Songs for Cruising Down the Road-- Part 1

Bob Stroud of Chicago's WDRV FM, 97.1 and 96.9, does a weekly Rock and Roll Roots show from 7 to 10 am on Sunday. These songs are from the 60s, 70s and now 80s (I'm still not sure about the inclusion of the last decade, but will see.

This show streams live at www.wdrv.com and is three hours well-spent. He is a walking encyclopedia.

His May 30th show was Rock and Roll Roots Used Car Lot, featuring songs about cars. You just can't do much old road cruising without some sort of a vehicle. This would be a good group of tracks to hit the pavement with.

RADAR LOVE-- Golden Earring
SHUT DOWN-- Beach Boys
ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY-- Baby Driver
MERCEDES BENZ-- Janis Joplin
SS 396-- Paul Revere & the Raiders (a song you could only get from your local Chevy dealer for some reason.)

SWEET HITCHHIKER-- CCR
ROAD RUNNER-- Jr. Walker & the All Stars
ROUTE 66-- Rolling Stones (where else ya' gonna get yer kicks?)
MERCURY BLUES-- Steve Miller band
ON THE ROAD AGAIN-- Canned Heat

NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO-- Chuck Berry
LAKE SHORE DRIVE-- Aliotta, Haynes & Jeremiah

And this was just the first hour. He also gives comments about each as well.

All this occurs on the corner of Spark and Plug. Of course, he also played the old commercial "See the USA in Your _____." Let's see how many oldsters we have.

His comments and mine are at my other blog: http://roaddogsroadlog.blogspot.com.