BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE Roll on down the highway - A road trip monster this is! First time hearing

BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE Roll on down the highway.These trio from Winnipeg Canada,gave the world one of the great highway tunes!
These hard pumping energetic song should have done way better than it did in the charts worldwide.
All the same,its still a memorable number that is bound to get your pulse racing on a highway journey.
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[@bradtaggart5509]

Randy Bachman started this group after leaving The Guess Who. I grew up listening to both too. I saw BTO in concert when they were first starting. Excellent band.

[@arjaylee]

B.T.O. Were on many a turntable at many a college party.

[@patswanson2870]

They are from my home town, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They are touring in the USA right now. The Guess Who and Neil Young are also from Winnipeg. Neil Young spent his teenage years growing up in Winnipeg where he started his first band called The Squires.

[@karenyoung7133]

lots of talent out of Winnipeg!Show your hometown pride!Much love from the San Francisco bay area!

[@GregHinz-jt6nq]

Is that a suburb of Detroit

[@patswanson2870]

Winnipeg is the capital city of the Province of Manitoba in Canada.

[@miken.2847]

I was not aware of that. Cool.

[@user-nu2hp2jn4u]

Been listening to this song all my life still don't.know half the lyrics, still love it

[@missblondie2393]

😂 Although it all makes sense 🎵🤘🎶

[@Cana-Dave]

This song kicks ass, kicking ass since I first heard it in 1974.

[@pete3883]

Missed BTO graduated H.S. in '73. Went to college.

[@Louis5900]

"Roll On Down The Highway" is a song written by Fred Turner and Robbie Bachman, first recorded by Canadian rock group Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) for their 1974 album Not Fragile. The lead vocal is provided by Turner. Turner and Randy Bachman had originally been contracted by Ford to write a song for the automotive company's commercials, but Ford never picked up any of their compositions. Robbie Bachman later helped develop one of Turner's ideas into a Top 20 hit. "Roll on Down the Highway" peaked at No. 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on March 1, 1975. It hit 22 on the U.K. charts.

[@csedrivers2850]

The rockin 70s. 🙃

[@michaelnotigan7796]

Fred Turner, lead vocals and bass......both are a standout on this great highway drivin' tune. I don't believe Fred is active in music these days, but it was not that long ago that he and Randy got together on tour as Bachman Turner. And yes, he still had that gravelly rockin' great voice.

[@missblondie2393]

Fred Turner's powerhouse vocals I'm a fangirl of Powerful Bass player too 🎶🤘🎵

[@marybaillie8907]

From the 1974 album, "Not Fragile", this is such a great tune, from the opening guitar riff, this has catchy pop appeal and definitely a great driving song from BTO.🇨🇦 Randy's lead guitar solo, fantastic full vocals, the driving bass line, the pounding drum beat, and the strong guitar hook in the chorus and for you Harri, cowbells, all make this a massive rock tune. 🎶🎶🎶 Funny enough it was written for a Ford car commercial but was rejected, the rest is history for BTO. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Miss Blondie. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

[@donnadubyak6504]

Great album

[@marybaillie8907]

@donnadubyak6504 Absolutely!!! ✌️👍🎶🇨🇦

[@missblondie2393]

Hi Mary It would have a perfect song for Ford or Chevy especially as it was in the Muscle Car Era vroom Love and Rock Music to you my Canadian Rocker Chick friend 🎶💜🎵🤘🇨🇦🇺🇲🥂🎸🥁

[@marybaillie8907]

@missblondie2393 Hello my groovy Chick friend. Great request. Of course I have loved BTO forever. 🥁🎸🇨🇦 I'm thinking an F150 tearing up the highway, groovin along. Lol Love and Rock and Roll, my hippy friend from the South. 🎶🎶💎💎🎸🎸🇨🇦❤️🇺🇲🥰🥰🤗🤗

[@missblondie2393]

