I love all the comments! I’m only 37 but I hear this and I think of my dad who is 70 now….i love it so much I remember taking his cassette he had of it when I was young! Any time I hear it I feel like back in my dad’s Lincoln driving around the boroughs of ny!!!
Why does this bring back some good memories, I remember when it was originally done! God I'm getting old, what happened to the generation that wasn't supposed to get old?!
@@jackbelk8527 no, it was only my body that got old, my mind never did! I was a liberal at 20, I 'm a liberal at 70, been a liberal all my life! I was 15 when those hippies got assassinated at Kent State and my hair was already long! Those were scary years, we've been through this before!
@@johnnyfreedom3437 I was a deputy sheriff dodging thrown bottles and fireworks. Kent State stopped a lot of the crap because the cost was suddenly known to be high.
I'm like 2 generations behind the people that should like this, but damn!this is a great song and i'm glad my dad decided to play this in the car, and here we are!
Ya know when the state cop that took my license 45 years ago said to me You belong on a race track kid... I didn't wait long... Even did the Craftsman Trucks which is where I wanted to stay if not for my nasty divorce and sticky stuff... By age 37 I have 5 Northeastern Modified Championships and never looked back even after the trucks.. Those were greatest days of my life... I want to be 16 all over again
@@pwokus As I always say with my advice forum is that fat drunk & stupid is no way to thru life son. Lol Make the most of it all over again. On occasion you will see older folks doing stupid things other wise we wouldn't need an Emergency room at the hospitals!!!!
I bought this 45 rpm record in 1971, in a Circle K store in Tucson AZ. It was the 1st record I had ever bought, I was 9 years old. At that time Circle K had a big kiosk up front with ALL the weeks top 40 hits. I, being 9, didn"t care about any of those, but the title: "Hot Rod Lincoln". Caught my eye! BEST BUY, I ever made!
I'm an old guy. I remember Charley Ryan's original version in which the Ford and the Mercury were setting the pace and the hot rod Lincoln had 12 cylinders.
I got a opportunity to meet one of two Costers in a Milwaukee nursing home. He has to be one of the happiest people I have ever met in my life. He's so full of happiness it's very contagious. 😊
What absolutely makes this version a killer, besides of course the amazing killer-level music, is the really clever understated vocal, makes you kinda lean in to listen. And then lets the song shake you like a hot dog with a wet towel! Woof forever dig this.
Enjoy life. Don't miss the tube tires. Points & rotors. Carbs. Engine belts that lasted a year. Hoses that failed at two years. Brakes that spewed asbestos. Vinyl seats that would absolutely brand you in the summer and frostbite you in the winter. Seat belts were an expensive option. Glass that shattered & splintered. Ah, the "good" old days.
Thank you for making an excellent video out of a really great song. I loved that song back in the day. I am 70 years old now and still love that song reminds me of my younger days and the things I did with my 69 427 Corvette. Amazing I am still alive. God must have a plan for me.
Saw Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Maria Muldaur and the Greatful Dead at the Hollywood Bowl (Just can't remember the year) Best concert I ever went to.
Reminds me of me and my little brother. Only difference we were buying old cop cars at the city auction. Cop motor cop transmission you get the picture. It’s a wonder we are still alive. We raised so much hell some 50 years ago. Damn that was so much fun. 😎🇺🇸
I fondly remember hearing this song being played on the radio in the mid 70,s, and as young boys my cousin and I would learn the lyrics word for word as we were riding in the car on the way to "Town" in rural Saskatchewan, many laughs, and good times, we thought the hot rod depicted in that song was the coolest thing ever, I still know the words today, thanks for posting!!
another lost am radio classic remember it well as kid, one reason why I learned and worked on cars and trucks in my teens and 20's)!! at a junkyard and got paid as well! got free cars,gas, and met my wife there, went too college later!
A guy has just got to come back to these old classics once in awhile. As I get to the point were driving is just the thing I do to get my prescriptions and a six pack of cheap beer and maybe a some jalapeno poppers. Hey there are all kinds of addictions. Don't Judge... Any songs like this take me back to the old days when I owned a V8 Chevy Vega, which I traded up for a VW Beetle.
