Eddy Hill - Fire-Ball Eight - Full Time Job

Switching gears from the funk to a couple of country hillbilly boppers from Eddy Hill. One about love & the other about hot rods. what else do you need? maybe one about drinking....? maybe next time.

Eddy Hill - Fire-Ball Eight

Eddy Hill - Full Time Job

Johnny Fortune - Dragster

There is nothing like hot rod music. Any tune that has wheels screeching, gears shifting and engines revving has a certain place in the devil's heart and this one is no exception. This thing really cooks with some sweat rocking guitar, pumping bass and a driving beat that never quits and car sounds mixed in throughout the whole song make this a grade a checkered flag winner!

Johnny was born March 18, 1943 in Warren, Ohio. At age 12 he picked up his first guitar. At age 16 recorded recorded"Soul Surfer." It quickly became a #1 hit. He wrote it in the back seat of the car on the way to the studio.
Johny played guitar on Sam Cooke's "Chain Gang" and Barbara George's "I Know." He was offered a chance to tour England with Johnny Burnette. He had to decline because he was under age.
Johnny went on to play with such notables as: Terry Stafford, Glen Campbell, Barbara Stanton, Al "The Snake" Wilson, Jerry Hopkins, Harry Belefonte, Eddie Downs, Fabian, Ricky Nelson, Jerry Reed, Willie Nelson, Barbara Mandrell and The Drifters.
He also performed with The Rondell, The Cornells, Dick & Dee Dee, The Standells, Brian Highland, The Crystals, Freddie Wheeler & The Petersons, The Tornadoes, The Three Beats and The Blenders. Televison appearances included: "Solid Gold." "The Lloyd Thaxton Show" and "The Dinah Shore Show."
When Johnny was playing with a well known artist or unknown, he always played to enhance his musicians' performance. No venue was too big or too small. Johnny gave it his all.

Sadly Mr. Fortune died in 2006.

Johnny Fortune - Dragster

Don Pearly - Drag Race

They say it's going to be 60 or more today so i think i'm going to take a half day off from work and maybe head down to the beach & boardwalk here at the jersy shore. (Yeah there is no such thing as global warming right?)
So here is a little hot rod rockabilly number for the warm weather. I thought this song was fitting. Looks like this was Mr. Pearly's only record. I couldn't find much about him personally but this cut has been on a bunch of hot rod comps, one of the coolest ones i found while searching is this one by artist Robert Williams called Chrome, Smoke & Fire. I'm going to have to track this comp down because it looks pretty keen. Anyway here's today's 45 cut. Enjoy the weather whereever you are...


Don Pearly : Drag Race