Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
{{Short description|American country rock band}}
{{For|the album|Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (album)}}
{{redirect|Commander Cody}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
| image = Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen.jpg
| caption = Andy Stein (L) and John Tichy (R) at the Hollywood Bowl opening for Grateful Dead, July 21, 1974. The Wall of Sound PA is in the background. Photo: David Gans
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| origin = Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
| genre = {{flatlist|
- Country rock[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/commander-cody-and-his-lost-planet-airmen-mn0000115140 Commander Cody] Allmusic Retrieved 31 August 2024
- Western swing
- truck-driving country
- alternative country
- progressive country
}}
| years_active = 1967–1976 as Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
1977–2021 as Commander Cody{{cite web|url=http://www.commandercody.com/thebio.cfm |title=The Bio |publisher=Commander Cody |access-date=2013-06-27}}
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| past_members = George Frayne
Billy C. Farlow
Bill Kirchen
John Tichy
Andy Stein
Bruce Barlow
Lance Dickerson
Steve Davis
Bobby Black
Ernie Hagar
Norton Buffalo
Rick Higginbotham
Nicolette Larson
Peter Siegel
Rick Mullen
Steve Barbuto
Mark Emerick
Randy Bramwell
Chris Olsen
Professor Louie
Sean Allen
Tim Eschliman
}}
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were an American country rock band founded in 1967.{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor-first=Colin|editor-last=Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Virgin Books|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|pages=292/3|location=London}} The group's leader and co-founder was pianist and vocalist George Frayne IV, alias Commander Cody (born July 19, 1944, in Boise, Idaho; died September 26, 2021, in Saratoga Springs, New York).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/music/george-frayne-dead.html |title=George Frayne, a.k.a. Commander Cody, Alt-Country Pioneer, Dies at 77 |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Clay |last=Risen |date=September 30, 2021 |access-date=October 2, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}
The band became known for marathon live shows. Alongside Frayne, the classic lineup was Billy C. Farlow (b. Decatur, Alabama) on vocals and harmonica; John Tichy (b. St. Louis, Missouri) on guitar and vocals; Bill Kirchen (Kirchen was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, June 29, 1948, but grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan) on lead guitar; Andy Stein (b. August 31, 1948, in New York City) on saxophone and fiddle; "Buffalo" Bruce Barlow (b. December 3, 1948, in Oxnard, California) on bass guitar; Lance Dickerson (b. October 15, 1948, in Livonia, Michigan, died November 10, 2003, in Fairfax, California){{citation needed|date=June 2022}} on drums; and Steve "The West Virginia Creeper" Davis (b. July 18, 1946, in Charleston, West Virginia), followed by Bobby Black, on pedal steel guitar.
The Lost Planet Airmen
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen formed in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, with Frayne taking the stage name Commander Cody. The band's name was inspired by 1950s film serials featuring the character Commando Cody and from a feature version of an earlier serial, King of the Rocket Men, released under the title Lost Planet Airmen.
After playing for several years in local bars, in 1969 the core members migrated to Berkeley, California,{{cite web |first=Corry |last=Arnold |date=September 18, 2010 |url=http://berkeleyfolk.blogspot.com/2010/09/commander-cody-and-his-lost-planet.html |title=Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen Performance List 1969: Berkeley Beginnings |website=Berkeley in the Sixties |access-date=September 27, 2020}}{{cite magazine |first=Ed |last=Ward |date=April 16, 1970 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/interview-commander-cody-and-his-lost-planet-airmen-179296/ |title=Interview: Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=October 10, 2020}} and soon got a recording contract with Paramount Records. (About a year later, Commander Cody invited western swing revival group Asleep at the Wheel to relocate to the Bay Area.) The group released their first album in November 1971, Lost in the Ozone, which yielded its best-known hit, a cover version of the 1955 song "Hot Rod Lincoln", which reached the top ten on the Billboard singles chart in early 1972. Shortly thereafter drummer Lance Dickerson, Bruce Barlow, the band's manager and the band's bus driver, Ed Dufault, moved to a ranch in Kenwood, California named "The Casa Felice". Here in the basement of one of the 3 houses is where the band set up a studio and practiced for upcoming tours. The tour bus at the time was a converted Greyhound bus with the name and logo "Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen" painted on the side. For a short time, the bus could be seen parked on the side of Warm Springs Road in Kenwood. The band's 1974 live recording, Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas, features cover art of armadillos by Jim Franklin. The band released several moderately successful albums through the first half of the 1970s. Their 1975 album Tales From The Ozone was produced by Hoyt Axton. After appearing in the Roger Corman movie Hollywood Boulevard, Frayne disbanded the group in 1976.
