What Song Takes You Back To Cruisin In Your 1st Mopar?

[70charger_boy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rxAQ3eIZHU

[RECHRGD]

February 1968.  Two weeks after picking up my new yellow R/T I installed one of those new 4- track stereos (yes FOUR track).  I think the 8-tracks came out right after I bought the 4-track.  Anyway, it was pretty new technology for those days.  I used to love pulling up next to other cars with young people in them blasting a cool Doors or Stones song and watch them searching their radois to try and find the channel i was on.  Anyway it was 1968, so pretty much anything by the Stones--Doors--Hendrix--CCR--Beatles--4 tops  works for me.  The car just seems to run better with period correct tunes playing.    Bob

[mally69]

In 2006 when i finishing my 69 Charger  all was done except carpet and seats i had Lynyryd Skynyrd jammin inside the car's newly installed CD player in my car while putting the carpet in.

[C_stripes]

Charger boy,  Are you ever NOT on here?  I swear, You have posted on every thread here.

[70charger_boy]

Charger boy,  Are you ever NOT on here?  I swear, You have posted on every thread here.

[Lord Warlock]

I drove my charger the most between July 78 and June 84, so it played pretty much all of the heavy metal tunes during those years, but the few that stand out in memory are:  "The Sultan's of Swing" by Dire Straits, The whole flirtin with disaster album, by Molly Hatchet, Train Train, and Highway song by Blackfoot, All the songs on the Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe album, Nightranger's first album, and the standards of the era from Kansas, Styx, Van Halen and Nazareth. 


Lord Warlock

[mopar-or-no-car]

I had one of them for my T/A, back when I was 16.  It use to chew up my cassettes, all the time 

WOW I have one of those 8 track/cassette converters and it never chewed up any of my cassettes!  But I guess I didn't use it that much! I too still have it! it is stuck in the 8 tack player that I still have with the old stereo that is in my room! thank god a got a new one for the living room wth a c/d player and the works! I like it MUCH better!!

[moparstuart]

I drove my charger the most between July 78 and June 84, so it played pretty much all of the heavy metal tunes during those years, but the few that stand out in memory are:  "The Sultan's of Swing" by Dire Straits, The whole flirtin with disaster album, by Molly Hatchet, Train Train, and Highway song by Blackfoot, All the songs on the Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe album, Nightranger's first album, and the standards of the era from Kansas, Styx, Van Halen and Nazareth. 


Lord Warlock   all great music  untill you got to the night ranger

[Lord Warlock]

If you gotta make me dig deep, the first nightranger album had Randy Rhodes as the lead guitarist, who i also liked with Ozzy.  I dig guitar solos

[General_01]

If you gotta make me dig deep, the first nightranger album had Randy Rhodes as the lead guitarist, who i also liked with Ozzy.  I dig guitar solos

I don't believe RR played with Night Ranger. Brad Gilles was the lead guitarist for Night Ranger and he left NR to replace RR when he died.

[70charger_boy]

He's probably thinking of Quiet Riot 

[Lord Warlock]

damn, now i'll have to dig out the albums to find out for myself.  I know that a guitarist joined ozzy from nightranger.   dude's ...its been over 20 years, can't depend on these half dead brain cells anymore.   

Yep confused the names, knew they were tied together somehow.  Didn't know rhodes was with quiet riot before ozzy, I liked QR also, but not to the degree that i liked ozzy's Blizzard of ozz and Diary of a Madman, two albums that still get play time in my cars.  Us old farts stick with groups we know.  Still liked NR, I was an early adopter, ballads were big back then...like kansas and REO.

[Headrope]

My first car was a '67 Dart GT and the AM radio was my radar detector. I swear "Johnny Be Good" would come on the radio every time a cop was in the area.
The song hasn't worked once for me in any other vehicle I've owned but hearing it definitely takes me back to my first Mope.

[max]

Detroit Rock City by Kiss 

yep that was/is a good one to get the blood running.

here's a couple more that stick out in my mind,

golden ear ring - radar love

aldo nova - fantasy

[Tom_440]

golden ear ring - radar love

aldo nova - fantasy

Agree!!! I also remember using VH "Hot for teacher" to test out the new 6x9 speakers in the back. Had a 340 Challenger back then....

[max]

golden ear ring - radar love

aldo nova - fantasy

Agree!!! I also remember using VH "Hot for teacher" to test out the new 6x9 speakers in the back. Had a 340 Challenger back then....

i remember when my cars only had am radios and i used to carry around a small am/fm cassette radio in the back seat so i would have something to listen to instead of that noisy wrist pin hammering in the slant six engine.

[69bronzeT5]

If you gotta make me dig deep, the first nightranger album had Randy Rhodes as the lead guitarist, who i also liked with Ozzy.  I dig guitar solos

I don't believe RR played with Night Ranger. Brad Gilles was the lead guitarist for Night Ranger and he left NR to replace RR when he died.

Your correct. Randy never played with Night Ranger. Brad did and when Randy died, he took Randy's place for the rest of the Diary Of A Madman tour. Randy was also in Quiet Riot before he joined Ozzy.

[69bronzeT5]

Heres what Im gonna listen to when I start driving my Charger....these are just a few examples.


Crazy Train- Ozzy Osbourne
Mr.Crowley- Ozzy Osbourne
Over The Mountain- Ozzy Osbourne
Aces High- Iron Maiden
Number Of The Beast- Iron Maiden
Run To The Hills- Iron Maiden
Die Dead Enough- Megadeth
For Whom The Bell Tolls- Metallica
Fade To Black- Metallica
Seek And Destroy- Metallica
Detriot Rock City- KISS
Bat Out Of Hell- Meatloaf
Shoot To Thrill- AC/DC

[Lord Warlock]

surprised noone's mentioned it yet, and while it takes me back to the past, just not quite far enough for the charger, it definitely has an effect on the go pedal, Sammy Hagar's "I Can't Drive, 55!" .  And anyone that had to drive 55mph on Interstate 10 across the state of Florida would understand the dilemma.  (put cruise on, go to sleep, wake up when run out of gas, ....you're there) Nothing like making a 6 hour trip turn into an 8.5 hour trip by coasting at 55.

[The70RT]

I heard Night Ranger today on the radio......been a long time.

[Moparsky67]

My first Mopar was a 1963 Dodge Dart back in the 68 or 69, gee that long ago I do not remember what I was listening to. I have to dig out my sack of 8 tracks & see what I have...

[daytonalo]

Cruising in my 69 GTS 383 Dart around 82 listening to Rev on the red line , by foreigner

[moparstuart]

 how about billy thorps children of the sun   ?  anyone?

[Charger74]

surprised noone's mentioned it yet, and while it takes me back to the past, just not quite far enough for the charger, it definitely has an effect on the go pedal, Sammy Hagar's "I Can't Drive, 55!" .  And anyone that had to drive 55mph on Interstate 10 across the state of Florida would understand the dilemma.  (put cruise on, go to sleep, wake up when run out of gas, ....you're there) Nothing like making a 6 hour trip turn into an 8.5 hour trip by coasting at 55.

LOL, yup I remember that song.  Or driving I-10 through AZ heading for Tucson at 55, boy that sucked just as much.
A few songs I remember,
Smoking in the boys Room,  Motly Crue (yeah, yeah)
Legs, ZZ Top
You've got another thing comiing, Judas Priest
Breaking the Law, Judas Priest.

So many other Metal/ pop metal stuff from the late 80's as well.

[69bronzeT5]

Oh, another good song.....



Bark At The Moon by Ozzy