Mopars in Music and Song

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Ewald Stein wrote: “A few years ago I came accross a CD from a group or artist with the name Dodge. I was startled by this and I was pleased when reading the song-titles.” Mr. Stein sent along photos of the CD, showing a Dodge grille on the front and an Aries tail on the back; the CD was titled Mutronic Injection, and songs include 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

Artist	Title	Usage	Contributor
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
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
Jimmy Buffet	Fool Button	“Looking for the rental car / 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 (the lesson hadn't gone too far).”	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	Song title is Kill Switch...Klick - Hemi Charger — also featured in the movie Hot Rod Girls Save The World (listen to it!)	D.A. Sebasstian
David Bowie	Young Americans	"Lady's got a Chrysler"	PaciMan
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	Imagine me in a SUV Sports utility, boy from Tennessee 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 )
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
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 Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties What the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea 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 Can’t take this anymore Gonna go downtown pick up my girl There ain’t nothin’ worth waitin’ for Take the road less traveled Spend my life behind the wheel Gonna get outta hell in my Dodge Freedom made out of steel	hemiman876
Mark Wills	19-Somethin’	General Lee in video	Jerry Simcik
Masta Ace	Fat's Belvedere	Not sure - listen here:	Dave
Mental as Anything (Australian)	Looking for Bird	Bought a Hemi Pacer in '74 It's got bananas in the gearbox rust in every door Reconditioned auto-missioned drinks a gallon every mile It looks good from a distance but it's got a rusted dial	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 Ain't got no clock.	FreeLantz
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
Ron Zombie	Two-Lane Blacktop	"Where ya goin, an airport road A clean machine, a real home girl Barracuda, 68"	Stratuscaster
Ron Zombie	Never Gonna Stop	"my Durango number 95 take me to the home"	punkrockr3
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
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
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
ZZ Top	Mexican Blackbird	Driving a Chrysler down to Mexico	FreeLantz

Videos

Lots of rappers featured Chrysler 300s in their videos when they had first come out.

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.