Who wrote the most famous Route 66 song?
Alexander de Vries
2025-05-25 20:30:49
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One of the most popular road songs ever written, and a prime force behind the international popularity of Route 66, “Get Your Kicks on Route 66” was penned by jazz musician Bobby Troup in 1946 while he was driving west to seek fame and fortune in Los Angeles. Troup consistently credited his former wife Cynthia, with whom he was traveling, for the half dozen words of the title and refrain. The rest of the Route 66 song simply rattled off the rhyming place-names along the way, but despite its apparent simplicity, it caught the ear of Nat King Cole, who made it into a hit record and also established the pronunciation as “root” rather than “rout,” as repeated in later renditions by everyone from Bob Wills to the Rolling Stones.
Amélie van Beek
2025-05-18 08:56:28
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Hundreds of versions exist of Bobby Troup’s song “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66,” better known simply as “Route 66,” that he wrote during a cross-country trip on that highway after World War II.
Annabel van Boven
2025-05-11 22:44:36
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By Rickie Longfellow
Get your kicks on Route 66! At one time or another most of us have heard this 1946 song written by Bobby Troup and sung by the unforgettable Nat King Cole.
Helena Bos
2025-04-29 01:41:31
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Louise Vegt
2025-04-29 01:13:51
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(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66, kortweg Route 66, is een nummer geschreven door Bobby Troup in 1946.
Het nummer gaat, vanzelfsprekend, over Route 66, een Amerikaanse autosnelweg (U.S. Route) die Chicago en Los Angeles verbond (3940 km).
De bekendste versie is die van Chuck Berry uit 1961.
Berry's versie trok de aandacht van The Rolling Stones, die het nummer in 1964 coverden.
De andere bekende coverversies van het oorspronkelijke nummer waren die van Them (1965), Depeche Mode (1987), Michael Martin Murphey (1990), Nats dochter Natalie Cole (1991) en Herman Brood (1999).
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- When was Route 66 first opened?
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- How much of the old Route 66 is still drivable?
- What is the most famous stop on Route 66?
- Who first performed Route 66?
- Why is Route 66 in America so famous?
- What is Route 66 most famous nickname?
- What caused the death of Route 66?
- Is there a cars town on Route 66?