HEY LITTLE COBRA - The Rip Chords
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- HEY LITTLE COBRA - The Rip Chords
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Carrol Shelby- The only person to win Lemans as a driver,team owner and manufacturer. "Nuff said.
I saw my first Cobra in 1966 at Alton Dragway, Alton Illinois ( RIP). All of us gear heads were thrilled to see a 289 Cobra entered in the B/Sports class along with about 14 327 Corvettes. We watched in awe as the lone Cobra waded through the field that day to take home the class trophy. That Cobra ran in the low 13s @ 105 mph or so, while the Vettes were in the high 13s to low 14s. I was 16 years old that day but the memory of my first look at a Cobra is as vivid today as it was in 1966. I later saw a 427 Cobra run low 11s @ 125 mph in ‘67. Hey Little Cobra ring true to my ears!
When I was four or five years old my dad and I stopped by a Ford dealer in Atlanta,GA. to check-out the used cars. There was a red '66 Cobra sitting on the show room floor. It had a dual-quad 427 engine,4 spd. transmission and tail pipes rather than side pipes. He could've bought it for $3300.00. Damn!
A Top 5 hit for The Rip Chords in February 1964. On February 1, 1964, this was the #5 song in the USA. The #1 song was I Want to Hold Your Hand by The Beatles. Nothing more needs to be said.
I was a Ford salesman in 1965-the cars on the showroom floor were '66's.One of the cars on the floor was a grey Cobra with a 260 in it and one of our demos was a GT 350.I owned a Mustang Fastback with a 289 and a 4 speed then.I now own a 1995 Mustang GT convertible with a 302 and a 5 speed.Great song-thanks for posting it!
this is the first record I ever bought. Cost me 79 cents. I played it to death
As Carol tells it, she met Carrol Shelby and he offered her a Cobra if she could write a #1 song about it. She did and he lived up to his word. Later Brian Wilson met her and said, "we knew a girl wrote that song." How? she asked. "Because you don't take your Cobra out of gear and let it coast to the line." Honey,you can if you're that far ahead, she replied.
Carol Connors also sang back up on the record. That is her singing "Shut 'em down" in the back ground. Carol sang
lead on the 1958 one hit wonder "To Know Him Is To Love Him" with The Teddy Bears under the name Annette Kleinbard.
Had this playing in my Cobra going to a show yesterday.. Perfect song for the Interstate at 5am in the morning!
My Dad bought me the 45; I was thrilled because I loved this song. I still do!
The Cobra Carrol Conner bought is now located in Toole UT at the Larry Miller Motorsports museum. Along with 2 GT 40s that placed first and second at Le Mans the year they went 1,2,3
one day I was walking thru the Publix parking lot--heard this hum in the parking lot-goose bumps all over when I saw this beautiful COBRA slowly purring thru the lot-my neighbor had one so I knew that unique purr-got to hear him start it up EVERYDAY!!! nothing like it--thanks Cobra
Had the great good fortune to drive a 289 Cobra in 1970 at Palm Beach International Speedway...managed to match an Elva/Porche lap time for lap time for several laps...a feat I attribute to the great speed and handling of the vehicle ...way more than my own skills. An experience that I carry in my self...and can pull up ...to recall a great ...GREAT... Saturday afternoon
That's great !
I'd drive a 289 than a 427. Give myself a fighting chance
lucky you
Terry Melcher - lead vocals, background vocal layers
Bruce Johnston - co-lead vocals, background vocal layers
The Wrecking Crew - instrumentation
Carol Connors & Marshall H. Connors - songwriters
Terry Melcher & Bruce Johnston - producers
I'm obsessed with that backing voice; bassey and beautiful
RIP Carroll Shelby. As a former owner of a 1968 Shelby GT 500, I can tell you, it was, "hang on and step on it." He never stopped innovating and improving.
music by Wrecking Crew, including drummer Hal Blaine and Glen Campbell. thank you Mr. Shelby!
A Shelby creation that blew them all away. Heaven's race track got some competition when Mr. Shelby passed away.
