# Ohio Songs: help needed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734 "2008-08-20T23:10:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/21 "2008-08-21T01:56:41Z")
_“Sheraton Gibson”_ by Pete Townshend: > [@](#): > > I’m sitting in the Sheraton Gibson playing’ my Gibson > And my mind is a Cleveland afternoon. > Cleveland, you blow my mind. > Cleveland, I wish I were home this time… ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/22 "2008-08-21T02:04:40Z")
“Skinny Little Boy from Cleveland, Ohio” by Alex Bevan(local favorite). ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/23 "2008-08-21T02:08:16Z")
Phil Cody: “Hats Off to the Big Queen City” Harry Chapin: “Mr. Tanner” (not one of his best, but still) ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/24 "2008-08-21T02:58:02Z")
[QUOTE=pseudotriton ruber ruber] Randy Newman’s “Dayton, Ohio” (think that’s right–“would you like to come over for tea…”) and “Burn on, Big River” (think that’s wrong–“Cleveland, city of lights…”) [/QUOTE] “Burn On” and “Dayton, Ohio 1903” are both on the album _Sail Away._ ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/25 "2008-08-21T03:20:32Z")
Come Back to Texas by Bowling For Soup _There’s nothing wrong with Ohio (except the snow and the rain) I really love Drew Carey And I love to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…_ ---
**Author:** ![tilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58956e/32.png) [@tilde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tilde)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/26 "2008-08-21T03:58:23Z")
Boogie Man Smash [Dairy Dream](http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=69311489) **WARNING: ACOUSTIC MUSIC AT LINK ON MYSPACE** ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/27 "2008-08-21T04:11:30Z")
Carry Me, Ohio by Sun Kil Moon. Haunting. ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/28 "2008-08-21T04:25:07Z")
On “Expecting” from the White Stripes’ _White Blood Cells_, Jack White sings about being sent to Toledo. It’s a short song, but the word Toledo gets repeated a few times. I don’t think Jack was happy about being sent there. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/29 "2008-08-21T07:55:38Z")
My Google fu isn’t working tonight, but there was a one hit wonder group from Toledo, that charted in the eighties. I can only remember the song …It went, either “Oh, Bernadine, my heart is on fire!”…pr maybe it was “Oh, Bernadette…” The intrinsic genius and Guitar God behind **Boston** is from Toledo, OH. He lived in the beast part of Toledo, near my old Alma Mater (UT). ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/30 "2008-08-21T08:18:32Z")
I’m sorry, that would be [Tom Scholz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Scholz) ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/31 "2008-08-21T08:39:12Z")
**Yes - Our Song** is about Toledo. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/32 "2008-08-21T10:57:54Z")
If you do put “Sloopy” on your tape, you must - MUST - [perform it properly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QROpJ7K8HP4)\*. Or you won’t be let into the state. \*The girls in the boas in the video, not the singer…yech! ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/33 "2008-08-21T11:26:13Z")
Dylan’s “You’re Gonna Make me Lonesome when you go” mentions Ashtabula. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/34 "2008-08-21T13:05:34Z")
Do they have to _mention_ Ohio? You could do a hometown-hero-makes-good mix, and give it up for Henry Mancini, the two and only Karl King and Henry Fillmore, Michael Stanley Band, The Raspberries, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Tracy Chapman, the Mills Brothers, Boz Scaggs . . . ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/35 "2008-08-21T13:35:00Z")
[QUOTE=Sigmagirl] Do they have to _mention_ Ohio? You could do a hometown-hero-makes-good mix, and give it up for Henry Mancini, the two and only Karl King and Henry Fillmore, Michael Stanley Band, The Raspberries, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Tracy Chapman, the Mills Brothers, Boz Scaggs . . . [/QUOTE] There are no set rules, but I figured the Ohio theme would be reserved for Ohio references not Ohio natives… ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/36 "2008-08-21T13:55:40Z")
Anything by the Numbers Band. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/37 "2008-08-21T17:43:20Z")
[South of Cincinnati](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZlBR7z59fo) - Dwight Yoakam (Mentions Cincinnati and the Ohio River, but it’s not really _about_ them.) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/38 "2008-08-21T18:07:01Z")
How about the traditional folk song [Hey ho the boatmen row, sailing down the river the Ohio](http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=6970)? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/39 "2008-08-21T18:30:56Z")
??? We’ve gotten this far in the thread without any mention of the Michael Stanley Band? [Lover (You Tube link)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m6wRBNLJnM) [My Town (also You Tube)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl-zQhr0V6g) Their most famous song, played on MTV’s early days.[He Can’t Love You (You Tube)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G50CZ5lw2CQ) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-songs-help-needed/460734/40 "2008-08-21T18:42:30Z")
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