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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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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie Date: 16 Sep 02 - 08:54 PM and
There was even a song I heard in an old western movie (that I saw on TV in the 1950s) that started out 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." :-) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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, 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.
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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} |
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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... |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Date: 17 Sep 02 - 12:12 AM Uskadara In Mobile |
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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?" |
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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 |
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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?????) |
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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 |
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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." |
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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?
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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 |
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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 |
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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 I can think of others but they're rather obscure for a general quiz. Jane |
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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
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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??
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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
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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.
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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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST Date: 23 Apr 03 - 12:09 AM Knoxville Girl |
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Subject: RE: BULL AM - DENVER IN TITLE From: Gene Date: 23 Apr 03 - 02:10 AM Larry Gatlin had one titles: DENVER It is actually a pretty good tune...as I recall... ---When she dropped me in Denver I knew I had at least a mile to fall been a long time since i heard it...will have to dig it out... and John Denver must have had at least one song about Denver? |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mr Happy Date: 23 Apr 03 - 03:48 AM Chester Song at Twilight?? |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang Date: 23 Apr 03 - 03:53 AM One more city one more town Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang Date: 23 Apr 03 - 03:53 AM Memories of Heidelberg Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Strupag Date: 23 Apr 03 - 06:07 AM Mudcatter Jim Maclean wrote a song called "Where is the Paisley that I used to know" I think it was in reply to "Where is the Glasgow that I used to know" by Adam McNaughtan |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: fsharpdim7 Date: 23 Apr 03 - 10:49 AM Worst town song - Entering Marion Best town song - San Francisco Bay Blues Best town song for Spring - Early (hope Greg and Iris will record a duet) Chris in that Toddlin' Town |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SINSULL Date: 23 Apr 03 - 06:02 PM To Morrow Mention My Name In Sheboygan |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,TheBigPinkLad Date: 23 Apr 03 - 06:40 PM Nowt can compare to Sunderland Fine Fare: Toy Dolls, a classic. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang Date: 24 Apr 03 - 03:33 AM "The finest Fucking Family" is a song in he DT. Now why someone writes a song about a family from that small Austrian village of Fucking is a mystery to me. Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Betsy720 Date: 24 Apr 03 - 04:44 PM Has anybody mentioned Sioux City Sue? Manhattan ("We'll take Manhattan/The Bronx and Staten Island, too...") Springhill Mine Disaster ("In the town of Springhill Nova Scotia") |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bat Goddess Date: 25 Apr 03 - 10:10 AM "Living in Braintree with You in Methuen Is Almost Like Living in Lowell" was actually written by Larry Flint (not Flynt) and recorded by Bill Madison on "Dancehall Girls." Linn |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,guest:: Peg Date: 26 Apr 03 - 08:52 AM response to old msg from skipper jack (I just discovered this site): that's GillyGillyOssenpfefferKatzenAlenBogenby the seas (maybe no caps) plus many many Italian traditional songs with Napoli in the title, and Roma non fa la Stupida Sta sera from the musical Rugantino on b'way in late60's early 70's (Marcello Mastrioianni starred). Peg |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Strupag Date: 26 Apr 03 - 05:47 PM Hi Wolfgang, You have reminded me of a song by the late Mat MacGinn. It was about the town of Effing and it was called "The Effing Bee Keeper" |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,gobar@silcon.com Date: 28 Sep 04 - 01:41 AM can give you quiz with 24 questions and answers already done. Also have tie breaker if so desired. