Jan & Dean - Little Old Lady from Pasadena download song

THIS TUNE IS SOLID GOLD!

One of the best rhymes in pop: "She's gonna get a ticket now sooner or later, cuz she can't keep her foot off the accellerator".

This was an ear worm for me when I was 9 years old...cheesy as it is, the harmonies and modal shifts got in my gears, and I also had a dear granny who drove a little crazy sometimes.

"The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" - that was what everyone in my family including my dad called my Mom.  She wasn't from Pasadena and she didn't have a "shiny red super stock Dodge" but she did pretty well with her "shiny blue 1967 Dodge Monaco with a 440 Magnum V-8 meaning that it was stock equipped with a 4bbl carburetor, dual exhausts and a three-quarter cam. It didn't idle smoothly, it loped due to the cam.  But I'll tell ya it sure could lay a patch without even trying!  At 80 mph out on the road it was just beginning to purr smoothly.

When I was a teen in the 60's one of my grandmothers lived in Pasadena, CA and the other worked on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, CA.

Just a bit of background on this song: Back in the day, when asked who the previous owner of a car was, used car salesmen in California would often say "A little old lady from Pasadena, and she just drove it to church on Sundays."

"And I never took a lesson in my life. :) "  ~Slappy the Squirrel.

"Little old lady" was co-written by Dr. Donald Altfeld and Jan Berry while they were both in med. school in Irvine Ca. Brian Wilson had nothing to do with the writing of this classic.

She drives real fast and she drives real hard ... she's the terror of Colorado Boulevard

Slappy needs to lay off the accelerator.

I find it funny that I don't know if old folks look this up and comment on it but I'm 15 and my grandfather showed me all his old songs and my most favorite song are these and the beach boys

Breaks my heart to listen to this song, and then look at how ruined CA is now..:cry:

Pasadena - Colorado Blvd. was the main drag and the cruisin' street (although I think the cruisin' part was east of Pasadena). I remember Pasadena, I remember Colorado Blvd., I remember the Rose Parade. I never thought I would be homesick for southern California but right now I am.

I still remember when Jan Berry totaled his 'Vette in '66 and pretty much ended the best years of their career. Ironic it was literally near Dead Man's Curve on that highway; wreckage not even recognizable as a Corvette. Hitting stationary vehicles at speed in fiberglass cars is not a great idea....

There should be a movie based off this song, about an old woman being a super hot rod racer, and it should be set in the era this song was written.

I love this song and even though I’m almost thirty years younger than the tune I loved cruising. To bad the town I used to do that in here in colo, Wrongmont, has outlawed it. Jerks