Friday, January 12, 2007

'Route 66'

"(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" is an American popular song, composed in 1946 by Bobby Troup and first recorded that same year by Nat King Cole.

Troup conceived the idea for the song while driving west from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, California, and the lyrics — which include references to the U.S. highway of the title and many of the cities it passes through — celebrate the romance and freedom of automobile travel. In an interview he once said the tune for the song, as well as the lyric "Get your kicks on Route 66" came to him easily, but the remainder of the lyrics eluded him. More in frustration than anything else he simply filled up the song with the names of towns and cities on the highway.

The lyrics read as a mini-travelogue about the major stops along the route, listing several cities and towns that Route 66 passes through...................Wikipedia

This song was beautifully sung (with a lil' mispronunciations tho..but oh well..that's a small matter which can be easily improved. Moreover, she must had been very nervous then..)by Farhan during the prelude of AF4 which saw her being selected by the juries to be one of the 12 finalists to enter 'Akademi Fantasia'. The rest I guess,is history....

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