@@marybaillie8907 Another reason you Rock I have an obsession with Pickup Trucks Definitely a Ford F150 Girly girl me with my Rock Chick side drove an F250 with a Pink Steering Wheel I loved it, however I must be honest I sucked at parking it 😅 After a year traded it for my Mustang GT this was in 2017 Have been checking out the new F150s my my how gorgeous they are, just need a mortgage for one seriously 😜 Big hugs my friend 🎵🤘🎶🇨🇦🇺🇲🛻🛣 Beepbeep

[@cosmiccowboy7764]

Drove so fast my eyes cant see 🎼🎶🎼

[@michaelmolloy6697]

BTO always under rated but in my opinion one of the best 70’s band. Randy Bachman is outstanding writer and musician

[@missblondie2393]

Agree Randy Bachman is an often overlooked top tier guitar player The whole band is great all the Bachman Brothers and The Incredible Fred Turner on lead vocals and Bass 🎶🤘🎵

[@csedrivers2850]

That freakin song gets it on man. 😎

[@darlenehart7896]

❤❤❤

[@craigslue]

Just one of their many great songs! Never got/get their due!

[@marthayoung2308]

I didn't get a ticket, but I did get to see REO Speedwagon sing this song LIVE! 😁 Thank you for this.

[@user-tw2ky7tv8h]

Saw them open for Vanhalen over 25 years ago and they ROCKED! THAT AUDITORIUM!.

[@missblondie2393]

WOW!! Now that sounds like an incredible concert 🎵🤘🎶

[@Imadrummin]

The first Canadian band I fell in love with. Of course many other Canadian band became the same way but BTO was my first. A smokin tune. Nice pick Miss Blondie. Thanks Harri. 🤟🤟🤟

[@missblondie2393]

A great Canadian first Glad you enjoyed it Mr. Drummin 🎵🤘🎶🥁💜

[@darikmatters8866]

ROAD TRIP !!!!!!

[@waltw4537]

Me and my buddy Al, rollin' down the highway to Grand Canyon and beyond. RIP Al. Needed the jams kicked out today.Thanks.

[@nancywest1926]

I was actually blasting this yesterday! When summer comes or you want to forget winter is here, this was our summer song decades ago 😊

[@paulwhite5840]

I grew up on BTO. Great choice Harri.

[@mulatacatachufla]

Another Canadian jewel!! 🇨🇦

[@lensnart1303]

This song will get you a speeding ticket.

[@jimsavely1104]

First concert I attended was BTO in 1977

[@AP-gb3eh]

Wow blast from the 70s . Riding with my motor head friends ,the highways were empty after 9:p.m. 65 Mustang . Happy just remembering ☮️

[@user-pq2ue3is9z]

One of the best road trip songs in Canada ever

[@wilfbentley6738]

BTO are/were a GREAT rock band. They have a huge catalogue: Lookin' Out For Number One, Let It Ride, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Takin' Care Of Business!

[@doplinger1]

I don’t remember anything in particular that might have been playing back then when I got a ticket, but imagine your a teenager out with your friends or on a date, just driving around town with the radio blaring! Harri - it wasn’t just one or two songs like this that rocked, the airwaves were full of great hard-driving music in the 70s!

[@juliotamu7484]

Great reaction. One of my favorites.

[@lnbarnes917]

I really enjoy your channel Harri😊

[@markwilliams5606]

B.T.O. Got that Detroit Grit. Thanks again Canada!. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🛣️

[@phyllissockwell9481]

I got stopped but sweet talked my way out of it. The officer loved BTO too!!!

[@missblondie2393]

You sweet talker you 😉 🎶🤘🎵💜

[@TheBham54]

Mid- 70's Rock & Roll! BTO, Bob Seger & the Silver Bullett Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, Joe Walsh...lots of great, hard-driving R&R! Great pick!

[@freeforever6971]

I've got it into overdrive!

[@jeffmorris6105]

I can never sit still when I hear this song

[@agneslong2323]

Brings back memories---Headed to the city for a concert, windows down in the '70 Chevelle, flip BTO into the 8-track and left lane all the way up the interstate. Hit the coliseum wide open with waist-long hair stickin' out of your head like you had licked a light socket.

