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

[Ray B.]

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

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Nope to both Tuner and Song

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

Nope (Tuner 1 being Eddy Arnold, as ID'd by Otto). Not completely unrelated, but I can't explain that yet without giving too much away.

[Ray B.]

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

Setzer alright, but none of these songs.

[Ray B.]

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

Neither Luman, nor this song.

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

Neither King, nor this song.

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?

Neither Albert, nor BB (and nor this song)

[Ray B.]

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

YES! (and that must have been tough, because without a wider frame where you can barely read "...-A-Tones" (for Rock-A-Tones-) on the drums, it wasn't easy to think it was Larry Dowd).

[Ray B.]

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

Yes again! Leonard Gauthier, better known as Hal Willis.

[Ray B.]

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".

That's quite honest of you, Tom. It's true that you were the first to write "pink Cadillac", but it's Streamliner who identified it as the link.

And I can't retain Otto's "Since nobody else has said it, the connection seems to be Cadillac.  , following an unwritten but common Autopuzzles rule: When you give an incomplete answer, the guy who comes up with the correct ansd omplete stuff steals the point (unless the question has been locked for you). And I had asked for a "precise car reference).

[streamliner]

Tuner 8: Johnny Cash and One Piece At A Time (an intruder, it's not pink, but how can you not have him???)

[Ray B.]

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

Both Artist and Song album are correct. My mistake. It's not that the song doesn't belong in that puzzle, it does. But not by John Prine. I hadn't noticed that he sang it in this album and picked him up only for the album's title.

So the song is still to be linked with another tuner.

[Ray B.]

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

An another one for streamliner.

[Ray B.]

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

Not Willie Nelson, but Dead Flowers sure is somewhere in this puzzle.
You've Already ID'd Setzer: here is the right song.
Not Clarence Clemons. The Springsteen song has already been linked to Natalie Cole.

[Ray B.]

Tuner 8: Johnny Cash and One Piece At A Time (an intruder, it's not pink, but how can you not have him???)

I said pink!

[Tom_I]

Well now, if the song Baby, Let's Play House appears in this puzzle, then it should link with Tuner 5, Arthur Gunter, who wrote it, and recorded it in 1954.

But, in Gunter's original, there's no mention of a pink Cadillac. That first appears in a cover version recorded by Elvis Presley in 1955.

Well, you may go to college,
You may go to school,
You may have a pink Cadillac,
But don't you be nobody's fool.

In Gunter's original, the third line was You may get religion, baby.

So is this one of the two answers which don't quite fit in with the others, in that the pink Cadillac connection was not in the original version of the song?

[Ray B.]

Well now, if the song Baby, Let's Play House appears in this puzzle, then it should link with Tuner 5, Arthur Gunter, who wrote it, and recorded it in 1954.

But, in Gunter's original, there's no mention of a pink Cadillac. That first appears in a cover version recorded by Elvis Presley in 1955.

Well, you may go to college,
You may go to school,
You may have a pink Cadillac,
But don't you be nobody's fool.

In Gunter's original, the third line was You may get religion, baby.

So is this one of the two answers which don't quite fit in with the others, in that the pink Cadillac connection was not in the original version of the song?

Amazingly impressive! Impressively amazing!

You're perfectely right about all this, and you even gave us the name of the perpetraror reponsible for this enduring cliché: Elvis himself. You just spoke a little too soon because I was thinking of offering a point for this story. The story goes that Elvis bought this first pink Cadillac (or had one painted pink) because it was his mother favorite color. I'm not sure of the car's year and model (I believe they have a 1954 sedan in Graceland) and if the car was for her or himself.
I didn't try to check it too thoroughly.

So, Arthur Gunter, "Baby let's play house". but no true connection.

[barrett]

#10 is a very young Steve Earle, who sung a cover of 'Dead Flowers'

[Ray B.]

#10 is a very young Steve Earle, who sung a cover of 'Dead Flowers'

That's it.

[Otto Puzzell]

And I can't retain Otto's "Since nobody else has said it, the connection seems to be Cadillac.  ,

[Tom_I]

He's not easy to recognise without the signature glasses, but Tuner 8 is Buddy Holly.

