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16 Sep 02 - 04:20 AM (#784906) Subject: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Martin S 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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16 Sep 02 - 05:33 AM (#784934) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Mary Humphreys The Manchester Angel - this is one for folkies only. |
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16 Sep 02 - 05:53 AM (#784940) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: IanC I belong to Glasgow Leaving of Liverpool Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner Molly Malone ... :-) |
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16 Sep 02 - 06:16 AM (#784952) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mary in Kentucky 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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16 Sep 02 - 06:26 AM (#784956) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mary in Kentucky 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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16 Sep 02 - 07:19 AM (#784982) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Hecate Rocky road to Dublin |
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16 Sep 02 - 07:25 AM (#784986) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Scabby Doug I Love LA (Randy Newman)
Barcelona Cheers Steven |
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16 Sep 02 - 08:35 AM (#785005) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie It's a long way to Tipperary. The Manchester Rambler Galway Bay |
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16 Sep 02 - 08:38 AM (#785009) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mr Happy Chester Song at Twilight? |
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16 Sep 02 - 08:43 AM (#785012) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: The Walrus at work Rigs of London London Pride Far,Far from Wipers (Ypres) Jerusalem (Not a song, but) Portsmouth Any use? Walrus |
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16 Sep 02 - 08:50 AM (#785020) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens 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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16 Sep 02 - 09:01 AM (#785026) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mr Happy 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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16 Sep 02 - 09:03 AM (#785027) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mary in Kentucky A Foggy Day in London Town Scarborough Fair Old Swansea Town Once More
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16 Sep 02 - 09:17 AM (#785038) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens I wish I was back in Himasas |
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16 Sep 02 - 09:18 AM (#785041) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie 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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16 Sep 02 - 09:26 AM (#785050) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens 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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16 Sep 02 - 09:34 AM (#785055) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Murray MacLeod By the Time I Get to Phoenix The Wichita Lineman 24 Hours from Tulsa Murray |
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16 Sep 02 - 10:23 AM (#785090) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bat Goddess Eight More Miles to Louisville No More Beer from Kendal Linn |
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16 Sep 02 - 10:26 AM (#785095) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Pennny Walkin' To New Orleans-Fats Domino |
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16 Sep 02 - 10:36 AM (#785105) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Midchuck 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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16 Sep 02 - 10:54 AM (#785124) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Skipper Jack Men of Harlech Helston Floral Dance Liverpool Lou The Bells of Rhymney
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16 Sep 02 - 10:56 AM (#785125) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA 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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16 Sep 02 - 11:12 AM (#785138) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens "When the Piddletrenthide Jugband makes the charts" "Ashby-de-la-Zouch" "The Rawtenstall Annual Fair" |
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16 Sep 02 - 11:24 AM (#785148) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Sorcha Mention My Name in Sheboygan Take Me Back to Tulsa |
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16 Sep 02 - 12:04 PM (#785180) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen 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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16 Sep 02 - 12:10 PM (#785184) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang Belfast town Moskow nights Wolfgang |
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16 Sep 02 - 12:14 PM (#785187) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Memphis Mud 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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16 Sep 02 - 12:15 PM (#785190) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Amos 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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16 Sep 02 - 01:34 PM (#785248) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen 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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16 Sep 02 - 01:39 PM (#785252) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen There must be a million of these... Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? Jerry |
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16 Sep 02 - 01:43 PM (#785258) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen 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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16 Sep 02 - 01:45 PM (#785261) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: DonD 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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16 Sep 02 - 01:54 PM (#785266) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens 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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16 Sep 02 - 01:56 PM (#785267) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST 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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16 Sep 02 - 02:13 PM (#785282) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: JJ "(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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16 Sep 02 - 02:59 PM (#785316) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen 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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16 Sep 02 - 03:07 PM (#785320) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA "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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16 Sep 02 - 03:11 PM (#785326) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens 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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16 Sep 02 - 03:17 PM (#785334) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen 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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16 Sep 02 - 03:29 PM (#785341) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Road to Dundee Angel from Montgomery Fair Maid of Islington |
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16 Sep 02 - 03:31 PM (#785343) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Ballad of Bethnal Green. |
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16 Sep 02 - 03:32 PM (#785344) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Oh, and The Two Ronnies did a great song about Effingham. |
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16 Sep 02 - 03:45 PM (#785352) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: greg stephens Turnham Green? |
