Perfect travel song

[simpsontruckdriver]

 

[easyrider]

I like James Taylor Mexico especially when we go to Mexico. I still feel like that live wire.

Bill

 

[Luanne]

On the Road Again

 

[Passepartout]

Gosh, I thought it was gonna be, "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" by us as kids in a yellow bus heading to YMCA or Scout camp! Oh, well, to each their own.

 

[amycurl]

Paul Simon, She Moves On.
"it's a fine day
the way sun hits off the runway
a cloud shifts
the plane lifts
she moves on"

 

[ScoopKona]

The Box Tops -- The Letter

Nat King Cole -- Get Your Kicks on Route 66

NRBQ -- Howard Johnson's Got His Hojo Workin'

Frank Sinatra -- Come Fly With Me

Dean Martin -- An Evening in Roma

Crosby Stills and Nash -- The Marrakesh Express (although that song isn't really about travel); Southern Cross

Fats Domino -- Kansas City

Jimmy Buffett -- Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude; Volcano; On a Slow Boat to China; The Pascagoula Run

Berlin -- The Metro

Arlo Guthrie -- The City of New Orleans

 

[Talent312]

Johnny Cash - "I've Been Everywhere"

John Denver - "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
-- as covered by Peter, Paul & Mary

 

[Brett]

The "Office" likes

 

[Glynda]

When I was a kid my parents and I sang "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain."

 

[DaveNV]

The Eagles "Take It Easy" is how I start nearly every road trip.

Dave

 

[ScoopKona]

The Eagles "Take It Easy" is how I start nearly every road trip.

Dave

You mean Jackson Browne's "Take it Easy?" He did the heavy songwriting lifting, after all. ;-)

 

[DaveNV]

You mean Jackson Browne's "Take it Easy?" He did the heavy songwriting lifting, after all. ;-)

I'm talking about the Eagles recording. Jackson Browne may have written it with Glenn Frey, but the Eagles recording is the one I know. Jackson Browne occupies a completely different folder in my musical head.

Dave

 

[ScoopKona]

I'm talking about the Eagles recording. Jackson Browne may have written it with Glenn Frey, but the Eagles recording is the one I know. Jackson Browne occupies a completely different folder in my musical head.

Dave

It's more fair to say that Glen Frey lent a hand in the songwriting. Sure, Eagles version blew up and Browne's didn't. But whose song is it? Jackson's, clearly. And check your records/CDs/MP3s. There is no "the" in Eagles.

 

[easyrider]

I'm talking about the Eagles recording. Jackson Browne may have written it with Glenn Frey, but the Eagles recording is the one I know. Jackson Browne occupies a completely different folder in my musical head.

Dave

I like the Eagles version better too. I like Jackson Brown. Back in the days when I couldn't fill the tanks of all the trucks Running on Empty was my JB song.

Bill

 

[PigsDad]

The Eagles "Take It Easy" is how I start nearly every road trip.

Dave

Took a trip from CO to AZ, and had to jump to that song when we pulled off the interstate for a lunch stop in Winslow, AZ. And yes, there is a flat-bed Ford at the corner.

Kurt

 

[DaveNV]

Took a trip from CO to AZ, and had to jump to that song when we pulled off the interstate for a lunch stop in Winslow, AZ. And yes, there is a flat-bed Ford at the corner.

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Kurt

I wonder how many people have done exactly that? I personally know several, including me.

While driving from Nevada to Virginia, I rolled into Winslow at dawn in November of 1974. I pulled over and got out of the car, stood on a corner for about ten seconds, got back in, and drove back to the freeway. I did not see a girl or a flatbed Ford.

Dave

 

[RX8]

 

[Rolltydr]

It's more fair to say that Glen Frey lent a hand in the songwriting. Sure, Eagles version blew up and Browne's didn't. But whose song is it? Jackson's, clearly. And check your records/CDs/MP3s. There is no "the" in Eagles.

Jackson may have written most of the words but THE Eagles made the music that we all, well most of us at least, love.

I bet most people on this forum can’t tell you who wrote “New York, New York”, but they can damn well tell you who sang it.

 

[ScoopKona]

Jackson may have written most of the words but THE Eagles made the music that we all, well most of us at least, love.

I bet most people on this forum can’t tell you who wrote “New York, New York”, but they can damn well tell you who sang it.

Check your record covers. I assure you, it's just "Eagles."

Browne's version is on his second LP, "For Everyman." Definitely worth a listen, especially for anyone sick of listening to the same 100 songs over and over on classic rock radio.

As for (Theme From) New York, New York, the "theme from" should be a dead giveaway to anyone who isn't a Scorcese fan.

 

[JeffC]

For road trips:
Grateful Dead - Truckin
Byrds - Ballad of Easy Rider
Charlie Daniels - Uneasy Rider
Little Feat - Willin
Manhattan Transfer - Rt 66
Guy Clark - LA Freeway
Allman Bros - Ramblin Man
Bob Seger - Turn the Page
Bob Dylan - Highway 61
The Kennedy’s - Half a Million Miles
Yes - America
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Brewer and Shipley - Tarkio Road
Glen Campbell - Gentle on my Mind

For Boat Trips:
Beach Boys - Sloop John B
Jamie Brockett - Titanic
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride
Rod Stewart- Every Picture tells a Story

For Plane Trips:
Arlo Guthrie - Coming into Los Angeles
Byrds - 8 Miles High
Chuck Berry - Back in the USA
Beatles - Back in the USSR

For Train Trips:
Creedence - Midnite Special
Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville
The Carter Family - Railroading on the Great Divide
Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special
Duke Ellington - Take the A Train

Space Travel:
David Bowie - A Space Oddity
Queen - Thirty Nine
Yes - Starship Trooper

 

[Rolltydr]

Check your record covers. I assure you, it's just "Eagles."

Browne's version is on his second LP, "For Everyman." Definitely worth a listen, especially for anyone sick of listening to the same 100 songs over and over on classic rock radio.

As for (Theme From) New York, New York, the "theme from" should be a dead giveaway to anyone who isn't a Scorcese fan.

Trust me. I’ve heard Browne’s version. THE Eagles version is better.

 

[joestein]

When I had the convertible - there was nothing I loved more than putting the top down on an empty highway where I could speed and listening to "Radar Love" by Golden Earing. A close second is "Life is a Highway" by Tom Cochran.

 

[jorcus]

Best Little Feat travel song is Feats don't fail me now.

But how about some Blue Highway songs.

Neil Diamond

George Thorogood

Or Billy Idol

 

[Talent312]

The only "Blue Highway" that I know is a Pizzeria...

 

[Janann]

I can't believe no one has posted this:

Another easy choice:

Believe it or not, this inspires me to get on a plane :