Favorite City,State or Country Songs.Tell us your Favorites.Freeper Canteen 8~11~23

[Deaf and Discerning]

City: Camden
State: Maine
The Beatles: Let It Be

[Dr. Sivana]

So many! Self-imposed rules: No Searches (except for maps to confirm cities or confirm song origins), No repeats from a quick scan of the thread earlier (So I was unable to get Oklahoma or Wichita), No repeats of states (with a city within a state counting for that state) I came up with 29.

I am sure we could come up with one for each state (not counting state songs or college songs) if we tried.

Del Shannon:
New Orleans (Mardi Gras)(Louisiana)
Coopersvile Yodel (Michigan)
Colorado Rain (Colorado)

Elvis Presley:
Kentucky Rain (Kentucky)
Viva Las Vegas (Nevada)
Blue Hawaii (Hawaii)

Dan Fogelberg:
Please Come to Boston (Massachusets)

Michael Murphy:
Carolina in the Pine (North Carolina)

Partridge Family:
Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque (New Mexico)

Arizona (I forget by whom) (Arizona)

Connie Smith:
Seattle (Washington)

Gladys Knight:
Midnight Train to Georgia (Georgia)

Fats Domino:
Kansas City (Missouri)

Ronnie Howard:
Gary, Indiana (Indiana)

Neil Young:
Ohio (Ohio)

Cheap Trick:
Rockford (Illinois)

Billy Joel:
Allentown (Pennsylvania)

Talahassee Lassie (Florida)

David Bowie:
Alabama Song (Alabama)

Mississippi Queen (Mississippi)

Manhattan Transfer:
The Boy From New York City (New York)

Monkees:
Last Train to Clarksville (Tennessee)

Bruce Springsteen:
Nebraska (Nebraska)

Jane Russell & Mariyn Monroe
A Couple of Girls from Little Rock (Arkansas)

The Charleston [dance] (South Carolina)

Elton John:
From Denver to LA (California)
Texan Love Song (Texas)

Laverne and Shirley cast:
Milwaukee Blue (Wisconsin)

Cast of the Music Man:
Iowa Stubborn (Iowa)

[Songcraft]

Must say goodnight now.   Here's another city song.

      "On The Jericho Road" - The Chuck Wagon Gang

---

(For anyone reading this who knows someone who might be going through a rough stretch in their lives right now for any reason, the writer of this old hymn (William Cowper) also went through some rough stretches in his life -- some time do a quick search about him and his life -- and he ended up writing this beautiful hymn.)

      "There Is a Fountain" - Gaithers

[stig]

Billy Joel
New York State of Mind

Ray Charles
Georgia

Chicago
Another rainy day in New York City

Forget the name of the group
Boston your my home

Mammas and the Papas
California Dreaming

Beach Boys
Cocamo
Does California Girls Count?

Beatles
Back in the USSR

Paul McCartney
London town

Glen Cambell
By the Time I get to Phoenix

Forget the name of the group
Christmas in Albany

Forget the artist
Do you know the way to San Jose?

Tony Bennet
I left my heart in San Francisco

John Denver
West Virginia
I guess he'd rather be in Colorado
Does "Rocky Mountain High" Count? they do sing "in Colorado" in the song

[Fiji Hill]

Detroit City #2--Ben Colder (1963)

I don't want to go home,
I don't want to go home.
Nobody wants to go home.

[Dr. Sivana]

The John Denver song doesn’t count, as the title is “Take Me Home (Country Roads)”. I would have had it on my list otherwise.

I am not sure the Kokomo in the Beach Boys song is a real place.

Dionne Warwick was most noted for “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” (she hated the song)

[Fiji Hill]

Moskva, Pekin (Moscow, Beijing)--The All-Union Radio Orchestra & Chorus (1950)

Moscow, Beijing, Moscow, Beijing
March forward together.
For shining labor,
For lasting peace
Under the flag of freedom.

[Fiji Hill]

I Sang About My Homeland (aka The Stars Over Moscow)--Leonid Kostritsa (1954)

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Friday morning and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country and thanks Fatima for this morning's thread.

My favorite song in this category si of course, our state's official song, Rogers and Hammerstein, Oklahoma:

I have a follow up with the doctor later today and then I will be reunited with Gizmo. So very excited for it.

Yesterday at the lake:

Me enjoying the lake:

How's everyone doing this morning?

[dfwgator]

I listened to Radio Moscow World Service on Shortwave just to hear this:

Moscow Nights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg6CfBtO_uw

[dfwgator]

FYI, there’s a good documentary on Herb Alpert on YT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OveFOGZdm4

[Fiji Hill]

Kokomo is a real place, a town on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

I told Dionne how to get to San Jose on a route that will take her through the towns of Malacatán and San Cristóbal Totonicapán, and even suggested a place to eat (the Jade Occidental restaurant in Malacatán).

[Fiji Hill]

The tune's title, "Podmoskoviye Vechera" means "evenings in the Moscow suburbs." When I was in Moscow in 1972, it was used as the call sign for Radio Moscow's domestic broadcast service.

The call sign for international broadcasts was Shiroka Strana, Moya Rodnaya (vast country, my homeland), a patriotic song introduced in the movie "Circus" (1936), which is about a black child rescued from the segregated American South and brought to the Soviet Union to be raised as a New Soviet Man. The song is still popular, although they probably no longer sing about writing the Stalinist code (stalinskii zakon) in big golden letters.

[Fresh Wind]

Thanks! Never heard that one.

And only in Jersey do they say “down the shore”!

[rwa265]

Meet Me in St. Louis by Judy Garland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqezXDgObWE

[Ciexyz]

Kansas City

[dfwgator]

Yep, here is the scene from the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FkIKzrA3Pw

[ShadowAce]

Meet Me in St. Louis by Judy Garland

Ahh--you beat me to it. Glad I read all the way through the thread before posting.

Just west of St. Louis is a small town where I-70 meets Hwy 40/64:

George Thorogood - Back to Wentzville

It the town Chuck Berry lived in for quite a few years.

[Fiji Hill]

Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis--Billy Murray (1904)

[Fiji Hill]

Jersey Walk--Harry Reser & His Orchestra (1926)