Geoffrey Stokes's 1976 book Star-Making Machinery featured Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen as its primary case study of music industry production and marketing. Stokes relates the difficulties the band had recording its first album for Warner Bros. Records. The label wanted a hit album along the lines of the soft country-rock of The Eagles, but the band was not inclined to change its raw-edged style. The book also detailed various internal conflicts within the band, some related to the recording process, others not.
Later some unauthorized Lost Planet Airmen recordings were released in Europe and Australia along with previously unreleased LPA tracks and some outtakes from existing Paramount and Warner releases.
Kirchen and Stein went on to have successful musical careers, with Kirchen being acknowledged as one of the preeminent Telecaster players in the world. Stein had a long association with the radio program, A Prairie Home Companion. Tichy had previously earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and became head of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York."Vile Gossip", Jean Jennings, Automobile Magazine, February 2007
"Hot Rod Lincoln", the band's most famous recording, was voted a Legendary Michigan Song in 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/legendary-michigan-songs-inductees |title=Legendary Michigan Songs |publisher=Michigan Rock and Roll Legends |date=1965-02-25 |access-date=2013-06-27}} The following year Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen were inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=https://michiganrockandrolllegends.com/index.php/mrrl-hall-of-fame/319-commander-cody-and-his-lost-planet-airmen |title=Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen |publisher=Michigan Rock and Roll Legends |access-date=2013-06-27}}
Members of the original group, excepting Frayne, held a 50th anniversary reunion in the San Francisco Bay area in June 2019.{{cite news |first=Richard |last=Freedman |date=June 11, 2019 |url=https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2019/06/11/june-13-arts-and-entertainment-lost-airmen-reunion-tour-lands-in-bay-area/ |title=Lost Airmen Reunion Tour Lands in Bay Area |newspaper=Times-Herald |access-date=September 12, 2020}}{{cite news |first=Kate |last=Laddish |date=June 28, 2019 |url=https://ipinionsyndicate.com/bill-kirchen-airmen-reunion/ |title=Bill Kirchen: Five Lost Planet Airmen Fly Again This Weekend |website=iPinion Syndicate |access-date=September 12, 2020}}
The band disbanded in 1977, but the name "Commander Cody" survived, being used by Frayne in various iterations in his solo career.{{efn-ua|"Frayne continued with a solo career, still using his stage name, and toured and released albums under various titles including Commander Cody, the Commander Cody Band, Commander Cody and His Modern Day Airmen and Commander Cody and His Western Airmen."{{cite web|last=Lewry|first=Fraser|date=September 27, 2021|title=George Frayne A.K.A. Country Rock Maverick Commander Cody Dead at 77|url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/george-frayne-aka-country-rock-maverick-commander-cody-dead-at-77|access-date=September 27, 2021|work=Louder}}}}
Commander Cody
File:Commander Cody - Sarah Stierch 2018.jpg
Retaining his stage name, George Frayne had a subsequent solo career, touring and releasing albums from 1977 on under various names including Commander Cody, the Commander Cody Band, Commander Cody and His Modern Day Airmen, and Commander Cody and His Western Airmen.{{cite web |url=https://www.commandercody.com/the-gigs |title=The Gigs: I ain't never had too much fun! |publisher=Commander Cody |date=2018 |access-date=2019-01-19}}{{cite web |url=http://www.evanstonspace.com/upcoming-shows |title=Shows |publisher=Evanston S.P.A.C.E. |date=2019 |access-date=2019-01-19}}
Frayne was also a visual artist. He received a bachelor's in design from the University of Michigan in 1966 and a master's in Sculpture and Painting from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies of the University of Michigan in 1968. He taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and his art was exhibited at numerous shows around the country.{{cite web |url=https://www.commandercody.com/Curriculum.html |title=Curriculum Vitae - The Art of George |work=CommanderCody.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813162816/https://www.commandercody.com/Curriculum.html |archive-date=August 13, 2006 |access-date=September 28, 2021}} He was a student of cinematography, and has a video ("Two Triple Cheese Side Order of Fries") in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent video archive. He has assembled many old movies to go with the band's music as shown on his YouTube channel. Some of his paintings are oversized; most are medium-sized acrylics and present pop art images from media sources and historic photos."A brush with art: Sensitive painter George Frayne still rocks as Commander Cody", Austin American-Statesman (October 18, 1986) p D-1 His book, Art Music and Life was released by Qualibre Publications in 2009 and is a mix of his best work and anecdotal comments and related stories. He still did portraits of famous automobiles for the Saratoga Auto Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he resided in April, 1997.
