"Get Your Kicks on Route 66"

The highways of America, no longer solely a means of going from one place to the next, became a new space for excitement, interaction, and experience. No one song captured the widespread desire to be a part of this new, emerging highway culture more than Bobby Troup's "Route 66." Traveling west along 66 in 1946, Bobby Troup had already written the first two stanzas of "Get Your kicks on Route 66" upon his road map before he reached Los Angeles. The song was later recorded by Nat King Cole, and it quickly found a central place in America's musical lexicon. The catchy lyrics were the perfect accompaniment on the car radio as thousands of Americans took to the new highways in search of new homes, visiting friends, or just to cruise about.
Nat King Cole "Route 66"