - The Rip Chords
3. Hot Rod Queen - Deke Dickerson
4. Hot Rod Lincoln - Johnny Bond
5. Hot Rod Race - Jimmie Dolan
6. Drag Race - (from "High School Caesar")
7. Draggin' - Curtis Gordon
8. Dragster - Johnny Fortune
9. Race with the Devil - Gene Vincent
10. Devil in My Car - The B-52's
11. Ride on Josephine - George Thorogood & the Destroyers
12. Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston
13. Key to the Highway - Little Walter
14. Low Rider - War
15. Whittier Blvd. - Thee Midniters
16. Every Woman I Know - Billy "The Kid" Emerson
17. One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash
18. Cadillac Assembly Line - Albert King
19. I Want a Lavendar Cadillac - Maurice King and His Wolverines
20. Bring My Cadillac Back - Baker Knight & The Knightmares
21. Pink Cadillac - Sammy's Rockin' Rhythm
22. Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
23. Crawling from the Wreckage - Dave Edmunds
24. Dead Man's Curve - Jan & Dean
25. James Dean 1955 Interview
DISC 3:
1. Let's Go for a Ride - Collegians
2. On the Road Again - Canned Heat
3. Drive South - John Hiatt
4. I Gotta New Car - Big Boy Groves
5. No Money Down - Chuck Berry
6. Dear Dad - Dave Edmunds
7. Little Forty Ford - Leon Smith
8. '41 Ford - Grand Prix
9. '64 Ford - Phranc
10. Stolen Car - Green Hornet
11. Go Lil' Camaro Go - The Ramones
12. Roadrunner - Bo Diddley
13. Beep Beep - The Playmates
14. Black & White Thunderbird - The Delicates
15. Pink Thunderbird - Gene Vincent
16. '54 Corvette - Gary Usher/Customs
17. Sting Ray - Routers
18. Route 66 Theme - Nelson Riddle
19. Gas Money - Adam Ross/Jan & Arnie
20. Gasoline Alley - Rod Stewart
DISC 4:
1. Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
2. Hopped Up Mustang - The Pacifics/Arlen Sanders
3. Wild, Wild Mustang - Dick Dale
4. 409 - The Quads
5. Automobiles - The Spaniels
6. V-8 Ford Blues - Mose Allison
7. Pontiac Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
8. G.T.O. - Ronny & the Daytonas
9. Go Go G.T.O. - Carol & Cheryl
10. Bite Bite Barracuda - Buddy Randell & The Knickerbockers
11. Ford V-8 - Honey Boy Allen
12. No Particular Place to Go - Chuck Berry
13. Four in the Floor - The Shutdowns
14. Big Green Car - Jimmy Carroll
15. Spark Plug - Four Teens
16. Buick '59 - The Medallions
17. Freeway - The Fugitives
18. Two Lane Highway - Pure Prairie League
19. Six Days on the Road - Dave Dudley
20. Wheels - The Flying Burrito Brothers
| Details | | Producer: | James Austin (Compilation) | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
HOT RODS & CUSTOM CLASSICS: CRUISIN' SONGS & HIGHWAY HITS comes in enhanced packaging which includes four digis, a keychain, decals and fuzzy dice.
Includes liner notes by James Austin, Tom Wolfe, Jim Pewter and Pat Ganahl.
Digitally remastered by Bob Fisher.
HOT RODS & CUSTOM CLASSICS: CRUISIN' SONGS & HIGWAY HITS was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Boxed Recording Package.
Personnel: Duane Eddy (guitar).
Audio Remasterer: Bob Fisher .
Liner Note Author: Jim Pewter.
This is certainly one of Rhino's more elaborate box set offerings, no mere four-disc set of car songs, not by a long shot. It comes housed in a Revel Authentic Kit-sized box that also holds a bound booklet designed to look like the cover of Hot Rod magazine, an accompanying Mooneyes mini-catalog, window adhesive hot rod stickers, a set of fuzzy dice, and a Mooneyes bottle opener/key ring, with each of the four discs housed in a custom hot rod color package of its own. The music not only covers the early hot rod hits of the '50s and early '60s, but plucks worthy contenders from modern rockers like the Stray Cats, Dave Edmunds, the Ramones, David Lindley, Canned Heat, the Doobie Brothers, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Rod Stewart, Pure Prairie League, and roots rockers like Denny Freeman, John Hiatt, Deke Dickerson, and Tex Rubinowitz. Hot Rods & Custom Classics is the kind of box set you want to leave out to show people all the goodies, with a pile of great music to go along with it under the hood. One of Rhino's best productions. ~ Cub Koda
Editorial Reviews
...this attractive four-CD set package...celebrate[s] America's love affair with these motorized vehicles. Just about every well-known car song is included...
Dirty Linen (04/01/2000)
4 stars (out of 5) - BRILLIANT....Sheer nostalgia, of course. But just as Johnny Bond's 'Hot Rod Lincoln' goes, 'feel the tension, man. What a ride.
Q (07/01/1999)
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