List of songs about bicycles

Harry Dacre's "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" was a popular success

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 most famous of these was "Daisy Bell",[1] inspired by the phrase "a bicycle made for two".[2] The vogue for cycling songs continued into the Edwardian era and modern examples continue to appear in the 21st century.[3]

List

TitleAuthorYearComments
"The Acoustic Motorbike"Luka Bloom1992
"A Bicicleta"Toquinho1983Album Casa de brinquedos.[4]
"La Bicicleta"Carlos Vives & Shakira2016[5]
"Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle" Be Your Own Pet 2006 From the album Be Your Own Pet
"Bicycle Episode"J.M.Richards1897[6]
"The Bicycle Girl"Avery Oddfellow, F. W. Meacham1895[6]
"Bicycle Race"Queen1978[7]
"Bicycle Song"Red Hot Chili Peppers2002
"La Bicyclette"Yves Montand1968[6] From the album La Bicyclette
"Les Bicyclettes de Belsize"Engelbert Humperdinck1968From the movie Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
"Bike"Pink Floyd1967[8]
"Biking" Frank Ocean 2017 Featuring, JAY Z and Tyler the Creator
"The Bike Song"Mark Ronson & The Business International2010[9]
"Bravo Eddy!"Jean Narcy1969/1970
"C'mon Let Me Ride"Skylar Grey feat. Eminem2012
"Cycling Is Fun"Shonen Knife1984From their album Yama-no Attchan
"Daisy Bell"Harry Dacre1892[6]
"Death Of An Old Bike"The Rosebuds2014[6]
"Dora Brown"Nelly Burt1897[6]
"Eddy Est Imbattable!"Pierre-André Gil1971
"Eddy Is Niet Te Kloppen!"Frankie1971
"Eddy Prend Le Maillot Jaune"Pierre-André Gil1969
"The Girl That's Up To Date"Edward Harrigan, David Braham1894[6]
"The Great Velocipede"Frank Wilder1869[6][10] Sung by W. F. Collins of the British Christy Minstrels
"Hadron Collision"Propagandhi2012[11]
"Handlebars"Flobots2005
"Have You A Wheel?"O. A. Hoffmann1895[6]
"Helter Smelter"Fifteen1994[12]
"In Bicicletta"Riccardo Cocciante1982From the album Cocciante [13]
"It's A Beautiful Day"The Beach Boys1979
"The Latest Fad"A. A. Condon1895[6]
"A Lilac Harry Quinn"Half Man Half Biscuit1991From A Lilac Harry Quinn
"Motherfucking Bike"Sons of Science2012[14]
"My Bike"The Bennies2013From the Better off Dread EP [15]
"My Bike"Y.N.RichKids2013[16]
"My 'Cycle Gal"Philip Wales1899[6]
"My White Bicycle"Tomorrow1967About the Provos'. And a UK hit for the cover from Nazareth in 1975.[17]
"The New Columbia Wheel"George Lowell Tracy, James C. Dunn1898[6]
"The New Velocipede"E. H. Sherwood1869[6]
"Nine Million Bicycles"Katie Melua2005[18]
"Pedal Your Blues Away"Earl Rouse and Brothers1936[19]
"The Pushbike Song"The Mixtures1970And a cover by Mungo Jerry (1990, UK).
"Silver Machine"Hawkwind1972A UK hit about Robert Calvert's silver bicycle.
"Terry Keeps His Clips On"Vivian Stanshall1981
"Tour de France"Kraftwerk1983From their cycling concept album for the centenary of the Tour de France in 2003 — Tour de France Soundtracks.[20]
"Vas-Y Eddy"Jean Saint-Paul1967
"Velocipede Jimmy"O. H. Harpel, Henry Atkins1869[6]
"Two on a Bike" Six Hits and a Miss 1942

See also

  • Songs about transport

References

  1. ↑ Marian Klamkin (1975), Old sheet music, Hawthorn Books, pp. 31–32
  2. ↑ Hazel Butler, I Know a Young Woman Who Swallowed a Lie, p. 40
  3. ↑ Andrew Horrall (2001), "Bicycles", Popular culture in London c. 1890-1918, Manchester University Press, pp. 54–64, ISBN 978-0-7190-5783-0, cycling songs remained popular until the mid-Edwardian era
  4. ↑ Circuito Musical. Toquinho: Casa de Brinquedos
  5. ↑ http://www.vevo.com/watch/USSD21600369
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Jon W. Finson (1997), "Popular views of technology", The Voices That Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Song, Oxford University Press, pp. 144–145, ISBN 978-0-19-511382-2
  7. ↑ Ken McLeod (2011), We Are the Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music, Ashgate Publishing, pp. 30, 122–123, ISBN 978-1-4094-0864-2
  8. ↑ Zack Furness (2010), One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility, Temple University Press, p. 144, ISBN 978-1-59213-613-1, Bike riding and bicycles are prevalent in the lyrics and imagery of dozens of active and defunct punk bands such as Fifteen ... Syd Barrett's psychedelic musings on Pink Floyd's "Bike"
  9. ↑ Charlotte Heathcote (September 26, 2010), "Mark Ronson & The Business International Record Collection", Daily Express
  10. ↑ Frederick Alderson (1972), Bicycling: a history, Praeger, pp. 33–34
  11. ↑ Listen to Propagandhi’s Failed States, read the band’s track-by-track insights http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2012/9/Listen-to-Propagandhis-Failed-States-read-the-bands-track-by-track-insights Archived 2016-03-01 at the Wayback Machine.
  12. ↑ Youtube
  13. ↑ Youtube
  14. ↑ Youtube
  15. ↑ Youtube
  16. ↑ http://ynrichkids.com/track/my-bike
  17. ↑ Nick Pas (2011), Between Prague Spring and French May, Berghahn Books, pp. 168–169, ISBN 978-0-85745-106-4
  18. ↑ Historical Dictionary of Cycling, Scarecrow Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-7175-5
  19. ↑ Randy Noles (2002), Orange Blossom Boys: The Untold Story of Ervin T. Rouse, Chubby Wise and the World's Most Famous Fiddle Tune, Hal Leonard Corporation, pp. 48–49
  20. ↑ M.McGuinness (2009), Sporting sounds: relationships between sport and music, Taylor & Francis, p. 187, ISBN 978-0-415-44367-8

Further reading

  • Justin Daniel Belmont (2005), The Art of Bicycling, Breakaway Books, ISBN 978-1-891369-56-8
  • S. Conant Foster (1884), Wheel Songs, White, Stokes, & Allen
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