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Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Ebbie Date: 22 Apr 03 - 10:15 PM Man, I had no idea there are so many- and probably just scratched the surface, at that. But here's one that nobody else has: Juneau Breakdown. I left my sweet love there waiting alone To travel this world around And now I'm going back to my home In that good old Juneau town... Chorus: I know that he waits for me night and day I know that he wants me to settle down And I know that I want forever to stay In that good old Juneau town Canberra, Cairo, Prague and Amsterdam Of all the guys, the best I have found -even in Paris, London, Peoria- In that good old Juneau town :) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bat Goddess Date: 22 Apr 03 - 09:53 PM Blitzkrieg Over Kenosha (recorded by the Black Holes) Living In Braintree with You In Methuen Is Almost Like Living in Lowell (3 Massachusetts towns -- think it was written by Larry Flynt and maybe Bill Madison recorded it; he at least used to sing it) Linn |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Walking Eagle Date: 22 Apr 03 - 09:36 PM Statesboro Blues> Kilkelly Ireland> Lynchburg Town> Mannington Mine Disaster> Autumn in New York> Newport Street Strut> Worcester City> Lodi> Harrison Town> W.E. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Peter Benson Date: 21 Apr 03 - 10:36 PM Streets of Baltimore Leaving of Liverpool New York Girls Dallas Jerusalem Lincoln Park Pirates Norfolk Girls The Jamestown Homeward Bound Bound for Baltimore Atlantic City City of New Orleans (Not sure that counts). Abilene Greenland Fisheries (Farewell to Tarwaquay) Just the ones I play, off the top of my head. If I really wanted to search..... Peter |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Night Owl Date: 23 Sep 02 - 01:17 AM My mom (92 yrs. old), spent part of the day today making a list of songs, after I mentioned this thread to her. Thanks "Guest Martin S." Here's what's left of her list(I crossed out a bunch already mentioned..prob'ly missed some). :
American In Paris
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie Date: 22 Sep 02 - 10:06 PM Little Hawk, as you know by now, someone actually has written another song about Schenedtady. It's here: "I Can't Spell 'Schenedtady." |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie Date: 22 Sep 02 - 10:00 PM I checked the spelling; it's "Luckenbach, Texas." |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: belfast Date: 22 Sep 02 - 07:40 AM In Ireland, for every town, village, couple of houses in the middle of nowhere on a bog road, there is some buck eejit writing a song about it. There are some versifiers who couldn't walk past a gap in a hedge without writing thirty stanzas telling you that it's the fairest spot on god's green earth. A brilliant take on this is Brian O'Rourke's song "Drumsnot" but I've no idea where you would get it. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Tam the bam fraeSaltcoatsScotland Date: 22 Sep 02 - 06:32 AM There's a song by Billy Connolly called 'Saltcoats at the fair' This is about when the people of Glasgow, came to my home town and had their fornight holiday. Saltcoats by the sea. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie Date: 22 Sep 02 - 05:06 AM JJ, you're not being insufferably pedantic, just correcting some misunderstandings. I had forgotten the actual title of that Sam Hinton song. And I wasn't sure about what Rocky Top was; I think I have some lyrics that erroneously say "...in Rocky Top..." instead of "...on Rocky Top." Along the same lines, isn't Bikini an atoll instead of a town? Gorgeous, thanks for mentioning "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav." That's the song sung at the end of "Schindler's List," and it's a beautiful song. Another town song is (sp?) "Lukenback, Texas." |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Gorgeous Gary Date: 21 Sep 02 - 11:10 AM Fires of Calais Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold) -- Gary |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: reggie miles Date: 21 Sep 02 - 10:59 AM I've been through this entire thread and I didn't see any mention of a song that Jonny Mercer popularized called "I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City". I still sing that one. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: JJ Date: 21 Sep 02 - 10:52 AM 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." |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: allanwill Date: 21 Sep 02 - 10:29 AM John in Brisbane Sorry mate - couldn't find any lyrics (yet). I do remember a Melbourne reference to the great Ron BarARSsi (Barassi). I have a recollection that there was a Sydney reference to Liberace? Allan |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: old moose Date: 20 Sep 02 - 11:54 PM an old friend of mine used to sing a very nice number called "Aberdeen, My Aberdeen". It is definitely a song withe the name of a city in it. Twice for good measure. