Classic Car Show Songs – Best 500 List
Last Updated: July 11, 2023 | Written by Matthew Campbell (Editor of My Wedding Songs and wedding DJ)
These are the Best Car Show Songs we could find. We’ve researched on the internet, asked DJs, asked car show enthusiasts, and put the best of the best into our car show list below. We’ve included some motorcycle songs into our list too as Harley-Davidson is part of American history along with the 1957 Chevy.

Spotify Car Show Playlist
Top Trending Car Show Songs
- “Car Show” by Jagged Edge feat. Big Boi (R&B – 2003)
- “Car Show” by Tierce (Rock – 2017)
- “Car Show” by K.a.l.f.o (Hip Hop – 2021)
- “Car Show” by Nems (Hip Hop – 2019)
- “Car Show” by Hitta Slim (Hip Hop – 2021)
- “Car Show” by ThisIsSkunk (Hip Hop – 2019)
- “Car Show” by Young Trigger aka Mr Youngster (Hip Hop – 2007)
- “Car Show” by Joe Denim (Country – 2022)
- “Car Show” by Gold Beats (Instrumental – 2016)
- “Car Show” by The Homobiles (Punk – 2017)
Top Car Show Favorites
- “Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett (R&B – 1966)
- “I Can’t Drive 55” by Sammy Hagar (Rock – 1994)
- “Rockin’ Down The Highway” by the Doobie Brothers (Rock – 1972)
- “Cruisin’” by Smokey Robinson (R&B – 1979)
- “Litte Red Corvette” by Prince (Pop – 1982)
- “Low Rider” by War (Funk – 1975)
- “Ride Wit Me” by Nelly (Hip Hop – 2000)
- “Cars” by Gary Numan (New Wave – 1979)
- “Life is a Highway” by Rascal Flatts (Country – 2006)
- “(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66” by the King Cole Trio (R&B – 1946)
Have a favorite car show song? Please share your song below in the comments!
Car Show Songs For Automobiles and Motorcycles
(Alphabetical list by artist)
Aaron Tippin – There Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong with the Radio
Alan Jackson – Drive (For Daddy Gene)
Albert King – Cadillac Assembly Line
Alice Cooper – Slick Black Limousine
Allman Brothers – Midnight Rider
Allman Brothers – Ramblin’ Man
Andre Williams – Cadillac Jack
Aretha Franklin – Freeway Of Love
Arlo Guthrie – I’m Changing My Name to Chrysler
Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith – Hot Rod Race
Asleep At The Wheel – (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
Autograph – Blondes in Black Cars
Bachman Turner Overdrive – Roll On Down The Highway
Belle and Sebastian – I Love My Car
Bert Convy & the Cheers – Chicken
Bill Kirchen – Hot Rod Lincoln
Billie Jo Spears – 57 Chevrolet
Billy Ocean – Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
Bing Crosby – In My Merry Oldsmobile
Black Helicopter – Buick Electra
Black Shep – Cool Blue Corvette
Bob Luman – Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache
Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys – Cadillac in Model A
Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys – Hubbin’ It
Bobby Bare – 500 Miles Away From Home
Bobby Troup – (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
Booker T. and the MG’s – Cruisin’
Brad Paisley – All I Wanted Was A Car
Brian Burns – I’ve Been Everywhere (In Texas)
Brian Setzer – 5 Years, 4 Months, 3 Days
Brian Setzer – Who Would Love This Car But Me
Brian Setzer Orchestra – 49 Mercury Blues