Written by Carol Connors after buying her own Cobra from Shelby. Her biggest hit was "To Know Him Is To Love Him".
Excellent montage, good sound quality too. Goes good next to 'Little GTO'. Long live Gary Usher, Jan Berry, and Brian Wilson - they produced the best car songs!
The Creator is Dead, but the legend lives on..!
Dick Rodkin was a long time emplyee of my father and part of the "Touring Band" for The Ripchords. Can never forget what the man did!
I grew up with the Cobra predecessors racing at the Bridge, Limerock and Sebring. My Dad brought these cars to the US and my first car was an AC with the Coventry Climax engine. They were hot before Carrol Shelby added more muscle.
Brilliant early 60s Sthn Calif Hot Rod Song .. one of the very best examples from that fabulous musical era & of that all-time wonderful sound & genre. GREAT POST !!
The guitar work is done by the fabulously versatile studio ace Tommy Tedesco
RIP CARROLL SHELBY this song brings a tear to my eye now
Very cool song. Well orchestrated. Veach Boy Bruce Johnstone is among the vocalists.
He also wrote Barry Manilow's huge hit,
'I Write The Songs'
Those were the days.
Admit it.
The 289 version was fun; when they slipped the big block 427 in, it took men like Ken Miles to handle it! When I see a "real" 427 Cobra, my blood momentarily turns to ice water! The Sunbeam Tiger II with the 289 was also a fun ride, 'tho not nearly as well known!
nothing badder than a cobra. when they are fully restored and shined up, they're like magnets. you can't help but stare.
i wish this song was longer
make a private playlist of just this song and set it on repeat. :P
Ultimate Lego Machines i already have :P
1st LP I ever purchased, circa 1964.
I still enjoy that good old pop music although back then I drove a 1964 Old... Super 88... lol :)
First Cobra I ever saw, back around '70, Riding with my buddy in his MGB in some desolate part of Jersey and heard a LOUD, BBBRRRRRRAAPPP !!!!! going the other way. I turned around and looked and it was a Cobra, already just a little speck in the distance. Awesome experience.
I was once in a dodge with my dad on some random straigh flat 3000 mile long country road on our way to his old friend's farm to help him out and we passed by 2 lambos and a bugatti pulled over with the drivers chatting with each other and eating. about 15 mins later, we heard "VRR VRRR ROOOM VRRR RRRR" and then 2 lambos and a bugatti were passing us in the other lane doing approximately 300-400. within about 20 seconds they had disappeared beyond the horizon. And that was the first time I saw a lambo of a bugatti in person. It really made the drive less boring.
One of the coolest hotrod songs from the 60's!!! John Leon
Lead singer on this is record producer Terry Melcher, son of Doris Day. Background vocals - including the "shut 'em down, shut 'em down" - is co-producer Bruce Johnston in his pre-Beach Boys days. The song is credited to the Rip Chords, but neither Bruce nor Terry is officially credited on the song.
Real music.
Real cars.
Wow I miss those years.
George Vreeland Hill
I remember reading a road test, in Motor Trend magazine, on the 1967 AC Shelby Cobra powered by the 7 litre 427 "high rise" Ford engine with two 850cfm Holly carbs. They described how, on a full power shift, going into 4th gear at 100 miles an hour, they were able to break the rear wheels loose! Talk about a power-to-weight ratio!
Thank you Mr. Shelby!
Bruce Johnston, with the Beach Boys for 50 years now and Grammy winner for composing "I Write The Songs". A little trivia about another musical genius.
I had a little 289 Snake back in the early70's. A '63 with 4 two barrel webbers and 4:56 rear. Coming off hard the rear would just walk back and forth searching for traction. I'd have one hand on the wheel sawing back and forth and the other shifting the gears all the while and unholy howl came out of the carbs kinda like an organ hitting some really high note.
Richard Heinrich Yeah...& you know you loved it & would love to have it back. I yearned for one of those small-block cobras myself. Can't beat the original with modern fixes!
