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Ewald Stein wrote: "A few years ago I came across a CD from a group or artist with the name Dodge." The CD shows a Dodge grille on the front and an Aries tail on the back; named Mutronic Injection, it includes the songs Slant Six, Ram Power, Funk Wheel Drive, Dodge City, and Tuned Car Mino.
Chryslers, Dodges, Plymouths, and Jeeps in music and song
Where the song is directly about the car
Where the car just happens to be mentioned
Videos
Lots of rappers featured Chrysler 300s in their videos when they had first come out.
The Rentals had a green 1972 Plymouth Valiant squealing its tires and leaping through the air, with a Dukes-of-Hazzard landing shot, in one video.
Deborah Allen drove a 1972-74 Barracuda in the video for "If You're Not Going to Love Me" in the early-mid 90s.
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Ewald Stein wrote: "A few years ago I came across a CD from a group or artist with the name Dodge." The CD shows a Dodge grille on the front and an Aries tail on the back; named Mutronic Injection, it includes the songs Slant Six, Ram Power, Funk Wheel Drive, Dodge City, and Tuned Car Mino.
Chryslers, Dodges, Plymouths, and Jeeps in music and song
Where the song is directly about the car
Artist | Title | Usage | Contributor |
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Beach Boys | Shut Down | 413 Super Stock Dodge gets beaten by fuel-injected Corvette. See a more realistic outcome based on real-life races! | Jeep_J4000 |
Boss Martians | Bad-*** '71 Dodge Super Bee | "I run a 71 Dodge Super Bee got a mean V8 on a dueled exaust with the magnum 383 Ain't got the red for the big R/T... got a bad *** 71 dodge super bee..." | Demon71 |
Bottle Rockets | Building Chryslers | Not a complimentary song | |
Demonics | Mopar or No Car | (Not the same song Slant Six did; and the lead singer had a Super Bee featured in a Mopar magazine) | Scrounge |
Earth https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/pentastar-in-style-demons/id3257737?at=1000lcZQ&mt=1&app=music | (Album) Pentastar | Album cover: style of 'Cuda stripe //tools.applemusic.com/embed/v1/album/3257737?country=us&at=1000lcZQ | |
Jan & Dean | Little Old Lady from Pasadena https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/alb...sadena/id721231095?at=1000lcZQ&mt=1&app=music | She drives a Dodge that beats all: "Parked in her rickety old garage is a brand new super stock Dodge, and every one knows that there is nobody meaner than the little old lady from Pasadena" | Jeep_J4000 |
Relient K (yes, this is the spelling) | K-Car | Band named after the Plymouth (song K-Car is about God) | eaglecars, Hersbird |
Sacred Squall of Now | Firedome | Song named after the Firedome. Melody based on firing pattern (1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2). | gearhead |
Slant Six | Mopar or No Car! | See the video | Craig |
Steve Earle | Copperhead Road | Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside Well him and my uncle tore that engine down I still remember that rumblin' sound | Listen! FreeLantz |
Trish Lester | Plymouth Belvedere | Also the name of the album, but not particularly nice to the car - "Rusty, broken down, that car is killing my career, but to give it up would devastate my daddy dear, so I have to keep on driving my Plymouth Belvedere." | RJB |
Weird Al Yankovic | Belvedere Cruising | About cruising in his Plymouth; unreleased; recorded in 1976. Excerpts: ...No, I don't think that I could bear Drivin' somethin' other than a Belvedere In a Belvedere I can really get my thrills Goin' Belvedere cruisin' tonight Just watch me pass that Porsche on the right I can take you anywhere In my 1964 Belvedere Goin' Belvedere cruisin' tonight | FreeLantz and Rich Hutchinson |
Artist | Title | Usage | Contributor |
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Alvarados | Dodge 440 | Song title | DOC |
B-52s | Love Shack | "I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20" - a 1965 Chrysler 300 convertible in the video | Mark Schmit |
B-52s | Planet Claire | "She drove a Plymouth Satellite, faster than the speed of light" | Kerryman |
B-52s | Legal Tender | "It's time we bought the latest model getaway Jeep" | |
Barenaked Ladies | If I Had a Million Dollars | "I would buy you a K car / a nice Reliant automobile" | 98T&C |