Buddy of mine had a 69 or 70 Olds 442, I recall hitting 130 on some 2 lane straightaways back in early 70's. We deserved to die... but didn't and now I'm reminded of those times by this song!
I was once driven in a 71 or so Buick Skylark in 1973, driven by a stock car driver. The speedometer needle was buried. Never been so fast in a car before or since.
This is a 1970s remake of a ‘50s song, so the old movie clips go perfectly with the lyrics. I appreciate how much work went into finding them all and matching them so well to the words.
I was three when this song came out, and that was 60 years ago. America has changed since then, and not for the better. My friends and I used to walk down to town and get soda pop in a cooler that was outside the small general store, then go inside and pay a short bit for it (that's a dime, long bit was 15 cents, two bits a quarter, for those who never heard the term used at that time). In today's world you could never do that. Evil has permeated the world since then, and exists in every community, and in every class of people.
My pop's would always say you're driving me to drinking, David , you stole my Hot rod Lincoln again, , the Mark 2 ,1958 was a great car, So fast , nobody could pass, 🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸‼️♦️♦️♦️
For anyone who cares.. I was a teen working at a gas station in the 70’s and a bus pulled in with a whale on the side. It was Commander Cody and his lost planet airman.. I pumped 75 gallons of diesel by hand into the bus…3 strokes per gallon… took a while. Precious memories for me.
My dad and my uncle used to take me to the Demolition Derby at Gardena Raceway by the time I was 2 or 3. We always had such a blast! It's been gone a long time now, but once I could drive, my friend and I would go to faithfully to the NHRAs. I have always loved cars, and got the biggest rush out of watching top fuel and funny cars. I saw ALL the greats race! Guess I'm giving away my age here, but I'm glad I'm old now because it means I lived through some of the greatest times ever!!
im 63 heard this in 69 when i was 6 from my buddy older brother .. i didn't understand at the time why he wanted a Lincon motor .early gearhead even at 6 . then when I learned more I realized .they didn't have over counter race parts back then the kids would just swap out the old engines they came with like the model T s and put in newer engines..back in 58 or so the lincoln had the largest engine.. the 430 and belive it or not some came with 375hp and even had a tri-power 400hp very rare engine I didn't know they existed well the old model ts would weigh around 2650 lb some even lighter with 375-400 hp you would have had a very quick car back then the avg street car did 15s and the fastest in town prob did high 14s this hot rod lincion would have been king 13s easy ..
"Hot Rod Lincoln" was a huge hit when I was in high school. Especially since I lived in Michigan and Commander Cody was a Michigan band. It wasn't until decades later I found out it was a 1950s song that they covered. Not realizing the history, we never understood how a Lincoln, huge four door sedans at the time, could be a hot rod.
Yeah, it was a "hot rod"...he stuffed a Lincoln engine into a lightweight Ford Model A body. Back in those days, Lincolns had much more powerful engines because they had so much more car to move.
I have loved this song ever since it came out, and I I have loved this song ever since it came out, and I never knew there was a video associated with it. Very cool! Thanks for posting it!
I remember it well as a child of the '50s and '60s, this song was a precursor to the great hot car songs of the early mid '60s... Before Ford and Chevy really kicked off the horsepower race in '55/'56, the most impressive muscle motors were the early '50s OHV V8s of Lincoln, Caddy, and Olds. Big, back in that day, was around 300 cu.inches, my dad had a '53 Olds 98 with the 303 "Rocket V8" engine, which at the time was hot sh!t compared to the average flathead six... Great memories of a very special time... Cheers
@@lawrencelewis2592 In the song..."got eight cylinders, and uses them all" ... I can only imagine how cool it would have been to score a V-12 or any other 'great motor' back in those hard days, for an average poor boy hot rod builder.
The guy that calls himself my dad likes to talk about "all these people today driving like idiots," forgetting all the time he spent telling me about his time skipping school to drag race his friends. Now he shows me this song, and I've listened to it 20 times since. Does he really think I'm not going to have a "dumb kid" streak (safely, of course)?
Saw and heard them in Odseesa Tx playing this tune - in the 70's - with Charlie Daniels Band and the headliner was a man who hung himself - Alice Cooper.
