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01 Oct 16 - 01:00 PM (#3812220) Subject: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: Mrrzy I looked for a thread on this, and did find a bunch of interesting things by putting states in the filter and setting the time to all, but this is more data-driven... ranking of the states by number of songs mentioning them. We can change these numbers! |
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01 Oct 16 - 06:02 PM (#3812255) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: McGrath of Harlow All of them I believe. Plus at least one which doesn't exist (East Virginia). |
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01 Oct 16 - 06:16 PM (#3812258) Subject: Lyr Add: CAROLINA MOON From: Steve Shaw Carolina moon keep shining Shining on the one who waits for me Carolina moon I'm pining Pining for the place I long to be How I'm hoping tonight you'll go Go to the right window Scatter your light, say I'm alright Please do Tell her that I'm blue and lonely Dreamy Carolina moon |
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01 Oct 16 - 06:19 PM (#3812259) Subject: Lyr Add: CAROLINA STAR (Tony Rice) From: Steve Shaw Back in the hills oh slow rollin' hills Where North Carolina comes close to the stars There's livin' a lady who's shinin' so high They call her the "Carolina Star' She works at the factory from Monday through Friday She's raisin' three daughters alone Their daddy's away, he's chasing a dream They're waitin' for the day that he comes home Oh, Carolina Even stars get lonesome now and then Oh, Carolina Don't you worry, he'll be comin' home again He's playin' his songs in Nashville He's pickin' for tips in a bar He's broke and all alone, but he ain't ready to come home He's gonna be a country singin' star Sometimes she wakes up just thinking of him She remembers him beside her in the night While out across those hills that old moon is settled in And those Carolina stars are shining bright Yes he loves you and he's comin' home again. Author: na Version: Tony Rice Discography: na |
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01 Oct 16 - 09:20 PM (#3812273) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: Mrrzy So, nobody looked at the article, eh? |
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01 Oct 16 - 09:38 PM (#3812276) Subject: Lyr Add: RHODE ISLAND IS FAMOUS FOR YOU From: ChanteyLass I just got to this thread and did look at the article. I wonder what songs were even considered. When I first read the thread title, I thought of my home state, Rhode Island, and the song Rhode Island is Famous for You, which mentions several states. Thread #32169 Message #888710 Posted By: Joe Offer 12-Feb-03 - 01:29 PM Thread Name: Lyr Add: & REQ-Odd State Songs Subject: ADDPOP: Rhode Island Is Famous For You
I came across this song on a Nancy LaMott recording last night, and thought it was a perfect tribute to the two loveliest women in my life - my wife and my mother-in-law, who are both from Woonsocket.
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01 Oct 16 - 11:24 PM (#3812281) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: eftifino Quite a few are mentioned in this Perry como record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztfOSyCCFM&list=PLD4A29065C169E28A |
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01 Oct 16 - 11:28 PM (#3812283) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: Mrrzy We need more songs about whatever states there aren't that many songs about! For the Canadians, I know songs about Yukon, Alberta, and Quebec - mabe even Ontario and Manitoba. Nunavut, anyone? |
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02 Oct 16 - 10:54 AM (#3812345) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: Gallus Moll 'What did Delaware, boys. what did Delaware' was a humorous song (in the 50s or 60s?)that featured every single US state! |
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02 Oct 16 - 10:54 AM (#3812346) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: cnd We have this thread: thread.cfm?threadid=158031 about Carolina songs, and Steve has now added 2. I read the article and it was interesting |
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02 Oct 16 - 11:52 AM (#3812358) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: Georgiansilver Here ya go Gallus Moll. What did Delaware... the song. |
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02 Oct 16 - 01:55 PM (#3812377) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch Study author: "Using R, I've combined the lyrics from 50 years of Billboard Year-End Hot 100 (1965-2015) into one dataset for analysis." Mrrzy: "We can change these numbers!" Can we borrow your TARDIS? |
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02 Oct 16 - 06:41 PM (#3812408) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: Gallus Moll Thanks Georgiansilver - hadn't heard this for years! Always thought it went through every state -- - Oh well.....I was only young at the time! |
