Songs About Transportation

[CL82]

I stumbled on to this looking for the video above and thought it was worth posting. I laughed at it.

Horse with no name on Vimeo

 

[AmeriConn]

Up Up and Away - My Beautiful Balloon

 

[JavaMan]

 

[meyers7]

Can you "ride" one of those?

Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) - Big & Rich

 

[meyers7]

A cover. (well pretty much all versions are covers). I like theirs cause they use the original "break up".

Sloop John B - Reliant K

 

[meyers7]

Another boat.

The Downeaster Alexa - Billy Joel

 

[JavaMan]

 

[JavaMan]

 

[Hoops66]

One of the great folk songs with top notch guitar playing by Tom Rush.

 

[Hoops66]

Sailing out..

 

[Littlemin]

I believe the only song in which Bob Dylan shares songwriting credit. He wrote the chorus in the 70’s and Ketch Secor from OCMS added verses in the 90’s.

Replying to my own post to pull the OCMS/Dylan string, this is not the only connection they have; OCMS recorded and released a terrific live album covering every song from Blonde On Blonde in 2017 from, I believe, the only live show they did on the material. Not a well known fact that Dylan recorded all but one cut on B O B, a very un-country record to be sure, in Nashville using all Nashville studio session musicians, along with Al Kooper and Robbie Robertson. Among those session musicians was Joe South of “Games People Play“ fame.

 

[Hoops66]

This has some great pictures of the first flying machines...

 

[RockyMTblue2]

 

[Waquoit]

 

[bloor]

 

[bloor]

Admittedly skateboarding is a bit of a stretch

 

[BrianUC]

 

[tomcat]

And from Mark Knopfler, a story about a man and his truck.
Knopfler's music has become more Celtic over the years, and this is perhaps the most Celtic of them all. If you're into lyrics and really want to know, an Albion is a brand of truck, produced until 1972, with the slogan (heard in the song), "Sure as the Sunrise." For whatever it's worth, it's one of my favorite Knopfler tunes.

 

[Bigboote]

Steppenwolf -- Screaming Night Hog

 

[Bigboote]

Steeleye with a song about Lord Nelson's ship.

 

[Bigboote]

Some early Ry Cooder:

 

[Bigboote]

Okay, I usually limit myself to three at a time, but this is just too good. Blondie's song about an armored car.

 

[quavik]

(sung by the underappreciated Christine Collister)

 

[quavik]

needs no introduction

 

[quavik]

Guitarist of The Blasters, (now defunct)