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Since I wasn't here in the late '80s and a basic Internet search isn't turning anything up, I'm turning to you, Cream Readers—he and she of vast music trivia, hometown pride and late '80s Bangles parodies—to help solve this local music conundrum.
From a reader:
WHAT RADIO STATION DID A SONG "DRIVE LIKE A NASHVILLIAN" IN THE MID 80'S. MUSIC WAS TO WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN. I AM TRYING TO FIND A COPY OF THE LYRICS. ANY SUGGESTION? THANKS!
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I don't remember for certain, but that sounds like a dead ringer for something that would've been on Y107...probably Coyote McCloud and the Zoo Crew.
BTW, the 45 single of "Walk Like an Egyptian" was the first music I ever bought.
Those DJ names are priceless...Buck Nayked, John Smelly, Hawk Harrison, Hollywood Hendrix. Wow.
Posted On: Thursday, May. 31 2007 @ 11:12AMYeah, Y107 sounds right. They also had "Rice Rice Baby" and "All We Are Saying is Kick Hussein's Ass."
Posted On: Thursday, May. 31 2007 @ 11:14AMI rocked my Tookie Tee with pride. I'm fuckin' old school like that.
Posted On: Thursday, May. 31 2007 @ 3:43PMRice Rice Baby was happening right when I hit Nashville in '91. I believe "I Gotta Go Pee Pee" was around the same time.
Posted On: Friday, Jun. 1 2007 @ 2:03PMYa'll may like my old Y-107 time capsule tribute page I created way back in the late 90's all about the good old days of WYHY Lebanon Nashville, Y-107 :)
http://djshawn.com/Y107_Nashville/
If anyone has anything you may have on cassette, paper, sound bites, the old "real" Tookie Bird Call Sound, please fel free to send it to me and I'll be happy to post it to my page :)
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Y-107... All the other guys are a bunch of Weenies!
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DJ_Shawn
Posted On: Wednesday, Jan. 16 2008 @ 7:13PMLOL!
I was going to school in Nashville in those days, although I lived in Tullahoma. I went to the trouble of rigging and antenna when I was home on weekends so I could hear Y107. When I was at school there in Nashville, I listened to it all the time.
I want to hear
Drive Like a Nashvillian
Madonna Don't Preach
Elmer Fudd singing True Colors
Don't Worry, Just Burp.
Anyone know where I can get that??
Posted On: Monday, Sep. 1 2008 @ 6:50PMI don't know why I looked this up tonight and found this page, but I can't believe it! I will have to go thru my old cassettes--I think that I still have the April Fools Day Parade that Mark Chase produced at Y-107.
Also, and I know that you probably won't believe this but it was my burp in Don't Worry Just Burp...may still have that too...I did traffic reports occasionally for Chase. Didn't know that Tim and Tom had done the song until later...Mark had taped some burps and they used them...pretty hilarious...my 15 sec of fame...
Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 7 2008 @ 12:07AMi used to know gator Harrison who worked at y107 back when i lived in nashville. he now works at 94.7 the country giant on week days 6-10.
Does anyone know where to find any of the old Tookie Tees. I used to have one of ninja tookie and one of tookie in the blender. I would love to find some similar to those.
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 17 2008 @ 8:32PMI googled "Drive Like A Nashvillian" and came across this blog. I remember that song, too from the mid-80's. We lived in Antioch when I was a kid and the radio stations there were awesome!!
I wish I could find the lyrics to Drive Like a Nashvillian. They were hilarious!
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 30 2009 @ 10:02PMIf anyone has the words to "Drive Like a Nashvillian" please post them somewhere! I've been trying to find a recording or those words for ages, since the only times I ever heard the song were when I was alone in my car and Y107 was my fall-back station (usually on weekend evenings when my usual station was playing crap all night long).
Posted On: Monday, Dec. 21 2009 @ 9:30PMHere is what I remember from the song, hoping others can help fill in the blanks:
"All those idiots, don't they know
They make the traffic go so slow.
You look around (oh ay oh) they got their finger up their nose.
And over there that blue hair driving the Olds '98 (???)
You signal left, then turn right
Close your eyes then you make a U.
Clog up three lanes driving north
Out on West End Avenue
Then you head uptown run a tourist down
Sixteenth and Demonbreun
And then you know (oh ay oh)
You're driving like a Nash-vil-ian.
When it snows heaven knows they go (screech crash)
Drive like a Nashvillian
Drive like a Nashvillian
When you drive at night keep your lights
Always on bright, never dim.
Someone complains, hit your horn
Then you shoot a bird to him. (???)
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Anyone remember the blank spaces or the right order of verses?
Thanks!
Kimberly
"And over there, that blue hair driving that Olds 98? You know she'll drive 35 left lane on the interstate..."
Posted On: Saturday, Jan. 30 2010 @ 8:02PM
