Brigadoon?
Eddie Grant:
Another band (don’t remember the name):
“Weird Al” Yankovic:
Octopus’ Garden
Can you show me how to get to Sesame Street?
Bali-hi from the song of the same name in South Pacific. Yes, I know there is an island group called Bali, but according to James Michner, he made a point of changing the name of the beautiful island group to remind people of the Indonesian islands yet create something completely different. He said he based Bali-hi on Palau in the Western Pacific.
And wasn’t there a song about Shangrila in the terrible musical version of Lost Horizon in the late '70s?
“Terrapin Station” by the Grateful Dead is set in the mythical land of Terrapin. The version that the Dead did includes only part of a much longer set of lyrics written by Robert Hunter.
Phish has several songs set in a fictional place called Gamehendge.
“Big Rock Candy Mountain”
“Moon River”
Simon and Garfunkel did do a version of “Pretty Peggy-O” on their first album, as did Bob Dylan on his debut LP. The two versions are very different. S & G’s is very sweet sounding, and seems to place Fennario in the Old World of lords and ladies and so on. Dylan’s version, on the other hand, is quite rough and rowdy, more evocative of the American Wild West. The Dylan version also refers to two actual places in the United States, Louisiana (the captain dies and is buried there) and Texas (the lieutenant is “ridin’ in the rodeo” there).
Dylan also begins his version with a spoken line about how “I’ve been all around this land but I ain’t yet found Fennario!” or something like that (It’s been a while since I listened to it).
Yes The Battle of Evermore mentioned Ringwraiths: The Ringwraiths ride in black was the line. Zep also had another song, Ramble On, that mentions . . . a girl so fair. But Gollum and the evil Wargs crept up and slipped away with her.
I see that Puff, The Magic dragon has already been mentioned. I presume the Doobie Brothers’ China Grove is about a real place, but I don’t know.
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According to this site there was.
Of course, being the Renaissance Festival geek that I am, I thought it was about Scarborough Faire in Texas.