Big Sugar | I'm a Ram | Gordie Johnson's Charger is all over the band's albums, shirts, etc. | hemiboy |
Bleach | Again, for the First Time (album) | Cover has two Charger Daytonas racing | TM1963 |
Bloodhound Gang | Boom | "I'm in your Jeep Grand Cherokee or Land Cruiser" | FreeLantz |
Blues Brothers (orig Delbert McClinton) | B Movie Boxcar Blues | Caught a ride into South Dakota / With two girls in a light blue Desoto | Scrounge |
Bruce Springsteen | Born to Run | "Hemi powered drones scream down the boulevard" ("I like to think he's talking about a Super Bee since a drone is a bee term.") | challenger70 |
Bruce Springsteen | Jungleland | "Barefoot girls sitting on the hood of a Dodge..." | |
Bruce Springsteen | Ramrod | Well she's a hot-steppin' Hemi with a four on the floor / She's a Roadrunner engine in a '32 Ford | b10alia |
Bruce Springsteen | The Promise | Outtake: "And I drove a Challenger down Route 9 / Well, now, I built that Challenger by myself / But I needed money and so I sold it" | B10alia |
Jimmy Buffet | Fool Button | "Was the Cordoba blue or red?" | |
C.W. McCall ("Convoy") | Three or four songs | Mentions Plymouth | FreeLantz |
Cake | Short Skirt Long Jacket | The woman whom the song is about "is trading her MG for a white Chrysler LeBaron" | FreeLantz |
Cars | Heartbeat City | Cover features a Plymouth 340 Duster very prominently | GreyGhost67 |
Harry Chapin | Taxi | "We learned about love in the back of a Dodge." | atlanticbluesxt |
Clutch | Spacegrass | Dodge Swinger nineteen seventy three, top down, chassis low; Panel dim, lightdrive, Jesus on the dashboard. Hit neutral in the tail of a comet, let the vortex pull my weight, push the seatback a little lower, watch light bend in the blower. | Huertadevon |
Corbin/Hanner | Scooter, Michael, Danny, and Me | Go cruising on weekends in a patched up old Plymouth, chip in for gas... | |
D.A. Sebasstian & The Inner Demons | Hemi Charger | Featured in the movie Hot Rod Girls Save The World (listen to it!) (numerous mixes) | D.A. Sebasstian |
David Bowie | Young Americans | "Lady's got a Chrysler" | PaciMan |
Dick Dale | The Scavenger | He enthusiastically sings about a Hemi, but the car is a Dodge Newport 426, when there was no such thing. | single.deck |
Diesel | Sausalito Summernight | We left for Frisco in your Rambler | Scrounge |
Eminem | Bad Meets Evil | So please leave me with the keys to your Jeep Eagle | FreeLantz |
Frank Zappa | Joe's Garage | Band practiced in a garage with a 1954 Dodge | |
Grateful Dead | Sugar Magnolia | "Jump like a Willys in four wheel drive" | A. Thom |
Greg Brown | Slant Six Mind | Album name is Slant Six Mind | Dave |
Haystak | Down South Players | Ooh-ee the stee-lo, they know Tennessee tags on the back of the Durango | hemiman876 |
Demonics | Jesus Chrysler Super Stock | Matthew Gassner | |
Demonics | Super Bee | "...in my 383 Super Bee... ...she's so fine '69..." | fidel 013 |
Fred Horn | '73 Charger Starts Up | An album starts with ten seconds of a 1973 Charger starting (see iTunes, '73 Charger Pulls Away
| |
Iggy Pop | Home | "We're gonna make it - in a Jeep" | single.deck |
Alan Jackson | Neon Rainbow | "... five pickers in an old Dodge truck, headin' out to Houston for a show on Saturday night." | Frank Mobbs |
Alan Jackson | Drive | " .....just an old worn out Jeep. Rusty old floorboards, hot on my feet" | Frank Mobbs |
Joe Walsh | Ordinary Average Guy | My friend's got a Chrysler / I've got a Dodge We're just ordinary average guys | Stratuscaster |
Johnny Cash | The General Lee | I'm a Charger...Charging through the night... | TM1963 |
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers | Dodge Vegematic | "I just like to sit and watch it rot / Yeah, it's my Dodge Vegematic, there in the parking lot" | Kerryman |
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers | Roadrunner | The song made famous by Joan Jett (she made many changes). Probably not about the Plymouth. Video shows 1950s cars being followed. "Roadrunner, roadrunner / Going faster miles an hour." Two cars appear to have been used for the sped-up video, one sees vintage cars, one sees modern ones. Another Road Runner song, also unrelated, released by Bo Diddley. | Scrounge |
KRS-One | Steady Bounce | "Steady bouncing in Jeeps on the New York Streets" - used in the new Jeep Compass advertisement | Jeep JoAnne |
