Favorite song about the place you're from?

[phillybri]

Stole the idea from AAR, so forgive me...

I'll go w/ "Philadelphia Freedom" knowing full-well it's not really about Philly...

[On the Road]

1. I Can't Think of Any Songs About Newark, New Jersey

Maybe Springsteen wrote one.

[22181]

2. It's a tossup...

Georgia on my Mind or Devil Went Down to Georgia. Can't figure which.

[tsakshaug]

3. depends on what you mean by where you are from

I lived in Boston for 5 years...Dirty Water would be my fave.

[qb]

4. Soundgarden: Outshined

I'm looking California and feeling Minnesota.

[NuckinFutz]

5. I have a few

Take Me Back to Tulsa by Bob Wills
Living on Tulsa Time by Don Williams

And just for the state in general ...

Oklahoma! by Rogers and Hammerstein

[MissMillie]

6. And the lights all went down in.....

.... Massachusetts.

[Lavender Brown]

7. Hmm.

There are a lot of songs about New York, but I'm going to go with "That's Amore", which is actually about Italy (where my parents are from) but reminds me of Brooklyn because it's in the movie "Moonstruck." Does that make sense?

[kodi]

8. that would be "georgia" as sung by the great, late ray charles

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[HuckleB]

9. "September in Seattle" by Shawn Mullins, which is really about Portland.

And the train ride between here and there. I also love the follow-up to that tune, "Twin Rocks, Oregon."

As for where I was born, I'll go with Springsteen's "Cadillac Ranch," which purports to be about the place in Texas, yet the action in the song takes place in Wisconsin.

[Racenut20]

10. The Night they drove old Dixie down.

[XNASA]

11. "Tonight, Tonight" written by Billy Corgin

"Chicago" written by Graham Nash

"My Kind of Town" written by Sammy Cahn

"In the Ghetto" written by Scott Davis (performed by Elvis Presley)


The worst song is "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown". Ick.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Panic in Detroit....David Bowie

:hi:

[AverageJoe]

13. There are a lot of great songs about Kentucky

Here are some fine songs:

Coal Miner's Daughter
Muhlenberg County
Kentucky Rain
Run For the Roses
My Old Kentucky Home

[Tom_Foolery]

20. Don't forget KENTUCKY WOMAN n/t

[freetobegay]

14. Blue Moon of Kentucky

Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining
Shine on the one that's gone and proved untrue
Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining
Shine on the one that's gone and left me blue

It was on a moonlight night the stars were shining bright
When they whispered from on high your love has said good-bye
Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining
Shine on the one that's gone and said good-bye

[realisticphish]

15. Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash (and maybe Young, can't remember)

That song gets stuck in my head for days..


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. "Hellhole" by Spinal Tap.

[phillybri]

19. You know where you stand in a....

HELLHOLE!!!!

Folks lend a hand in a...HELLHOLE!!!!

[dsewell]

17. California Dreamin' by The Mamas and the Papas

Beautiful song. It went through my head a lot during the various years I lived in the Northeast.

Though if I had grown up in Pasadena instead of three cities south of there, it would have to be "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena". (I don't think anyone ever wrote a song about Monterey Park, though we got a lot of ribbing from the L.A.-area DJs when Sonny and Cher's agent, who lived in the town, arranged to have them ride on our Rose Parade float one year when they had been at the top of the charts, but our wise city council voted against it because they were "hippies" and invited country-western singer Buck Owens instead.)

[Bonhomme Richard]

18. Streets of Philadelphia..........

BRUUUCE!

[terrya]

21. "My Kind of Town". I'll guess I'll go with the Sinatra version.

Why not?

[EstimatedProphet]

22. The Missouri Waltz

It's either that or the Mizzou fight song...

[Beware the Beast Man]

23. Living in America

Makes mention of Pittsburgh, PA.

[OnionPatch]

24. California Sunset

From Neil Young's Old Ways album.
I live in CA now but my favorite song from where I grew up is the Ohio song from CSN&Y.

[cmf]

25. I only know of one that even mentions my hometown

"Up On Cripple Creek" by The Band

When I get off of this mountain
You know where I want to go
Straight down the Mississippi river
To the Gulf of Mexico

To Lake Charles, Louisiana
Little Bessie, girl that I once knew
And she told me just to come on by
If there's anything she could do

Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one

...

[HEyHEY]

26. The bridge came tumbling down

An 19 men were drowned, and he saw the fright of the darkest night in old Vancouver town

[Catfight]

27. "I went back to Ohio, and my city was gone," Chrissy Hines.

[russian33]

28. Back in USSR...

..well, OK, technically there's no more USSR, and I haven't lived there since 1991...so I guess I'll go with 'New York, New York', Sinatra version..

[johnnie]

29. Cleveland Rocks

Luckily I am also a huge Ian Hunter fan...so that helped.

[Chovexani]

31. I hate that song.

Mostly because my ex-boyfriend is from Cleveland, and he had a very annoying habit of pointing out every. Single. Location. that was ever on the Drew Carey Show when I would fly out to see him. He also badmouthed New York on a regular basis.

Dude was a supreme asshole, and unfortunately my brain associates anything related to Cleveland with him.

[johnnie]

33. Sorry...

I didn't mean to bring up bad memories. I hope you don't hate me because of him. :hi:

[Chovexani]

30. I hate all the New York songs.

Especially New York, New York (wait, don't stone me!). If I never hear that again, it'll be too soon.

[ceile]

32. "Texas" Chris Rea

On the latest Mavericks album there's a beautiful song about a hotel,the San Jose, here in Austin. But I suppose that doesn't count.

[5thGenDemocrat]

34. Saginaw, Michigan

Lefty Frizzell's old classic. It isn't the greatest song ever but, as we're a town of just under 60,000, we're probably lucky to get any play at all.
Plus there's the old Simon and Garfunkel chestnut, "America," wherein it takes the protagonist four days to hitchhike from here.
John
Actually, Saginaw has produced a few noteworthy musicians and songwriters. Stevie Wonder was born here, Question Mark and the Mysterians grew up here (Polly, the sensible half of the human race here, went to high school with Rudy Rodriguez (aka Question Mark), and the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt was a Saginawian as well.
Add to that list songwriter Danny Russo ("After the Ball," "All of Me") and '30s bandleader Isham Jones, and we've done our share for American musicology.

[Taverner]

35. Estimated Prophet by the Dead

CAAAAALIFORNIAAAAA

[CrownPrinceBandar]

36. "West Virginia" by Big Wreck.

[GumboYaYa]

37. So many to choose from, but today: "There is a house in New Orleans

They call the Risin' Sun.
Been the ruin of a many a poor gal,
And me, oh, God, I'm one!"

[Sequoia]

38. "Got Me Hypnotized" by the old Fleetwood Mac

Mentions NC. Also James Taylor's song about going to Carolina.