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16 Sep 02 - 03:57 PM (#785359) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: McGrath of Harlow 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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16 Sep 02 - 04:02 PM (#785362) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Haruo "The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle, And the hills the greenest green in Seattle." Haruo |
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16 Sep 02 - 04:46 PM (#785414) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen Hey, Greg: There was an extremely successful writer of children's books named Wanda Gag. :-) Jerry |
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16 Sep 02 - 05:12 PM (#785438) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bull Am 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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16 Sep 02 - 05:14 PM (#785441) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Sorcha Wonder where Adam went......... |
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16 Sep 02 - 05:38 PM (#785467) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bill D from "THe Music Man" "Gary, Indiana" |
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16 Sep 02 - 05:40 PM (#785468) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Sorcha Oops, it was Martin........not Adam |
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16 Sep 02 - 06:18 PM (#785492) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Memphis Mud Do you know the way to San Jose Key Largo Oh, Atlanta (Allison Kraus) Marikesh Express (CSN&Y) |
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16 Sep 02 - 08:17 PM (#785592) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie 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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16 Sep 02 - 08:26 PM (#785599) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie 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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16 Sep 02 - 08:54 PM (#785620) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie 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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16 Sep 02 - 10:06 PM (#785670) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: masato sakurai 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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16 Sep 02 - 10:12 PM (#785673) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Jerry Rasmussen 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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16 Sep 02 - 11:03 PM (#785704) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie 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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16 Sep 02 - 11:19 PM (#785713) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: BillR 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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16 Sep 02 - 11:52 PM (#785734) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: JJ 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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17 Sep 02 - 12:12 AM (#785744) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Uskadara In Mobile |
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17 Sep 02 - 12:17 AM (#785750) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie JJ, I stand corrected about "Chelsea Morning." But how about "Talk To Me of Mendocino?" |
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17 Sep 02 - 01:44 AM (#785779) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Little Hawk 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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17 Sep 02 - 01:56 AM (#785781) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Night Owl "Blue-Eyed Boston Boy" "Big Ball In Boston" "Olde Cape Cod".....(Patti Page?????) |
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17 Sep 02 - 02:17 AM (#785784) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Yorkshire Tony 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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17 Sep 02 - 02:20 AM (#785785) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie 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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17 Sep 02 - 04:02 AM (#785809) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Skipper Jack 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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17 Sep 02 - 05:04 AM (#785834) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Nigel Parsons 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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17 Sep 02 - 05:13 AM (#785840) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Martin S 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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17 Sep 02 - 05:36 AM (#785853) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Jane Bird How about: Tavistock Goosey Fair I can think of others but they're rather obscure for a general quiz. Jane |
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17 Sep 02 - 06:22 AM (#785870) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: songs2play Farewell to the Rhondda (I'm going home to) Swansea Town Rhondda Grey From Clare to Here
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17 Sep 02 - 06:27 AM (#785874) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Skipper Jack For you South Walians: Under "NEATH" the spreading Chestnut Tree??
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17 Sep 02 - 07:52 AM (#785921) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Long Firm Freddie at Work 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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17 Sep 02 - 08:03 AM (#785929) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Mary Humphreys 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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17 Sep 02 - 08:03 AM (#785930) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Hrothgar 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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17 Sep 02 - 08:39 AM (#785953) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: The Walrus at work 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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17 Sep 02 - 12:06 PM (#786027) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Night Owl 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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17 Sep 02 - 12:20 PM (#786030) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang Leaving Nancy (ouch) Wolfgang |
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17 Sep 02 - 12:34 PM (#786034) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang Wiener Schnitzel Waltz Rose of Tralee Wexford fishing song Wolfgang |
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17 Sep 02 - 01:33 PM (#786043) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: C-flat You could try "I've been everywhere" There plenty of names in that one. C-flat. |
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17 Sep 02 - 01:36 PM (#786045) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: C-flat I don't know why that didn't work so I'll try again! |
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17 Sep 02 - 02:06 PM (#786052) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bill D Managua, Nicaragua |
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17 Sep 02 - 04:25 PM (#786094) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: JJ 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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17 Sep 02 - 04:38 PM (#786110) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Argenine 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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17 Sep 02 - 04:39 PM (#786112) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST The Lady Came From Baltimore |
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17 Sep 02 - 07:41 PM (#786241) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: bigchuck 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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17 Sep 02 - 10:18 PM (#786347) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Herga Kitty Oxford City - in the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs |
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18 Sep 02 - 04:13 AM (#786448) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Hrothgar Try a few line breaks:
Nine Miles From Gundagai
Newcastle Song |
