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Now wait a minute. Don't pull the van over and haul out the Dobermans. Really, this is kind of interesting and I promise it won't create a lot of sweat time in the penalty box. Drag racing and the car racing sport have been saluted in song for nearly a century, and in the sense, that racers, especially drag racers/hot rodders, for years have had to overcome a corporate image of wrench-swinging, beer-guzzling greasers, I think that's saying sumthin'. Dig? We got game. And we got culture. For example. DIDJA' KNOW that the real first race or car-oriented song recorded was also number one for four weeks longer than any other record of its type since. " Since" as in 1999!
By the way, Murray was no flash-in-ye-olde-pan. Remember " Take Me Out to the Ball Game?" The one late Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Carey gargled into infamy? Murray went No. 1 with that Oct. 24, 1908 and it too stayed at the top for seven weeks. Still not impressed? Okay amigo, "Little Deuce Coupe" by the Beach Bullies? Capitol record number 5009? Never got past No. 15 in its August 1963 heyday. So there, that wasn't so bad, was it? Next time, this psychotic monkey of human potential will give you a brief review of the best BLUES-based car records next time at bat. So until then, bet De la Hoya by early KO or decision, look both ways when you cross the street, and take the check to the girl at the door. -CM
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Did you
know that there is an artistic culture that surrounds our little corner
of the world? 
On
October 14, 1905, "the Denver Nightingale", Billy Murray sang
the original version of "In My Merry Oldsmobile", which went
No. 1 with that on Oct. 24, 1908 and it too stayed at the top for seven
weeks.