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The Top Five Songs... with US place names in the title

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  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Last train to clarksville-The Monkeys
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Don't Go Back To Rockville - R.E.M.

    Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far) - The Thrills

    California Waiting - Kings of Leon

    Vegas - Sleeper

    Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Delaware by Perry Como, which also mentions a few other states.....

    Oh what did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware
    What did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware
    She wore a brand New Jersey,
    She wore a brand New Jersey,
    She wore a brand New Jersey,
    That's what she did wear

    One, two, three, four
    Oh, why did Cali-fon-ia
    Why did Cali-fon
    why did Cali-fon-ia
    Was she all alone
    She called to say Ha-wa-ya
    She called to say Ha-wa-ya
    She called to say Ha-wa-ya
    That's why she did call

    Uno, deis, tre, quattro
    Oh what did Missi sip boy
    What did Missi sip
    What did missi sip boy
    Through her pretty lips
    She sipped a Minne sota
    She sipped a Minne sota
    She sipped a Minne sota
    That's what she did sip
    Where has Oregon boy
    Where has Oregon
    If you wan Al-ask-a
    Al-ask-a where she's gone
    She went to pay her Texas
    She went to pay her Texas
    She went to pay her Texas
    That's where she has gone

    Well how did Wis-con-sin boy
    She stole a New-brass-key
    Too bad that Arkan saw boy
    And so did Tenne-see
    It made poor Flori-di boy
    It made poor Flori-di, you see
    She died in Miss-our-I boy
    She died in Miss-our-I
    Oh what did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware
  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Johnny Rivers or Nick Cave

    Galveston - Glen Campbell

    Both written by the great Jimmy Webb
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    california dreaming - mamas and papas
    drinking in L.A. - bran van 3000
    california girls - beach boys
    native new york(er) - odyssey
    galveston bay - lonnie hill
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    Beverly Hills by Weezer
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,822
    Buffalo Soldier - Marley
  • The Equaliser
    The Equaliser Posts: 758
    Ohio Silver Lining
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,211
    Nutbush City Limits - Ike and Tina Turner

    Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis - Tom Waits

    Blue Moon of Kentucky - Elvis
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Indiana wants me R Dean Taylor
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,211
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]Indiana wants me R Dean Taylor

    classic and also one for top five songs with start with sound affects
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    Thanks for saving this one for me:

    My Kind of Town (Chicago is) by Frank Sinatra.

    And each time I leave, chicago is
    Tuggin my sleeve, chicago is
    The wrigley building, chicago is
    The union stockyard, chicago is
    One town that wont let you down
    Its my kind of town
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    4th of July, Asbury Park
    Atlantic City
    Jersey Girl
    Mary Queen of Arkansas
    Jackson Cage
    Youngstown
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,142
    Mobile Alabama - Curtis Gordon
    Mean Ole 'Frisco Blues - Arthur Crudup
    Oaklahoma Hills - Bob Wills
    Honolulu Rocka Rolla - Moon Mullican
    Tenessee Saturday Night - Red Foley
  • Imissthepeanutman
    Imissthepeanutman Posts: 1,458
    edited March 2009
    Mississippi Queen - Mountain
    Memphis Tennessee - The Faces
    Lost Angeles - Colosseum
    Seattle - Will Ackerman
    Going to California - Led Zep
    Alabama - Neil Young
    Sweet Home Chicago - Luther Allison
    Texas - Chris Rea
    Daddy dont live in that New York City no more - Steely Dan
    Texas Strut - Gary Moore
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Sorry H. but couldn't think of any more towns/cities/states etc, so hope these are o.k........

    America: Nice

    America: Simon & Garfuncle

    America: Gary Numan

    American Trilogy: Elvis

    American Pie: Don McLean

    Diqualified? Fair enough.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,211
    [cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]Sorry H. but couldn't think of any more towns/cities/states etc, so hope these are o.k........

    America: Nice

    America: Simon & Garfuncle

    America: Gary Numan

    American Trilogy: Elvis

    American Pie: Don McLean

    Diqualified? Fair enough.

    There are no rules

    America is waiting- Brian Eno and David Byrne

    Young Americans - David Bowie

    I made an American squirm - Nick Lowe

    American Girl - Tom Petty

    Letter from America - Proclaimers

    I'm so bored with the USA - The Clash

    And just to show that I'm down with the youth

    North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    Laramie, Wyoming - Richmond Fontaine
    Via Chicago - Wilco
    Medicine Hat* - Son Volt
    Dallas, Airports Bodybags - American Music Club
    Portland, Oregon - Jack White w/ Loretta Lynn


    * bonus Canadian town mention
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,142
    Tattooed Lady -Skeets McDonald, mentions the names of loads of states in that song.
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    harlem shuffle - bob and earl
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  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    New York Telephone Conversation - Lou Reed
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,529
    The Strokes- New York City Cops
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Wall St Shuffle- 10CC
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,211
    Up on Cripple Creek/ Cripple Creek Ferry - The Band/Neil Young

    Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again.

    Highway 61 Revisited

    Tombstone Blues

    Nashville Skyline Rag - All Dylan
  • nigel
    nigel Posts: 2,454
    edited March 2009
    Disregarding the fact that Henry is a total cheat and has so far nominated about 500 songs rather than five (!), these ten don't seem to have been mentioned yet (apologies if I failed to read every single post and some havealready been cited ) :

    Omaha - Moby Grape

    Carolina in My Mind - James Taylor

    Uptown Mississippi Half-Step Toodloo - Grateful Dead

    Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

    California - Joni Mitchell

    Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson

    Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams

    Walking In Memphis - Marc Cohn (later covered by Cher)

    What Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me) - Jerry Lee Lewis

    Oh Atlanta - Little Feat

    And one that's not really my kind of thing : Straight Outta Compton - NWA

    By the way, the next issue of Uncut will feature an annotated pull-out map of Bob Dylan's America, highlighting all the places he's namechecked in song plus the places that have played a part in his life story, from Hibbing to Greenwich Village..
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    have checked and double checked and it's not there! Hotel California!
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,927
    Talk to me of Mendocino - Mcgarrigle Sisters
  • nigel
    nigel Posts: 2,454
    edited March 2009
    Great call - beautiful song. Love Kate and Anna to bits. But we should add to their song another classic about the same place but in a very dfferent musical mood - Mendocino by Doug Sahm
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    Dancing "Queen's ".............Abba
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Next thing someone will try 'Watts' New Pussycat..........Tom Jones.

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