Little? I don't know about your '74, but I don't have much of a luggage compartment in my '75. Recently drove 2500 miles and had to stop and do laundry twice.

But what the heck, I didn't buy it to haul groceries home from the store.

And Ex-Dep., About the Prince thing, Hey to each his own. He's not my favorite artist, and I don't think the song is really about Corvette's anyway, but You don't here me knocking Lawrence Welk or Bing Crosby, do ya?

 

Nothing wrong with Little Red Corvette. Killer song from my teen years.
30 somethings are now at the age where they can afford that new Corvette and many have never heard any of those songs you listed.

Using nothing but old Beach Boys or Jan and Dean songs will only push the "over the hill" and "mid life crisis" stigma of the Vette....now where's that smiley with the cane or walker. :lol:

 

Okay....just so you guys (and gals???) don't think I am an Old Geezer (which I AM, and proud of it), I went out today and bought the fruitcake Prince's Greatest(?) Hits CD JUST for this song. The BAD news is the lyrics ARE filth. I am no Moral Majority person, but they are filth. The GOOD news is they are so garbled (whether on purpose or not I don't know) that all you can really hear clearly is:

"Little Red Corvette,
Baby you're much too fast,
Little Red Corvette,
You need a love that's gonna last"

Since the rest of the song is garbled, I'll give it a semi-thumbs up. The audio is nice and clear, and the music is okay. Just don't let your wife/kids/girfriend listen TOO close. Evidently there are a LOT of websites that post the EXACT words, and lots of other people agree that the words are pretty garbled. It still can't hold a candle to other songs sung about the Vette. As for what the marketing strategy is...how many of these people that listen to people like Prince and that freak you guys talk about above actually BUY Vettes? Us baby boomers are probably the main ones keeping the Vette alive. How many people have you seen driving Vettes that have multiple pierced body parts, baseball caps cocked sideways, and baggy pants too long that have exposed buttcracks?
I think if I saw someone like that getting out of a Vette I'd go into uncontrollable fits of laughter!
:lol:

Dep

 

You sound like when my dad used to complain about the Beatles back in the 70's :lol:

You've also got generations confused...Prince is an early 80's icon...a has been. The kids back then were Punk Rockers, spiked hair, cut up jean jackets ect. Today many of them are working in offices with 6 figure incomes. You kind of described the current generation...Gangta wanna be trash driving around in Honda Civics :) Most probably have never heard of Prince either. hehe...Maybe in 20 years Tupac will be selling Vettes. I'm sure there's a Vette song of his out there that hasn't been discovered yet :D And if not he'll write one because we all know he's still alive just like Elvis.

And don't feel bad about the lyrics. It wasn't until the internet started to become popular that I finally figured just what Prince was singing about 20 years ago.

Marketing is a wonderful thing. Back when I was working in a grocery store at 16 most the muzak that played was from the 60's. Just got back from the grocery store about 2 hours ago. All the muzak was from the 80's. Makes me feel so old :(

 

I'm probably old enough to BE your Dad, and I had no use for the Beatles either. I was into hot rods (and hot rod songs) back when hot rods WERE hot rods. Late 50's through early 70's. I survived the compression drop and gas hike and all those other horrible days. It's actually nice to see young guys re-discover the older hot rods that were awesome rides then and now. It's also nice to see the car companies return to building factory hot rods, but I am shocked at the prices they charge for them.

As for music...mine stopped about 1970. Thank goodness there's an oldies station in Chicago that I pick up. Otherwise, I wouldn't even turn on FM radio. And thank goodness for CDs and CD burners. I can put the GOOD stuff ALL on one CD and not have to listen to the dang commercials and idiot announcers. Imagine a CD with ALL hot rod songs on it. I'm in the process of making one this week. Just waiting on delivery of some Jan & Dean CDs.

Dep

 

 

"As for music...mine stopped about 1970. Thank goodness there's an oldies station in Chicago that I pick up."

That's gotta be Oldies 104.3. Its always had a place on my presets for as long as I can remember.

 

or maybe even spirit of america, custom machine, anyway all good songs by BB
Scott

 

vairxpert: that's the station!! Unfortunately, they are playing more modern stuff from the
disco and 80's time span. I guess they wore grooves through all those old 45's ;)

SBcoupeC3: Now you're talking. The whole Little Deuce Coupe album is excellent!
Jan and Dean also have some great car songs. And the real sleeper is SS396 by Paul Revere and the Raiders.

 

"i guess i must be dumb
'cuz u had a pocket full of horses
trojan and some of them used"

"i guess i shoulda closed my eyes
when u drove me 2 the place
where your horses run free
'cuz i felt a little ill
when i saw all the pictures
of the jockeys that were there before me
believe it or not
i started to worry
i wondered if i had enough class"

Doesn't seem to have a lot to do with the "Little red Corvette" :lol: :lol:

 

vairxpert....

Coincidence????

My favourite oldies station in Melbourne Australia is Gold 104.3 !

My radio is permanently preset there.

Best regards,
Joe

 

72rdstr: Yep...my point exactly. It has NOTHING to do with the car. What he's referring to, if I understand the meaning, is something else enitrely different. And something that would get me tossed off this board REAL fast if I tried to describe it. GM must have focused ONLY on the song title and not on the lyrics. Or maybe they never bothered to actually figure out what the lyrics were. A shame, since they could easily afford to have a new song made by ANY current group, that had more to do with the car and not with some freak's sex fantasies. There is SO much they can sing about the new Vettes that it's hard to understand why they'd bother with "the-person- who-was-formally-known-as-whatever-he-is-calling-himself-now :)
BTW...has anyone noticed that Little Red Corvette has an AMAZING similarity to Diana Ross's "Up The Ladder To The Roof" song?

jyounane: Hey Joe...maybe those radio stations are magically connected??? ;)
Nice Vette! Looks exactly like my 72, even same color outside. Inside of mine is saddle tan though.

Dep