@@henry-e8o I'm 70! I'll bet it's even more fun on a motorcycle. My husband and I feel the same. If you're having fun, why stop? Our bodies are 70, but our hearts and minds still enjoy turning up the sound and hitting the open road. May you be forever young.
This song should be in the Library of Congress.. 100% meets the standard of “culturally, historically or aesthetically important”
And then some!
And then some!
You got that right!!!
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“brakes are good, tires fair.”
That was one of the first records I ever bought, and I'm 62 now so I loved it back then. I still live it today😊
Not sure how I even know this song but sometime during my childhood I loved it and still listen to it today and I am 39
I'm 77 and still love it!
I only ever bought two 45's as a kid and this was one of them (psychedelic shack was the other)
@@brentlocher5049 That's where it's at! :)
RIP Commander Cody. Thanks for everything! You added so much good fun to the music world.
👍
bill kirchen is still out there
We have modern this style some how awesome song
@@vinnyrussomanno5357 Or, "song we some have awe modern style this"
I love all the comments! I’m only 37 but I hear this and I think of my dad who is 70 now….i love it so much I remember taking his cassette he had of it when I was young! Any time I hear it I feel like back in my dad’s Lincoln driving around the boroughs of ny!!!
Why does this bring back some good memories, I remember when it was originally done! God I'm getting old, what happened to the generation that wasn't supposed to get old?!
Unfortunately, we did. But it's better than the alternative.
I could tell you because we had all the fun and we really were drag racing on the interstate m 74 and started 1965 drag racing
Those that told us we would get this way was the generation we didn't trust.
@@jackbelk8527 no, it was only my body that got old, my mind never did! I was a liberal at 20, I 'm a liberal at 70, been a liberal all my life! I was 15 when those hippies got assassinated at Kent State and my hair was already long! Those were scary years, we've been through this before!
@@johnnyfreedom3437 I was a deputy sheriff dodging thrown bottles and fireworks. Kent State stopped a lot of the crap because the cost was suddenly known to be high.
I remember when this was a giant hit, i still love it. Rest in Peace Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen
I'm like 2 generations behind the people that should like this, but damn!this is a great song and i'm glad my dad decided to play this in the car, and here we are!
One of the best car songs of all time, and it sounds Clean here.
Super.
RIP Commander. You and your band The lost planet airmen were totally awesome.
When I was 19i bought lincoln mark8 with the 5.0 and I remember my dad driving it and singing the lyrics to this song after
Whoever put this video together deserves an award! Well done!! Excellent vid for the song!!! Damn good of ya!!
Was that Jack Lord? And the Stooges?
Did a much better job tan the AI generated crap I see on here. This was a great rendition.
Ya know when the state cop that took my license 45 years ago said to me You belong on a race track kid... I didn't wait long... Even did the Craftsman Trucks which is where I wanted to stay if not for my nasty divorce and sticky stuff... By age 37 I have 5 Northeastern Modified Championships and never looked back even after the trucks.. Those were greatest days of my life... I want to be 16 all over again
ME too 😄 the best years of my life.
Did you ever get your license back? I lost mine in 79 but didn't stop driving until 2005!
haha 19 year old here just getting into cars trucks and riding dirt bikes, i’m older than you were but i’ve got a long life ahead of me regardless :)
@@pwokus As I always say with my advice forum is that fat drunk & stupid is no way to thru life son. Lol Make the most of it all over again. On occasion you will see older folks doing stupid things other wise we wouldn't need an Emergency room at the hospitals!!!!
@@thekingsilverado3266 i’ve already learned enough lessons about drinkin for a lifetime LOL
I bought this 45 rpm record in 1971, in a Circle K store in Tucson AZ. It was the 1st record I had ever bought, I was 9 years old. At that time Circle K had a big kiosk up front with ALL the weeks top 40 hits. I, being 9, didn"t care about any of those, but the title: "Hot Rod Lincoln". Caught my eye! BEST BUY, I ever made!
This was released in March of 1972.
I was in high school and we'd always belt out the last line together! YA GONNA DRIVE ME TO DRINKIN'
I'm an old guy. I remember Charley Ryan's original version in which the Ford and the Mercury were setting the pace
and the hot rod Lincoln had 12 cylinders.
