My Top Ten Burt Reynolds Songs

Time-pressured this week due to the new college year chaos, but I did want to pay tribute to another hero of my childhood who passed last week. Here's ten tunes for Burt...

10. Sammy Kershaw - Cadillac Style

Well, I ain't Burt Reynolds and I ain't Tom Selleck;
I got bills up the pike and my car's an old relic

9. Heatwave - Boogie Nights

Burt's great "comeback" role of the 90s.

8. Gretchen Wilson - Trucker Man

He's got nineteen on the CB
Well they call him the Bandit
Cause he only breaks for the Smokies

7. Ray Stevens - The Cannonball Run

6. Warren Zevon - Sacrificial Lambs

Smokey and the Bandit
And Saddam Hussein
Were staying up late
And acting insane

5. Jerry Reed - Eastbound & Down

4. Don Williams - If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do)

Oh, and if you see Burt Reynolds would you shake his hand for me
And tell ol' Burt I've seen all his movies
Well, I hope you make for big time, I hope your dreams come true
But if Hollywood don't need you, honey, I still do

3. Lee Majors - The Unknown Stuntman

Any excuse to play this!

I might fall from a tall Building, so Burt Reynolds don't get hurt
I might leap a mighty Canyon, so he can kiss and flirt
While that smooth talker's kissing my girl - I'm just kissing dirt
Yes, I'm the lonely stuntman, that made a lover out of Burt

2. Duelling Banjos

Squeal like a pig, boy!

1. Bruce Springsteen - Cadillac Ranch

James Dean in that mercury '49
Junior Johnson runnin' through the woods of Carolina
Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am
All gonna meet down at the Cadillac ranch

I wonder if they threw old Burt's body in the back and drove him to the junkyard in his Cadillac?



RIP, Burt.