The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #51499   Message #788484
Posted By: JJ
21-Sep-02 - 10:52 AM
Thread Name: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
OK, time for some insufferable pedantry!

The "anti-war, anti-nuke song in the 1950s/'60's called 'Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Alamagordo, Bikini,'" is "Old Man Atom (Talking Atomic Blues)," recorded by Sam Hinton in 1950.

"Rocky Top" isn't a city or town. "Wish that I was on old Rocky Top, high in the Tennesse hills"

"Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie" is the Pogo Christmas Carol parody by Walt Kelly, "Deck us all with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla, Wash, and Kalamazoo."

"You can't go back to Constantinople," is actually "Istanbul."