[@bln3576]

Canada Rocks

[@Uman1479]

Never got a ticket,but this was my 140 mph song🤟🤟

[@incensejunkie7516]

Harri - as someone who moved from Toronto to a few places in the country as an adult, including the prairies (where BTO is from, they're from Winnipeg specifically), we NEED music like this to stay awake while driving. You could drive for 12 hrs on the prairies and look down to make sure you actually hit the gas pedal. Driving for 2 full days with the same scenery, one is apt to get a bit sleepy. The Guess Who, of which Randy Bachman is a co-founder, and BTO (Bachman founded that group) both toured a lot by road. I don't think it was founded on the working class rocker vibe they have as much as a necessary "we gotta stay awake on the road" vibe! 😂 Love this song and BTO. I hope someone will finally request Blue Collar, my favourite of all their songs. Great jazzy vibe!

[@missblondie2393]

So basically BTO is extra strong coffee with a shot of espresso 😉 As both a lover of coffee and BTO it works for me 🎵🤘🎶

[@kirkhall2099]

This guitar solo fits the song very well.

[@donnadubyak6504]

Saw them at the monsters of rock concert in Pittsburgh. I think it was 75

[@georgedolen1486]

Love the line "I'd like to have a jet but it's not in the song"

[@joehouse3800]

You ain't seen nothing yet is my favorite song of BTO

[@eirikasbjrnberg8753]

This was an absolute monster hit when i grew up , Guess Who and BTO the same but very different

[@lindasalaki9404]

🛻🚐🚙 Great song 👍

[@colincampbell4862]

another great driving song - Radar Love by Golden Earing

[@missblondie2393]

🤫🤫🤫 That's another request submitted for this month Love it

[@KidRisky]

Yes it is. And don’t call me Surely.

[@The5thGen]

Great song!

[@Mr2012Ultra]

Do Not Fragile by these guys. Please. 😁

[@greendayzd6728]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@dragon-lu3mk]

had a helmet w/ headset built in, got pulled over for doing 110 mph on my bike with this cranking - cop asked where i got the helmet, tried it on, heard what i was listening to and let me off with a warning saying try something a little mellower next time ...

[@missblondie2393]

WOW Well luckily the cop had great taste in music Cool helmet 🎵🤘🎶

[@bobdelp2023]

HEY HARRI DID YOU ALREADY DO ( TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS ) THEIR BIGGEST HIT BY FARRRRR AND STILL STANDS TRUE TODAY, AMAZING! :)

[@unclephil7650]

Thank you Miss Blondie. One of my favorite bands to listen to while in the car taking a road trip.

[@missblondie2393]

Glad to know another BTO fan Uncle Phil Definitely incredible cruising music 🎵🤘🎶✌️💜

[@cheesesandwich1236]

These boys were from Winnipeg. Anywhere outside the city are endless flat, straight, empty roads and its a long way to anywhere. To get somewhere you have to do some lengthy high speed driving.

[@juliewhite7469]

🚘🎵❤️🎸🎶

[@donnadubyak6504]

Just a head banging rock and roll band

[@Spinspiel]

Thanks Harri - My favorite line from this song "I'd like to have a jet, but it's not in the song"

[@DJBilodeau]

Oh Harri you just picked a monster! Has to be my favorite BTO song of all!

[@bobwirth9256]

Randy is such a great guy , he lived 2 hours down the road , search the tube of him playing a guitar with a drum stick it is pretty awesome .

[@robertalynn1804]

One of my favorite driving songs! I remember when it came out! Can’t stay still when you hear this great BTO song! I didn’t get a ticket while driving but probably should have!😂

[@itzel1735]

Last time I got pulled over for speeding, I had BTO blasting. Though I think it was “Let It Ride”. 😂 And it was since Covid.

