Favorite Songs with Locations in Them.Tell Us your Favorites.Freeper Canteen 4~10~2020

[Kenny Bania]

Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris - Streets Of Baltimore

[Fiji Hill]

This contains a verse that would be considered highly politically incorrect today.

Home on the Range--Vernon Dalhart (1927)

[wolfman]

The Beach Boys - Kokomo

[dfwgator]

Mademoiselle From Armentières (Parlez Vous ?)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[Fiji Hill]

Golden Gate--Herb Wiedoeft & His Orchestra (1928)

[dfwgator]

Song For Bilbao - Pat Metheny Group (RIP Lyle)

[Mark17]

I remember that from "The World at War"

I am not positive, but I would guess, that is where I saw it too. 😁

[Wissa]

(We’re Not) The Jet Set — George Jones and Tammy Wynette

[RegulatorCountry]

The B52’s - “53 Miles West Of Venus”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3CKmZUd6Epo

[Fiji Hill]

Baltimore--Fred Rich & His Hotel Astor Orchestra (1928)

[dfwgator]

Here it is.

https://youtu.be/zKSOLR-LUe0?t=1269

[Fiji Hill]

This song takes place in a place the singer calls "the Windy City." It's probably one of the following: Galesburg, Ill., Breezewood, Pa., Zephyr, Texas, Blowing Rock, NC or Hurricane, Utah.

Dead End Street--Lou Rawls (1967)

[Songcraft]

"T For Texas" - Lynyrd Skynyrd

[Mark17]

Yep, that be the one. 👍😁

[mountainlion]

Battle of New Orleans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_iRIcxsz0

[saminfl]

Thanks Fatima

[xp38]

The original is Australian and when Hank Snow was introduced to it he had to rewrite it with places in the Americas but the original has absolute tongue twisting names of Australian towns. Here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20oqyMVbss0

[Kathy in Alaska]

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[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

That’s a good one too. Actually I heard this one before the original, but now I am slightly more inclined to the original. I grew up near East St. Louis before it went completely to hell in a handbasket, and I have always been intrigued by its gritty and rough-and-tumble history. Ellington’s version sounds to me like ESL must have been in 1927.