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The (new) Cadillac Database^©

Miscellaneous Cadillac Stuff
Cadillac in song titles

"Brand New Cadillac"
[ The Clash ]
I have no control over You Tube video clips on the Internet,
so this one may not always be available for viewing here

"Cadillac" ¹
[ instrumental, by Nino Rota - soundtrack of Fellini's La Dolce Vita ]
[ There's a 1994 version by Combustible Edison ]

Right: 45rpm single by relatively unknown
Swiss "Rockabilly" band of the eighties

"Cadillac Pimpin"
[Youngbloodz]
[ I have no control over You Tube videos, so I can't guarantee that they will be always available for viewing ]

"Cruisin' down the Highway in this Big Ol' Cadillac and It's so Hard",
[ from the movie Adventures in Babysitting ]

"Happy Guitar" [CD]
sent to me by French enthusiast, Jocelyn Lecocq
[ even if there is NOT the name "Cadillac" in the title]

"I Want a Lavender Cadillac"
[ Maurice King & His Wolverines - with lead singer Bea Laverne Baker]

"We and our Cadillac"
[ Hep Stars (1965) ]
[Hep Stars was Björn Andersson´s band before ABBA]

"Willie the Wimp (and his Cadillac Coffin)"
[ Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble ]

Record covers (vinyls, tapes, CDs)
featuring a Cadillac on the cover
( many from my former collection )

This "brand new" 1948 Cadillac Series 62
convertible is slightly the worse for wear
[ Photo: courtesy Jerry Jansson ]

Hidden by the band, a Fleetwood "75" limousine,
circa 1946-1949


Lefty and center: 1951 Series 62 convertible [ obverse and reverse of same cover ]
Right: 1951 Cadillac front clip


Left and center: 1953 Cartoon Cadillacs
Right: Artist's view of Aretha Franklin driving a pink Le Mans,
the 1953 Motorama show car
[ Center Photo: courtesy Jerry Jansson ]


Left: 1954 front clip
Center: 1955 model on a vinyl from Chuck Berry
Left: Dion and the Belmonts, with '55 front clip at top right

Looks like a '53, but could be also 1950-52
[ Cover photo supplied kindly by Jerry Jansson, Sweden ]

Looks like a 1954 model, possibly also 1955
[ Photo: courtesy Jerry Jansson ]

Broken Spoke - a Texan combo,
and a 1954 Cadillac


1956 front clips
[ Photo (right): courtesy Jerry Jansson ]


1958 rear clip (left); 1958 side-view (right)
[ Cover photo (right) supplied kindly by Jerry Jansson, Sweden ]


1958 Eldorado Biarritz
[ Obverse and reverse of same cover - Photo (right) courtesy Jerry Jansson ]


Left (obverse): excerpts from 1958 product brochure
Right (reverse): excerpts from 1959 product brochure

Not surprisingly: Lots of '59 tail fins




Center: You can just see the tail end of a '59 Cadillac behind the kid in the blue jeans and blue shirt
Right: The title of this vinyl is On the Beach


Left: Photo is of Hard Rock Cafe in LA




The six covers in the above two rows were found and sent to me by Jerry Jansson, Sweden

Not sure if this is a record ...or a book !

This one is a poster, not a record cover
The car is a 1961 Series 60 Special sedan


Behind the jukebox is a custom 1961 Fleetwood "75" convertible sedan
built for Mohamed V, King of Morocco, by France's Henri Chapron
[ in reality (right) the car is shorter than it appears on the record cover ]

I'm thinking 1962 Cadillac
[ Photo: Jerry Jansson ]

One more for the collection, from Jerry Jansson, Sweden⁴;
this one shows a 1965 Cadillac sedan (DeVille, Calais?)


Custom grille cap on seventies (?) Cadillac






The covers in the above two rows feature unidentified Cadillacs of the '70s, '80s and '90s
[ Photos supplied kindly by Jerry Jansson, Sweden ]

Known but missing covers

? ? ?
[ White '57 Eldorado on cover ]

⁴ Jerry wrote: The Hep Stars were Sweden's biggest selling rock act in the 60's, even outselling The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. The name "Hep Stars" means "Stars in the know". They were formed in 1963 and were "big" up until the late 60's. Some members of the band still get together on occasion⁵. In the early 70's the keyboard player, Benny Andersson, together with three other artists formed the world famous ABBA "quartet"! After ABBA, Benny and the other male ABBA member, Björn Ulveus, started writing "musicals". They composed the musical hits for Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla & Mamma Mia. Currently (Feb 2006), Mamma Mia plays in Broadway, Las Vegas, Antwerp, Belfast, Edinburgh, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Manchester, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Osaka, Cape Town and Pretoria. There is also an North American Tour. Jerry wonders if the Hep Stars ever owned Cadillacs back in the 60's. He says he saw them perform lots of times then. They toured a lot in a Mustang and two Thunderbirds. Was that the thanks they gave Cadillac for supplying them (the Hep Stars) with the title for one of their first hits!

⁵ Reminds me of the band, the "Furax", that I joined as a beginner bassist in 1963. We cut no records but we did regular gigs in Geneva, Switzerland, until 1965. We (and Paul Anka - remember "Diana"?) were "instrumental" in helping the SSR (Swiss TV) win the Rose d'Or de Montreux, in 1964! For the last 40 years and despite crippling arthritis for some of us (i.e. me!), four out of five of the original "Furax" still get together each year for a jam session.


Left (1963) and from L-R: Mike (15), Dany (15), my kid brother, Alan (16), Jack (18) and yours truly (24)
Right (2004) and from L-R: brother Alan (57), Jack (59), Dany (56) and yours truly again (65)

Alan is the only one who has kept up with the music; his current band is Guitars Plus;
the above photo was taken in 1989 when Alan [far left] was lead guitar with the band, Styl 60
[ the car is my former Pink Lady, a gorgeous 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz painted Siena Rose ]

© 1998, Caddy Daddy [for the initial listing] and Yann Saunders [for the layout and additions]
[ Background image: Cadillac record covers in the "music room" of El Dorado, our former home in Switzerland ]