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This is a list of songs about bicycles or cycling. Bicycles became popular in the 19th century as the new designs of safety bicycle were practical for the general population, including women. By the end of that century, cycling was a fashion or fad which was reflected in the popular songs of the day.
The Pushbike song was released by The Mixtures in 1970. It reached the top-spot for two weeks in the Australian charts in March 1971. It also proved popular in the UK, reaching the number two spot on 31 January (beaten by George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord"), and number 31 in Canada.
Despite the song's French title, it and the rest of the 30-minute film were written in English. The British short subject is a nominal parody of the French feature film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, to the extent that one can even sing the words "les parapluies de Cherbourg" to the same music. Though it was produced in 1968, the film was ...
Debuting during the free love movement of the '60s and late '70s, the song couldn't have come at a better time. Shop Now. Jim Britt - Getty Images "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone (1973)
The final verse is followed by an instrumental section that is a piece of musique concrète: a noisy collage of oscillators, clocks, gongs, bells, a violin, and other sounds edited with tape techniques, apparently the "other room" spoken of in the song and giving the impression of the turning gears of a bicycle. The ending of the song fades out ...
Pages in category "Songs about bicycles" ... Bicycle Race; Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (song) Bike (song) The Bike Song; Bravo Eddy! C. C'mon Let Me Ride; D. Daisy Bell;
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White Bicycles – Making Music in the 1960s is the memoir of music producer Joe Boyd. It is published by Serpent's Tail . A companion CD of music he had produced in the 1960s and associated with the book was published by Fledg'ling Records at the same time.