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18 Sep 02 - 04:31 AM (#786455) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: John in Brisbane 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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18 Sep 02 - 03:14 PM (#786892) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Gareth 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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18 Sep 02 - 03:28 PM (#786900) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Uncle_DaveO 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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18 Sep 02 - 04:51 PM (#786974) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: allanwill 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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19 Sep 02 - 12:05 AM (#787213) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Louie Roy Birmingham Jail Sweet Orofino, Cattle Drive to Missoula Montana, |
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19 Sep 02 - 12:56 AM (#787233) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: John in Brisbane 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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19 Sep 02 - 11:52 AM (#787521) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Louie Roy Her's a couple of more Red River Valley,San Antonio Rose,Dixie,Deep Elum Blues |
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19 Sep 02 - 03:28 PM (#787641) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Deda Anyone mention "Good Morning, Morgantown"? |
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19 Sep 02 - 04:10 PM (#787679) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA (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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19 Sep 02 - 04:28 PM (#787690) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Guantanamera |
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19 Sep 02 - 05:19 PM (#787733) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA "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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19 Sep 02 - 05:22 PM (#787735) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA 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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19 Sep 02 - 08:06 PM (#787879) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie (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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19 Sep 02 - 09:39 PM (#787940) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie 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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20 Sep 02 - 05:19 AM (#788086) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: old moose Walla Walla Wash and Kalamazoo I am not Old Moose! How can I fix that? Mehitabel |
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20 Sep 02 - 06:08 AM (#788097) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: old moose Tiptoe Through Humptulips Still Not Old Moose |
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20 Sep 02 - 10:24 AM (#788160) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SharonA "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini" ;^) |
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20 Sep 02 - 01:10 PM (#788224) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: old moose 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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20 Sep 02 - 02:54 PM (#788259) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bert Mehitabel, go to quick links, reset cookie and follow your nose. Somewhere down there you can change your membership name. |
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20 Sep 02 - 03:54 PM (#788280) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Just Amy (Goin' back to) Houston You can't go back to Constantinople Wabash Cannonball (Wabsh is a town in Indiana) |
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20 Sep 02 - 04:14 PM (#788289) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Sonja 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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20 Sep 02 - 11:54 PM (#788413) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: old moose 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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21 Sep 02 - 10:29 AM (#788476) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: allanwill 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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21 Sep 02 - 10:52 AM (#788484) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: JJ 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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21 Sep 02 - 10:59 AM (#788486) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: reggie miles 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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21 Sep 02 - 11:10 AM (#788487) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Gorgeous Gary Fires of Calais Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold) -- Gary |
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22 Sep 02 - 05:06 AM (#788914) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie 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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22 Sep 02 - 06:32 AM (#788930) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Tam the bam fraeSaltcoatsScotland 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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22 Sep 02 - 07:40 AM (#788948) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: belfast 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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22 Sep 02 - 10:00 PM (#789288) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie I checked the spelling; it's "Luckenbach, Texas." |
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22 Sep 02 - 10:06 PM (#789293) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Genie 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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23 Sep 02 - 01:17 AM (#789374) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Night Owl 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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21 Apr 03 - 10:36 PM (#937495) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Peter Benson 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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22 Apr 03 - 09:36 PM (#938172) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Walking Eagle 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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22 Apr 03 - 09:53 PM (#938178) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bat Goddess 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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22 Apr 03 - 10:15 PM (#938191) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Ebbie 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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23 Apr 03 - 12:09 AM (#938243) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST Knoxville Girl |
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23 Apr 03 - 02:10 AM (#938274) Subject: RE: BULL AM - DENVER IN TITLE From: Gene 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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23 Apr 03 - 03:48 AM (#938303) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mr Happy Chester Song at Twilight?? |
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23 Apr 03 - 03:53 AM (#938304) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang One more city one more town Wolfgang |
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23 Apr 03 - 03:53 AM (#938305) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang Memories of Heidelberg Wolfgang |
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23 Apr 03 - 06:07 AM (#938334) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Strupag 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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23 Apr 03 - 10:49 AM (#938518) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: fsharpdim7 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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23 Apr 03 - 06:02 PM (#938804) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: SINSULL To Morrow Mention My Name In Sheboygan |
