Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Memphis Mud
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 06:18 PM

Do you know the way to San Jose

Key Largo

Oh, Atlanta (Allison Kraus)

Marikesh Express (CSN&Y)

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Genie
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 08:17 PM

Portland Town
New York (several songs)
St Louis Blues
Seattle  (from "State Fair")
San Francisco  ("... be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...")
Starwood In Aspen
Galveston
Kalamazoo To Timbuktu
San Antonio Stroll
Lourdes, The Village Of St. Bernadette
Les Bicyclettes De Bel (Something or other) -- sung by Englebert Humperdinck
Ballybunion By The Sea
Wonderful Copenhagen
Tallahassee Lassie
Constantinople
Granada
Arrividerci, Roma
Torna A Surriento (Come Back To Sorrento)
Kansas City
Detroit City
Pacheco
Liverpool Lullaby
The Eggplant That Ate Chicago
Morgantown  (or is it Morning, Morgantown?) -- Joni Mitchell
Philadelphia Freedom
Chelsea Morning
Manhattan
Tucson, Arizona  (recorded by Dan Fogelberg)

wasn't that song that won an oscar for "Philadelphia" titled "Philadelphia" or "Streets Of Philadelphia"
 

A**hole From El Paso (Kinky Friedman song)
Okie From Muskogee

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Genie
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 08:26 PM

Also,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ("There's a pawn shop on the corner...")
Sioux City Sue
Rock Island Line (Like "City Of New Orleans," the song is about the train, but it's also the name of the city.)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Genie
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 08:54 PM

and

Lisbon Antigua
My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii
Mademoiselle from Armentières
Zu Lautenbach
The Road To Mandalay

Columbus Stockade Blues
Tarrytown
Rio Rita
Guadalajara
Mexicali Rose
Berkeley Woman
Sous Le Ciel De Paris
Jerusalem (sung by Edith Piaf)
Joshua F'it The Battle Of Jericho
Walk In Jerusalem Just Like John
Happiness Is Lubbock, Texas, In The Rear View Mirror
Nagasaki ("...where the women wicky wacky woo...")
Born In East L. A. (Cheech and Chong?)
First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin (Leonard Cohen)

There was even a song I heard in an old western movie (that I saw on TV in the 1950s) that started out
"I'm ridin' down the trail to Albuquerque,
My saddle bags are filled with beans and jerky." I guess the title was "Albuquerque."

Gotta be some songs with Boston, Cincinnati, Louisville, Albany, Minneapolis, Montreal, Shanghai, Tokyo, Halifax, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Havana,* etc. in the title, eh?

Genie

*Actually, when I first heard the song "Hava Nagila," --many centuries ago -- it was sung by Harry Belafonte, and I thought the song was in Spanish, and I thought the title was "Havana Gila." :-)

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 10:06 PM

ON THE ROAD TO TOKIO (THE BALLAD OF CARLSON'S RAIDERS) (trad./ALMANAC SINGERS) (1942) [TUNE ADAPTED FROM "THE BUFFALO SKINNERS"]

One Rainy Night In Tokyo. This was sung by Brenda Lee too.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 10:12 PM

Oooh-wah, ooh-wah, come on Kitty. Tell us about the boy from New York City. :-)

And, a Foggy Night In London Town.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Genie
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:03 PM

Jerry, is that a different song from "A Foggy Day In London Town?"

There's also, "New York, New York, a wonderful town. The Bronx is up and the Battery's down. The people ride in a hole in the ground. ...".

Also, "San Francisco, open your Golden Gate. You make no stranger wait outside your door ...".

There's a singer/songwriter who used to sing in Portland, OR, whose name, I think is Tom something-or-other, and who used to live in Bismarck, ND. He wrote a song called "Bismarck," the chorus of which starts, "Hell, yes, hell, no, It's a rotten hell hole...".

There's also the old song from the civil rights movement of the 1960s,
Oxford Town

and a country song called "Saginaw, Michigan."

Also, I believe the Greek version of the song "Never On Sunday," as sung in the film, is called "Piraeus."

And Miriam Makeba and other sang "Soweto Blues" in the Paul Simon African Concert.

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: BillR
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:19 PM

Istanbul (was Constantinople)
Benson Arizona
Dubuque Blues
Lodi
Get Outa Denver
Ten More Miles to Tucumcari
Banks of the Sacramento
Shanghai Brown {ok, so it's a about a person}

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: JJ
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:52 PM

Nope, "Chelsea Morning" is a no-go. It's about a district of New York City. Used to have the address of the place where Joni Mitchell was staying when she wrote it around somewhere...

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Bert
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 12:12 AM

Uskadara
In Mobile

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Genie
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 12:17 AM

JJ, I stand corrected about "Chelsea Morning."

But how about "Talk To Me of Mendocino?"

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 01:44 AM

Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

Hard Times in New York Town

Meet Me In St. Louis

San Francisco Bay Blues

L.A. Woman

Streets of London

Chattanooga Choo-Choo

Werewolves of London

Birmingham Sunday

Veracruz

Chicago

Of the above, "Veracruz" and "Werewolves of London" are by the esteemed Warren Zevon. My apologies for unintentional repeats. Boy, I was frustrated that somebody got "First We Take Manhattan..." before I saw this thread. Bob Dylan wins for longest title (and song).

