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The Nash Rambler is featured in the 1958 hit song "Beep Beep." The singer, driving a Cadillac, is shocked to see a "little Nash Rambler" apparently trying to drag-race his bigger, stronger car, and keeping up with it. In the end, it turns out the Rambler's driver did not know how to get out of second gear.
In December 1958, Time credited the popularity of "Beep Beep" with helping American Motors Corporation break sales records. In November 1958, the company doubled its previous year's production record with 26,782 cars; Ramblers accounted for 9.2% of October 1958's automobile sales in the United States; and though "total U.S. exports slid 16% in ...
1951 Nash "Country Club" 2-door hardtop "Beep, Beep" ("The Little Nash Rambler") was a song which utilized the "beep, beep" sound in a tempo-changing novelty record recorded by the Playmates in 1958. The record became a #4 hit on the Billboard Top 40 record chart for twelve weeks. The lyrics tell the story of how the beep-beep horn of the ...
Signed to Roulette Records in 1958 as the label's first vocal group, [2] and anticipating a Calypso craze, the group recorded an album called Playmates Visit the West Indies. They then released two notable Top 40 singles —"Jo-Ann" and "Don't Go Home"—before having a number 4 hit (July 9, 1958) with the tempo-changing novelty song "Beep Beep ...
June 1958 [36] "Yakety Yak" The Coasters (sax solo by King Curtis) 1 June 1958 [37] “Chantilly Lace” The Big Bopper: 6 August 1958 "Beep Beep (The Little Nash Rambler)" The Playmates: 4 November 1958 [38] “The All American Boy” Bobby Bare: 2 December 1958 "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" The Chipmunks: 1 December 1958 ...
The prototype 1958 Nash Ambassador/Hudson Hornet, built on a stretched Rambler platform, was renamed at the last minute as "Ambassador by Rambler". To round out the model line, American Motors reintroduced the previous 1955, 100 in (2,540 mm) wheelbase Nash Rambler as the new Rambler American with only a few modifications.
One major trade magazine said rumors of discontinuance were false and the 1958 Hudsons and Nashes "would be big and smart". Factory styling photographs show designs for a 1958 Hudson (and Nash) line based on a longer-wheelbase 1958 Rambler. Front-end prototype photos show separate Hudson and Nash styling themes. [45]
The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to the late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds.