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Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
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Subject: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Martin S Date: 16 Sep 02 - 04:20 AM Just for a bit of fun, I'm putting together a music quiz that needs "familiar" songs with the names of Towns or cities (worldwide) in their title. I'm finding this particularly and surprisingly difficult! EG New York, New York I love Paris in the springtime Liverpool lou You get the sort of thing? I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you in anticipation. martin |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Mary Humphreys Date: 16 Sep 02 - 05:33 AM The Manchester Angel - this is one for folkies only. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: IanC Date: 16 Sep 02 - 05:53 AM I belong to Glasgow Leaving of Liverpool Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner Molly Malone ... :-) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 16 Sep 02 - 06:16 AM Way Down in Shawneetown Battle of New Orleans Chicago I Left My Heart in San Francisco Abilene Big D Buffalo Gals Won't Ya Come Out Tonight Chattanooga Choo Choo Nashville Cats ??? Birmingham Jail ??? Goin' to Jackson Meet me in St. Louis (Louie) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 16 Sep 02 - 06:26 AM Moon Over Miami Walking in Memphis Columbia (South Carolina) the Gem of the Ocean Hard Hearted Hannah, the Vamp of Savannah The Erie Canal St. Louis Blues
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Hecate Date: 16 Sep 02 - 07:19 AM Rocky road to Dublin |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Scabby Doug Date: 16 Sep 02 - 07:25 AM I Love LA (Randy Newman)
Barcelona Cheers Steven |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie Date: 16 Sep 02 - 08:35 AM It's a long way to Tipperary. The Manchester Rambler Galway Bay |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mr Happy Date: 16 Sep 02 - 08:38 AM Chester Song at Twilight? |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: The Walrus at work Date: 16 Sep 02 - 08:43 AM Rigs of London London Pride Far,Far from Wipers (Ypres) Jerusalem (Not a song, but) Portsmouth Any use? Walrus |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens Date: 16 Sep 02 - 08:50 AM Not songs but tunes(and I'll keep this local) Liverpool Hornpipe Manchester Hornpipe Shrewsbury Waltz Stoke Hornpipe Lancaster Hornpipe Preston Guild Bishop of Chester's Jig Carlisle Races Think that's all the NW English cities(not sure if Preston is a city or not) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mr Happy Date: 16 Sep 02 - 09:01 AM songs:men of harlech, london danny,london derriere,galway shawl,limerick rake, galway races,blaydon races,bonnie dundee, tunes:portsmouth dances:christleton,knutsford, |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 16 Sep 02 - 09:03 AM A Foggy Day in London Town Scarborough Fair Old Swansea Town Once More
...and back across the pond: |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens Date: 16 Sep 02 - 09:17 AM I wish I was back in Himasas |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie Date: 16 Sep 02 - 09:18 AM Streets of London Limerick You're a Lady Dublin in the Rare Ould Times Streets of Laredo ( Is this the title?) El Paso (Is this the Title?) Streets of Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens Date: 16 Sep 02 - 09:26 AM Had a lapse of memory in my last posting. Should have been "I'm going back to Himazas", a totally splendid song that I cant remember all the words of, alas. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Murray MacLeod Date: 16 Sep 02 - 09:34 AM By the Time I Get to Phoenix The Wichita Lineman 24 Hours from Tulsa Murray |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bat Goddess Date: 16 Sep 02 - 10:23 AM Eight More Miles to Louisville No More Beer from Kendal Linn |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Pennny Date: 16 Sep 02 - 10:26 AM Walkin' To New Orleans-Fats Domino |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Midchuck Date: 16 Sep 02 - 10:36 AM Howcum our own Mark Ross hasn't mentioned his own "Look for Me in Butte," which is on Utah's and his "Loafer's Glory" album? Excessive modesty is a terrible thing. It's a great song. Usual disclaimers. Peter |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Skipper Jack Date: 16 Sep 02 - 10:54 AM Men of Harlech Helston Floral Dance Liverpool Lou The Bells of Rhymney
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA Date: 16 Sep 02 - 10:56 AM San Antonio Rose City of New Orleans I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo Philadelphia Freedom (by Elton John) On the Way to Cape May Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio From the musical "On the Town": "New York, New York, it's a wonderful town..." Chicago ("Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin' town...") The Night Chicago Died Sweet Home Chicago The Night of the Johnstown Flood Allentown (by Billy Joel) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:12 AM "When the Piddletrenthide Jugband makes the charts" "Ashby-de-la-Zouch" "The Rawtenstall Annual Fair" |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Sorcha Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:24 AM Mention My Name in Sheboygan Take Me Back to Tulsa |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 16 Sep 02 - 12:04 PM Tulsa Time Memphis Blues Parsons, Kansas Blues I How I Wish I Was In Peoria St. Louis Blues Milwaukee/St. Paul The Baltimore Fire Richland Woman Blues Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang Date: 16 Sep 02 - 12:10 PM Belfast town Moskow nights Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Memphis Mud Date: 16 Sep 02 - 12:14 PM Memphis, Tennessee (Long distance information give me...) Nashville Cats Tupelo Honey [I'm goin to] Jackson (Johny Cash) City of New Orleans |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Amos Date: 16 Sep 02 - 12:15 PM Indiana Chatanooga Choochoo
Chatanooga Shoeshine Boy
New York, New York
I Left My Heart in San Franciso
San Francisco Bay Blues
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans I know I am missing dozens of them! A |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 16 Sep 02 - 01:34 PM I just listened to Dwight Yoakum and Buck Owens singing Streets of Bakersfield...