George's brother Chris Frayne is credited with the cover art for the Lost in the Ozone, Sleazy Roadside Stories, Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers' Favorites, and Country Casanova albums. He shared credit with George for the album cover for Aces High, and designed other album covers in the music industry. Chris Frayne died in 1992 of multiple sclerosis.
On September 26, 2021, George Frayne died in Saratoga Springs, New York at the age of 77.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/george-frayne-died/2021/09/29/03baa792-213a-11ec-8200-5e3fd4c49f5e_story.html |title=George Frayne, roots rocker known as Commander Cody, dies at 77 |first1=Matt |last1=Schudel |newspaper=Washington Post |date=September 29, 2021}}
Style and influences
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Influenced by the rowdy barroom country of Ernest Tubb and Ray Price,{{cite news|url=https://wfpk.org/2021/george-frayne-aka-commander-cody-dies-2/|title=George Frayne, AKA "Commander Cody" dies|author=Mel Fisher|work=Music News|date=September 28, 2021}} Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen's style was built on the foundation of country music, which the band fused with boogie woogie, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, Western swing and jazz, which Classic Rock said resulted in "a counter-cultural twist to the Nashville sound". Relix said that the band "tossed together rockabilly, blues, country, boogie-woogie, Western swing and whatever else came their way."{{cite web |first=Jeff |last=Tamarkin |date=November 12, 2020 |url=https://relix.com/reviews/detail/commander-cody-his-lost-planet-airmen-bears-sonic-journals-found-in-the-ozone/ |title=Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen – Bear's Sonic Journals: Found in the Ozone |website=Relix |access-date=March 23, 2021}} Tinnitist called the band "one of the more interesting bands of the hippie era, fusing county, rockabilly, western swing, jump blues and more into an infectious amalgam that set the table for outfits like NRBQ".{{cite web |first=Darryl |last=Sterdan |date=July 11, 2020 |url=https://tinnitist.com/2020/07/11/commander-cody-his-lost-planet-airmen-bears-sonic-journals-found-in-the-ozone/ |title=Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen {{pipe}} Bear's Sonic Journals: Found in the Ozone |website=Tinnitist |access-date=October 11, 2020}} All About Jazz described the band's music as "plainly Western Swing—a musically alchemic concoction made up of equal parts country, Western, blues, big band jazz, whiskey and reefer."{{cite web |first=C. Michael |last=Bailey |date=May 2, 2015 |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/we-got-a-live-one-here-the-commander-a-k-a-george-frayne-columbia-records-review-by-c-michael-bailey.php |title=We've Got a Live One Here! |website=All About Jazz |access-date=September 7, 2020}} Pioneers of country rock,{{cite web|last=Rapp|first=Allison|date=September 27, 2021|title=George Frayne, 'Commander Cody', Country-Rock Pioneer Dead at 77|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/george-frayne-commander-cody-dead/|access-date=September 27, 2021|work=Ultimate Classic Rock}} roots rock{{cite journal|last1=Willman|first1=Chris|date=September 27, 2021|title=Commander Cody, aka George Frayne, Roots-Rock Band Leader and 'Hot Rod Lincoln' Singer, Dies at 77|url=https://variety.com/2021/music/news/commander-cody-george-frayne-dead-roots-country-rock-lost-planet-airmen-1235075409/|access-date=September 27, 2021|journal=Variety}} and alternative country, Deadline said that the band "[inspired] the legions of roots-rock and Americana musicians to come."{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2021/10/commander-cody-hot-rod-lincoln-boogie-woogie-was-77-1234848566/ |title=George 'Commander Cody' Frayne Dies: Boogie-Woogie Rocker With 'Hot Rod Lincoln' Hit Was 77 |last=Haring |first=Bruce |date=October 2, 2021 |publisher=Deadline |access-date=2022-08-01}} Cashbox said that Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were also "pioneers of progressive country."{{cite web |date=July 17, 1976 |url=https://archive.org/stream/cashbox38unse_7/cashbox38unse_7_djvu.txt |title=We've Got a Live One Here |magazine=Cash Box |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=September 7, 2020}}
Members
- George Frayne – lead vocals, keyboards (1967–1976)
- Billy Farlow – lead vocals (1967–1976), harmonica (1967–1975)
- Bill Kirchen – lead guitar, backing vocals (1967–1976), trombone (1967–1971), banjo (1973–1975)
- John Tichy – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1967–1975)
- Andy Stein – saxophone, fiddle (1967–1976)
- Bruce Barlow – bass guitar, upright bass, backing vocals (1967–1976)
- Lance Dickerson – drums, percussion (1967–1976), backing vocals (1974–1976)
- Steve Davis – pedal steel guitar (1967–1971)
- Bobby Black – pedal steel guitar (1972–1976), backing vocals (1973–1976)
- Ernie Hagar – pedal steel guitar (1974–1975)
- Norton Buffalo – harmonica, trombone, backing vocals (1976)
- Rick Higgnbotham – rhythm guitar (1975–1976)
