Hot Rod Classics / Various Hot Rod Classics / Various CD

Rockbeat records presents the ultimate collection of Hot Rod tunes. 4 CDS, over 120 tracks all bound in a hardcover package with a 80 page book. Rock-A-Billy, Blues, Country and Rock and Roll are all represented. Includes tracks by Howlin' Wolf, Gene Vincent, Dick Dale, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Rudy Ray Moore and scores of others. Package features an introduction by Billy Gibbons (Z.Z. Top), plus essays by James Austin and Pete Chapouris, president of So-Cal Speed Shops, an international Hot Rod specialty retailer.

1. Pomona Drags - the Lively Set 2. Hot Rod Jalopy - Johnny Bond 3. Action Packed - Johnny Dollar 4. Chester Riley - Hot Rods 5. Dragstrip Baby - Johnny Roane 6. Rev Up - Manuel ; the Renegades 7. Pink Cadillac - Larry Dowd 8. Body By Fisher - the Shut Downs 9. Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston ; His Delta Cats 10. Rocket 88 Commercial 11. Real Gone Daddy - Jim Flaherty's Caravan with Howie Stange 12. Black Car X - J. Frank Wilson 13. Big Machine Gene Savage 14. Mattel's Hot Rodder Engine Commercial 15. Big Mean Machine - Lynn Bryson 16. Ride on Josephine - Tommy Labeef 17. Every Woman I Know - Billy "The Kid" Emerson 18. Motorhead Baby - Johnny Guitar Watson 19. Brand New Automobile - the Payments 20. Golden Hubcaps Documentary Excerpt 1956 21. Red Hot Car - Bobby Verne 22. Oil on the Track - the Shutdowns 23. Riding in the Moonlight - Howlin' Wolf 24. In My Thunderbird - the Thunderbirds ; Band 25. Champion Sparkplugs Commercial 26. Spark Plug - the Four Teens 27. Peroxide Blonde and a Hopped Up Model Ford - Gene Simmons 28. Drag Strip - the Fender Benders 29. Three Carburetors - Don Carson ; the Whirlaways 30. Slow Down Baby - Bob Gaddy 31. I Was Gone - Eddie "The Chief" Clearwater 32. Take a Ride with Me - Johnny Redd 33. Travelin' - Harold Jackson ; the Jackson Brothers 34. The Green Monster Carro Verde - the Albert Combo 35. Leadfoot - Don Sergeant ; His Buddies 36. Transfusion - Scatman Crothers 37. If You Don't Know - George Hamilton IV 38. Von Hutch the Mad Pinstriper - Jerry Madison 39. Mr. Highway Man - Howlin' Wolf 40. Hot Car Girl - Trailer 41. Devil's Driver Theme - the Vettes 42. Interstate 45 - Dwight Douglas and the Jayhawkers 43. Riding Shotgun - Danny Welch 44. Hot Rod Teenager - Soundbite 45. Road Runnah - the Road Runners 46. Black Cadillac - Joyce Green 47. Cadillac Lover - Carole Riley 48. Loud Mufflers - Robert Williams 49. Rag Roof Roadster - Jim Foster with the Kountry Kut-Ups 50. Drag - the Rhythmatics 51. Hot Rod Boogie - Howard w. Brady 52. Hot Rod Hades - Charlie Ryan ; the Timberline Riders 53. Race with the Devil - Gene Vincent ; the Blue Caps 54. When Johnny Comes Draggin' Home - the Lancers 55. Service with a Smile - Kuf-Linx Featuring John Jennings 56. Oklahoma Service Station Commercial 57. Out of Gas - Chuck Howard 58. What a Dolly - Red Berry and the Bel Raves 59. Big Green Car - Jimmy Carroll 60. Cruising - the Duals 61. Sixteen Miles - "Peso" Dollar ; the Counterfeit Bills 62. Crankshaft - Sid Jimmie Knight 63. Dragster - Johnny Fortune 64. Lions Drag Strip - Interview 65. Starter's Nightmare - the Shutdowns 66. Speedway Rock - Jerry Woodward ; the Glen Layne Combo 67. Fastest Short in Town - "Blue Fly" Robert Irvine ; the Kentucky Colonels 68. '32 Ford - Piltdown Five 69. Double Mirror Wrap Around Shades - Andy ; the Manhattans 70. Ride Along Baby - the Tempo Tones 71. Expressway - the Crazy Crickets 72. She Took My Olsmobile - the Romancers 73. Firing Up - Dick Dale ; His Del-Tones 74. Dusters - Sonny and the Demons 75. Hydromatic Commercial 1952 76. Hydromatic Woman - Joe Hill Louis 77. Lonely Travelin' - Lonesome Lee 78. Ramble - Albert Washington ; the Kings 79. Black Cadillac - Sonny Wallace 80. Cadillac Man - the Jesters 81. Chicky Run - the New Dimensions 82. Message from James Dean - Bill Hayes 83. Hot Rod Baby - Rocky Davis ; the Skyrockets 84. Drag Race - Don Pearly with Scott Johnson Orch 85. Race for Time - Jerry Arnold 86. Straightaway - the Shutdowns 87. A Hot Rodder's - Dream Ray Burden 88. '36 3 Window Coupe - the Shut Downs 89. Hot Rod Kelly - the Sabres Vocal By Jimmy Stringer 90. Hot Rods to Hell Trailer 91. Last Drag - Roger Christian 92. Mustang Sally - Sir Mac Rice 93. My Old Car - Cola Commercial Lee Dorsey 94. Driveway Blues - Ben Harper Music By the Cincos 95. Stop Jivin' Start Drivin' - Burt Keyes 96. Scramble - Jimmy Stevens with Dela McCarthy 97. Flashin' Red - the Esquires 98. Fire Engine Baby - the Jiv-A-Tones 99. Ford and Shaker - James Gallagher 100. She Was a Big Wheel - Sonny Patterson 101. Little Side Car - the Larks with Bobby Smith's Orchestra 102. Track Down Baby - Tom James 103. Hey Little Car Hop - George Weston 104. Hot Rod - Lou Berry ; the Bel Raves 105. Carl Perkins - Concert Promotion 106. Pop, Let Me Have the Car - Carl Perkins 107. Slappin' Rods and Leaky Oil - Poppy and the Savoys 108. Draggin' the Drive-Inns - Cookie Roberts 109. Spinning My Wheels - Chuck Brooks 110. It's a Ford! Commercial 111. Dig That Ford - Doug Harden with the Desert Suns 112. Buggy Ride - Rudy Moore 113. Hot Rod Harry (The Coolest Cat in Town) - Joe Darensbourg ; His "Flat Out Five" Vocal By Scat Man Crothers 114. I Want a Lavendar Cadillac - Bea Baker ; Maurice King ; His Wolverines 115. Stay Out of Automobiles - Jerry McCain 116. Let's Coast Awhile - Bo Davis 117. Hot Rod Baby - Dick Reinhardt ; His Lone Star Boys 118. Please Return Your Speaker Drive-In Movie Announcement 119. Drive-In Movie - Mickey Gilley 120. Little 40 Ford - Leon Smith 121. Hopped-Up-Mustang - Arlen Sanders Music By the Pacifics 122. Shiftin' Gears - Beep Beep ; the Roadrunners 123. Hot Rod Racing 1950 124. The Last Drag - the Voxpoppers