I got a opportunity to meet one of two Costers in a Milwaukee nursing home. He has to be one of the happiest people I have ever met in my life. He's so full of happiness it's very contagious. 😊
doesn't get any better than this!
This is my all time favorite song. Bar none.
What absolutely makes this version a killer, besides of course the amazing killer-level music, is the really clever understated vocal, makes you kinda lean in to listen. And then lets the song shake you like a hot dog with a wet towel! Woof forever dig this.
I’m 19 and I love to play this song while driving my Chevy
Enjoy life. Don't miss the tube tires. Points & rotors. Carbs. Engine belts that lasted a year. Hoses that failed at two years. Brakes that spewed asbestos. Vinyl seats that would absolutely brand you in the summer and frostbite you in the winter. Seat belts were an expensive option. Glass that shattered & splintered. Ah, the "good" old days.
@@jimmiller5600YES those were the good old days. Fifty years from now, these will be the good old days.
Thank you for making an excellent video out of a really great song. I loved that song back in the day. I am 70 years old now and still love that song reminds me of my younger days and the things I did with my 69 427 Corvette.
Amazing I am still alive. God must have a plan for me.
He does, it's called becoming elderly . LOL 😋😋
Had the pleasure of seeing these guys many times. Even better, George and I knocked back quite a few shots of tequila.
Saw Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Maria Muldaur and the Greatful Dead at the Hollywood Bowl (Just can't remember the year) Best concert I ever went to.
This was very popular when I was quite young. Rest in peace, Commander Cody.😟
Isn't Bill Kirchen still alive?
Reminds me of me and my little brother. Only difference we were buying old cop cars at the city auction. Cop motor cop transmission you get the picture. It’s a wonder we are still alive. We raised so much hell some 50 years ago. Damn that was so much fun. 😎🇺🇸
I saw Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen live ... I think it was 1970
Happy trails
Saw them 5-10 times in upstate NY. OH!! to be that kid again.
I fondly remember hearing this song being played on the radio in the mid 70,s, and as young boys my cousin and I would learn the lyrics word for word as we were riding in the car on the way to "Town" in rural Saskatchewan, many laughs, and good times, we thought the hot rod depicted in that song was the coolest thing ever, I still know the words today, thanks for posting!!
Pappy said "you're gonna drive me to drinking if you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln."
The jukebox guy used to give me 45s and hot rod Lincoln skipped right at low on gas low on gas low on gas low on gas 😅😅😅 memories 😊😊
Yeah, well. Our Dad left him behind in a cloud of dust. 👍
This is one of Our favorite R😎 CK and R 😎 LL hits , 🔥🚙 🎼🎼🎶🎶🎹🥁🎸🎹 Great memories of iconic American bands ♥️🇺🇸♥️
another lost am radio classic remember it well as kid, one reason why I learned and worked on cars and trucks in my teens and 20's)!! at a junkyard and got paid as well! got free cars,gas, and met my wife there, went too college later!
My father loved this song because it reminded him of his stock car racing and drag racing days!
RIP George, thanks for the entertainment! 💛🎶🎸
This is a very good compilation that goes very well with the music!!
Thankyou!
Damn when you could have fun with cars,music and Life really RIP CC
A true classic. 👍the Reverend Horton Heat an awesome rockabilly cover. ❤
A guy has just got to come back to these old classics once in awhile. As I get to the point were driving is just the thing I do to get my prescriptions and a six pack of cheap beer and maybe a some jalapeno poppers. Hey there are all kinds of addictions. Don't Judge... Any songs like this take me back to the old days when I owned a V8 Chevy Vega, which I traded up for a VW Beetle.
My dad loved this. Moms daily driver
Was a 68 Charger and dad had a Henri J DZ/302 and a 76 Kawasaki. Great childhood in the 70s!
commander Cody not well known here in the UK but due to youtube i look forward to hearing much more of there music
Pull up "Lost In the Ozone". CC&TLPA were really a country band that got lost in the Austin Ozone.