- Jack Black – backing vocals, lead guitar (1970–1971)
=Timeline=
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Discography
=Albums=
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Recordings featuring the original Lost Planet Airmen:
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| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Album ! colspan="3"| Chart Positions ! rowspan="2"| Label ! rowspan="2"| Notes |
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| style="width:45px;"| US
! style="width:45px;"| US Country ! style="width:45px;"| CAN |
| 1971
| style="text-align:center;"| 82 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 75 | rowspan="4"| Paramount | |
| 1972
| Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers Favorites | style="text-align:center;"| 94 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | |
| 1973
| style="text-align:center;"| 104 | style="text-align:center;"| 47 | style="text-align:center;"| — | |
| 1974
| Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas | style="text-align:center;"| 105 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | |
| rowspan="2"| 1975
| Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen | style="text-align:center;"| 58 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 95 | rowspan="3"| Warner Bros. | |
| Tales from the Ozone
| style="text-align:center;"| 168 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | |
| 1976
| style="text-align:center;"| 170 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | |
| 1988
| Sleazy Roadside Stories {{cite web |first=Jeff |last=Tamarkin |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sleazy-roadside-stories-mw0000194152 |title=Sleazy Roadside Stories |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 26, 2020}} | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Relix | recorded in 1973 |
| 1990
| Too Much Fun: The Best of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen {{cite web |first=Al |last=Campbell |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/too-much-fun-best-of-commander-cody-mw0000308998 |title=Too Much Fun: Best of Commander Cody |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 26, 2020}} | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | MCA | compilation album |
| 1996
| The Tour from Hell – 1973 {{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/tour-from-hell-1973-mw0000088588 |title=Tour from Hell 1973 |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 26, 2020}} | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Aim | recorded in 1973 |
| 2003
| King Biscuit Flower Hour Archive Series: Greatest Hits Live! {{cite web |first=Thom |last=Jurek |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/king-biscuit-flower-hour-presents-commander-cody-mw0000391740 |title=King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Commander Cody |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 26, 2020}} | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | KBFH | recorded in 1976 |
| 2020
| Bear's Sonic Journals: Found in the Ozone | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Owsley Stanley Foundation | recorded in 1970 |
Commander Cody
Recordings featuring George Frayne with various other musicians:
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| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Album ! colspan="3"| Chart Positions ! rowspan="2"| Label ! rowspan="2"| Notes |
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| style="width:45px;"| US
! style="width:45px;"| US Country ! style="width:45px;"| CAN |
| 1977
| Rock 'n Roll Again {{cite web |first=Eugene |last=Chadbourne |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/rock-n-roll-again-mw0000791163 |title=Rock 'n Roll Again |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 26, 2020}} | style="text-align:center;"| 163 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | rowspan="2"| Arista | The New Commander Cody Band |
| 1978
| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Commander Cody |
| 1980
| Lose It Tonight {{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/lose-it-tonight-mw0000653841 |title=Lose It Tonight |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 26, 2020}} | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Line | Commander Cody Band |
| 1986
| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Blind Pig | Commander Cody |
| 1990
| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Relix | Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen |
| 1994
| Worst Case Scenario {{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/worst-case-scenario-mw0000247771 |title=Worst Case Scenario |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 26, 2020}} | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Aim | Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen |
| 2000
| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Atlantic | Commander Cody; recorded in 1982 |
| 2005
