Topic: Ten (minus two) Connected Cars and Tuners - Solved by the Pink Cadillac gang

[Ray B.]

Ten musicians connected by a precise car reference in their music.
Well, at least  eight. There are two intruders that don't quite fit in that list.

Can you find what connects the eight, and why the two left don't quite fit (although they were very close).
Those guys and girl sometimes wrote the songs, or were the first to record them, and sometimes only recorded a cover.

One point for each identification, and one point for each justified connection (details required).
Some are quite easy, some rather hard to crack.
Plus a bonus point for the first who finds the connection.

Starting with the rookies and experts,
Let the good times roll.

Tuner 1 
not connected   
   Eddy Arnold (Otto Puzzell) and "I wanna play house with you" (Tom_I)

Tuner 2 
connected
   Natalie Cole and... "Pink Cadillac" (B.Springsteen) (Tom_I, both)
                                                                                     
Tuner 3   
connected
Hal Willis  and "My pink Cadillac" (streamliner, both)

Tuner 4 
connected
Brian Setzer and "Hoodoo Voodoo Doll" (streamliner, both)

Tuner 5 
not connected
Arthur Gunter and "Baby let's play house" (Tom_I, both)

Tuner 6 
connected
Larry Dowd and "Pink Cadillac" (streamliner, both)   

Tuner 7 
connected
Johnny Todd and "Pink Cadillac" (streamliner, both)


Tuner 8 
connected
Buddy Holly and "Baby let's play house" (Arthur Gunter modified by Elvis) (Tom_I)

Tuner 9 
connected
John Prine and his "Pink Cadillac" album (streamliner)

Tuner 10 
connected
Steve Earle and "Dead Flowers" (Jagger-Richards)(barrett)                                                                                  

[Ray B.]

No rookies or experts? Let's hope this puzzle will be music to the ears of some of our pros.

[Otto Puzzell]

Tuner #1 is Eddy Arnold, who toured with his band in a 1941 Ford, with "Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys: WSM" painted on the side.

In his song Hey Good Lookin', he proclaims:

I got a hot rod Ford and a two dollar bill
And I know a spot right over young hill
There`s soda pop and the dancin`s free
So if you wanna have fun come along with me

[Ray B.]

It is Eddy Arnold OK, but the connection is not a 1941 Ford, or anything painted on the side of a car.

EDIT... an not a hot rod. I guess you mean the Hank Williams song. So he recorded it too?

[Otto Puzzell]

See above

[Otto Puzzell]

#10 looks like Jackson Browne - is the connection Running on Empty?

[Ray B.]

Not Jackson Browne, and not that connection.

[Ray B.]

See above

I edited my post too... we might be chasing eachother a long time this way. The connection is not in "Hey Good Lookin'

[Otto Puzzell]

Well, shoot.

[Ray B.]

So, Eddy Arnold, but not the song and connection that you proposed.
Your move.
As often inthese group puzzle, careful reading of the original post  helps.

[Tom_I]

I'm finding it a bit difficult to get started on this one, but Tuner 2 is a young Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat "King" Cole, who is sitting next to her in the picture.

For the car reference, when she was a little older, she recorded a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac".

[streamliner]

Tuner 8:  Willie Nelson- "Bring along your CADILLAC..." from If You've Got The Money (I've Got the Time).

[streamliner]

Tuner 1:  "You may have a pink CADILLAC" from I Wanna Play House With You.

[streamliner]

Tuner 4: Brian Setzer-"Oh, one fine day I'm gonna make a CADILLAC mine..." from Look At That Cadillac
...or...
"Don't trust a woman in a black CADILLAC" from Don't Trust A Woman (In A Black Cadillac)
....or...
"He had a red CADILLAC and a black moustache" from  Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache

[Otto Puzzell]

Since nobody else has said it, the connection seems to be Cadillac. 

[Otto Puzzell]

#8 could be Bob Lumann, who performed Red Cadillac and Black Mustache

[Otto Puzzell]

I'm thinkin' #5 is Albert King of Cadillac Assembly Line fame

[streamliner]

Tuner #5:  Although I don't think it's either King, for now I'll go with the right-hander, BB, and "I gave you a brand new Ford
and you just said I want a CADILLAC" from How Blue Can You Get?

[streamliner]

Tuner 6:  Larry Dowd, "Pink CADILLAC, goin' down the road" from Pink Cadillac

[streamliner]

Tuner 3:  Hal Willis, "I've just got to wash my pink CADILLAC" from My Pink CADILLAC

[streamliner]

Tuner 9: John Prine, "You might drive a pink Cadillac"" from Baby, Let's Play House on Pink CADILLAC

[streamliner]

I'm guessing it's "Pink Cadillac" references that's the link...

...so Tuner 8: Willie Nelson, "Well, you're sitting back In your pink Cadillac..." from Dead Flowers

... and Tuner 4: Brian Setzer, "Cost me all of my money and my pink Cadillac" from Hoodoo Voodoo Doll

...and Tuner 5 might just be Clarence Clemons (intruder, but the sax is just as much part of the song as the lyrics), "I love you for your pink Cadillac..." from Springsteen's Pink Cadillac

[streamliner]

Tuner 7, Sammy Masters/Johnny Todd, "Oh-oh-oh-me, take a look at that pink Cadillac" from Pink Cadillac

[Ray B.]

I'm finding it a bit difficult to get started on this one, but Tuner 2 is a young Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat "King" Cole, who is sitting next to her in the picture.

For the car reference, when she was a little older, she recorded a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac".

Yes! Tom_i has found the link, which is "pink Cadiilac" for sure. Not red, not black. Pink. One of the most common clichés of both rock and car culture.
Natalie Cole and the Bruce Springsteen cover is correct too.
Now the rest of these apples will possibly fall quite fast. But I've laid of few traps for hurried fruit pickers.

I'll check the other replies and will reply later.

[Tom_I]

Thanks, Ray, but I can't honestly lay claim to having found the link - I just identified artist and song.

I will freely admit that when I posted that reply, my thoughts on the overall link were of something completely different. So the credit for finding the connection should go elsewhere. Otto first declared the link as "Cadillac", and Streamliner refined it to "pink Cadillac".