“Sheraton Gibson” by Pete Townshend:
“Skinny Little Boy from Cleveland, Ohio” by Alex Bevan(local favorite).
Phil Cody: “Hats Off to the Big Queen City”
Harry Chapin: “Mr. Tanner” (not one of his best, but still)
“Burn On” and “Dayton, Ohio 1903” are both on the album Sail Away.
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…
Boogie Man Smash Dairy Dream WARNING: ACOUSTIC MUSIC AT LINK ON MYSPACE
Carry Me, Ohio by Sun Kil Moon. Haunting.
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.
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).
I’m sorry, that would be Tom Scholz
Yes - Our Song is about Toledo.
If you do put “Sloopy” on your tape, you must - MUST - perform it properly*. Or you won’t be let into the state.
*The girls in the boas in the video, not the singer…yech!
Dylan’s “You’re Gonna Make me Lonesome when you go” mentions Ashtabula.
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 . . .
There are no set rules, but I figured the Ohio theme would be reserved for Ohio references not Ohio natives…
Anything by the Numbers Band.
South of Cincinnati - Dwight Yoakam
(Mentions Cincinnati and the Ohio River, but it’s not really about them.)
How about the traditional folk song Hey ho the boatmen row, sailing down the river the Ohio?
??? We’ve gotten this far in the thread without any mention of the Michael Stanley Band?
Their most famous song, played on MTV’s early days.He Can’t Love You (You Tube)
(dalej42: See Post 34.)