| All the Way Live from Turkey Trot {{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/all-the-way-live-from-turkey-trot-dvd-cd-mw0000207202 |title=All the Way Live from Turkey Trot [DVD+CD] |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 26, 2020}} | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Fa-Ka-Wee | The Commander Cody Band |
| 2009
| Dopers, Drunks and Everyday Losers | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Blind Pig | Commander Cody |
| 2013
| Live from the Island {{cite web |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-from-the-island-mw0002482431/ |title=Live from the Island |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 26, 2020}} | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Woodstock | Commander Cody and His Modern Day Airmen |
| 2019
| Live from Electric City {{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-from-electric-city-mw0003292217 |title=Live from Electric City |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 26, 2020}}{{cite web |first=Lou |last=Montesano |date=October 4, 2019 |url=https://www.elmoremagazine.com/2019/10/reviews/albums/commander-cody-and-his-western-planet-airmen-live-from-the-sunbanks-festival-electric-city |title= Commander Cody and His Western Airmen: Live From the Sunbanks Festival, Electric City |website=Elmore Magazine |access-date=September 26, 2020}} | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Liberation Hall | Commander Cody and His Western Airmen |
=Singles=
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! colspan="6"| Chart Positions ! rowspan="2"| Album |
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| style="width:45px;"| US
! style="width:45px;"| US Country ! style="width:45px;"| AUS{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=71}} ! style="width:45px;"| CAN ! style="width:45px;"| CAN Country ! style="width:45px;"| CAN AC |
| 1971
| "Lost in the Ozone" / "Midnight Shift" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | rowspan="3"| Lost in the Ozone |
| rowspan="3"| 1972
| "Hot Rod Lincoln" / "Wine Do Yer Stuff" | style="text-align:center;"| 9 | style="text-align:center;"| 51 | style="text-align:center;"| 45 | style="text-align:center;"| 7 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" / "Daddy's Gonna Treat You Right"
| style="text-align:center;"| 81 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 82 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| "Mama Hated Diesels" / "Truck Stop Rock"
| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | rowspan="2"| Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers Favorites |
| rowspan="3"| 1973
| "Watch My .38" / "Semi-Truck" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" / "Rock That Boogie"
| style="text-align:center;"| 94 | style="text-align:center;"| 97 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 99 | style="text-align:center;"| 37 |
| "Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas" / "Honeysuckle Honey"
| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Non-album track |
| rowspan="2"| 1974
| "Diggy Liggy Lo" / "Sunset on the Sage" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | rowspan="2"| Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas |
| "Riot in Cell Block #9" / "Oh Mama Mama"
| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| rowspan="2"| 1975
| "Don't Let Go" / "Keep On Lovin' Her" | style="text-align:center;"| 56 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 85 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| "Roll Your Own" / "It's Gonna Be One of Those Nights"
| style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — |
| 1977
| "Seven Eleven" / "Snooze You Lose" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Rock 'n Roll Again |
| 1978
| "Thank You Lone Ranger" / "My Day" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Flying Dreams |
| 1980
| "2 Triple Cheese (Side Order of Fries)" / "Rockette 88" | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| — | Lose It Tonight |
References
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External links
- [http://www.commandercody.com/ Official website]
- [http://www.awpi.com/CommanderCody/ Commander Cody at awpi.com]
- [http://www.folderpark.net/cody/ Amsterdam 1976 – live pics]
- {{Discogs artist|Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen}}
- [https://www.discogs.com/artist/475285-Commander-Cody At discogs.com as Commander Cody]
- [https://www.discogs.com/artist/1339456-Commander-Cody-Band At discogs.com as Commander Cody Band]
- [https://www.youtube.com/user/commandercodyvideos The Commander's channel on youtube]
- {{IMDb name|2535869}}
- {{Discogs artist|Chris Frayne}} Discogs entry for Chris Frayne
- {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpK1ylZboyc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/lpK1ylZboyc |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Commander Cody - Hot Rod Lincoln (Live At Rockpalast 1980) - RIP Commander Cody |format=Video |date=September 28, 2021 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}
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