[3] 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.

[4] On December 18, 1949, on an episode of the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy radio show with June Allyson, a joke about a used horse being owned by an old lady in Pasadena was made.

Later that week, on the December 23, 1949 radio episode of My Favorite Husband, Lucille Ball's character Liz Cooper jokes about getting a used sleigh "only pulled by an elderly reindeer from Pasadena."

Part of this lore was that many an elderly man who died in Pasadena would leave his widow with a powerful car that she rarely, if ever, drove, such as an old Buick Roadmaster, or a vintage 1950s Cadillac, Ford, Packard, Studebaker, DeSoto, or La Salle.

[5] The session musicians who played on this record (who were collectively known as The Wrecking Crew) included Leon Russell on 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.

The song is featured on the 1993 kids' surf-rock CD, "Camp California: Where The Music Never Ends;" it is performed by Kath Soucie, Nancy Cartwright, Jess Harnell, Hal Rayle and Susan Boyd.