Stick the word "Guelph" in any of these titles for a laugh. It's my favourite city name in Ontario, Canada. My favourite anywhere is Schenectady...it sounds like a sneeze combined with a very uncomfortable contortion of the larynx. NO ONE has written a song with either Guelph or Schenectady in the title for some strange reason...

- LH

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Night Owl
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 01:56 AM

"Blue-Eyed Boston Boy"
"Big Ball In Boston"
"Olde Cape Cod".....(Patti Page?????)

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Yorkshire Tony
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 02:17 AM

The Kew bus queue How much to Oldham? Holmfirth Anthem (abroad for pleasure) Hexhamshire lass Lass of Richmond Hill Kitty of Coleraine Fields of Athenry

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Genie
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 02:20 AM

Owl, Cape Cod isn't a town, is it?

How about "The Roseville Fair?"

What's the name of that song they play at the beginning of Austin City Limits -- "I want to go back with the armadillo, Good country music and amarillo ..."? Does it have "Austin" in the title?

Another train song that has city names, too, is "The Atcheson, Topeka, and The Santa Fe."

After he did "El Paso," Marty Robbins wrote (?) and sang another song called "El Paso City."

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 04:02 AM

Gilligilliotsenfellacatsanellalogan-By-The-Sea
(I've typed it phonetically - as it sounds to me?)

Max Bygrave sung it, I think?

Maybe somebody can verify?

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 05:04 AM

Last Train to Clarkesville
Train to San Antone
Are you going to San Francisco
Is This the Way To Amarillo
Nutbush City Limits
Rio (Mike Nesmith)

Nigel

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: GUEST,Martin S
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 05:13 AM

This is excellent stuff folks. Many thanks for the interest. My favorite so far is What kind of Fulham I! Keep em coming! Martin

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: GUEST,Jane Bird
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 05:36 AM

How about:

Tavistock Goosey Fair
Yarmouth Town

I can think of others but they're rather obscure for a general quiz.

Jane

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: songs2play
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 06:22 AM

Farewell to the Rhondda (I'm going home to) Swansea Town Rhondda Grey From Clare to Here

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 06:27 AM

For you South Walians:

Under "NEATH" the spreading Chestnut Tree??

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: GUEST,Long Firm Freddie at Work
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 07:52 AM

There's the BeeGees/Les Barker collaboration of "J-J-J-Jive Dorking, G-Guildford get down..."

How about "Brecon Up Is Hard to Do"?

Or another Les Barker gem: "It Ain't Llantisilio So"

For people in Kent: "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down"

Further West: "Seaton on the Dock of the Bay"

And finally a very old one "I'm Only Paignton the Clouds With Sunshine"

I'll get me coat...

LFF

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: GUEST,Mary Humphreys
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 08:03 AM

Three more from the Penguin Book , off the top of my head...

The Man of Burningham Town Lisbon Bruton Town

Then all the disaster songs : The Gresford Disaster, Trimdon Grange explosion et al

As through Moorfields I rambled.

Scarborough Fair - or the North Yorkshire variant Whittingham Fair.

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

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

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

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 12:20 PM

Leaving Nancy (ouch)

Wolfgang

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

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.

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!

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 02:06 PM

Managua, Nicaragua

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...

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:
Sweet Betsy From Pike
Please Come To Boston
Valencia
Carnival of Venice (not really a "song," though
When Hilo Hattie Does The Hula Hop
Little Old Lady From Pasadena
The Hills Are Bare In Bethlehem
O Little Town Of Bethlemem
Wexford Carol
Coventry Carol

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

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 04:39 PM

The Lady Came From Baltimore

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

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

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
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

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
Mount Coote
Mount Crawley
Mount Dalton
Mount Dalton Lough
Mount David
Mount Davis
Mount Davis House
Mount Davys House
Mount Desert House
Mount Druid
Mount Druid House
Mount Eagle
Mounteagle
Mounteagle
Mount Eagle Lough
Mountearleret House
Mount Emla
Mount Equity
Mount Erris
Mount Falcon
Mount Falcon
Mountfin House
Mount Florence
Mountforest House
Mount Frisco
Mount Garrett Bridge
Mountgarrett Castle
Mount George
Mount Gunner
Mounthall House
Mount Hayes
Mount Hazel
Mount Heaton
Mount Heaton Lodge
Mount Henry
Mount Hillary
Mounthoward Cross Roads
Mounthussey
Mount Ida
Mount Jennings
Mount John House
Mountjoy
There's surely a mountain of Irish songs that I've never heard.

I've never heard mention of my ancestral home - Ballydorney.

Cheers, John

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 :-
The Harlot of Jerusalem,
The Mayor of Bayswater,
The ball at Kerrimiur,

Gareth

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

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

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,

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

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

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Deda
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 03:28 PM

Anyone mention "Good Morning, Morgantown"?

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"

Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title?
From: Bert
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 04:28 PM

Guantanamera

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!

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!

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."