Brian Setzer Orchestra – Switchblade 327
Brian Setzer Orchestra – The Legend Of Johnny Kool, Pt. 2
Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen – Cadillac Ranch
Bruce Springsteen – Pink Cadillac
Bruce Springsteen – Racing in the Streets
Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
Bruce Springsteen – Stand On It
C.W. McCall – Four Wheel Drive
Cake – Stickshifts and Safetybelts
Canned Heat – Goin’ Up The Country
Canned Heat – On the Road Again
Cartoon Theme Players – Speed Racer
Celine Dion – I Drove All Night
Charlie Daniels Band – UnEasy Rider
Charlie Ryan – Hot Rod Lincoln
Chevrolet – See The USA In Your Chevrolet
Chris LeDoux – Life Is a Highway
Chuck Berry – Jaguar & The Thunderbird
Chuck Berry – No Particular Place To Go
Chuck Berry – You Can’t Catch Me
Chuck Berry – You Never Can Tell
Cyndi Lauper – I Drove All Night
Collin Raye – Little Red Rodeo
Commander Cody – Hot Rod Lincoln
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Up Around the Bend
Daniel Caine Orchestra – Stingray
Dave Dudley – Fireball Rolled A ‘7’
Dave Dudley – Six Days on the Road
David Ball – Riding With Private Malone
David Lee Murphy – The Road You Leave Behind
David Marks & the Marksmen – Kustom Kar Show
De-Fenders – Little Deuce Coupe
Depeche Mode – Behind the Wheel
Deuce Coupes – Candy Apple Blue
Deuce Coupes – Double-A Fueler
Deuce Coupes – Satan’s Chariot
Dick Dale & His Del Tones – Taco Wagon
Dick Dale And His Del-Tones – 426-Super Stock
Diesel – Sausalito Summernight
Dionne Warwick – Do You Know the Way to San Jose
Dishwalla – Counting Blue Cars
Dizzy Gillespie – Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
Don Brandon – Ballad Of Bonneville
Doug Kershaw and the Hazzard County Boys – Ballad of General Lee
Doug Kershaw and the Hazzard County Boys – Keep Between Them Ditches
Dre ft. Rick Ross – Chevy Ridin’ High
Duane Eddy – Forty Miles of Bad Road
Dwight Yoakam – Long White Cadillac
Dwight Yoakam – Guitars, Cadillacs
Eddie Cochran – Somethin’ Else
Eddie Cochran – Summertime Blues
Eddie Kendricks – Keep on Truckin’
Eddie Rabbit – Drivin’ My Life Away
Elvis Presley – Long Black Limousine
Eric Clapton – Terraplane Blues
Foreigner – Rev On The Red Line
Fred Eaglesmith – Mighty Big Car
Gary Usher – 426 Super Stock
Gene Vincent – Race With The Devil
Gene Vincent – Why Don’t You People Learn How to Drive
Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps – Rocky Road Blues
George Jones – The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)
George Thorogood – Ride On Josephine
George Thorogood – Six Days on the Road
Gordon Lightfoot – Carefree Highway
Grand Funk Railroad – Mr. Limousine Driver
Grandpa Jones – 8 More Miles To Louisville
Hank Snow – Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)
Hank Williams – Hey, Good Lookin’
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Tijuana Taxi
Hot Chocolate – Heaven’s in the Back Seat of My Cadillac
Hotrod Hillbillies – She’s My Chevy
Huey Lewis & Gwyneth Paltrow – Cruisin’
J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers – Last Kiss
Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats – Rocket 88
Jackson Browne – Running On Empty
Jan & Dean – Barons, West L.A.