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23 Apr 03 - 06:40 PM (#938826) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,TheBigPinkLad Nowt can compare to Sunderland Fine Fare: Toy Dolls, a classic. |
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24 Apr 03 - 03:33 AM (#939058) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Wolfgang "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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24 Apr 03 - 04:44 PM (#939466) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Betsy720 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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25 Apr 03 - 10:10 AM (#939913) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bat Goddess "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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26 Apr 03 - 08:52 AM (#940595) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,guest:: Peg 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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26 Apr 03 - 05:47 PM (#940903) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Strupag 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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28 Sep 04 - 01:41 AM (#1282843) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,gobar@silcon.com can give you quiz with 24 questions and answers already done. Also have tie breaker if so desired. |
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28 Sep 04 - 03:13 AM (#1282883) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Rasener 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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28 Sep 04 - 05:27 AM (#1282957) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Rasener 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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28 Sep 04 - 10:11 PM (#1283657) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Fred Maslan No one has mentioned "Managua Nicaragua is a beautiful town" |
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29 Sep 04 - 10:50 AM (#1284042) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Jaze Avalon,My Hometwon---MJH |
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18 Oct 04 - 02:09 PM (#1299893) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,G Anyone know where Joni Mitchell's "Morgantown" is located? |
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18 Oct 04 - 02:16 PM (#1299902) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Chris Green 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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18 Oct 04 - 02:27 PM (#1299924) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Megan L Kirkwall bay road and the miles to Dundee Northern lights of old Aberdeen |
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18 Oct 04 - 02:56 PM (#1299960) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Keith A of Hertford Martin Wyndham- Reeves gave us Somewhere In Otago (N.Zealand) |
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18 Oct 04 - 04:26 PM (#1299976) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: PoppaGator 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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19 Oct 04 - 12:57 AM (#1300337) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Alex.S "London Bridge is Falling Down" (If that is indeed the name). "Glasgow Peggy" "Grand old Duke of York" |
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19 Oct 04 - 04:02 PM (#1300950) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Chris Green I once heard a version of "Nights in White Satin" called "It's Shite in Prestatyn". |
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19 Oct 04 - 04:07 PM (#1300958) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,milk monitor London Calling.........The Clash Eton Rifles..........The Jam I don't want to go to Chelsea..........Elvis Costello Montana........Zappa |
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19 Oct 04 - 04:10 PM (#1300964) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Tunesmith 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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19 Oct 04 - 06:32 PM (#1301101) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Kitty 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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21 Oct 04 - 05:28 PM (#1303237) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Guest - Wingnut 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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21 Oct 04 - 08:24 PM (#1303388) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Bernard Talcahuano Girls Valapariso When Newark In The Room...! |
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21 Oct 04 - 08:43 PM (#1303395) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: dwditty 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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30 Nov 04 - 03:37 PM (#1343543) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,marci arson green day "longview" hole "olympia" rancid "bremerton" the ramones "rockaway beach" take thaat, yeeeah. feel educated! |
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01 Dec 04 - 07:24 AM (#1344212) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: cetmst 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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12 Dec 04 - 08:59 PM (#1355176) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,annar Jerusalem-Royal City In Havana the Stars-Royal City Mississauga Goddam-the Hidden cameras |
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13 Dec 04 - 03:52 AM (#1355385) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: alanabit "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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13 Dec 04 - 04:34 AM (#1355400) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: s&r 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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13 Dec 04 - 07:03 AM (#1355469) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,gymeneye 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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24 Mar 06 - 06:05 PM (#1702108) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST Morgantown, WV. She went to school at WVU for a short time. |
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24 Mar 06 - 06:54 PM (#1702188) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Snuffy 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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24 Mar 06 - 07:49 PM (#1702223) Subject: RE: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: melodeonboy Billericay Dickie (in case you couldn't tell!). |
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25 Mar 06 - 06:42 AM (#1702429) Subject: RE: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Big Al Whittle 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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25 Mar 06 - 07:20 AM (#1702453) Subject: RE: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Rasener 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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25 Mar 06 - 09:04 AM (#1702501) Subject: RE: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Leadfingers 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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25 Mar 06 - 09:10 AM (#1702503) Subject: RE: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Snuffy Down In Nempnett Thrubwell indeed |
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19 Nov 06 - 07:40 PM (#1888601) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Charley Noble Perhaps, one should add the unofficial Michigan State Song "Shafted in Shaftsburg>" Charley Noble |
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06 Dec 11 - 09:00 AM (#3269242) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Guest julian Ashb de la Zouche by the Sea |
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06 Dec 11 - 10:58 AM (#3269291) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: GUEST,Don Wise 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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06 Dec 11 - 11:03 AM (#3269294) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Splott Man 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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06 Dec 11 - 05:57 PM (#3269488) Subject: RE: Help: Songs with Cities or Towns in title? From: Mysha 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 |