Buddy of mine had a 69 or 70 Olds 442, I recall hitting 130 on some 2 lane straightaways back in early 70's. We deserved to die... but didn't and now I'm reminded of those times by this song!
I was once driven in a 71 or so Buick Skylark in 1973, driven by a stock car driver. The speedometer needle was buried. Never been so fast in a car before or since.
This is a 1970s remake of a ‘50s song, so the old movie clips go perfectly with the lyrics. I appreciate how much work went into finding them all and matching them so well to the words.
This brought back memories of my misspent youth.
I own a Lincoln that it does have OverDrive and it will get down and Boogie Down the Road I love that car
I was three when this song came out, and that was 60 years ago. America has changed since then, and not for the better. My friends and I used to walk down to town and get soda pop in a cooler that was outside the small general store, then go inside and pay a short bit for it (that's a dime, long bit was 15 cents, two bits a quarter, for those who never heard the term used at that time). In today's world you could never do that. Evil has permeated the world since then, and exists in every community, and in every class of people.
This was released when I was 9. Got to see them live about a decade later.
Oh to live them times again!!! Yes Dad left me in Jail.
Hot damn, I love this song!
My pop's would always say you're driving me to drinking, David , you stole my Hot rod Lincoln again, , the Mark 2 ,1958 was a great car, So fast , nobody could pass, 🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸‼️♦️♦️♦️
I've never wanted a hot-rod Lincoln in my life but I do now!
Ha ha ha 😊
For anyone who cares.. I was a teen working at a gas station in the 70’s and a bus pulled in with a whale on the side. It was Commander Cody and his lost planet airman.. I pumped 75 gallons of diesel by hand into the bus…3 strokes per gallon… took a while. Precious memories for me.
It was in Sonoma, California. I love this memory
Funny so good 😊 8 out of ten 👏
Love this song.
I had this record, it's a great version of the original.
I think that this is one of the best songs ever written!
Was in JHS Wen this sonv came out. Fond Memories, Gravesend Bklyn, Mini Bikes, Great Food, Hottt Lookin Babes & GREAT Music! God Bless...😊
My dad and my uncle used to take me to the Demolition Derby at Gardena Raceway by the time I was 2 or 3. We always had such a blast! It's been gone a long time now, but once I could drive, my friend and I would go to faithfully to the NHRAs. I have always loved cars, and got the biggest rush out of watching top fuel and funny cars. I saw ALL the greats race! Guess I'm giving away my age here, but I'm glad I'm old now because it means I lived through some of the greatest times ever!!
This song fits right now in this time, same as it did first time around...
Hot Rod Lincoln Indeed 98 4.6 Town car Cartier edition 👌 a cop car in dugise awesome song 🎵 about a great automobile 🚘
This is a great cruising song.
what a great old song....rock on kids...life is good
Back in the 80si left ft.wayne Indiana one Sunday when drove semi to LA calf. Left at 6:00. And was sitting in LA Tuesday morning about 7:00.
I listen to the AM radio
Gawd help me, I remember when this came out.
im 63 heard this in 69 when i was 6 from my buddy older brother .. i didn't understand at the time why he wanted a Lincon motor .early gearhead even at 6 . then when I learned more I realized .they didn't have over counter race parts back then the kids would just swap out the old engines they came with like the model T s and put in newer engines..back in 58 or so the lincoln had the largest engine.. the 430 and belive it or not some came with 375hp and even had a tri-power 400hp very rare engine I didn't know they existed well the old model ts would weigh around 2650 lb some even lighter with 375-400 hp you would have had a very quick car back then the avg street car did 15s and the fastest in town prob did high 14s this hot rod lincion would have been king 13s easy ..
The suspension and steering of a Model T with 400 horsepower . . . sounds like a good way to get killed. Give me a 1964 Bel Air with a straight 6.
"Hot Rod Lincoln" was a huge hit when I was in high school. Especially since I lived in Michigan and Commander Cody was a Michigan band. It wasn't until decades later I found out it was a 1950s song that they covered. Not realizing the history, we never understood how a Lincoln, huge four door sedans at the time, could be a hot rod.
Exactly!?
Yeah, it was a "hot rod"...he stuffed a Lincoln engine into a lightweight Ford Model A body. Back in those days, Lincolns had much more powerful engines because they had so much more car to move.
