Musical Bands with Geographic Reference

In My Humble Opinion
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How many musical bands can you think of that have places or some aspect of geography in their names? Likewise, how many songs can you think of that have place names or some geographic reference in their titles?

My short list of musical groups with some geographic reference:

Kansas
Alabama
Chicago
Boston
Hanoi Rocks
L. A. Guns
U. K. Subs
Berlin
Oak Ridge Boys

Likewise, my short list of place names in song titles:

Cleveland Rocks - Ian Hunter
New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
(I Left My Heart in) San Francisco - Tony Bennett
Do You Know The Way To San Jose - ??
I Love L. A. - Randy Newman
Born in the U.S.A - Bruce Springsteen
Oh, Atlanta - Bad Company
Angel from Montgomery - originally sung by John Prine(?), more recent by Susan Tedeschi

I know there are many others; bonus points if you can name the performer as well. So, Dopers, care to add to the lists?

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Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

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Oh, and the Delaware Destroyers (Thorogood’s band)

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Saigon Kick (oh, wait. I forgot you said “musical”.)
Hinterland (Does that count?)
Styx (Does that count?)
The Polecats (North Pole, South Pole?) (Sure a polecat is another name for a skunk, but…)
Big Country (?)

“Atlanta” was done by Little Feat
“Angel from Montgomery” was written by Prine, occasionally performed by Prine, but was made more famous, if you will, by Bonnie Raitt

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I don’t know if this counts as “geographical”

but Rammstein is named after the Ramstein airforce base in Germany.

[Edited by slythe on 01-12-2001 at 09:52 PM]

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Bands/singers:

Nazareth
America
Asia
Europe
The Georgia Sattelites
Tennessee Ernie Ford

Songs: WAY too many to list. Here are a few with states in their titles:

Oklahoma!
New York State of Mind (Billy Joel)
Jersey Girl (Springsteen)
Mary Queen of Arkansas (Springsteen)
Nebraska (Springsteen)
Private Idaho (B-52s)
Mississippi Queen (Mountain?)
Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
California Dreamin’ (Mamas and Papas)
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Alabama Song (The Doors)
Ohio (Crosby/Stills/Nash/Young)
The Yellow Rose of Texas

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Bands:
America
Black Oak Arkansas

Songs:
Tennessee Stud
East St. Louis Toodaloo
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodaloo
California Girls
On Broadway
Back in the U.S.A.
Back in the U.S.S.R.
(Sheeez, this can go on forever!)

Albums:
Just Another Band from L.A.
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.

jessi – um, er, I mean jarbabyj – just write to the nice board mod & ask to have that post deleted.

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Bay City Rollers.

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Nice going, Malden, you beat me to the America punch.

Just remembered – there used to be an excellent jazz-fusion band from Japan called Hiroshima.

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**U.K.

Asia.**

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Bands:
Eddie From Ohio.

Songs:
Blue Skies over Dundalk
Oh Virginia
Old Dominion
No Left Turns in Jersey

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Whitney Huston.

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It’s really obvious now that Falc lives in the DC Metro area. :slight_smile:

EFO rocks

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Dionne Warwick (I think).

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The group Dru’ Hill is a reference to a park here in Baltimore called Druid Hill Park.

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Chilliwack. My friend who used to live there got really annoyed by the constant chanting of “She’s been gone gone gone she’s been gone so long…” everytime he mentioned the town.

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Then there was the MC5 – meaning Motor City (i.e., Detroit) 5.

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“Meet Me in St. Louis”
“St. Louis Blues”
“Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans”
“Carry Me Back to Old Virginny”
“Sidewalks of New York”

You know, this geographical music thing may have been more common in the old days.

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Groups:

Gun Hill Road (one hit wonders – “Back When My Hair Was Short”)
Songs:
Lullabye of Broadway
Hooray for Hollywood
We Open in Venice
London Bridge is Falling Down
Ventura Highway
Statesboro Blues
Katmandu
Woodstock
The Rain in Spain

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AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! I love you!!! No one else has ever heard of them!!! :slight_smile: