Back in early 1975, when I was in 4th grade, I had to stay after school. My mom came to pick me up, and on the way home our '67 Ford wagon slide on some ice on our driveway and nailed a tree. So my parents bought a '73 Mercury Marquis Brougham with all sorts of power accessories, including a 5-speaker 8-track stereo. My aunt then gave us some 8-track tapes, one of which was Jim Croce's Greatest Hits. Which I just downloaded from eMusic.

Weird how listening to this album brings back all sorts of memories of riding around in the '73 Merc....

eta: "Working at the Car Wash Blues" is playing. I really like this song, even if it's a product of its time, what with the "sexual harassment is funny" bit in there....

I've got that album at home--love it!

My favorite 8-track car-listening memory was my dad playing John Denver's "Back Home Again" over and over, as well as Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits.

I've got them totally depressing
Low down, mind messing
Workin' at the car wash blues

Back then, my uncle had a Galaxie 500. I have fond memories of hm playing Johny Cash's Greatest Hits on the 8-track wile driving down the highway at 100 mph in the Galaxie.

Ooh, Elton John's Greatest Hits was another 8-track we got from my Aunt. Always meant to reacquire that album.

My favorite 8 track was ELO.

Poor Croce - he died before he achieved national prominence, right?

I drove across the country with my best friend Alex (Boston to California) in '85 with an 8-track player in the car. We picked up Dick Clark's 25 Years of Rock and Roll in a thrift shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming and listened to "Tequila" all the way across the Rockies.

My biggest association with that 8-track player, though, would be Aerosmith. Toys in the Attic, bay-bee!

Also, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, a band that only makes sense on an 8-Track.

Poor Croce - he died before he achieved national prominence, right?

Oh no! He had a shit ton of hits before he died, and had his own summer TV show and all that.

You don't tug on Supermans's Cape
You don't speed into the wind
You don't pull the mask off an ol' Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim

Right, plus "Operator" and "Don't Mess Around With Jim" and they released "Time in a Bottle" posthumously and it was huge hit.