Single:
Hot Rod Lincoln entered the Australian singles chart* on 29 May 1972 and peaked at #45.
Album:
The song is on the 1971 album Lost in the Ozone by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.
Songwriter:
Charlie Ryan
Producers:
Bob Cohen, George Frayne
Record label of Australian release:
Paramount
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
Hot Rod Lincoln was written by Charlie Ryan and first recorded by Charlie Ryan and The Livingston Brothers in 1955. It tells the second half of the story started by the song Hot Rod Race, recorded in 1951 by Arkie Shibley and his Mountain Dew Boys.
This was the only hit for Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, who were a county-rock group formed at the University of Michigan. Commander Cody is lead singer and piano player George Frayne.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/commander-cody-and-his-lost-planet-airmen/hot-rod-lincoln
Lyrics:
My pappy said, “Son, you’re gonna’ drive me to drinkin’
If you don’t stop drivin’ that Hot Rod Lincoln”
Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod race
When Fords and Lincolns was settin’ the pace
That story is true, I’m here to say
I was drivin’ that Model A
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