Musical Bands with Geographic Reference

The E-Street band

Georgia on my Mind
Midnight Train to Georgia
Devil Went down to Georgia
(I seem to be Georgia fixated)
YYZ (Toronto airport)
(Ain’t no) Surfin’ Cleveland, USA
Criquee Alley

That’s all right now,
Scott

Woohoo–I get to be the first one to mention the band 54 40. (Look it up if you don’t know.)

Oh, Canada :wink:

“Blame Canada” from the South Park Soundtrack is probably better known!

Bands:

New York Dolls
Idaho
Japancakes
Texas
Shit, for songs you can list about 25 just from Tom Waits

More Bands:

Nashville Pussy
Air Miami

Add to the list of bands:

DC Talk
Long Beach Dub All-Stars

Bands:
Sawyer Brown (named after a street corner)
Pirates of the Mississippi

Songs:
Midnight in Montgomery (Alan Jackson)
Meet Me in Montana
Louisian Woman, Mississippi Man
Start Over George (Collin Raye)
Okie From Muskogee (Merle Haggard)
Kern River (Merle Haggard)
All The Gold in California
Houston
By The Time I Get to Phoenix
Amarillo by Morning (George Strait)
All My Exes Live in Texas (George Strait)
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
If You’re Gonna Play in Texas (Alabama)

Well, those of us in the Beaver State may be familiar with
** Oregon ** the world jazz band of the 70s and 80s

As far as songs go, this old ex-DJ is tempted to grab his copy of Joel Witburn’s book of top 40 hits and skim through the index, but to be fair, let’s do it from fallible memory only

** Memphis ** Chuck Berry
** Walkin’ to New Orleans ** Fats Domino
** The Battle of New Orleans ** Johnny Horton (?)
** North to Alaska** Johnny Horton
** Tallahassee Lassie** Freddy Cannon
** Pallisades Park ** Freddy Cannon (an amusement park in New Jersey, I believe)
** California Dreamin’ ** Mamas & Papas
** Penney Lane ** The Beatles
** Strawberry Fields ** The Beatles (according to their new Beatles autobiography it was a real place, a school or something like that)
** Galveston ** Glen Campbell
** Seattle ** Perry Como? (“The bluest skies I’ve ever seen were in Seattle,” etc.)
** The Anaheim, Azuza and Cucmunga Sewing Circle, Book Review and Timing Association** Jan & Dean, a B-Side of fond memory
** The Little Old Lady from Pasadena** Jan & Dean
and many, many etceras

thanks for the fun suggestion…