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Title: Get your kicks on Route 66
Post by KMC on Nov 12^th, 2011 at 8:54pm

A Stones' oldie but goodie brought to life.
Came across this page with classic photos of the original Route 66.
Know the Stones played San Bernadino once, but doubt they traveled this hard road.

http://www.djmick.co.uk/travel/85-years-of-route-66-92-photos/

BTW, the Stones learned the song from a Chuck Berry lp, but he didn't write it.

Title: Re: Get your kicks on Route 66
Post by Paranoid Android on Nov 12^th, 2011 at 9:00pm

I first hip to this kind of trip from DEPECHE MODE...

They played MSG and WLIR or WDRE played Rt66 10 days before the single was released and opened with it that evening...MSG was all a frenzy

Yours Truly included!!

Title: Re: Get your kicks on Route 66
Post by gimmekeef on Nov 13^th, 2011 at 9:19am

Route 66 was written by Bobby Troup who ended up playing a doctor on that old TV show Emergency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Troup

Title: Re: Get your kicks on Route 66
Post by Sioux on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 11:07am

As a kid, my family and I got our kicks on Route 66 every summer, as we travelled from So. Cal. to Kentucky and Va. to visit relatives. We had favorite motels {"Roys"}, towns {Tucumcari, N.M.}, eateries.....and, of course, Burma Shave signs! ;D

Always got a kick out of the song....historic road!

Title: Re: Get your kicks on Route 66
Post by uncleson on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 3:45pm

Great song done well by Stones, DM, and Nat King Cole.

Title: Re: Get your kicks on Route 66
Post by Edith Grove on Nov 20^th, 2011 at 3:20pm

My parents hated the Stones until the day my Dad heard me playing Route 66 in my room in '78.
He knocked on my door and said he always loved that song and wanted to know who was doing that version.

I was then allowed to attend my first Stones show in July '78. :loloncemore

Title: Re: Get your kicks on Route 66
Post by Brainbell Jangler on Nov 21^st, 2011 at 1:11pm

A friend of mine's parents used to have a 78 rpm version of "Route 66" recorded by Bing Crosby with The Andrews Sisters on backup vocals.