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

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

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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

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

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

The rockin 70s. 🙃

I grew up on BTO. Great choice Harri.

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

This song will get you a speeding ticket.

Drove so fast my eyes cant see 🎼🎶🎼

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 🇨🇦

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

ROAD TRIP !!!!!!

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!

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

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

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

This guitar solo fits the song very well.

That freakin song gets it on man. 😎

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

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. 🤟🤟🤟

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

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

One of the best road trip songs in Canada ever

Another Canadian jewel!! 🇨🇦

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

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

First concert I attended was BTO in 1977

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!

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

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!

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.

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

Yes it is. And don’t call me Surely.

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

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

I've got it into overdrive!

Another Rock Hall snub!

another great driving song - Radar Love by Golden Earing

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

Do Not Fragile by these guys. Please. 😁

I can never sit still when I hear this song

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

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!

Canada Rocks

🛻🚐🚙 Great song 👍

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.

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 ...

Great reaction. One of my favorites.

I really enjoy your channel Harri😊

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

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 .

Just a head banging rock and roll band

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

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.

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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.

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

Great song!

Here he is at 80 years young, performing it with his current band! (No Fred Turner of course, but still!) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jlX2zm8dA0k.html

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

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

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!

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!😂

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

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

Want more BTO? Try "Not Fragile"

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. 🌺✌️

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

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 🤪🤪

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.

TRY I CAN'T DRIVE 55

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

The heaviest group in rock LMAO

This song will get you a speeding ticket.