From 1978 on Logo Records. 0:00 Car 67 3:16 Communications Breakdown. Watch the video for Car 67 from Driver 67's Car 67 for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. This is a very special one hit wonder for 'Left and to the Back' for a few reasons, but perhaps most prominent of all - this was one of the first records my mother took me into Woolworths to buy. Not the first, you understand - that was Shalamar's 'Uptown Festival' medley, probably because I liked the picture of the train on the label. Nor, unfortunately, was it the first single I bought with my own money (or gift token) which was XTC's 'Making Plans For Nigel' (the beginning of a lifelong love affair with that particular group). But nonetheless, you get where I'm coming from, readers. It's one of those discs I daren't ever get rid of, purely because the memory of seeing the song on 'Top of the Pops' and hassling my parents to buy it, and having to deal with Woolies not having a copy on the week we dropped in, is still in my mind. It was one of the gateway records for my long relationship with vinyl. It's also been dismissed by many online commentators in recent years as being a rather silly novelty record. I may be biased due to the single dropping into the shops at an impressionable time for me, but I doubt that's the reason why I like it so much - after all, I also bought a single by The Smurfs at around roughly the same time and that doesn't register very highly in my affections anymore. The truth is that 'Car 67' is a peculiarly innovative pop record which is loaded with gimmicks, and as a result sounds quite unlike anything else that was in the charts at that time. Car 67 Driver 67There's no punk spikiness here, no moonlight soul crooning, no early evening variety show-friendly chirpiness. Initially it appears to essentially be an earthily sung ballad - by songwriter Paul Phillips playing a fictional taxi driver - perched on top of a repetitive riff with spoken interjections from a switchboard operator from Birmingham. 67 67 Burns StreetHp photosmart c5280 driver download. Having set out its bizarre stall quite early on, the song then weaves a narrative around the jilted cabbie, slowly revealing the source of his angst and woe in the manner a country songwriter would be proud of, taking various little musical backstreets and detours along the way. The mournful outro, in particular, is wonderful.
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