Dwight Yoakam was born in Kentucky and raised in Ohio where he started listening to vintage country and honky tonk music at an early age.This song is available on:
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Cadillacs come in all colors but noone ever sings about their red, blue or green Cadillac, do they?
So, for musical purposes, assume that you have three choices: a Slick, Black Cadillac, a Pink Cadillac or a Long White Cadillac.
As an alternative, you could build your own.
In 1955, Elvis Presley bought a 1955 pink and white Cadillac Fleetwood for his mother.This song is available on:
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Elvis has a reputation as a car collector for a good reason, he bought a lot of them. Not only did he buy them for himself, but, as part of his generous nature, he also bought them as gifts for friends, family, associates and even complete strangers.
Elvis' car of choice? Cadillac.
Elvis purchased over 100 Cadillacs during his lifetime. He would often test drive them for a few days before giving them away.
The Cadillac he bought for his mother was his first Cadillac and his favorite. It was used in his early performing days to transport himself, his band and their equipment. On one of these ventures, near Texarkana, Arkansas, and shortly after he bought the car, a brake lining caught fire and it suffered some damage, which was repaired. Incidentally, though he bought the car for his mother, she never drove it.
During a radio interview, Elvis was once asked about the four Cadillacs he had in the driveway of his home. Elvis' response was, "I do have four Cadillacs, but I haven't got use for four. Maybe some day I'll go broke and I can sell a couple of 'em."
Elvis' love affair with Cadillac continued to the end. A gleaing white 1977 Miller-Meteor Landau Traditional Cadillac hearse would transport Elvis' body to the Memphis Cemetary on August 18, 1977 after a private service inside his Graceland home. The procession, which attracted thousands to line the streets of Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, included another sixteen white Cadillac limousines to carry mourners.
The hearse was apparently destroyed when it was engulfed in flames on Interstate 75 near Live Oak, Florida, in 1984.
"Pink Cadillac" (1989), starring Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters is the story of bounty hunter tracking down a woman who has skipped bail and disappeared in her husband's 1959 Pink Cadillac.
In 1890, Henry Martyn Leland, having learned precision manufacturing at Samuel Colt's gun works in Connecticut, moved to Detroit.This song is available on:
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Leland eventually formed his own company and became a successful manufacturer of crankshaft grinders. By 1896 the firm was manufacturing streetcar steam engines and gasoline marine engines.
In 1901, Leland developed an engine that could produce 23 percent more horsepower than its contemporary while under contract with the Olds Motor Works (Oldsmobile). Olds, however, would reject this new design as retooling the factory would further delay production that was already behind schedule.
Leland was approached by William Murphy and Lemuel W. Bowen, financial backers of Henry Ford, in 1902. Ford had been mostly producing racing cars, to the dismay of Murphy and Bowen, and, wanting out, hired Leland to help them sell their automobile plant and equipment.
Instead, Leland showed them his new engine design and convinced them to stay in the business as the Cadillac Automobile Company.
Le Sieur Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac was a French explorer who discovered Detroit early in the 18th century.
Cadillac produced its first car in 1903 and took orders for 2286 before declaring the model "sold out."
As the first production automobiles to use innovations such as a distributor, power steering, and a synchromesh transmission, Cadillacs have always had the reputation as an American icon of luxury, style and performace. Cadillac led the luxury car market from 1950 to 1997 and today comes in sixth behind Toyota's Lexus division.
Quiet Riot was formed in 1975 and featured lead singer Kevin DuBrow and guitarist Randy Rhoads.This song is available on:
Rhoads quit in 1979 to play for Ozzy Osbourne, former lead singer for Black Sabbath and star attraction of the MTV reality show "The Osbournes." Rhoads was killed in 1982 in a small plane accident.
DuBrow continued with Quiet Riot, jumped on the big-hair, glam-rock bandwagon and eventually meet with success in 1983 with the album "Metal Health." The album reached number one and achieved platinum status, a first for a heavy metal band.
Quiet Riot disbanded in 1988.
The Clash was formed during the first wave of 70's English punk.This song is available on:
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Drawing heavily on outlaw imagery, and positioning themselves as rebels with a cause, The Clash became known for their leftist politics with songs about revolution and the working class.
Mick Jones went on to form Big Audio Dynamite and Joe Strummer pursued a solo career when The Clash disbanded in 1983.
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