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Sonja Date: 20 Sep 02 - 04:14 PM Mehitabel, I just heard someone sing a "Walla Walla" song this weekend, including the line "...the town so nice, they named it twice." Little Hawk, if you think "Guelph" is a funny name, you should come to Washington state. I'm wondering if there are songs (other than ad songs and Chamber Of Commerce Songs) about "Puyallup" (rhymes with "few gallop"), "Sequiam" ("skwim"), "Tukwila," etc. SWO |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Just Amy Date: 20 Sep 02 - 03:54 PM (Goin' back to) Houston You can't go back to Constantinople Wabash Cannonball (Wabsh is a town in Indiana) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Date: 20 Sep 02 - 02:54 PM Mehitabel, go to quick links, reset cookie and follow your nose. Somewhere down there you can change your membership name. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: old moose Date: 20 Sep 02 - 01:10 PM I am awake this morning. The name of "Walla Walla Wash" was "Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie". I put it in there because I swear Bing did a song about Walla Walla (the town so nice they named it twice)and I couldn't come up with it. Still can't. Anybody? Is it just my fading memory? Mehitabel |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA Date: 20 Sep 02 - 10:24 AM "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini" ;^) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: old moose Date: 20 Sep 02 - 06:08 AM Tiptoe Through Humptulips Still Not Old Moose |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: old moose Date: 20 Sep 02 - 05:19 AM Walla Walla Wash and Kalamazoo I am not Old Moose! How can I fix that? Mehitabel |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie Date: 19 Sep 02 - 09:39 PM One way to find these songs is just to look through the alphabetical listings of song titles in the DT. <u>Here are the ones I found under R, S, and T alone,</u> plus a couple of thers I thought of while searching the DT. (A few of these places named may not be towns or cities, but may be just counties, geographical areas, etc., but I think most of them are town/village/city names. Sorry if a couple of them may have already been listed.) Genie Aragon Mill The Calton Weaver Raglan Road Schooners At Digby Swannanoa Tunnel Take Me Back To Tulsa |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie Date: 19 Sep 02 - 08:06 PM (The Ballad Of) Weaverville Also there was an anti-war, anti-nuke song in the 1950s/'60's called "Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Alamagordo, Bikini." |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA Date: 19 Sep 02 - 05:22 PM I'm not sure that I made myself clear in my last post. There is a town in Pennsylvania named Rough and Ready, and a town in California also named Rough and Ready! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA Date: 19 Sep 02 - 05:19 PM "Hurrah for Rough and Ready" – an 1848 campaign song for Whig Party candidates Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. I add it to this list because there are towns in Pennsylvania and California named Rough and Ready! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Date: 19 Sep 02 - 04:28 PM Guantanamera |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA Date: 19 Sep 02 - 04:10 PM (Psst, Deda, I think the title is "Morning Morgantown"!) "O Little Town of Bethlehem" "April in Paris" "Barcelona" by Queen Glen Campbell's "Galveston" |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Deda Date: 19 Sep 02 - 03:28 PM Anyone mention "Good Morning, Morgantown"? |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Louie Roy Date: 19 Sep 02 - 11:52 AM Her's a couple of more Red River Valley,San Antonio Rose,Dixie,Deep Elum Blues |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: John in Brisbane Date: 19 Sep 02 - 12:56 AM Alinact, Melbourne and Sydney was crass, commercial rubbish with no redeeming qualities. Just the sort of song I like to sing - do you have the lyrics please? 'We've got Australian Rules and the Melbourne Cup each year,>BR> Sydney girls are way out front, but we've got stronger beer'. Regards, John |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Louie Roy Date: 19 Sep 02 - 12:05 AM Birmingham Jail Sweet Orofino, Cattle Drive to Missoula Montana, |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: allanwill Date: 18 Sep 02 - 04:51 PM A couple of dated Aussie songs -
