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Multimedia Index: List of 1978 Songs

Category: Chronological Archive
Description: A list of songs released in 1978. Lyrics are in the English language unless otherwise noted.
Contents: 5 originals · 1 cover
Page Sections: Original Songs · Covers

Original Songs

'57 Chevrolet
Performer: Billie Jo Spears
Songwriter: Roger Bowling
Released: July 1978
Featured Car: Chevrolet
External Link: Wikipedia
Come and look at this old faded photograph.
Honey, tell me what it brings to mind.
It's a picture of that '57 Chevrolet.
I wish that we could ride it one more time.
The Blonde in the Blue T-Bird
Performer: Walter Egan
Songwriter: Walter Egan
Released: 9 May 1978 (Not Shy)
Featured Car: Ford Thunderbird
A moonlight night, the highway shines;
A pair of beams approaches mine.
And as she pulls up close;
We share a glance; my heart awoke.
Car 67
Performer: Driver 67
Songwriter: Paul Phillips · Pete Zorn
Released: November 1978
External Link: Wikipedia
Control have mercy on me;
I don't wanna do the pick-up, isn't anybody else free?
Stuck in a jam in a one-way street;
Why don't you tell her she'd be quicker if she used her feet, yeah.
Chevrolet
Performers: Foghat
Songwriter: Dave Peverett
Released: May 1978 (Stone Blue)
Featured Car: Chevrolet
I'll buy you a Chevrolet - I'll buy you a Chevrolet;
I'll buy you a Chevrolet, if you just give me some of your love.
Greased Lightnin'
Performer: John Travolta
Songwriter: Jim Jacobs · Warren Casey
Released: 14 April 1978
Description: Originally written for the 1971 musical, the film version as sugn by John Travolta was released on the soundtrack and as a single.
External Link: Wikipedia
We'll get some overhead lifters and four barrel quads, oh yeah;
(Keep talking, woah, keep talking)
A fuel injection cut off and chrome plated rods, oh yeah.
(I'll get the money, I'll kill to get the money)
With a four-speed on the floor, they'll be waitin' at the door;
You know that it ain't shit, we'll be gettin' lots of tit, greased lightnin'.

Covers

Brand New Cadillac
Performers: The Fall
Songwriter: Vince Taylor
Released: 1978
Featured Car: Cadillac
External Link: Wikipedia
My baby drove up in a brand new Cadillac;
I said my baby drove up in a brand new Cadillac.
She said listen to me daddy;
I ain't never comin' back.




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