I’ve heard a couple radio stations have lunch-hour games where listeners call in and request a song whose title fits in with a pre-determined daily “theme.”
So, I’ll throw out a theme, and you have to come up with 1-3 songs whose titles fit with that theme (no posting of long lists-- where’s the fun for everyone with that?).
Once we have 15-20 songs on a theme, somebody feel free to toss out a new theme. You’re always welcome to go back and post a new song for an old theme, just make sure you point out what theme you’re responding to.
Any popular music style is acceptable (rock, alternative, hip-hop, rap, R&B, oldies, country, standards…)
I had to look up the artist on some of these, but these are all off the top of my head:
Georgia on My Mind- Ray Charles My Old Kentucky Home- written by Stephen Foster The Yellow Rose of Texas- traditional* The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia- Vicki Lawrence The Night Chicago Died- Paper Lace Midnight Train to Georgia- Gladys Knight and the Pips New York State of Mind- Billy Joel Theme from “New York, New York”- Frank Sinatra If You’re Going To San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair- Scott Mackenzie Streets of Philadelphia- Bruce Spingsteen. Oklahoma!- written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
[sub]*That’s movie-credit talk for "it isn’t copyrighted and we don’t have to pay for it, so who cares who wrote it?[/sub]
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Chattanooga Choo Choo – Glenn Miller
Nashville Cats – Flatt and Scruggs
Memphis Tennessee – Chuck Berry
Last Train To Clarksville – The Monkees (yeah, theirs may not have been TN)