A red on red '63 shelby cobra is my dream car..
Richard Heinrich that is ridiculously cool
The car this song was written for (actually a car Shelby gave the song writer for writing it) is now in the Shelby Museum. :)
We used to drag race on the public road that ran outside the north end of GMs Milford Proving Grounds back in the 60s.. One day we heard something nasty coming up the road that ran along the west side and listened as it made the right hand curve and came over the slight rise near the Start line.
It was a 427 Cobra! He stopped and asked if anyone wanted to race..there weren't any takers so he took off and left us babbling about the experience for a few minutes...
+ViperACR01 i would be a babbling too
Shelby made a darn fine chili too !!!!!
Last Dec. 9 I was looking for something I never found but did find the Cobra spec sheet Shelby had signed for me 51 years and one day before, Dec. 8, 1965, when he was on his book signing tour.
One of my favorite songs from that time period!!!!
Wish music and cars went hand in hand today as they were in the 50s/60s.
the ford 427 was most definitly used in the cobra, they are called " SC427 cobra" the chassis were compleatly rebuilt and the front radiator opening was enlarged. there are legit 428&429 cobras built in england at the end of the model run.
Just a little bit of history. The Cobra is a bit like the reverse of a P51 Mustang fighter plane. US design + UK engine (Merlin) = superplane. The Cobra was a British design (AC Ace / Cobra) + US Engine / tweaks = supercar. Google it those who doubt. What a machine.
This song makes that car really cute lol, i have a mustang cobra but hey shelby rules it all!
Those were the days!!!!!!!!
Thank you for sharing this video...really cool racing pics from the 1960's...
timeless classic
This song was written by Carol Connors of The Teddy Bears fame. She probably still has the Cobra that Shelby gave her in her garage.
Actually they are "continuation cars" - only the ones that were built in the 1960's by Shelby can be called originals.
The music today sucks!!!....this is the real music you'll never hear again....:(
I was born in 2000 so i've had shit music forced on me my whole life. The only way to listen to this is for me to turn on my playlist of around 350 50's 60's and early 70's songs while playing cs:go or call of duty.
Uh...aren't you listening to it right now?
AbsentWithoutLeaving
I think he means that it is the music that people will never produce again.
and in Monoral
Brian Powers ford payed the rip cords to do this song
Carroll Summers wrote this song. Good friends with Mr Shelby. He said there all kinds of car songs but, not about my Cobra. If you write one, I'll give you one of my cars. She did and he did.
+Clubber i would have made that trade
+Clubber Correction, The song writer is Carol Connors. Shelby was a bit reluctant to give her a Cobra as her driving record was less than exemplary at the time. I read that the first Cobra failed and he send another one. That one the engine failed when her sister was driving. The third she drove for years.
No. 142 was CSX 2345. Most of the shots are with Phil Hill driving. Bondurant was the co-driver. Shots are at the 1964 Targa Florio. Drove the course last year. See cobraferrariwars.com.
tat 1 dislike must be one of the prius drivers that disliked the "Little GTO" song too!!!!
Found this on Donna Loren's page!
Awesome!!
I remember how when Carroll & the boys finished building the first small-block cobra, they took some 4 ought or 6 ought ( I forget which) steel wool & polished the aluminum body a bit. Then in true Judas Priest fashion, they headed out to the highway. A '63 Stingray was the first 'vette to get snake bit!
unionrdr the aluminum body cars were 427
The original 289 car was hand-formed from aluminum, not steel.
? I remember Shelby telling the story of the 1st cobra being hand-formed out of aluminum & polished with 4000 steel wool. He then hit the highway & the first vette got snake bit.
Best music ever!
THANK YOU MR SHELBY
Heard this in Shoppers Drugs yesterday ... now I know I'm a senior citizen.
B. Ross Ashley lol
me too
I doubt that the current Cobra's being built will ever be worth what an original Cobra will be worth, especially those with a racing heritage, or celebrity owned, but will still be highly prized , just because they are genuine Shelby's. I am a Ford Tech and Ford fan, a Mustang addict. [also very hardheaded] LOL
Love this song.
