Obscure places in songs that you have been to.

I’ve been to the place where the phone number is Pennsylvania 6-5000.

I’ve been to Reno, but didn’t shoot anybody.

Sounds good to me! Hey, I’ve been to that dam site, as well. Pretty cool! Made a special trip to get there. I was unaware of the song.

Lucky guy! :wink:

I’m probably a bad person. I kept a small chunk of the dam.

Although not really mentioned in the song American Pie, I’ve been to the corn field where the music died.

I’m going to assume a corner in Winslow Arizona has been mentioned.

How about Transylvania 6-5000

I’m almost positive that at some point as a kid we ate at Mory’s Temple Bar, of Whiffenpoof song fame. I’d say that’s pretty obscure.

I share sympathies with “Tacocat - F.U. #8” having ridden that bus route many times. Tacocat is otherwise also great for other Seattle location name-dropping.

My wife and I have been through Micanopy. Didn’t know there was a song that mentioned it!

Yep. Along with the “Black Mountain Hills of South Dakota” where “there lived a young boy named Rocky Racoooonah.”

And the locusts sang, but that’s a different song. :slight_smile:

Haven’t been to Danville, but have been to Lynchburg, and have been in Rockingham County, VA more times than I can recall.

And “Sweet Baby James.” Been there, and on the turnpike.

Been to both (lived in Bristol VA for five years), and yeah, somebody had their geography totally screwed up.

Topeka yes, Atchison and Santa Fe no.

I’ve been by the River Lea, as in the song by Adele. It’s not obscure now (because someone built a fecking great Olympic park on it) but it was when I went there. Before the Olympics it was a wasteland. As Rich Hall observed, not sure you can canoe in it, but you can probably develop film in it.

And Adele just moved in about a half a dozen miles up the road from us. Hell, we’re more or less neighbours.

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So did I! :smiley:

I’m pretty sure I’ve been to Solsbury Hill, which is near Bath, England.

Only pretty sure, but I’ve been to the hill someone pointed at and said ‘That’s Solsbury hill that is’, so I’m counting it.

I’ve ridden the cloverleaf in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VN54M1OXA “Tulsy Town”

Count me among the crowd of folks on the corner in Winslow, Arizona.

I’ve also stood on the corner of 12th Street and Vine in Kansas City. Well, what used to be the corner of 12th Street and Vine. It’s a park now, but there’s a sign there.

On the more obscure side, There’s a great Cajun band called Filé, who recorded Allons Aller Chez Fred (“Let’s All Go To Fred’s Place”) in 1987. A couple years later, I had the opportunity to visit the place they were singing about: Fred’s Lounge in Mamou, Louisiana. What a fun joint!

“Fire Down Below” by Bob Seger mentions Moline IL, which I’ve been to quite a few times, as I grew up nearby.

I’ve been in Lodi, but I can’t really say I was stuck there.

I’ve been on Route 66, but never got my kicks there.

I’ve been to Banbury (in the UK) of the old nursery rhyme “ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross” - though I did not see the actual cross - so that’s something…I mean, how many of the songs mentioned here involve a “cock horse”?

I did once make a specific effort to go through a particular Texas town. Never saw the shack outside of town, and though I’ve heard it is fine, I don’t think I had the time, but, now, I might be mistaken.

The old George M. Cohan number “So Long, Mary” mentions Schenectady. I live there.

I’ve also been along the dirty water of the River Charles (and of the Thames, from the cover version).