Posted on 08/10/2023 4:44:16 PM PDT by fatima
Georgia On My Mind--Mildred Bailey (1931)
Havana by Camila Cabello
XTC - Living Through Another Cuba
Glen Campbell - Whitchita Lineman
Led Zeppelin - Going to California
Jim Croce - Don’t Mess Around With Jim (Chicago)
Billy Joel - New York State of Mind
Grand Funk Railroad - We’re An American Band
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Mama’s and Papa’s - California Dreaming
Beach Boys - California Girls
Johnny Rivers - Hello Operator (Memphis)
Jim Croce - Operator (Los Angeles)
John Denver - Rocky Mountain High; Country Roads
I don’t remember- Nashville Cats
Frank Sinatra - New York , New York
Tina Tuner - Nutbush City Limits
Nashville Cats was The Lovin’ Spoonful.
thank you Fatima for all of your great ideas (and hard work) on these fantastic threads
That’s so cool! I’m so glad you got to do that!
My great-grandfather was an engineer for the Nashvile, Chattanooga & St. Louis during the Great Depression and WWII. So many family stories about his time doing that.
During the Depression, everyone in our extended family would save up their pennies and the funny papers sections of their newspapers all year and at Christmas my great-grandfather would toss bundles of fruit and candy wrapped in funny papers to the desperately poor children of Appalachia. It was pretty much all those kids got for Christmas. He had a white beard and the kids thought he was Santa Claus. My mother got to ride in the engine with him and help toss out the goodies as a child.
Now Nashville Steam is in the process of restoring his old engine 576 and I hope I can realize my dream of riding on his train.
I’ve been Everywhere, man
Johnny Cash
“Heard it in a Love Song” by Marshall Tucker Band
“The Devil Went Down to Georgia” Charlie Daniels.
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