Lyle Lovett | Here I Am | If Ford is to Chevrolet What Dodge is to Chrysler ... What Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong Can you doubt we were made for each other | Mike |
Lynyrd Skynyrd | Outta Hell in my Dodge | I'm gonna get outta Hell in my Dodge ... Spend my life behind the wheel ... Freedom made out of steel | hemiman876 |
Mark Wills | 19-Somethin' | General Lee in video | Jerry Simcik |
Masta Ace | Fat's Belvedere | Not sure | Dave |
Mental as Anything (Australian) | Looking for Bird | Bought a Hemi Pacer in '74 .... Reconditioned auto-missioned drinks a gallon every mile | Mark Schmit |
Ministry | Jesus Built my Hot Rod | Can't tell what he's saying in the song but there's a picture of a 440 Six-Pack on the cover. | Spider597 |
Montgomery Gentry | Speed (video) | 1969 Road Runner with incorrect tail-lights | Jerry Simcik |
Neil Young | Motor City | My army Jeep is still alive Got locking hubs and four wheel drive Ain't got no radio, ain't got no mag wheels Ain't got no digital clock | FreeLantz |
Playmates | Beep Beep | While riding in my Cadillac,... A little Nash Rambler was following me - About one third my size. The guy must've wanted to pass me up... I pushed my foot down to the floor... But the little Nash Rambler stayed right behind... My car went into passing gear ... The little Nash Rambler was right behind ... Now we're doing a hundred and ten ... The Rambler pulled along side of me... The fellow rolled down his window And yelled for me to hear, "Hey, Buddy, how can I get this car Out of second gear!" | Scrounge |
Primus | Kalamazoo | "A B C D E F G H I gotta gal wears her toenails long. Drives a red Barracuda, singin' meat packer songs And she ain't from Kalamazoo. A B C D E F G H I gotta friend lived in a Mercedes-Benz. Then a 55 Chrysler where the trunk never ends/ And the plates say Kalamazoo." | "Unorthodox Neon" |
Rascall Flatts | My Worst Fear (video) | Challenger T/A and first-gen Sebring convertible | |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Me and My Friends | Jacky's eyes are closed but he's right on course because he's guided by the invisible force he drives a kooky green chrysler bad as anybody's porsche | FreeLantz |
Rob Zombie | Two-Lane Blacktop | A clean machine, a real home girl / Barracuda, 68 | Stratuscaster |
Rob Zombie | Never Gonna Stop | Mentions a Durango which is a fictional car from Clockwork Orange, so it's only here to prevent misunderstandings. | punkrockr3 / moparmanmike |
Robert Johnson | Terraplane Blues | (Terraplane was a Hudson model) | Scrounge |
Rush | Warpaint | "and the Charger in the garage" | fast98dodge |
The Screaming Blue Messiahs | Jesus Chrysler Drives a Dodge | circa 1987 | ChargerGuy |
Spice Girls | Not sure | Video shows them driving a Superbird | donut, yrun4n |
Steely Dan | Glamour Profession | In the middle verse they talk about leaving LA "and I drove the Chrysler." | aerofan |
Steve Dahl | Do you think I'm disco? | Got rid of my 280Z / Picked myself up a Beat up old '69 Dart | Scrounge |
Surfaris | Boss Barracuda | Song about the fastback Barracudas | Derek |
Wally Pleasant | Chrysler Cordoba | (Name of song) | Mr. LH |
Talbot Tagora | Any song, really | Seattle punk band named after Chrysler-Europe Talbot Tagora | Andrew Buc |
T. Rex | Jeepster | John | |
Webb Wilder | How Long Can She Last (Going That Fast) | Her Daddy bought her a baby blue Duster when she turned seventeen Her daddy was a fool to trust her that was one little mean machine Lord you need horse sense to handle horse power Momma should have intervened the speedometer said One-twenty in the red ... She burned by at a million miles an hour makin' those pine trees sway | Rich Hutchinson |
Zeke | My Hemi Cuda | single.deck | |
ZZ Top | Mexican Blackbird | Driving a Chrysler down to Mexico | FreeLantz |
Lots of rappers featured Chrysler 300s in their videos when they had first come out.
The Rentals had a green 1972 Plymouth Valiant squealing its tires and leaping through the air, with a Dukes-of-Hazzard landing shot, in one video.
Deborah Allen drove a 1972-74 Barracuda in the video for "If You're Not Going to Love Me" in the early-mid 90s.
See also our "Mopars in Movies," "Mopars driven by celebrities" and "Mopars on television" pages.
Chrysler Heritage • History by Year • Chrysler People and Bios • Corporate Facts and History
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