Bonus Song #1: Beep Beep – The Playmates
“Beep Beep” documents a race between a Nash Rambler and a Cadillac. It’s so simultaneously charming and annoying (and suggested by alert Vehix readers) that we had to include it. Recorded in 1958 by The Playmates, “Beep Beep” spent twelve weeks on the Billboard Top 40. It sold over a million records and helped sell a bunch of Nash Ramblers as well since that little machine actually beat the Caddy in the race. Perhaps the most famous line of the song: “I’ll show you that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn.” The Playmates scorned the Caddy but the joke is on them; more than 50 years later the Cadillac still rides high while Nash Motors was automotive history by 1957.
1952 Nash Rambler
Bonus Song #2: Worst Cadillac Song Ever: Geronimo´s Cadillac – Modern Talking
You can’t do a list of the “5 Greatest Cadillac Songs” without throwing in what is arguably the worst. “Geronimo’s Cadillac” performed by Modern Talking, Germany's most succesful band ever, is so bad it’s good. Really good. For all the wrong reasons. Cheesy lyrics. Silly outfits. Bad videography. Big hair. The 1980s were a rough time for Cadillac cars with failures like the Cimmaron, which was rushed to market in 1982 and discontinued in 1988. This song is equally wrong and forgettable. Achtung baby!