Monday, August 26, 2013

Road Trip: U.S. Cities/States in Song Titles

I was on a little driving trip, listening to Sinatra, and having a lovely time when I heard him sing Stars Fell on Alabama. Interesting, thought I; I never knew that Alabama had a song written about it. Then I began to wonder how many other U.S. states and cities appeared in song titles. The answer is, a bunch. For example:

Stars Fell on Alabama
New York, New York
Autumn in New York
Moon Over Miami
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
Going Back to Houston, Houston, Houston
I’m Just an Okie from Muskogee
Tennessee Waltz
Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City
Kansas City (here I come)
Galveston
Big D (little A, double L A S)
Yellow Rose of Texas
California (here I come)
San Francisco (open your Golden Gate)
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Chicago, Chicago
My Kind of Town Chicago Is
Shuffle Off to Buffalo
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
Oklahoma
Georgia on my Mind
The Night the Lights went out in Georgia
North to Alaska
Battle of New Orleans

You know what’s coming, right? Right? Please add your own contributions to this list. Note: The city/state MUST appear in the title. Then the next time I go for a drive, I’ll add these songs to my IPOD  and sing along (and alone) with them.


6 comments:

  1. I thought I had a CD-R of city songs, but apparently not. Meanwhile:

    From Randy Newman alone:
    Gainesville
    Birmingham
    Louisiana 1927
    Old Kentucky Home
    Baltimore
    I Love L.A.
    Miami
    New Orleans Wins the War
    Dayton, Ohio--1903

    and, to be sure,
    City of New Orleans

    from the Lovin' Spoonful:
    Nashville Cats

    That'll do for a start.



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  2. Here are a few from that giant dustbin known as my mind:

    Arizona Lightning by Robert Hunter
    The Rolling Mills of New Jersey
    San Francisco (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair)
    Seattle

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  3. And in honor of my new environs, "Iowa Stubborn," from The Music Man:
    http://youtu.be/xV7ZcVFSWWU

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  4. Moonlight in Vermont. See album "The Best of Willie Nelson"

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  5. Tallahassee Lassie
    Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa

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