Sammy johns - Chevy Van

“Chevy Van” is a 1973 music, written and sung by Sammy Johns with instrumental backing supplied by Los Angeles-based session musicians from the Wrecking Crew. The music was successful single in the USA and Canada in 1975, reaching #5 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart, and turning into 1,000,000 vendor. It was performed totally on High 40 stations within the 1970s; later re-recordings have been performed in a rustic vein.

It particulars how an unnamed male driver picks up an unnamed feminine, who then proceeds to ultimately seduce him right into a one-night stand behind his Chevrolet Van. On the finish he drops her off “in a city that was so small, you would throw a rock from finish to finish. A mud highway foremost avenue, she walked off in naked ft,” and laments “It is a disgrace I will not be passing by way of once more.” The music struck a chord with listeners within the sexually liberated 1970s when Johns launched it. The recognition of the music can be reflective of the vansploitation movies of the interval. The unique 1973 model was featured within the 1977 movie The Van.

In more moderen years, nation artists Eric Church, Waylon Jennings, and Sammy Kershaw and rock artists Joe Pernice and Fu Manchu have every launched covers of the music. Not like Sammy Johns’s unique refrain that opens “Trigger like a princess she was laying there…”, the aforementioned artists sing “Trigger like an image she was laying there…”

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