Pick me some songs for a playlist (67 LeMans)

I'm putting together a playlist for the 67 LeMans. Think roadtrip theme. I'm looking for songs that fit the car, so things of that era.

The billboard top 50 from 67 was a wee bit fluffy; The Association, The Seekers, The Box Tops, Fifth Dimension, Herman's Hermits. But some of the stuff was a bit more rockin; The doors, Van Morrison, Rolling Stones, Buffalo Springfield.

So. I'm going for summer-of-love meets Frank Sinatra. Steppenwolf, Blind Faith, Canned Heat, Traffic, CSNY. Road tripping kinda music. Stuff that sounds "right" coming from a 67 convertible.

a lot of the earlier '60's R&R might fit the car and a road trip … Jan and Dean, the Beach Boys … that sort of stuff

Little GTO- Ronnie & The Daytonas.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

When I think roadtrip, I think of Shell Cruisin Classics tapes. We listened to all of these piled in the minivan as kids. This past Christmas I tracked down all the songs and burned some CD's for my siblings with all the tracks.

the tracklists are here: http://bunnieswithsharpteeth.blogspot.com/2007/05/cruisin-classics.html

I actually managed to find a huge portion of the songs on some internet archive site for free.

I'm loving it. I found my old stash of CDs and an external hard drive. I have most of these already. Just need to make the playlist.

Considering it's already broadcast everything from Patsy Cline to Frank Zappa to a largely ungrateful public, I'm sure whatever you play will be fine...

Kinks, Animals, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Zombies, early Bob Dylan

I remember them in the early 70s during my high school days when the kids could afford them so I'll throw in Travelin' Man from Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Allman Brothers'Ramblin' Man.

There was a really badass LeMans in the school lot and next to it Dean Morgantini parked his Hurst Gold Olds 442.

curtis73 wrote: Stuff that sounds "right" coming from a 67 convertible.

Is the theme from The Monkeys too cliche?

Appleseed wrote: Little GTO- Ronnie & The Daytonas. Sorry, couldn't resist.

that was sorta the era I was aiming for …

British Invasion: Early Who (I Can See For Miles), Kinks (Sunny Afternoon), Stones (Ruby Tuesday), Beatles (any Sgt Peppers tunes)...all vintage 67

Just found a KILLER box set called Good Morning Vietnam. 5 discs of Zombies, Classics IV, Moody Blues, Don MacLean, Manfred Mann, Animals, Yardbirds, Hollies, CCR, Deep Purple, Norman Greenbaum... good stuff.

hasbro beat me to it. CCR FTW!

Years ago (like 2004) I had a HD crash and I lost most of my music. I had spent weeks ripping CDs into iTunes. I remember the status bar said 41 days, 17 hours. I just spent a few days re-ripping all of my CDs and it now says only 24 days.

Of course, I have moved four times in the last year since the divorce, so who knows where all of my CDs are.

Just interesting to know that I could press play and not hear the same track twice for a month.

I think anything Skynyrd sounds good coming from a Pontiac...only if it's still poncho powered though. If someone where to say swap a chevy in it I'm thinking that one Bjork song over and over again should be enough punishment

Hmmmm.... I know these pre-date the LeMans... Beethoven's 5th... and Tchaikovsky's 1812 I always enjoyed with a good stereo

also anything....

In reply to curtis73:

This is from '68, but it's so damn good it needs to be included

The Zombies--Care of Cell 44

Odyssey and Oracle is a masterpiece of an album that never really got its due in the mainstream (outside of "Time of the Season")

A '67 would still have been running in 1973. 1973 brought us the BEST road trip song ever.

Golden Earring: Radar Love

Can't have road trippin music without the Alman Brothers!

Midnight Rider

And for something completely different...

The Fugs: Boobs a Lot

The Fugs were an underground, longhair, definitely anti-establishment rock group in the mid-to-late sixties. Some of their songs had controversial lyrics for that era, Boobs a Lot as an example, so didn't get much mainstream AM radio air time. But Boobs a Lot is nothing compared to some of the Rap lyrics today. Somebody always had a Fugs album blaring on their stereo in the dorm during the '66-'67 school year when I was a college freshman. I associate their music with some pretty good times in my life.

JohnRW1621 wrote:

curtis73 wrote: Stuff that sounds "right" coming from a 67 convertible.

Is the theme from The Monkeys too cliche?

That's "Monkees", BTW.

Again from '68, but again, awesome psychedelia The Monkees--Porpoise Song

Carole King wrote this, which is mindblowing. That woman could write ANYTHING. From the silliest pop song, to the most touching ballad, to deep psychedelia like this. She's up there with the greats of rock royalty.

Lots of the Monkees music was written by Neil Diamond, too.

Anything from K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's

K-Billy DJ: That was The Partridge Family's "Doesn't Somebody Want to be Wanted?", followed by Edison Lighthouse's "Love Grows where my Rosemary Goes" as K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's weekend just keeps on... truckin'.

On a more serious note, have you seen the documentary about Muscle Shoals on Netflix?
Anything from the heydays of Fame Studios or out of Muscle Shoals Sound Studios would be perfect!

a little new for the car, but ZZ top- la grange would fit.