The Mopar Jukebox: Chrysler Products in Music and Song

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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
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	(Album) Pentastar	Album cover: style of ’Cuda stripe
Jan & Dean	Little Old Lady from Pasadena	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

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
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

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.

See also our "Mopars in Movies," "Mopars driven by celebrities" and "Mopars on television" pages.

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