![]() Taylor also sang lead on the band’s “Tenement Funster,” “Fight from the Inside,” and “Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll,” among a number of other Queen songs. ![]() ![]() The studio and live versions of “I’m in Love with My Car” feature Taylor singing lead vocals. Released on the band’s fourth album, A Night at the Opera, in 1975, the song was dedicated to the band’s first roadie Jonathan Harris, who was in love with his own set of wheels, a Triumph TR4, and had to put an end to his touring days due to illness. “I’m in Love with My Car,” Queen (1975)Īll the engine noises heard on Queen‘s “I’m in Love with My Car” came from drummer Roger Taylor‘s actual vehicle at the time, an Alfa Romeo. The song was released on Guthrie’s 1951 album, Songs to Grow On, Volume One: Nursery Days, and was covered by a number of artists, including Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Peter, Paul and Mary, Donovan, and Pete Seeger, among others.Ĥ. ![]() In the midst of releasing his classic songbook of folk, Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) also penned children’s songs, including “Riding in My Car,” also known as the “Car Song.” Using onomatopoeia throughout, singing a motorized sound, the “Oklahoma Cowboy” originally penned “Riding in My Car” in the 1940s while he was living on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. “ Riding in My Car (Car Song),” Woody Guthrie (1951) ![]()
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