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1950 single by Arkie Shibley and His Mountain Dew Boys
"Hot Rod Race"
1950 Gilt-Edge release
Single by Arkie Shibley and His Mountain Dew Boys
Released
November 1950 (1950-11)
Genre
Western swing
Label
Gilt-Edge
Songwriter(s)
George Wilson (credited)
"Hot Rod Race" is a Western swing song about a fictional automobile race in San Pedro, California, between a Ford and a Mercury. First recorded by Arkie Shibley, and released in November 1950, it broke the ground for a series of hot rod songs recorded for the car culture of the 1950s and 1960s.[1] With its hard driving boogie woogie beat, it is sometimes named one of the first rock and roll songs.[2]
^Hoffmann, Frank: Sports and Recreation Fads, p. 179, Routledge, ISBN 978-0918393920: "The record industry was particularly successful in exploiting the craze [hot rodding]. The first genre recording, "Hot Rod Race," released in November 1950, sold 200,000 copies."
^Jim Dawson; Steve Propes (1992). What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record. Boston & London: Faber & Faber. p. 79-83. ISBN 0-571-12939-0.
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