"Remember old Khrushchev
When he was ridin' high with that Sputnik satellite?
He told us Yankee boys,
He was gonna fill the skies,
With them shiny new satellites.
He said "Hey Mr. Eisenhower,
What do you think of my Sputnik satellite?"
Ike just reeled his head back,
Looked him in the eye,
"That's a mighty fine satellite "
this song is obviously about the feud between the united states and Russia, known as the cold war. We were basically competing with nuclear weapons(les uses cadillacs as reference to how we both wanted the newest and the best technology). The whole sputnik satellite line references to the space race. Russia sent out a sputnik satellite that made it around earth once before it fell back into our atmosphere, and the united states had to beat it, so we started building satellites.
"Remember old Khrushchev When he was ridin' high with that Sputnik satellite? He told us Yankee boys, He was gonna fill the skies, With them shiny new satellites. He said "Hey Mr. Eisenhower, What do you think of my Sputnik satellite?" Ike just reeled his head back, Looked him in the eye, "That's a mighty fine satellite "
this song is obviously about the feud between the united states and Russia, known as the cold war. We were basically competing with nuclear weapons(les uses cadillacs as reference to how we both wanted the newest and the best technology). The whole sputnik satellite line references to the space race. Russia sent out a sputnik satellite that made it around earth once before it fell back into our atmosphere, and the united states had to beat it, so we started building satellites.