He also recorded a version of Arthur Gunter's Baby, Let's Play House, but he used the lyrics as modified by Elvis Presley, so it does contain the line "You may have a pink Cadillac".

[Ray B.]

He's not easy to recognise without the signature glasses, but Tuner 8 is Buddy Holly.

Not easy but far from impossible as you prove. I guess that nobody thought of him.
And you're completely right about the song.

[streamliner]

Ummmm...

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

[Ray B.]

My reply to this was a little cryptic, I know.
Yes, that song appears in the puzzle.
8 connected tuners have been found, + one not quite connected (Arthur Gunter). And there are supposed to be two of them.

Now you have a song, a tuner (E.Arnold), but an incomplete connection. Why? A little more digging is required.

[Tom_I]

I've been going round in circles with this, and I'm not sure I've got to the bottom of it, but what keeps coming up is the amount of misinformation contained in web resources, which are all I've really got to go on.

For example, if you look for the lyrics to Arthur Gunter's Baby, Let's Play House, you will usually see the line about the pink Cadillac, which was not in the original song, but was a later Presley modification. The best way to find the correct words is to actually listen to the track.

As for Eddy Arnold, you will find sites which say that he also recorded Baby, Let's Play House, which as far as I know he didn't. But as mentioned above, in 1951 he did record a completely different song, written by Cy Coben, called I Wanna Play House With You. These two songs seem to get regularly confused with each other.

I suppose you can understand why. For one thing the words to Gunter's Baby, Let's Play House do not contain that exact phrase at all, but do contain the line "I wanna play house with you", which is the title of the Eddy Arnold song.

It gets worse if you look up the lyrics to Eddy Arnold's I Wanna Play House With You. Some sites, whether or not they get the title right, list the words to Baby, Let's Play House instead, invariably in Elvis's "pink Cadillac" version.

So while I may be missing something, is this the key to the puzzle, in that eight of the artists have recorded songs or albums with a reference to a pink Cadillac in the title or words, while two, Arthur Gunter with Baby, Let's Play House and Eddy Arnold with I Wanna Play House With You, have recorded songs which (at least by some people) are thought to contain mention of a pink Cadillac, but in reality they don't?

[Ray B.]

As for Eddy Arnold, you will find sites which say that he also recorded Baby, Let's Play House, which as far as I know he didn't. But as mentioned above, in 1951 he did record a completely different song, written by Cy Coben, called I Wanna Play House With You. These two songs seem to get regularly confused with each other.

I suppose you can understand why. For one thing the words to Gunter's Baby, Let's Play House do not contain that exact phrase at all, but do contain the line "I wanna play house with you", which is the title of the Eddy Arnold song.

It gets worse if you look up the lyrics to Eddy Arnold's I Wanna Play House With You. Some sites, whether or not they get the title right, list the words to Baby, Let's Play House instead, invariably in Elvis's "pink Cadillac" version.

So while I may be missing something, is this the key to the puzzle, in that eight of the artists have recorded songs or albums with a reference to a pink Cadillac in the title or words, while two, Arthur Gunter with Baby, Let's Play House and Eddy Arnold with I Wanna Play House With You, have recorded songs which (at least by some people) are thought to contain mention of a pink Cadillac, but in reality they don't?

Tom, you've summed this up perfectly. It will even get even clearer if you read the real lyrics of the Cy Coben/Eddy Arnold song. Here they are. The second point for the Eddy Arnold pairing is yours.

[Allemano]

Compliment Ray! 
Though I haven't taken part on this I'm always fascinated about the clever way you contrive these kind of puzzles.

[Ray B.]

 Well, I had just gone through a few Cadillac songs while investigating Otto's red Cadillac in his last Cars and Tuners puzzle, then I had "Sticky Fingers" in my car's stereo, and...

Thanks guys. Points tallied later.

An hour later:
And so it goes:
streamliner 10 points
Tom_I 8 points
barrett 2 points
Otto Puzzell 1 point

[Ray B.]

Well, I had just gone through a few Cadillac songs while investigating Otto's red Cadillac in his last Cars and Tuners puzzle, then I had "Sticky Fingers" in my car's stereo, and...

 ... and I suddenly remembered that I had another long forgotten unsolved puzzle where a pink Cadillac was also mentioned:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=11371.0