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Rasener Date: 28 Sep 04 - 03:13 AM UK songs Birmingham - Clifford T Ward Tune Congress at Laceby/Market Rasen Feast resurected by Liam Robinson Didn't we have a loverly day on our way to Bangor US 24 hours from Tulsa |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Rasener Date: 28 Sep 04 - 05:27 AM Abergavenny - Marty Wilde New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees Leningrad - Billy Joel Sweet Home Chicago - The Blues Brothers Last Train To London - The Electric Light Orchestra Torquay - Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs (instrumental) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Fred Maslan Date: 28 Sep 04 - 10:11 PM No one has mentioned "Managua Nicaragua is a beautiful town" |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Jaze Date: 29 Sep 04 - 10:50 AM Avalon,My Hometwon---MJH |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,G Date: 18 Oct 04 - 02:09 PM Anyone know where Joni Mitchell's "Morgantown" is located? |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Chris Green Date: 18 Oct 04 - 02:16 PM According to the Google oracle, it's in West Virginia near the border with Pennsylvania. Looks like a rather nice place! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Megan L Date: 18 Oct 04 - 02:27 PM Kirkwall bay road and the miles to Dundee Northern lights of old Aberdeen |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 18 Oct 04 - 02:56 PM Martin Wyndham- Reeves gave us Somewhere In Otago (N.Zealand) |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: PoppaGator Date: 18 Oct 04 - 04:26 PM Although I'm not really a C&W kinda guy, I immediately thought of two classic country songs with city names. After scrolling quickly down this l-o-o-n-g thread, I don't *think* anyone has mentioned either one yet: Abilene, Abilene (prettiest town I've ever seen...") ("Last night I went to sleep in") Detroit City ("...I wanna go home, I wanna go home, Oh how I wanna go home...") |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Alex.S Date: 19 Oct 04 - 12:57 AM "London Bridge is Falling Down" (If that is indeed the name). "Glasgow Peggy" "Grand old Duke of York" |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Chris Green Date: 19 Oct 04 - 04:02 PM I once heard a version of "Nights in White Satin" called "It's Shite in Prestatyn". |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,milk monitor Date: 19 Oct 04 - 04:07 PM London Calling.........The Clash Eton Rifles..........The Jam I don't want to go to Chelsea..........Elvis Costello Montana........Zappa |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 19 Oct 04 - 04:10 PM This has probably been mentioned before in this thread, but there's a general feeling in the UK that British place names - in contemporary songs - don't sound quite right, and that their U.S.A counterparts somehow sound more romantic e.g. " Riding a fast train to San Antonio" sounds a lot better than " Riding a fast train to Huddersfield" |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Kitty Date: 19 Oct 04 - 06:32 PM ok, two more: Eliza from Mt. Isa (Australian) and Camptown Races (Can't believe someone didn't come up with that...) This is an incredibly entertaining thread. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Guest - Wingnut Date: 21 Oct 04 - 05:28 PM Amarillo by Morning Does Ft. Worth Ever Cross Your Mind? Okie from Muskogee Little Rock (Colin Raye) Side Note: Look for lyrics for "I've Been Everywhere" and "I've Been Everywhere in Texas" ... you want songs with cities in them, those are two you should get a kick out of. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bernard Date: 21 Oct 04 - 08:24 PM Talcahuano Girls Valapariso When Newark In The Room...! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: dwditty Date: 21 Oct 04 - 08:43 PM This one may be the ultimate. On the CD, Going Back To Brooklyn, Dave Van Ronk sings Garden State Stomp...every word in the song is the name of a town in New Jersey....you can look it up. dw |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,marci arson Date: 30 Nov 04 - 03:37 PM green day "longview" hole "olympia" rancid "bremerton" the ramones "rockaway beach" take thaat, yeeeah. feel educated! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: cetmst Date: 01 Dec 04 - 07:24 AM Some of these may be shires, parishes, areas but: Paradise Coalport PA Portland Light How Many Miles to Kennebunkport How Many Miles to Bethlehem Philadelphia Lawyer Dead Girl of Hiroshima Santa Fe Trail Battle of Vicksburg Buffalo Whore Down to Pomona (Lamora) How Coventry Was Made Free by Godiva, Countess of Chester Streets of Fall River Streets of Laredo Whitby Fishermen Natchez Under the Hill Scarborough Settler's Lament Wiscasset Schooners Honour of Bristol Banbury Ale Burlington Bertie From Bow Burning of Auchindoon Cam Ye By Athol Dancing in Kyle Rose of Arranmore Seven Merry Wives of London Town of Old Dolores Adam Ham Town Alice Blue Gown Ambletown Ashokan Farewell Athlone Landlady Riding Down From Bangor Blooming Caroline of Edinburgh Bonavista Harbor Bonnie Lass of Ballachmyle Darktown Strutters' Ball Fall River Hoedown Flemings of Torquay Galveston Flood In