Lookout! Lookout! Lookout! Lookout!

July 12, 2009 9:53 PM

60s song filter: We are trying to find the song from the 60s (?) that is about a car/motorcycle crash. The song has singing and a narrative part if memory serves. At one point the girl screams: "Lookout! Lookout! Lookout! Lookout!"
posted by Drasher to media & arts (16 comments total)

sounds like "leader of the pack"
here's a youtube
"lookout" is at 2:33.
posted by cosmicbandito at 9:56 PM on July 12 [1 favorite]

Leader of the Pack. (Vroom, vroom).
posted by telegraph at 9:56 PM on July 12

Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack
posted by thisjax at 9:57 PM on July 12

see also TISM's fantastic song "Greg, The Stop Sign!" It's a mid-nineties hit done in the style of a 60's style Beach Boys-esque song. It was the first thing I thought of when I read "Lookout! Lookout!".
posted by robotot at 10:19 PM on July 12

It's not from the 60's but Twisted Sister did Leader of the Pack too!
posted by shmurley at 10:20 PM on July 12

See this recent Shangri-La's post, too.
posted by Item at 10:22 PM on July 12

Related: Leader of the Laundrymat
posted by Nonce at 10:31 PM on July 12

I realize this isn't the song you're looking for but your description almost perfectly matches the song Last Kiss by J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers (made popular by the Pearl Jam cover).
posted by alona at 2:06 AM on July 13

Also related: Where Oh Werewolf.
posted by Scattercat at 4:42 AM on July 13

Wikipedia: Car Crash songs.

Yes, definitely "Leader of the Pack" -- but I've always prefered the surf group counterpart to the Shangra-La's -- this would be Jan & Dean's "Dead Man's Curve." YouTube has the audio with the usual no-video-available collection of still images, among which you can see a newspaper clipping about Jan, who was in a serious car crash a few years later, effectively ending the duo's career. Supposedly it happened at a place on western Sunset (since smoothed out) known as Dead Man's Curve.
posted by Rash at 5:30 AM on July 13

Yippie! Thanks to cosmicbandito, telegraph, and thisjax!
My buddy sent me the lyrics to Last Kiss (thanks alona) but that wasn't it.
We have been "looking" for it for over a week!
(Rash, the cut of Dead Man's Curve on my friend's 60s CD is what prompted the search.)
posted by Drasher at 5:56 AM on July 13

check out DOA by Bloodrock for the very best car crash fatality song ever
posted by Redhush at 6:06 AM on July 13

I would love to find an MP3 of DOA. Any ideas where?
posted by Gungho at 7:52 AM on July 13

Apparently it's ambiguous whether "DOA" is about an airplane crash or a car crash despite the refrain: "I remember / We were flying low / And hit something in the air", but there it is.

Ick.

I would love to find an MP3 of DOA. Any ideas where?

1. Youtube.
2. Download Helper or equivalent.
3. Replay Converter or equivalent.
posted by Herodios at 9:24 AM on July 13

If we've branched out into recommending other '60sish car disaster songs, I'm voting for "Jonny Don't Go (To the Nuclear Plant)" from Zombie Prom.
posted by booksandlibretti at 10:07 PM on July 13

I was told that way back then, flying low refered to tripping, not plane travel. But then. I was probably tripping at the time
posted by Redhush at 3:28 PM on July 15