Jan & Dean – Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)
Jan & Dean – Rockin’ Little Roadster
Jan & Dean – The Anaheim, Azusa & Cucamonga
Jan & Dean – Three Window Coupe
Jan & Dean – Schlock Rod, Pt 1
Janis Joplin – Me & Bobby McGee
Jerry Cole & his Spacemen – Driving Little Deuce
Jerry Jeff Walker – L.A. Freeway
Jerry Reed – East Bound and Down
Jerry Reed – Texas Bound and Flyin’
Jim Croce – Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)
Jim Croce – Working At The Car Wash Blues
Jimi Hendrix – Crosstown Traffic
Jimmy Liggins – Cadillac Boogie
Jo Dee Messina – Heads Carolina, Tails California
Jo Dee Messina – Silver Thunderbird
John Berry – Kiss Me In The Car
John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads
John Hiatt – Riding with the King
John Lee Hooker – Mustang Sally & GTO
John McCutcheon – The Red Corvette
John Schneider – In the Driver’s Seat
John Travolta – Greased Lightnin’ (from ‘Grease’)
Johnny Cash – I’ve Been Everywhere
Johnny Cash – One Piece At A Time
Johnny Rector – If You Drink, Don’t Drive
Junior Walker and the All Stars – (I’m A) Road Runner
Kathy Mattea – 18 Wheels and A Dozen Roses
Keith Bryant – The Chevys and Fords
Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Slow Ride
Led Zeppelin – Trampled Underfoot
Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon – Car Carrier Blues
Lightnin’ Hopkins – T-Model Blues
Lindsey Buckingham – Holiday Road
Little Village – Don’t Think About Her When You’re Trying To Drive
Lobo – Me And You And A Dog Named Boo
Lost Boyz – Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz and Benz
Loudon Wainwright III – Dead Skunk
Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Luke McDaniel – The Automobile Song
Mamas and the Papas – California Dreamin’
Marc Cohn – Silver Thunderbird
Mark Collie – Even the Man in the Moon is Crying
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris – All The Roadrunning
Martha and the Vandellas – Motoring
Meat Loaf – Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Melissa Etheridge – You Can Sleep While I Drive
Merle Haggard – Long Black Limousine
Michael Hurtt and His Haunted Hearts – She Won’t Turn Over for Me
Michael Martin Murphey – Geronimo’s Cadillac
Michael Nesmith – Keys to the Car
Mike Ness – I’m in Love with My Car
Ministry – Jesus Built My Hotrod
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels – Jenny Take a Ride
Nat King Cole – (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
Neil W. Young – I Got My Ragtop Down
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Cadillac Ranch
Original Cast – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Paul Evans – Seven Little Girls (Sitting In the Back Seat)
Paul Revere and the Raiders – Corvair Baby
Paul Revere and the Raiders – Judge GTO Breakaway
Paul Revere and the Raiders – Maybelline
Paul Revere and the Raiders – Powder Blue Mercedes Queen
Paul Revere and the Raiders – SS 396
Paul Westmoreland – Hot Rod Rag
Pearl Bailey – Solid Gold Cadillac
Primus – Jerry Was A Racecar Driver
Public Enemy – You’re Gonna Get Yours
Queen – I’m In Love With My Car
Quiet Riot – Slick Black Cadillac
R. Dean Taylor – Gotta See Jane
Ramblin’ Jimmy Dolan – Hot Rod Race
Rascal Flatts – Fast Cars and Freedom
Rascal Flatts – Life Is a Highway
Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack
Ray Peterson – Tell Laura I Love Her
Ricky Riddle – Drivin’ Down the Wrong Side of the Road
Ricky Skaggs – Highway 40 Blues
Ricky Van Shelton – Keep It Between the Lines
Rob Zombie – Two-Lane Blacktop
Robbie Dupree – Hot Rod Hearts
Robert Johnson – Terraplane Blues
Robert LoRusso – Service Station Blues
Robert Mitchum – The Ballad of Thunder Road
Rod Stewart – Let Me Be Your Car
Roger Miller – King Of The Road
Ronny & The Daytonas – Hot Rod City
Ronny & The Daytonas – Little Scrambler
Ronny & The Daytonas – Antique ’32 Studebaker Dictator Coupe
Ronny & The Daytonas – Bucket T
Ronny & The Daytonas – No Wheels
Roy Orbison – I Drove All Night
Ry Cooder – Crazy ‘Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
Ry Cooder – Drive Like I Never Been Hurt
Ry Cooder – Ridin’ with the Blues
Sammy Hagar – Cruisin’ & Boozin’
Sammy Hagar – I Can’t Drive 55
Sammy Hagar – Trans Am (Highway Wonderland)
Sandi Thom – When Horsepower Meant What It Said
Sawyer Brown – Six Days on the Road
Scott Miller & The Commonwealth – 8 Miles a Gallon
Shot Jackson – I’m Trading You in for a Later Model
Simon and Garfunkel – Baby Driver
Slim Dusty – Lights on the Hill
Sniff ‘n’ the Tears – Driver’s Seat
Sonny Boy Williamson – Pontiac Blues
Southern Culture on the Skids – Voodoo Cadillac
Stray Cats – Look At That Cadillac
Stray Cats – Race With The Devil
Swervedriver – Son Of Mustang Ford
Taj Mahal – Six Days on the Road
Ted Nugent – Motor City Madhouse
Tennessee Buck – The Automobile Song
Texaco – Texaco Star Theme
The All-American Rejects – Move Along
The Amazing Crowns – 1965 G.T.O.