[@jenniferwright8675]

Hands down the best song to get a speeding ticket to is Radar Love

[@Dee-JayW]

In my car playlist LOUD, driving 120, then suddenly you are at 140, down the QEII highway! Thanks Blondie from Alberta 🇨🇦 ❤❤❤❤ (QEII is Queen Elizabeth II highway) PS Beers in the truck were called road pops back in the day!

[@judypritchard4670]

Down the back highway between Drumheller and Oyen. Straightest highway doing 140. Good thing nobody else was on the road.

[@missblondie2393]

Man 140 I love fast but I tap out at 120 Mad respect 🎶🤘🎵

[@cosmiccowboy7764]

140 mph was easy when you have a Dodge Challenger with a440 six pack and 750 horses under the hood, and that was Dad’s car 🚘

[@judypritchard4670]

@@cosmiccowboy7764 I was driving a 2001 Toyota Camry and the speed trip was about 4 years ago. I didn’t the old girl had it in her as I had just recently bought her

[@MustangTerry]

Brings back the days in my 1972 Mustang 351HO, basically a Boss 351 with lower compression that I got up to 155 MPH with a 455 HO Trans Am in Alberta long ago, we slowed down, gave each other a thumbs up because neither won but both had fun.... then onto our destinations....

[@charlieg2839]

Another Rock Hall snub!

[@karenyoung7133]

you literally became a lead foot and b4 you knew it,you were moons over the speed limit!!

[@debbiechang5781]

Wonderful selection Miss Blondie. Until this moment I did not know that BTO was Canadian. I’m constantly amazed at how much great music has come from our northern neighbor. Love this toe tapper and enjoyed Harri’s input. Thanks Miss Blondie. 🌺✌️

[@missblondie2393]

🎶🤘🎵💜

[@marybaillie8907]

🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦❤️😉

[@stevedavis5704]

You really can’t go wrong with BTO, as long as you have cruise control. I will tell you that on I-80 in Nebraska way back when, I found out my brothers Studebaker could top out the speedometer in about seven miles with BTO blasting on the 8 track. And the speedometer went to 120 with the car still accelerating when I had to slow down for my exit. Proving God watches out for fools I had no mechanical issues while doing it nor did I see a trooper.

[@missblondie2393]

Damn! We're both lucky although I didn't get my license till 86 I always loved Rock from the 60s and 70s Flirting With Disaster by Molly Hatchet had my dad's old Buick Electra "deuce and a quarter" 455 engine The Batmobile up to nearly 120 and thankfully no ticket 🎶🤘🎵

[@WyliesLiveMusicCorner]

Here he is at 80 years young, performing it with his current band! (No Fred Turner of course, but still!) kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJ27Y62jbcl0Zs0

[@missblondie2393]

Incredible

[@RogerWyatt365]

Want more BTO? Try "Not Fragile"

[@itzel1735]

Home Free dropped a new recording of Tom Cochrane’s “Life is a Highway”. The video is a bit of fun.

[@rubbersole79]

Fred Turners vocal cords need to be inducted into the Rock n Roll H.O.F.

[@richeaton5752]

Try "Blue Collar" or "Rock is My Life", Harri.

[@bobwirth9256]

Move out boys, this car is a manual and has 4 more gears to go and another 3000 rpm left , let's get ready to race 🤪🤪

[@krisfox3537]

If you youngins want to know what the definition of rock and roll is? This isit. If I ever get pulled over by the police for speeding my defense would be I was listening to roll on down the highway by bto and I lost control of the car. He would probably understand and give me a warning.

[@user-pl7po3kd2h]

TRY I CAN'T DRIVE 55

[@longballist]

The words are hard to understand do to the Mid Canadian accent….😂😂😂😂

[@GregHinz-jt6nq]

The heaviest group in rock LMAO

[@missblondie2393]

I see what you did there 😅 Fred Turner to me looked like a Viking The Rock Thor

[@GregHinz-jt6nq]

Luv ya babe , luv BTO and luv American Woman !

[@missblondie2393]

@@GregHinz-jt6nq luv you back and you sir have great taste in music 🎶✌️🎵🤘

[@Tel864]

This song will get you a speeding ticket.