Songs
Want to find out the name of a lousy car tune we played on a recent show? Here's how.
You can...
1. Look below for a list of the most recent songs we've used.
B. Search by a range of show numbers. Our shows are numbered just like Sesame Street--that is, the first two digits indicate the year, and the next two digits indicate the week. So, for the 12th show of 1998 you'd enter 9812. For the fifth show of 2000, enter 0005. Capiche?
III. Search our song database by key word.
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Recent Car Tunes We've Used:
The Truck I Bought From Moe
| Show Num: | #1320: A Sticky Situation |
| Date of Show: | 2013-05-18 00:00:00 |
| Artist: | Al Simmons |
| Album: | The Truck I Bought From Moe |
| Publisher: | Oak Street Music |
| Composer: | Bob King |
| Length: | 00:49 |
| Comments: | alsimmons.com |
Thick or Thin
| Show Num: | #1320: A Sticky Situation |
| Date of Show: | 2013-05-18 00:00:00 |
| Artist: | Hauser Boughter |
| Album: | Tracks |
| Publisher: | Hauser Boughter |
| Composer: | Hauser Boughter |
| Length: | 00:33 |
| Comments: | http://www.myspace.com/580418181 |
Little Old Lady From Pasadena
| Show Num: | #1319: Click and Clack and Dear Old Ma |
| Date of Show: | 2013-05-11 00:00:00 |
| Artist: | Jan & Dean |
| Album: | Jan & Dean: Golden Hits, Vol. 2 |
| Composer: | Don Altfeld, Jan Berry, Roger Christian |
| Length: | 00:49 |
Forty Years Old And I'm Livin' In My Mom's Garage
| Show Num: | #1319: Click and Clack and Dear Old Ma |
| Date of Show: | 2013-05-11 00:00:00 |
| Artist: | Austin Lounge Lizards |
| Album: | Never an Adult Moment |
| Publisher: | Highway Cafe Music & Southern Melody Publishing Co. (BMI) |
| Composer: | Hank Card |
| Length: | 00:58 |
| Comments: | www.austinlizards.com |
Old Old Ford
| Show Num: | #1318: The Great Lion Escape |
| Date of Show: | 2013-05-04 00:00:00 |
| Artist: | Ed Hines |
| Publisher: | Particularly Fascinating Music |
| Composer: | Alan Paprocki |
| Length: | 00:31 |
| Comments: | www.edhinesband.com |
I Watch the Cars
| Show Num: | #1318: The Great Lion Escape |
| Date of Show: | 2013-05-04 00:00:00 |
| Artist: | Robyn Hitchcock |
| Album: | Black Snake Diamond Role |
| Composer: | Robyn Hitchcock |
| Length: | 00:32 |
| Comments: | www.robynhtichcock.com |
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
| Show Num: | #1317: The Neon of Dorian Gray |
| Date of Show: | 2013-04-27 00:00:00 |
| Artist: | Tame Impala |
| Album: | Lonerism |
| Publisher: | Kevin Parker |
| Composer: | Kein Parker |
| Length: | 00:27 |
| Comments: | www.tameimpala.com |
Fancy Car
| Show Num: | #1317: The Neon of Dorian Gray |
| Date of Show: | 2013-04-27 00:00:00 |
| Artist: | The Honeycutters |
| Album: | When Bitter Met Sweet |
| Publisher: | Buttons Down Publishing (PRO, ASCAP) |
| Composer: | Amanda Anne Platt |
| Length: | 00:48 |
| Comments: | www.thehoneycutters.com |
I-94
| Show Num: | #1316: Rambler Separation Anxiety |
| Date of Show: | 2013-04-20 00:00:00 |
| Artist: | Trapper Schoepp & The Shades |
| Album: | Run, Engine, Run |
| Publisher: | Middle Js Music (BMI) |
| Composer: | Trapper Schoepp |
| Length: | 00:41 |
| Comments: | trapperschoepp.com |
Delores (Drives for Daddy)
| Show Num: | #1316: Rambler Separation Anxiety |
| Date of Show: | 2013-04-20 00:00:00 |
| Artist: | www.twang |
| Album: | Last of the White-Hot Rednecks |
| Composer: | Buck, Carol, and Garret Buchanan |
| Length: | 00:49 |
| Comments: | www.twang.org |
