Jan & Dean - The Little Old Lady From Pasadena Lyrics

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What a relief this song is from the usual pop pap about broken hearts or love forever and ever

When I was about 10 and might have heard this once or twice, I woke up in the middle of the night with the song and its modal shifts running through my head, particularly the outro, with its unexpected key change and the fading echoey harmonica. One of my first ear worms....kept cycling till dawn. Incredible how Jan and Dean captured the spirit and sound of the early Beach Boys.

Reminds me of when my Grandma used to drive herself when she was pretty much blind!

great music, enjoy

I thought I met her just the other day - I lost the race, as if you didn't that already.

A great song make a hilarious story don't mess with little old ladies if you value your lifr

Talking about ripping off the beach boys sound

Remember this from my teens..sounded a bit like the Beach Boys..great times.....Greetings from Ireland

Go granny go...

My was the Little Old Lady From Pasadena (NL) 1978 Plymouth Volera Roadrunner 360 Interceptor 4 speed.

Slappy Squirrel <3.


My favorite old woman character in fiction.. Well, her and Toph Beifong as an old lady..


This is way better than the version that plays in the animaniacs cartoon though

No one meaner than the little old lady from Pasadena. Give 'em a length then shut 'em down Colorado boulevard. Can't understand so puts the pedal to the metal. Terror of Colorado Boulevard.

Colorado boulevard. Can't understand so puts the pedal to the metal
in Old Town Pasadena. Gonna break you dead, clearly break you dead.
From Orange Grove clear out to Rosemead. Out in the lady's old garage
it's a shiny new superstocked Dodge. '68 hemis and all that. Four on the floor.
Sure I drive it. Didn't want to but this is what she says.
Lady's a Democrat and doesn't want any republicans in Pasadena.

Most of her friends who I knew are dead now so I drive her around.
Pile of shit of all eternity is where she lives up near Flintridge.
210 freeway up near there. We've been a family around there for a long time.
We're Democrats in Pasadena up near Flintridge.

My theme song...

I always confused this song with suffering U.S.A. when I was a kid.

For a long time I thought this was the Beach Boys....how wrong I was. Go Jan and Dean !!

I would have thought this song was written about my mother back then , but she drove a red 67 442 Olds.

Not one photograph of a Max Wedge or Hemi B-Body Car!!!!!

Dad Loved Jan & Dean... Rubbed off on me... Go
Granny GO

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.

Classic

It's the little old lady from the city adjacent to Arcadia.

My dad introduced me to 50's music even though I was a baby of the late 60's. He's been gone now for 17 years as of today. He was my hero and I miss him every day.

This Song reminds Me of My Old Mother "EVIL EVE" who use to travels Up & Down along the winding Welland River Road at 110 mph in Ford Torino, and scare the blood pants off me younger. LOL ! She even drag raced out on the back street backs roads back in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, -- She still as not slowed down since 2019. She 82 next year in 2020. My father John was mild compared to her thank God for that ..........

Jeanie Keating sent me hear.

Song is hilarious. I've actually seen these drivers out there on the highway, old men too! Go granny go granny go, Go grandpa go grandpa go grandpa go as well! LOL.......

Jan and Dean for R&R H.O.F!?!

A "shiny red super stock dodge" My grandmother had a "1969 Impala 427 SS"

This song is based on the 1962 to 1964 Dodge and Plymouth 413 and 426 Max Wedge Cars that terrorized drag strips all over North America.

She’ll give ‘em a length and then she’ll shut ‘em down.

RIP Jan Berry

AND....I did own a Super Stock Dodge, 11.17 ET

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.

I was 11 when this song came out, and used to ride around with friends on our bikes singing the tune to "It's the Little Old Lady With a Plastic Wiener" at the top of our lungs... - Tony Arioli

Granny in 64 Hemi Dodge!

Or TODAY..in a Dodge challenger !!

<3 love this in 2019 :)

slightly *edgy*

This tells you Anybody can zoom a race car!

Slappy Squirrel from Animaniacs.

These guys were definitely influenced by the Four Seasons.

Blues Boy...pretty as a mid-summer morn, they called her Dawn...loved the 4 seasons, though I hear a ton of Beach Boy genetics in J&D. Dramatic harmonies, in either case!

They were created by the record label, they had the look and a little talent, the studio did the rest.

I've got an 07 Mustang GT , The salesman said it was previously owned by an older couple who only drove it to church on Sunday, lol yeah ok.

Tommy Morgan (of "The Wrecking Crew") providing the necessary harmonica.

My little old lady for Pasadena died 😭😭😭😭😭

HAL BLAINE brought me here. R.I.P. Drummer Man!

What a superstar Hal was on drums & nobody knew who he was until much later in his life.

The little old lady from Pasadena was actually Agent Carter

I always thought this was beach boys

Sad that their song Dead Man's Curve would be come an Irony when Jan had a terrible automobile accident near there just shortly after that song came out.

What some do not know, she really existed and was fasssssttttt

This song is ageist against geriatrics


BUT SO TRUE! in that era. it's a shame they took away their licenses, and their kids put them in death mills. awesome track!

Love it Love it! Like the ol days. Still alive and kicking

Hi people! Granny got a super bird. Sssssmokin😁😁😁😁

put on the headphones to really enjoy this...neat stereo..

Always thought this was the Beach Boys

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

What is it like the footloose town? No rocking out?

