Jan & Dean
Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
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Hot Rod is simple, instrumental music that sounds exactly like surf rock -- the only difference is, hot rod has the sound of revving engines and screeching tires overdubbed above the cascading music. There were no national hot rod hits -- the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean may have sung about cars, but those were rock songs, not hot rodding songs -- but it was a cult favorite during the early '60s and it maintained a following for several decades. Once the CD reissue boom began mining the vaults for obscurities in the early '90s, hot rod earned a new cult audience among rock collectors, as rarities and long out-of-print hot rod records were reissued on labels like Sundazed, One Way, and Del-Fi.

Hot Rod Artists Highlights

Jan & Dean
Jan & Dean
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys
Davie Allan
Davie Allan

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Hot Rod Album Highlights

Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys
The Beach Boys
Sounds of Summer: The Very ...
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
The Beach Boys
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Surfer Girl/Shut Down, Vol. 2
The Beach Boys
Surfer Girl/Shut Down, ...
Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long
The Beach Boys
Little Deuce Coupe/All ...
Devil's Rumble: The Davie Allan & the Arrows Anthology
Davie Allan
Devil's Rumble: The Davie ...
I Fought the Law: The Best of the Bobby Fuller Four [Del-Fi]
Bobby Fuller / The Bobby ...
I Fought the Law: The Best ...

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Hot Rod Song Highlights

Title/Composer Performer Stream
California Girls The Beach Boys
Surfin' Safari The Beach Boys
Little Deuce Coupe The Beach Boys
I Get Around The Beach Boys
Apache '65 Davie Allan & the Arrows
Let Her Dance The Bobby Fuller Four
Jennie Lee Jan & Arnie
Surf City Jan & Dean
Dead Man's Curve Jan & Dean
Keep an Eye on Summer The Beach Boys

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