Favorite moment with music in your car.

A post from 2018:

Weather report: A Remark you Made (heavy weather) and I am transported back to a moonlit night sometime around 1984 driving a 1976 Monte Carlo with Heavy Weather in the 8-track, accelerating up the on ramp from 422 in Girard Ohio, getting on to I-80 West, past the dark, disused steel mills in the bright moonlight. The song sounded slower and sadder then. 

In mid 80's finally decided to make the big move to leave Boston.  Checked a U.S, map to see how far away it was possible to get from Boston.  On the map it was clear, San Diego was the furthest away.  Quit my job, bought a new car,and John Mellencamp, Steve Winwood, and Creedence tapes.

Played them non-stop on the 2 week drive through New Orleans, Texas, across the Rockies, to San Diego.  Best decision I ever made...

Finally a post has struck a nerve.  It was 1960 - that's right, 1960 - and a car full of my buddies and I were barreling down Pacific Coast Highway singing (actually screaming)  along to Alley Oop by the Hollywood Argyles at the top of our lungs. Truly a prime moment in my musical memory.

About that time I had a record player installed in my '54 Chevy Bel Air.  It was an option, I think, on the 1960 Chrysler. It held about 10 45's and played them with the tone arm under the records. Oh my God.  Imagine all the 50's rock and roll played,  what seemed to us, flawlessly and at a deafening volume.  It also played Johnny Mathis equally well, which served me beyond measure in  my post-adolescent dating activities.  I kept the 45's in a plastic trash can; I had about a 100.  One night my friend, Jerry (last name withheld)  barfed in that bucket.  Recriminations ensued.

Things took a turn when my grad school girlfriend acquired  a '56 Mustang with an 8 track player.  "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"  moved me like no music I had ever heard before.  Even now, over 50 years later, I still get chills when I listen to it in comfort of my own living room.  But no esoteric stereo ever conceived will equal that thrilling 4 minutes on a rainy day in 1967 when I heard it the very first time on that lowly 8 track player

Here’s Rodney Crowell recounting his first hearing of "I Walk The Line" in 1956, driving in a car with Pa and Grandpa. Johnny Cash makes a cameo appearance on the chorus.

My most astounding moment was listening a Russian mathematician turned musicologist chanting old primitive Gregorian hymns as it was supposed to be song before the Gregorian reform.

I missed  the road accident by few inches because it put me in a trance and ectasy.😊

Some can with their voice induce modified consciousness as hypnosis.

It takes almost 9 minutes with a deep bass  soloist voice to go out of the letter "A" of the word alleluia and the same for "A" in amen..

It was so different that what most people call gregorian singing that it is one of the greatest musical event in my life ...I discovered after that he used what is called "harmonic singing" voicing and overtone singing in the acoustic of Monastery to recreate gregorian hymns before the standardization of Saint Gregory the great.