I couldn't confirm if this was an actual song since I only heard in animaniacs

glen campbell on guitar

Esta canción sonó en Animaniacs, en un capítulo llamado "La Pequeña Slappy de Pasadena" y la ardilla al final del capítulo dijo: "Nunca en mi vida he tomado clases de manejo". y la arrestaron porque no respetó las señales de tránsito.

A 64 Mercury Comet Caliente with a 302 Boss would have been right up her alley. 4 on the floor or 5 on the hive! Go Granny!

What's five on the hive?
Yeah the '64 Comet Caliente or the Falcon Sprint were great, the Mustang was just the same car as the '64 Falcon and Comet with a different body

I'm the 500th comment on this video

another Brian Wilson classic!

there wasn't a track Dale couldn't drive in

who could out drive Dale?

who could out drive Dale?

I know a friend like that. She's 84 and crazy on the road 😂

Yep, before the Beatles.

Little old lady with a massive weiner!

This song is about Hillary Clinton

I ride a brand new shiny red Super Stock Suzuki I’m the terror of power on my boulevard and everybody’s saying there’s nobody meaner than the little old man from San Diego

Haven't heard this song since December 23 or 24th of christmas of 2010 the day we buried my mother i was only 11 ish and this song listing to this song on the local oldies station is the only clear memory i have of that day. Weird memory huh? Mum never even mentioned this song once in my life just this is what they were playing.

Even though they were way before my time I love Jan and Dean music

Even though

Long ago, during World War II, I had an aunt and uncle who lived on West Colorado Blvd in Glendale... I wouldn't be surprised.

Long ago, during World War II, I had an aunt and uncle who lived on West Colorado Blvd in Glendale... I wouldn't be surprised.

Go granny Go granny Go granny go!!!! Best chorus lyrics ever!!!!

Jan Berry - vocals
Dean Torrence - vocals
Leon Russell - piano
Tommy Tedesco - guitar
Bill Pitman - guitar
Billy Strange - guitar
Ray Pohlman - bass
Jimmy Bond - bass
Hal Blaine - drums
Earl Palmer - drums
LA Wrecking Crew - all other instrumentation (including low harmonica)
Jan Berry, Don Altfeld, Roger Christian - songwriters
Jan Berry for Screen Gems, Inc. - producer

Go granny go

Awesome!!!thanks!!!

I only know this song because of the refference Judge Judy made in one of her episodes XD

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".

I hear this at work sometimes and those particular lyrics make me snicker every time. :)

A true work of art! Takes a real command of English to come up with a rhyme as naff as that! Bob Dylan took an entire verse of "Tambourine Man" to Rhyme "Sorrow" with "Tomorrow". -This is really succinct by comparison.

Yes! Yes! An indelible line nails the character.

"go grannie go grannie go go go!" :D

I agree that Mopar had some very fast cars in the 60's. But it seems to me that they were a latecomer when it came to style for muscle cars. Until they came out with the Road Runner and the Super Bee, I pretty much have to say that Mopars were fast, but not very good looking. Ford had the mustang in 64 and GM had the GTO in 64. Both good looking cars that LOOKED like muscle cars. Not like MOPAR (pre-68) with typical looking American family sedans that happened to be very fast because they're packing a 426 hemi. This song says it exactly, "a brand new shiny red Super Stock Dodge." The Little Old Lady's car was just a typical American family sedan that had the MOPAR power package. Muscle car performance sure, but no muscle car looks.

"no more surfer shit!" American Grafetti 1973

Oh the sixties

JAN AND DEAN R A ONE OF KIND SUCCESS. I GIVE THEM KUDOS. LONG LIVE Wm.JAN Berry.

I once had an aunt in Pasadena who owned a Polara 440, Most of the time she didn't care , but every once in awhile some body would do something stupid in front of her and the she would stomp it pull out and then and scream to a stop sideways in front of the offending driver - get out and read the driver the riot act.

Believe it or not, she was 104 years old , she drove like a champ and didn't cut assholes any slack.

My Mom in her 1966 Catalina!!!She drag raced people in her 80s!!

Classic surf sound

Music today can't have cool car songs....the pc police will piss and moan about "glorifying illegal street racing". Besides...who wants to hear a song about a fuckin' Prius?

My gran'ma Mildred drove a '66 Dodge Polara(?) With a 383 4 bbl. Drove like a F1 racer, but she never scared me. She was born 80 years too soon. She would've made a helluva F-15 driver!

You realize a woman old enough to be a grandma in 1964 would probably--not certainly, but probably--have been born in the 19th century. Before cars, before airplanes, before radio, before pop records... Amazing.

Go granny go!

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

mexicans EVERYWHERE!

@gary jonson Pretty sure he's not focused on race, but if that's what's "ruining" our state for you, consider moving to the KKK states.

Well in a way it’s true. Latinos leave their countries because of the policies of their government then vote the same way and turn other states into shit holes

@gary jonson it's not Mexicans. It's the poor policies and the high taxes that have ruined the state. Low income in SF is $100k a year. That's awful

My grandma from Toledo Ohio

WILLIAM JAN BERRY WILL ALWAYS B REMEMBERED. HE MAYBE NO BRIAN WILSON , BUT HE MADE HISTORY 2 IN HIS OWN RIGHT.....

Nun ca gente estragar meu trabahho que entrego meu telefone a policia

Animaniacs cartoon that stars Slappy
ahhh the 90's was awesome to be a Teenager and watching cartoon shows like this.

What the fuck does that stupid 90s cartoon have to do with this classic gem????

I want to go for a ride now.....bye..

***Updated version***
Its the little old Armenian lady from Pasadena,
She drives her Mercedes like a bat out of hell.