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02 Oct 16 - 11:13 PM (#3812421) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: Janie East Virginia doesn't refer to a state. It refers to eastern Virginia. Reflects migration patterns. By the early 1730s the eastern seaboard, in fact, nearly all the Atlantic coastline, was pretty well taken up by earlier and more wealthy folks. By at least 1730, immigrants arriving on what is now the USA east coast anywhere between Philadelphia and Charleston, SC quickly moved west and south. The Great Wagon Road, in particular, was a major migratory path south and southwest from the eastern seaboard and the coastal and tidewater regions of Virginia, down into the 'back country' of the Carolinas and on into northwestern Georgia. |
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03 Oct 16 - 08:55 AM (#3812483) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: Steve Shaw There's Indiana by Andy Mitchell, well sung by Andy Irvine. |
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03 Oct 16 - 06:11 PM (#3812608) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: Joe_F Maryland, My Maryland I'm gwine to Louisiana with my banjo on my knee Beautiful, beautiful Texas, etc., etc. California, California! We're bound to do or die, etc. Oklahoma, O.K.! |
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04 Oct 16 - 08:40 AM (#3812672) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: beardedbruce "Your State's Name here" 8-E |
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04 Oct 16 - 02:12 PM (#3812728) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: Bee-dubya-ell The dataset used for the study was 5,000 fairly recent and very popular songs. It doesn't include the vast majority of songs from traditional, folk, bluegrass, and other noncommercial genres. So, the results are tilted toward the handful of states where successful songwriters and musicians tend to live: New York, California, Texas, and Tennessee. Those states are the ones in which music is big business. The Eagles lived and recorded in California. They sure as hell weren't going to write a song called "Hotel Rhode Island". Also, exactly what constitutes mention of a state? Does the state's name have to be mentioned verbatim, or can it be implied by mention of a prominent city within that state? "If you're going to San Fransisco," you've gotta go to California. It ain't in Alabama! |
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04 Oct 16 - 06:36 PM (#3812786) Subject: RE: Which States (US) Are In Songs? From: Joe_F They're *all* in this one: USF'nA [Geographically Correct Version] Nevada's dice-shootin, Wayne Newton, prostitution round the clock! South Dakota's got 4 non-South Dakotans carved in a rock. In the Carolinas, Bill O'Reilly's thought of as a genius, And Georgia's got a climate slightly balmier than Venus, Virginia's where a woman first cut off her husband's penis. USAyyyyyyy! In Illinois you can search Craigslist for a Senate seat And Montana's to the right of Idaho, that's no small feat California's a granola made of fruits and flakes and nuts, Mississippi's full of welfare mothers sitting on their butts, Minnesota's so polite but secretly they hate your guts. USAyyyyyyy! New Mexicans have wildfires to get relief from killer bees. And Maryland leads the nation in crabs and other STDs. Pennsylvania: slums on either end and trailers in the middle, Kentucky's got a ban on books, you better learn to fiddle, Rhode Island's fucking minuscule, it matters very little. USAyyyyyyy! Delaware's a tax-shelter speed bump on 95. And living in New Jersey doesn't qualify as being alive. Connecticut's suburban hell, that's why they gave us "Stepford." Ohio loves good rock and roll like Poison and Def Leppard Wyoming gave us Cheney and they murdered Matthew Shepard. USAyyyyy! Tennesseeans can't decide if they worship Elvis or Christ. And people only go to Florida to die or see the cartoon mice. Alabama's everything you've heard, the home of sister-kissing, In West Virginia, half the teeth and chromosomes are missing, And Kansas tries to disprove Darwin simply by existing. USAyyyyy! Oregon is where California hippies go to get fat. And Vermont and New Hampshire are rivals, how pathetic is that? Alaskans fight the bitter cold with hate and crystal meth And up in Massachusetts they will tax your every breath And Texans like to barbecue retarded kids to death. USAyyyyyyy! New York City's such a pit you might forget to hate the rest of the state And the billboards in Missouri tell you God'll watch you masturbate. Michigan has armed militias holed up in their hovels And Maine is every horror from a Stephen King novel Oklahoma needs its own song, cause it's just that fucking awful USAyyyyyyy! Disclaimer: Marshall's guitar is made in China. GO! The only people left in Iowa are unaware that they can leave. And half of Arizona used to hang around with Adam and Eve Nebraska's called "the heartland" cause the brain is nowhere near, DC will never count for shit, and we won't count it here, Hawaii hasn't been a paradise in fifty years, Louisiana's government is run by racketeers, Colorado's fucking boring even if you are a skier, North Dakota's just like Pluto but without the atmosphere, In Washington you're homeless or a software engineer, Indiana's just as badass as your average Mouseketeer, Wisconsin kills you young with battered cheese and stanky beer, The nicest car in Arkansas' a Chevy Cavalier, And nobody would give a fuck if Utah disappeared. USAyyyyyyy! Fuckin-A! USA, yay, yeah. 'murka! |
