Readers' Picks: Best Travel Songs of All Time

CNN ^ | Fri June 20, 2014 | Chuck Thompson

[nickcarraway]

Once in while, the CNN Travel braintrust blows it -- make that all the time if you happen to be @cnnalwaysblowsit47.

Such was the case last year when we published our updated list of the greatest travel songs ever recorded. Sure, we included a few unassailable classics about life on the travel trail.

Even @cnnisamoron231 couldn't rage against our inclusion of Willie Nelson's all-time sing-a-long "On the Road Again."

But we have to admit, once in a while, @iloathecnn and @cnntroll99 have valid points to make.

How exactly did we miss such obvious wanderlust ditties as the Allman Brothers Bands' "Ramblin' Man" and Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee"?

[HandyDandy]

Land Ho - The Doors
L’America - The Doors

[yarddog]

Someone had a popular version when I was a kid growing up in the 50s.

[Hootowl]

Gotta Travel On, Billy Grammer.

[TaMoDee]

“Six Days on the Road” - Dace Dudley Absolutely #1 with “Eastbound and Down” - Jerry Reed a for sure #2.

[Kirkwood]

Make it stop!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VizGdYXiEM

[Elderberry]

Canned Heat

[cornfedcowboy]

Bob Seger “Travelin’ Man” & “Beautiful Loser”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxisN1yIzeA

[cripplecreek]

One I remember hearing a lot in my childhood.

Roger Miller King Of the Road

I don't pay no union dues.

[Norm Lenhart]

Needed: AZ Interstate 40 at any point between two distant towns, a fast car and this cranked on a modern stereo at about 3 AM with a full moon/great viability.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRS3vAKhnz8

Then turn off the headlights ;)

[yarddog]

I remember the whole class doing BINGO when I was just a kid.

I think the funniest one I have ever seen/heard was Leonard Nimoy doing “Bilbo Baggins”. Whoever talked him into doing that was surely not a friend.

[Third Person]

“Midnight Rambler” by the Stones [Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out! version]

[cripplecreek]

ZZ Top - Arrested for Driving While Blind

[kitchen]

Did I miss Jessica? It always made me induce 4 wheel reverse lock drifts on back roads or go for 7,500 RPM on the highway. Hell, 40 years later I can't resist the urge to get up and boogie as soon as I hear it.

[JPG]

This popped into my head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hflx1fOZ9gg

[jjotto]

Nimoy has quite a discography. Just unbelievable! Rivals George Burns.

[Baynative]

For all the randy fellows out there, I have to put in a vote for "Goodbye Stranger", by Supertramp.

[Norm Lenhart]

Saw them on the Afterburner tour in Ottawa. One of the best shows ever. The stage did the transformer bit into the space shuttle ;)

[blueunicorn6]

Radar Love

[cornfedcowboy]

Anyone here ever been to a Seger concert? Looks awesome.

[cripplecreek]