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Infobox single | Name = The Little Old Lady from Pasadena | Cover =Jan_and_Dean_Little_Old_Lady.jpg | Cover size = | Caption = | Artist = Jan and Dean | from Album = The Little Old Lady From Pasadena | A-side = | B-side = "My Mighty G.T.O." | Released = June 8, 1964 | Format = 7" piano; Tommy Tedesco, Bill Pitman and Billy Strange on guitar; Ray Pohlman and Jimmy Bond on bass; and Hal Blaine and Earl Palmer on drums.〔cite web |url=http://www.wreckingcrewfilm.com/afmcontracts/Jan+Dean_LittleOldLady.pdf |title=Phonograph Recording Contract |work=American Federation of Musicians |accessdate=8 June 2015}}〕 Tommy Morgan provided the song's harmonica solo. Jan & Dean reworked the lyrics from "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" in 1967, renaming the track "Tijuana" and releasing it as a single that same year. The lyrics were now drug related. "Tijuana" was finally released on their 2010 album ''Carnival of Sound''. The song was performed live by The Beach Boys at Sacramento Municipal Auditorium on August 1, 1964 for inclusion on their No.1 album ''Beach Boys Concert''. The Beach Boys, and particularly Brian Wilson, who co-wrote several of Jan & Dean's biggest surf hits, had supported Jan & Dean in the recording studio to initiate them in the surf music genre. ==Premise of the song== The origins of "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" stem from a hugely popular ad campaign that the Dodge automobile maker debuted in early 1964. Starring actress Kathryn Minner, the commercials showed the white haired elderly lady speeding down the street (and sometimes a drag strip) driving a modified Dodge. She would stop, look out the window and say "Put a Dodge in your garage, Hon-ey!". The song soon followed and she enjoyed great popularity until she died a few years later. "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" was a folk archetype in Southern California in the mid-20th Century. Early in the century, many white couples from the Midwest had moved to the region, especially to Pasadena, Californiae (automobile)|La Salle]]. Used car salesmen in California, so the story went, would tell prospective buyers that the previous owner of a vehicle was "a little old lady from Pasadena who only drove it to church on Sundays," thus suggesting the car had little wear. This joke became part of the material of some comedians based in Los Angeles (notably Johnny Carson, who often used it on his frequent trips to tape ''The Tonight Show'' in L.A. before settling there permanently), and because of television, the phrase "little old lady from Pasadena" became familiar to a national audience. From this premise came the comic song, about a little old lady from Pasadena who had a hot "Super Stock Dodge" in her garage. (These vehicles had low production number "Max Wedge" (Maximum Performance Wedge Engine) lightweight race specials built in 1964 for drag racing and are highly collectible today.) The song's twist was that, unlike the subject of the usual story and joke, this little old lady not only drove the hot car, but also was a peerless street racer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Little Old Lady from Pasadena」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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