And what about 8 More Miles To Louisville, which also mentions Portland east and Portland west.? Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 16 Sep 02 - 01:39 PM There must be a million of these... Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 16 Sep 02 - 01:43 PM And who could forget the Bristol Stomp or Dancing In the Streets? How about Surfing U.S.A.? And then there's Mark Knopfler's Sailing To Philadelphia and Streets Of London.... And then there's ... Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: DonD Date: 16 Sep 02 - 01:45 PM Nottamun Town Widdecombe Fair And I doubt that Columbia (the gem of the ocean) is in South Carolina, but I love Chester Song at Twilight. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens Date: 16 Sep 02 - 01:54 PM A few cajun songs: Grand Mamou Waltz Allons a Lafayette Bosco Blues Eunice Two Step Duralde Waltz Poche Town Port Arthur Blues Kaplan Waltz Hathaway Two Step valse de Chataignier One-step de Choupique Ossun Two-step Lacassine Special Pointe-Noire Twostep Mermentau Waltz Valse de Newport Opolousas Sosthene Abbeville Breakdown Valse de Grand Prairie Hathaway Two Step Hang on, wouldnt it be quicker if we listed towns that dont have songs written about them???? |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST Date: 16 Sep 02 - 01:56 PM Greg, you mentioned Himazas - one of my favourites:
(I'm Going Back To) Himazas
I'm going back to Himazas,
Written by Fred Austin, published 1927.
LFF PS There's also Durham Town, The Rochdale Mashers, What Kind of Fulham I, Meet Me in St Louis, Girl from Ipanema, In the Old Bazaar in Cairo, Margate, and no doubt many, many more. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: JJ Date: 16 Sep 02 - 02:13 PM "(There’s a pawn shop on a corner in) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" Used to live only a few blocks from it, too... |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 16 Sep 02 - 02:59 PM And then there's Tampico, Tampico, on the Bay of Mexico. Or if you like reggae, there's always Funky Kingston. Or, what about yokahoma Momma? or I Got A Gal in Kalamazoo? (can't remember if someone already suggested that.) There have to be songs with Rio in the title, too. And from here in Derby, CT, I am reminded of the Darby Ram. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA Date: 16 Sep 02 - 03:07 PM "The Heat is On in Saigon" from the musical "Miss Saigon" "Goodnight Saigon" by Billy Joel "Roads to Moscow" by Al Stewart |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens Date: 16 Sep 02 - 03:11 PM GUEST: thanks a million for the whole of Himazas. I've just been singing it happily, now you've given me the lines I couldnt remember. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 16 Sep 02 - 03:17 PM Now, the ROck Island Line, she run down to New Orleans.. And just outside of New Orleans, there's a toll gate... Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Date: 16 Sep 02 - 03:29 PM Road to Dundee Angel from Montgomery Fair Maid of Islington |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Date: 16 Sep 02 - 03:31 PM Ballad of Bethnal Green. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Date: 16 Sep 02 - 03:32 PM Oh, and The Two Ronnies did a great song about Effingham. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens Date: 16 Sep 02 - 03:45 PM Turnham Green? |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 16 Sep 02 - 03:57 PM Every town and village in Ireland probably has a song with its name. I suppose it all depends on what you mean by "familiar". (That'd rule out my own "Green heart of Harlow") |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Haruo Date: 16 Sep 02 - 04:02 PM "The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle, And the hills the greenest green in Seattle." Haruo |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 16 Sep 02 - 04:46 PM Hey, Greg: There was an extremely successful writer of children's books named Wanda Gag. :-) Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bull Am Date: 16 Sep 02 - 05:12 PM Anyone know any songs with Denver in the tiltle? or even in the words? There's Woody's "The Great Dust Storm Disaster", but I'm hard pressed... |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Sorcha Date: 16 Sep 02 - 05:14 PM Wonder where Adam went......... |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bill D Date: 16 Sep 02 - 05:38 PM from "THe Music Man" "Gary, Indiana" |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Sorcha Date: 16 Sep 02 - 05:40 PM Oops, it was Martin........not Adam |
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