Oh,Sydney I love you (as sung by Slim Dusty). Melbourne and Sydney (pronounced Mel-born and Syden-i) by The Idlers 5. Allan |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 18 Sep 02 - 03:28 PM Of course there's no dearth of what I call "Chamber of Commerce songs". Minneapolis, Minnesota has a BIG week-long summer festival, called the Aquatennial. Many years ago (40?) and conceivably even today, they had a song which got big play on the local media, called Minneapolis at Aquatennial Time. Not a bad song, actually, considering the drum-beating, sponsored purpose. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Gareth Date: 18 Sep 02 - 03:14 PM Mmm! Rhondda isn't a town, it's more a state of mind ! But try "The Road to Merthyr Tydfil"
Obviously this thread didn't get to the Rugby Club Singers :- Gareth |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: John in Brisbane Date: 18 Sep 02 - 04:31 AM If you're really obsessive you can go to http://www.nima.mil/gns/html/index.html to find zillions of place names from all over the globe. And to go the extra yard you could always search the DT for all place names mentioned and submit the latitude and longitude each place. Surely that's a piece of research that's at least as valuable as the author's attribution. Only jokin'!! As an aside, an ex-colleague rang a central nessage service chasing the whereabouts of a field technician, to be told by the female operator "He's going to Mt. Charlotte, then going to Mt Mee" (local locations), to which he replied "Well, I hope you enjoy it". He was subsequently sacked. Here's a small sample of the 22,000 place names for Ireland:
Mount Congreve I've never heard mention of my ancestral home - Ballydorney. Cheers, John |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Hrothgar Date: 18 Sep 02 - 04:13 AM Try a few line breaks:
Nine Miles From Gundagai
Newcastle Song |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Herga Kitty Date: 17 Sep 02 - 10:18 PM Oxford City - in the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: bigchuck Date: 17 Sep 02 - 07:41 PM Amarillo by Morning, Waverly Two-step, Bennington Battle Song (Rifleman's Song at Bennington), Road to Boston, Lisdoonevarna, Silver Rails to Rio, Grand Junction, ad nauseum, Sandy |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST Date: 17 Sep 02 - 04:39 PM The Lady Came From Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Argenine Date: 17 Sep 02 - 04:38 PM C-flat, I thought Martin was specifically looking for songs with town/city names in the title. If we include all songs that mention a town or city, the list would get very, very long.
A couple that I don't think have been mensioned yet: and several that mention Harlem (which is a section of a city, not a city per se), e.g., "Harlem Nocturne." In a similar vein there's "A Rose In Spanish Harlem." Arge |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: JJ Date: 17 Sep 02 - 04:25 PM Genie, the Sir Douglas Quintet did a song called "Mendocino." :-) And for Little Hawk, this couplet from George M. Cohan's song "So Long, Mary": I remember my fam'ly said to me On the day I left Schenectady... |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bill D Date: 17 Sep 02 - 02:06 PM Managua, Nicaragua |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: C-flat Date: 17 Sep 02 - 01:36 PM I don't know why that didn't work so I'll try again! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: C-flat Date: 17 Sep 02 - 01:33 PM You could try "I've been everywhere" There plenty of names in that one. C-flat. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang Date: 17 Sep 02 - 12:34 PM Wiener Schnitzel Waltz Rose of Tralee Wexford fishing song Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang Date: 17 Sep 02 - 12:20 PM Leaving Nancy (ouch) Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Night Owl Date: 17 Sep 02 - 12:06 PM Genie.....no.....the Cape ain't a town.....not even a county. I realized it as soon as I hit "submit". bg |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: The Walrus at work Date: 17 Sep 02 - 08:39 AM Has anyone mentioned "The Sheffield Grinders"? "Oh, Vienna" "I'm gonna get lit up when the lights go on in London" "White cliffs of Dover" "Lisbon" "We're Marching to Pretoria" "Carrickfergus" Walrus |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Hrothgar Date: 17 Sep 02 - 08:03 AM Nine Miles From Gundagai Farewell, Brisbane Ladies The Albury Ram Flash Jack From Gundagai Euabalong Ball The Cocky of Bungaree The Steets of Forbes Ned Kelly's Farewell to Greta The Road to Gundagai I'm Going Bach To Yarrawonga Newcastle Song Tenterfield Saddler The Goondiwindi Grey Santa Never Made It Into Darwin |
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