Old Moscow Julian of Norwich Lass of Swansea Town Parish of Dunkeld Poor Old Greenwich Fair Sherman Cyclone To Pimlico We'll Go |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,annar Date: 12 Dec 04 - 08:59 PM Jerusalem-Royal City In Havana the Stars-Royal City Mississauga Goddam-the Hidden cameras |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: alanabit Date: 13 Dec 04 - 03:52 AM "Mer Losse d'r Dom en Kölle" (Cologne Carnival song) and our own McGrath of Harlow's beautiful, "Green Heart of Harlow" spring to mind. One day someone will write a ditty about Callington in Cornwall. So far no one has been so inspired to my knowledge. They say that it is so dull there that the taxi drivers are safe, because there is nowhere worth driving to in a hurry! |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: s&r Date: 13 Dec 04 - 04:34 AM The Blackpool Belle Day Trip to Bangor I Belong to Glasgow It,s a long Way to Tipperary Twas on the road to sweet Athy White Cliffs of Dover |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,gymeneye Date: 13 Dec 04 - 07:03 AM Here are a few 'Golden Oldies'. North To Alaska..Johnny Horton (When It's) Springtime in Alaska (It's 40 Below)..Johnny Horton New York State of Mind..Billy Joel Say Goodbye to Hollywood..Billy Joel Arkansas Dog..Pinkard & Bowden Three Mile Island..Pinkard & Bowden Harper Valley PTA..Jeannie C. Riley Alabama Jubilee..The Ramblers Shiloh..Neil Diamond Brooklyn Roads..Neil Diamond Only In Miami..Bette Midler Hollywood..Boz Scaggs (Carry Me Back To) Old Virginia..Jerry Lee Lewis My Old Kentucky Home..Stephen Foster Winchester Cathedral..Frank Sinatra Burn, Georgia, Burn..Alabama Moonlight in Vermont..Johnny Mathis Autumn in New York..Johnny Mathis Arrivederci Roma..Johnny Mathis Venus..Johnny Mathis by E L V I S Yellow Rose of Texas Never Been To Spain Little Egypt Blue Hawaii Hawaiian Love Song Guadalajara Kentucky Rain |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST Date: 24 Mar 06 - 06:05 PM Morgantown, WV. She went to school at WVU for a short time. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Snuffy Date: 24 Mar 06 - 06:54 PM Alanabit. Surely you have not forgotten: 'Twas in Callington town, the bells they did sound They rang for a hat and a belt laced with gold But the men of North Lew rang so steady and true That there never were better in Devon I hold Mind you Ashwater was the first choice, they only went to Callington as an afterthought |
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Subject: RE: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: melodeonboy Date: 24 Mar 06 - 07:49 PM Billericay Dickie (in case you couldn't tell!). |
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Subject: RE: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 25 Mar 06 - 06:42 AM going up camborne hill, coming down down in Nagasaki/ where the fellers chew tobaccy/ and the women wicky wacky wu Lukenback Texas |
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Subject: RE: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Rasener Date: 25 Mar 06 - 07:20 AM Tulips from Amsterdam Oh Vienna Midnight in Moscow - kenny ball A pizza hut Apizza hut, Kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut :-) Tallahassee Lassie - Freddy Cannon All the way to Memphis All the way from Memphis - Mott The Hoople |
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Subject: RE: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Leadfingers Date: 25 Mar 06 - 09:04 AM A long time back Greg Stephens mentioned Piddle Trenthyde Jugband - which Adge Cutler renamed The Charlton Mackerel Jugband - Adge nicked most of Trevor Croziers Dorset songs and relocated them in Somerset , but Adge DID write Pil Pill I love The Still !! |
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Subject: RE: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Snuffy Date: 25 Mar 06 - 09:10 AM Down In Nempnett Thrubwell indeed |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Charley Noble Date: 19 Nov 06 - 07:40 PM Perhaps, one should add the unofficial Michigan State Song "Shafted in Shaftsburg>" Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Guest julian Date: 06 Dec 11 - 09:00 AM Ashb de la Zouche by the Sea |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Don Wise Date: 06 Dec 11 - 10:58 AM The Derby Ram The Uttoxeter Souling Song The Bakewell Witches The Hawkhurst Boys The Road to Salem The Ashbourne Football Song The Beggar Wench of Hull The Boston Burglar Northill May Song Brigg Fair Swansea Town Droylsden Wakes Philadelphia Lawyer Philadelphia Freedom Baltimore to Washington Jericho Der Sonderzug nach Pankow (Udo Lindenbers version of Chattanooga Choo-Choo) Richmond The Rakes of Mallow That'll do for now! Don |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Splott Man Date: 06 Dec 11 - 11:03 AM Here's a few I know: Cardiff Born Oxford Town The Old Carmarthen Oak/The Old Dungarven Oak The Pontypridd Collier The Maid of Aberdare Durham Jail |
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Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mysha Date: 06 Dec 11 - 05:57 PM Hi, All those songs about London, and nobody mentioning - London's Burning (Round, multiple versions) - Brand in Mokum (Round, Dutch) - Brand in Tuddal (Round, Norwegian) - Londres flambe (Round, French, multiple versions) - Londres arde (Round, Spanish, multiple versions) Nor - London's Burning (The Clash) Bye, Mysha |
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