City names in song titles

Factual Questions
1

A friend and I were sitting around tonight trying to think of all the different song titles we could think of that mentioned the names of cities or towns in them.

We came up with: Galveston, Abilene, El Paso, El Paso City, New York New York, From New York to L.A., San Francisco, Do you know the way to San Jose, Going to San Antonio, L.A. Woman, The Night Chicago Died, Chicago Is My Kind of Town, Amarillo By Morning, Detroit City, Saginaw Michigan, Streets of Laredo, Laredo, Streets of Bakersfield, By The Time I Get to Phoenix, Seattle (old Perry Como song), Kansas City (Loving), Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City (Oklahoma), Do You know what it means to miss New Orleans (old big band song), Maybe it was Memphis, Memphis Tennessee (Chuck Berry), Meet Me In St. Louis, Viva Las Vegas, Houston, Please Come to Boston, The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe, Vancouver Town (Rolf Harris).

Can you come up with some more? We’re stumped now.

Thanks.

2

Believe it or not, there is a song called “I’ve got a cousin in Milwaukee” (IIRC), from the 30s or 40s… never much of a hit, I suspect.

“Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo.” (Damn Yankees)

“I Lost My Heart in San Francisco”

“I love Paris (in the springtime)”

… and Moderator gonna move this to IMHO, I suspect.

3

Gary, Indiana
Shuffle Off to Buffalo
Hooray for Hollywood
Shanghai Lil
A Foggy Day in London Town
I Love Paris
Philadelphia Freedom
Midnight in Moscow
The Boy from New York City
The Eggplant that Ate Chicago
I Left My Heart in San Francisco (can’t believe you didn’t think of that)
San Francisco (Be sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
We Put the Spring in Springfield
Hot 'Lanta

If you go to the Allmusic Guide, you can find hundreds of songs named for cities.

4

Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?
I hear Little Rock Calling
(Livin’ on) Tulsa Time
Wichita Lineman
Last Train to Clarksville

5

Buenos Aires (Evita); Goodbye Seattle (recorded by Pual Raven a/k/a Gary Glitter); I Love New York, and So Much to Do in New York (both from Song & Dance), and Poor Jerusalem (Jesus Christ Superstar).

6

Springfield, Springfield (It’s a Helluva Town) from The Simpsons
Detroit Rock City
Sweet Home Chicago
I Love L.A.
The Girl From Ipanema
Little Old Lady From Pasadena
I Miss the Flies in Peoria (an obscure record from the 40’s that my grandmother (R.I.P.) used to love)
Ludenbach,(sp?)Texas
Scarborough Fair
London Calling
O Little Town of Bethlehem

7

The Boston Rag
Tall trees of Georgia
Georgia on my Mind
Midnight train to Georgia
Barrytown (real place?)
Allentown

8

Ladie’s night in Buffalo - DLR, and I’m sure someone else.
Cabo Wabo - VH
The Streets of Laredo - No Idea(sang it in the 3rd grade)

9

Abeline Rose
April in Paris
Austin Prison
Charleston
Going to Memphis
The Guns of Brixton
I Happen to Like New York
It Happened in Monterey
Jackson
Kingston Market
Knoxville Girl
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Leaving Las Vegas
Lodi
Memphis in June
New Orleans
New York State of Mind
Nutbush City Limits
On an Evening in Roma
Orleans Parish Prison
Philadelphia
Planet of New Orleans
Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day
Salt Pork, West Virginia
Say Goodbye to Hollywood
St. Louis Blues
The Streets of Philadelphia
Sunshine on Leith
There’s a Boat that’s Leaving Soon for New York
Towers of London
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)
Walking to New Orleans
Waterloo
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
(Why Did I Tell You I Was Going to) Shanghai

10

Can’t think of any. Sorry.

11

“Cleveland Rocks!” by Ian Hunter (adopted as the Drew Carey Show theme.)

“Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio” from John Denver in Concert, circa 1975 or so.

“City of New Orleans” by Steve Goodman (ok, so it was actually a song about a train named after a city, but still).

12

One Night in Bangkok
My Woman from Tokyo (was that the title or just the chorus?)
The Vatican Rag (Tom Lehrer)
Veracruz (Warren Zevon)

–sublight.

13

Don’t forget “Oh, Atlanta” by Little Feat!

14

Also, there’s “Birmingham Jail” by a ton of country and folk singers.

“Nashville Skyline Rag” and “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again.” by Bob Dylan

15

Arrivaderci Roma

16

Eyes Of A New York Woman
B.J. Thomas

17

This is a great thread for me to come across. My Irish friend is becoming a US citizen & I’m throwing him a party complete with all American City/State songs. Much thanks!! - JC

By the way, you forgot

“We Don’t Smoke Majijuana in Muskogee”, by Merle Haggerd

18

Hmmm…

“Benson, Arizona” (the only reason I remember this one is that it was played in the final moments of the campy sci-fi film “Dark Star”.)

“The Road to Mandalay” (Is Mandalay a city?)

That’s all I can add…

19

There’s one about a squirrel in a small town in Mississippi…uh, Pascagoula, I think its called.

Terrible that I can’t remember exactly since I lived there for over a year.

20

“My favorite town Osaka” Shonen Knife.

“Panic in Detroit” David Bowie.

“I belong to Glasgow” trad.