The Band – White Cadillac (Ode to Ronnie Hawkins)
The Beach Boys – Ballad of Ole’ Betsy
The Beach Boys – Car Crazy Cutie
The Beach Boys – Cassius’ Love vs. ‘Sonny’ Wilson
The Beach Boys – Custom Machine
The Beach Boys – Fun, Fun, Fun
The Beach Boys – In The Parkin’ Lot
The Beach Boys – Little Deuce Coupe
The Beach Boys – Spirit of America
The Beach Boys – This Car of Mine
The Bo-Keys – Deuce And A Quarter
The Bottle Rockets – 1000 Dollar Car
The Bottle Rockets – Radar Gun
The Brian Setzer Orchestra – Brand New Cadillac
The Brian Setzer Orchestra – Drive Like Lightning (Crash Like Thunder)
The Challengers – The Blonde In The 406
The Charlie Daniels Band – The Ballad of Thunder Road
The Cheers – Black Denim Trousers & Motorcycle Boots
The Clash – Brand New Cadillac
The Dead Milkmen – Bitchin’ Camaro
The Deuce Coupes – Tijuana Gasser
The Doobie Brothers – Rockin’ Down the Highway
The Eagles – Life in the Fast Lane
The Eagles – Seven Bridges Road
The Everly Brothers – Wake Up Little Suzie
The Four Speeds – My Sting Ray
The Go-Go’s – Skidmarks on My Heart
The Hot Rods – Judy’s Got a Stickshift
The Modern Lovers – Roadrunner
The Paladins – 15 Days Under the Hood
The Rip Chords – Bonneville Bonnie
The Rip Chords – Hey Little Cobra
The Rip Chords – Hot Rod Holiday
The Rip Chords – Little Deuce Coupe
The Rip Chords – Old Car Made In ’52
The Rip Chords – Three Window Coupe
The Rip Cords – Hot Rod U.S.A.
The Rip Cords – Red Hot Roadster
The Rip Chords – Trophy Machine
The Rolling Stones – Black Limousine
The Rolling Stones – Brand New Car
The Shangri-Las – Leader Of The Pack
The Super Stocks – Cheater Slicks
The Super Stocks – Four On The Floor
The Super Stocks – Street Machine
The TV Theme Players – Car 54, Where Are You?
The Untamed Youth – Full Blown 426 Hemi
The Winners – Cops and Robbers
Tillman Franks – Hot Rod Shotgun Boogie No. 2
Tim Ponzek – Stripped Gears and a Broken Heart
Tom Cochrane – Life Is a Highway
Tradewinds – New York’s A Lonely Town
Trish Lester – Plymouth Belvedere
Trisha Yearwood – You Can Sleep While I Drive
TV Theme Players – Highway Patrol
TV Theme Players – My Mother The Car
TV Theme Players – Tom Slick Racer
Vanilla Ice – Rollin In My 5.0
Vincent Razorbacks – Red Hot Rod
Waylon Jennings – Theme from ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ (Good Ol’ Boys)
William DeVaughn – Be Thankful For What You Got
Willie Nelson – On the Road Again
Wings/Paul McCartney – Helen Wheels
Wolle Krinanek Band – I Fahr Daimler
Woody Guthrie – Hobo’s Lullaby
Wynonie Harris – Fish Tail Blues
Zac Brown Band – Chicken Fried
Zac Brown Band – Highway 20 Ride
ZZ Top – I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide
ZZ Top – She Loves My Automobile
Share your favorite car show song in the comments below.
The song is Why Don’t You People Learn How to Drive by Gene Vincent, from the Crazy Time album.
Thank you. The song has been added!
Who did the song from 1960 that has the lyrics, “Why don’t you learn how to drive, huh? You just might survive…” I heard it on the Iowa Public Radio show by Bob Dohr in Iowa City and now I can’t remember the singer (somebody Benson?) Gene Benson? I loved it! Sure would love to have it or hear it again!
Hi Maria. Sorry, I am not familiar with the song. Maybe a passerby will know the song.