Drivers Seat - Sniff 'n' the Tears (1979)

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[Windflier]

"Driver's Seat" by an obscure British band called Sniff 'n' the Tears.

I was 26 at the time, and a huge rock fan, but I don't remember this song at all.

Maybe it didn't get much airplay on the west coast.

[gigster]

I believe the Van Halen debut album came out in 1979. My buddy Mark and I used to cruise Gratiot Avenue in the greater Detroit area for hour and miles in his 1976 Firebird Formula listening in awe to Eddie Van Halen’s groundbreaking sonic assault on the old, conventional music of the day.

[gigster]

So she had the aptly-named Screaming Chicken on the hood of her Trans Am?

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Worst band name in history.

[Windflier]

Alright...I looked it up on YouTube, and yeah, I remember the song.

It wasn’t a ‘turn it up to eleven’ type of song back then - what with Van Halen and so many other American pop/rock/funk groups tearing it up. This song was sort of filler music for me.

[SamAdams76]

I was actually going to post that version here but I didn’t want to irk the women Freepers!

[gigster]

Correction: The Van Halen debut album came out in 1978.

[mythenjoseph]

I had a beautiful 1969 Dodge polara with a 383 two barrel / two door cream colored with a black vinyl roof...would stay down the Cape then...if all you left behind were footprints no one said Boo...try it now.

[Billthedrill]

And by the way, this is one of those songs that it's highly inadvisable to listen to when you're in your car and there's a long, empty straight ahead. Radar Love is another. So is Steppin' Into The Twilight Zone. And LA Woman. And If You Don't Start Drinkin'. Blew a rental car's speakers out with the last one one time on the Pacific Coast highway.

[Married with Children]

I’ve read many a issue of Muscle Car Review

[Married with Children]

Mom had an ‘85 Firebird with v6 auto and t-tops

[Romulus]

I was driving around New England in the summer of 79. Never heard this song.

[Impala64ssa]

The Camaro was immortalized in song by the late great Joey Ramone, with Debbie Harry singing back up ,

[FreeReign]

That backup singer with the sunglasses was cool...until he had to readjust them at 2:14.

[MuttTheHoople]

Meridian, Mississippi, summer before my senior year. Hitting on girls at the Carrousel Skate Center......driving up and down 8th street between the Sonic and College Park Mall....buying Champale and hoping I didn’t get carded.......good times.

[bigbob]

A prog-rock station in Ft. Collins CO I listened to all the time back then played it, because it was a cool song, even though they very seldom played anything from the Hot 100.

[MrEdd]

It got airplay into the late eighties in the central prairie states.

[ETL]

1969 Dodge Polara

[ConservativeStatement]

One of my all-time favorite songs.

[Stosh]

Spent a few years in Beantown in my youth; I still have fond memories of taking the “T” out to Revere Beach; but what I remember even more was going out to Wonderland: I’d never even heard of dog tracks before, let alone seen one. The other thing we got a kick out of was climbing some rocky promontory near Nahant, just off Route 1 if I recall correctly.