Too bad the video doesn't show a Model A but shows instead a Model B or 32 V8. Guess footage of a hot rod model A pretty hard to find
What blew me away was when I read a story in a magazine that it was a REAL car the song is about. And it still exists!
Those big four-door luxury sedans could fly was well - just not on a road with sharp curves.
I had this song in my home on my 45 rpm seeberg jukebox
Remember watching this on the old black and white tv .
This would be my dad in his younger years (He'd be 102 now if still here)! He was a race car driver in the 40's & 50's. Very interesting and scary!
Haven’t heard this since grade school .. had the 45
great song,
🐸🍿sounds just as cool as it did back in '72🎶📻
college song........brins back fond memories
Man, what a great video edit! Super enjoyable!!!
Was in my Spotify discover weekly now I can’t stop listening
Terrific job! A lot of fun.
I have loved this song ever since it came out, and I I have loved this song ever since it came out, and I never knew there was a video associated with it. Very cool! Thanks for posting it!
Such a good cover of the Charlie Ryan original that most people don't even remember the original.
Nice job on the video thanks for posting
I remember it well as a child of the '50s and '60s, this song was a precursor to the great hot car songs of the early mid '60s... Before Ford and Chevy really kicked off the horsepower race in '55/'56, the most impressive muscle motors were the early '50s OHV V8s of Lincoln, Caddy, and Olds. Big, back in that day, was around 300 cu.inches, my dad had a '53 Olds 98 with the 303 "Rocket V8" engine, which at the time was hot sh!t compared to the average flathead six... Great memories of a very special time... Cheers
As I understand it, the original Lincoln engine referred to in the song was the V-12 that Lincoln had prior to 1948. Pretty sure I saw that somewhere.
@@lawrencelewis2592 In the song..."got eight cylinders, and uses them all" ... I can only imagine how cool it would have been to score a V-12 or any other 'great motor' back in those hard days, for an average poor boy hot rod builder.
@@markmark2080 Very true- those guys in the two roadsters are having all kinds of cheap fun, aren't they?
this boomer says: "Now that's real music!".
I love how the tires are good but the brakes are only fair!
This takes me back to my street racing days big time hahah! I love it 😂👍
Ol Pirates Way............Universal Joints Land Who Are We By the Way Shabby Shiek? Forever Gentle on Our Minds.........?
I Miss my Hot Rod 1997 Lincoln Mark VĪĪĪ LSC.😢
This is a 0:21 continuation of a piece called "hot rod race" from 1950 by Arkie Shilby
The guy that calls himself my dad likes to talk about "all these people today driving like idiots," forgetting all the time he spent telling me about his time skipping school to drag race his friends.
Now he shows me this song, and I've listened to it 20 times since. Does he really think I'm not going to have a "dumb kid" streak (safely, of course)?
Bought this in the early 70S !
Something reminded me of this song, so I looked it up on YT to hear it. I always thought it was a mid to late 60’s song. Like Boy Named Sue.
Old cars are the best, big clean and shiny!
I'm still listening and I'm 66 myself
Saw and heard them in Odseesa Tx playing this tune - in the 70's - with Charlie Daniels Band and the headliner was a man who hung himself - Alice Cooper.
Been there.
Now the boys all thought I had lost my sense....
And the guy beside me was white as a ghost....
Cool song , Good video.
"...telephone poles looked like a picket fence" says it all.
I was stationed in England in 75 and used to put my speakers in the window and play this. 🤣✌️🇺🇲
My grandfather wrote this song.
Saw the band at North Texas State University in 1973
I just crossed the Grapevine!
My dog pure white and beside me and we had 1 bar of gas when we hit it and had to double back to get gas. Lol
One of the best and a A2 Native like me!
A dangerous song to play while you're driving - gives me leadfoot.
@@henry-e8o I'm 70! I'll bet it's even more fun on a motorcycle. My husband and I feel the same. If you're having fun, why stop? Our bodies are 70, but our hearts and minds still enjoy turning up the sound and hitting the open road. May you be forever young.
Bill Kirchen picks it flawlessly!