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Multimedia Index: List of 1999 Songs

Category: Chronological Archive
Description: A list of songs released in 1999. Lyrics are in the English language unless otherwise noted.
Contents: 8 originals · 4 covers
Page Sections: Original Songs · Covers

Original Songs

'88 Mustang
Performers: The Cowslingers
Released: 1999 (Americana-a-Gogo)
Featured Car: 1988 Ford Mustang
Belvedere
Performer: Andy Swindell
Released: 1999 (Living in the Baby Boom)
Featured Car: Plymouth Belvedere
Blue Buick
Performer: Tom McDermott
Songwriter: Tom McDermott
Released: 1999
Featured Car: Buick
Instrumental
Blue Ford Galaxy
Performer: Ronny Lee
Songwriter: Ronny Lee
Released: 1999 (Texas Blues)
Featured Car: Ford Galaxie
Chevy Malibu
Performers: The Dingees
Released: 1999 (Sundown to Midnight)
Featured Car: Chevrolet Malibu
Don't got the answers that you're lookin' for;
But you can listen to my music in your car.
I know it's not the first but it seems to be workin' so far.
Do You Wanna Ride
Performer: Mercedes
Songwriters: Pebbles (Perri Reid) & Mercedes (Raequel Miller)
Released: 29 June 1999 (Rear End)
Featured Car: Mercedes-Benz
Note: Only included on the first edition press of the album and was later taken off due to copyright infringement for samples not being cleared properly and/or used without permission. The samples that were not cleared on the song are as follows: “Nasty Girl” by Vanity 6 & “Mercedes Boy” by Pebbles. (Wikipedia)
External Link: Wikipedia
If you wanna ride in my mercedes boy;
Freak is what we gonna ride do (if you wanna).
And if you wanna ride in my mercedes boy;
This nasty girl gonna put that thing on you.
Drive
Performers: Incubus
Songwriter: Brandon Boyd · Mike Einziger · Chris Kilmore · Alex Katunich · Jose Pasillas
Released: 26 October 1999
External Link: Wikipedia
It's driven me before;
And it seems to have a vague, haunting mass appeal.
But lately I am beginning to find;
That I should be the one behind the wheel.
What About Now
Performer:
Songwriters: Ron Harbin · Aaron Barker · Anthony L. Smith
Released: 1 June 1999 (Lonely Grill)
External Link: Wikipedia
The sign in the window said for sale or trade;
On the last remaining dinosaur Detroit made.
Seven hundred dollars was a heck of a deal;
For a four hundred horsepower jukebox on wheels.

Covers

I'm In Love With My Car
Performer: Mike Ness
Released: 1999
Got a V-8 motor;
Listen to her purr;
And when I put my pedal down;
My whole world's a blur;
Cruisin' down the highway.
Last Kiss
Performers: Pearl Jam
Songwriters: Wayne Cochran · Joe Carpenter · Randall Hoyal · Bobby McGlon
Released: 8 June 1999
External Link: Wikipedia
We were out on a date in my daddy's car;
We hadn't driven very far.
There in the road, straight ahead;
The car was stalled, the engine was dead.
Life is a Highway
Performer: Chris LeDoux
Songwriter: Tom Cochrane
Released: 1999
External Link: Wikipedia
Tennessee to those LA nights;
The San Antone' to Vegas lights;
Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long.
If you're going my way, I wanna drive it all night long.
Mercedes Benz
Performer: Miki Sawaguchi
Songwriters: Janis Joplin · Michael McClure · Bob Neuwirth
Released: 1999 (Big Boobs/Watashi no Mune de Onemurinasai)
Featured Car: Mercedes-Benz
External Link: Wikipedia
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends;
So, oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?




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