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13 Sep 24 - 04:43 PM (#4208299) Subject: Lyr Add: O-HI-O (O MY O) (Yellen, Olman) From: Jim Dixon From the sheet music at the University of Maine: “O-HI-O” (O-MY!-O) Words by Jack Yellen, music by Abe Olman, ©1920. VERSE 1. Girlies, slim and tall, Girlies, plump and small, Very wild ones, Rather mild ones-- I’ve had them all. From now on with women I’m done, All excepting one: CHORUS 1: Down by the Ohio, I’ve got the sweetest little O, My! O! I’m going right back there to meet her, and then, O, picture me when I put my arms around her and kiss her again! Down by the Ohio, She’s just a simple little country girl, I know. So far, she’s only raised a hen and a cow, But she’ll be raising something different now, After we’re O, My! O! Just wait till I get back to Ohio! VERSE 2. She’s just right for me, Suits me to a “T”-- Great on cooking, Not bad looking, You would agree. Since I met her, life is so sweet! Folks, I must repeat: CHORUS 2: Down by the Ohio, I’ve got the sweetest little O, My! O! She doesn’t dress as up-to-date as she might. Her clothes are a sight! But when she’s in the moonlight, I’ll say she’s all right. How she can O, My! O! She’s just a simple little country girl, I know. Some fellows think that country girlies are slow, But if they knew one half the things that I know, They’d take the “B. & O.” And they’d be heading straight for Ohio! - - - The Internet Archive has recordings by: Irving Kaufman, 1920. Billy Murray & Billy Jones, 1912 (allegedly!) This alternative chorus is sung by the Hoosier Hot Shots, and Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye, 1940: Down by the Ohio, I’ve got the cutest little O, My! O! There ain’t nobody half as pretty as she, As sweet as can be, And jumpin’ jeepers creepers! She’s crazy for me, And what an O!, My! O!, The only one I’ve met who ever thrilled me so. She is the cutest thing that I’ve ever seen: All milk and honey, if you know what I mean, With lots of O! My! O! Just wait till I get back to Ohio! |
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15 Sep 24 - 12:42 PM (#4208394) Subject: RE: Songs about states of the US From: keberoxu And isn't there a song that goes Why, o why, o why-o Did I ever leave Ohi-o? |
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15 Sep 24 - 05:59 PM (#4208405) Subject: RE: Songs about states of the US From: GUEST,.gargoyle Fifty Nifty United States https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=921 Sincerely, Gargoyle It appears to still be a standard for 5th grade teachers. I never realized it was alphabetical. |
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15 Sep 24 - 07:25 PM (#4208408) Subject: RE: Songs about states of the US From: Neil D I went back to Ohio But my city was gone There was no train station There was no downtown South Howard had disappeared All my favorite places My city had been pulled down Reduced to parking spaces [Chorus] Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio [Verse 2] Well, I went back to Ohio But my family was gone I stood on the back porch There was nobody home I was stunned and amazed My childhood memories Slowly swirled past Like the wind through the trees [Chorus] Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio by Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders |
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20 Sep 24 - 05:30 PM (#4208656) Subject: RE: Songs about states of the US From: GUEST,Gary Kanter When You To Arizona https://soundcloud.com/gmkanter/when-you-go-to-arizona-1 |
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22 Sep 24 - 08:43 AM (#4208707) Subject: RE: Songs about states of the US From: Bill D I was born in Kansas I was bred in Kansas, And when I get married, I'll be wed in Kansas. There's a true, blue gal Who promised she would wait.. She's my sunflower from the Sunflower State. She's my sunflower, she's my one flower. And I know we'll never part. She's my sunflower, she's my one flower. She's the flower of my heart. (short alternate version: "I was born in Kansas I was bred in Kansas, And when I die, I'll be dead in Kansas.") |
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23 Sep 24 - 03:20 PM (#4208767) Subject: RE: Songs about states of the US From: GUEST,Berkshire Haddaway The Beegees have a nice soft rock tune for Massachusetts It was also the subject of the original song John Denver changed to Country Roads |
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23 Sep 24 - 04:40 PM (#4208770) Subject: RE: Songs about states of the US From: oldhippie Goodbye to West Virginia - Bobby Ross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IGG5fr-QZM |