Canned Heat vs Meat Loaf #battleofthebands

Time for Monday’s Music Moves Me and also time for our next Battle of the Bands! The theme for today is ‘Songs about Cars or Trucks’.  We had a similar theme back in May of this year, so I knew I needed to come up with something different. Additionally, it is now Rocktober, so I wanted to pick a song that has a bit of pep in it’s step.


The Song:  ‘Mercury Blues’

"Mercury Blues" is a song written by K. C. Douglas and Robert Geddins, and first recorded by Douglas in 1948. The song, originally titled "Mercury Boogie," pays homage to the American automobile, which ended production in 2010.

Rights to the song were purchased by the Ford Motor Company (who already owned the Mercury marque). Ford, in turn, used it for a television commercial featuring Alan Jackson singing his version of the song with the word "Mercury" replaced by the words "Ford Truck."

The song has been covered by quite a few different artists.  Way back in 2014, our fearless leader of the Battle of the Bands Blog Hop, Stephen, used this song in one of his battles. For his battle he placed David Linley against Steve Miller Band. David Linley etched out Steve Miller Band by one vote.

Today, I’ve got two different contenders for you to choose from.


Contender # 1 Canned Heat

Canned Heat is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its interpretations of blues material and for its efforts to promote interest in this type of music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat", After appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals at the end of the 1960s, the band acquired worldwide fame with a lineup consisting of Hite, Wilson, Henry Vestine and later Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, and Adolfo de la Parra.





Contender # 2 Meat Loaf

Michael Lee Aday, better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. Almost 40 years after its release, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best selling albums in history. He is also known for his powerful wide-ranging operatic voice and theatrical live performances. This song is hidden on the album “Couldn't Have Said it Better”.  After the song "Forever Young" ends you have to let the CD keep playing about two more minutes, then "Mercury Blues" starts with the sound of a Mercury starting. Well worth the wait!





Please vote for either Canned Heat or Meat Loaf in the comments.  Voting will end on October 22, 2017 at 6pm EST with results being posted on October 23.

I’d like to encourage you to visit the other bloggers participating in the battle of the bands as well. You can find a current list HERE, or on Stephen’s blog (you can also request to join the battle of the bands blog hop on his blog).

** It appears I have my dates and themes mixed up again. I swear when I last looked there was a theme assigned to today, and next week listed as freebie. Turns out I have my dates mixed up.  Oh well.. I'm not about to re-write my post :)  Enjoy it for what it is.

*** I had to turn off the ability for Anonymous comments. I've been getting too much spam lately.

Don't forget to visit the other Monday's Music Moves Me participants as well as the Battle of the Bands folks.  You can find a list for MMMM here: X-Mas Dolly,