True, but the Shelby AC Cobras are the James Dean of the car world. Cobras were only made for a very short time, but their glory still shines like a supernova in the sky just like his fame from his all too brief life.
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME ......... I just love this video. Thank You!
Jan and Dean met Carol one time and said,"we knew a woman wrote this song."
How? Carol asked.
"Because you don't take your Cobra out of gear and let it coast to the line!"
True Americana! Love it
RIP Sir You will be missed.
Savage burn...Just like the GT-40's burnin up Le Mans.....
Great music.
Nothing better.
George Vreeland Hill
What's the difference ? Each one produced is an "Original "Shelby, not a clone or kit. My only point is that some may think they are not still being made for sale. Todays Cobra is far better than the original due to advanced technology in chassis, gearing, and engine performance.
never drove an original but did a remake in Vegas with a 427 in it, it was a rocket on wheels
I'm a die hard corvette fan I have had 6 now I own a 1999 c5 but the cobras were and still badass cars
Carrol Shelby bought Carrol Conner her Cobra for writing the song. She also wrote the theme to Rocky. Its in one of Colin Comer's books. In her youth she was like a Goodyear Blue Dot on the back end of any Cobra... smokin. hot.
Carroll Shelby - Rest in Speed!
The only reason Cobras exist is because Ford wanted a car that could compete with Corvettes. If the Corvette did not exist - the Cobra (and the Viper) would not exist. Thank the car gods in Michigan for all 3.
R.I.P. Mr. Carroll Shelby...
True music...at it's best.
Legendary song for a legendary car!
What a damn COOL song!!!
great song perfect car!
Shelby had it right he got the idea driving for Allard great tune and a rocket ride of a car
STILL my favorite muscle car of all time!!
the first one of these I ever saw was one Friday night in Madison, Tennessee at Shoneys...427, dual quad monster
Too bad these guys didn't do anything else like this. This was their one hit wonder song.
3 window coupe was a pretty good song, but i don't think it charted too well..
bonneville bonnie was amazing
As Bruce and Terry, they also did Summer Means Fun in the Summer!
axiomist produced Bryds and Paul Revere and Raiders
"As Bruce and Terry"... as Bruce, as in Bruce Johnston (member of Beach Boys for more than a half-century and composer of "I Write the Songs" for Barry Manilow), and as Terry, as in Terry Melcher (Doris Day's son and early producer for Byrds, Paul Revere and the Raiders, etc.), they were a non-stop music machine !
this is my dream car!
Great song, written by Carol Conner. Quite unusual for a '60s car song to be written by a woman.
R.I.P Carroll Shelby from Ozark M.O be building me a cobra for when I get up there with you.
Shelby still makes the original Cobra.
A 429 Ford engine in a lightweight AC Bristol car frame. This car was really giving Ferraris and Jaguars in the '60's a real Challenge; sometimes shutting them down altogether.
Doris Days son before he produced Paul Revere and Raiders and later got mixed up with the nut in LAwho I wont even mention
Thomas Ponzio , the "nut" died a couple of days ago. "Helter Skelter" had ended.
Thomas Ponzio , the "nut " DIED a couple of days ago.
RIP Carroll Shelby!!!
it was wonderful when the European Ferarri snobs faced bitter defeat from the Cobras and Ford GT'S in the mid sixties. to see the crushing shock of anguish at their realization that their automotive legends were blown away by American V8 Engines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just saw a '65 Cobra being auctioned on TV. It sold for almost 1 million!
that is why the streets of Heaven are paved with gold so hotrodders can see their black marks better!
Wish I could afford an original, but I could and did afford a couple replicas. I have the coupe[Daytona rep] and a roadster.
RIP Carroll Shelby!
I built a 60 Corvette with a 327 and put a Z service package cam in the motor.on a test drive at 110 in 3rd gear I lost traction.off the throttle and quick resteer.back to straight.what a memory.