# Songs where the title is a city name **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427 "2019-03-23T21:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/61 "2019-03-24T04:52:18Z")
[San Luis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BJ7MDOmLPE) by Gregory Alan Isakov who I saw live only a few days ago. Maybe I didn’t think of it because he didn’t perform it. He did however do [Amsterdam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz2qpnRB5_E). ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/62 "2019-03-24T04:57:37Z")
**Olympia** by Hole ---
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> [@blondebear](#): > > Century City – Tom Petty Which is actually not a city, so I guess doesn’t count? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/64 "2019-03-24T05:14:13Z")
[Calcutta](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aWkhuAu8go), a German pop song that was a hit for Lawrence Welk in 1961. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/65 "2019-03-24T05:18:31Z")
[_Abilene_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3RF3nbreBE), a hit for George Hamilton IV in 1963. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/66 "2019-03-24T05:32:32Z")
**Riverside** – Beat Farmers ---
**Author:** ![UCBearcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/77aa72/32.png) [@UCBearcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UCBearcats)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/67 "2019-03-24T05:32:45Z")
Bowling Green by The Everly Brothers Houston by Dean Martin San Diego by Blink-182 Cleveland by Jewel Gainesville by Tom Petty ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/68 "2019-03-24T06:47:11Z")
“Houston” by R.E.M. or Soul Coughing “Compton” by Kendrick Lamar (feat. Dr. Dre) “Pompeii” by Bastille or Sleater-Kinney “Rome” by Phoenix “Budapest” by George Ezra Since dropping subtitles seems okay: “Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)” from _Hamilton_ ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/69 "2019-03-24T11:26:12Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > …Deep Purple: “Woman from Tokyo” > … You mean “Woman from To-Kay-Yo”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/70 "2019-03-24T13:55:42Z")
La Grange, ZZ Top Houston, The Gatlin Brothers Dallas, Alan Jackson ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/71 "2019-03-24T14:50:32Z")
Salt Pork, West Virginia–Louis Jordan ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/72 "2019-03-24T14:52:48Z")
“Mill Valley” by Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point Third Grade Class (one of the cheesiest songs to ever make the Billboard Top 100) “Baltimore,” written in 1927 by Jimmy McHugh, Irving Kahal and Dan Healy, and recorded by Clarence Williams, Fletcher Henderson, and several others. This song is actually about a dance called the Baltimore. Are there any more Baltimore songs? Gus Kahn and Tolchard Evans wrote a song called “Barcelona” in 1926, but I don’t know of any famous recordings of it. Luchenbach, Texas by Waylon, Jennings ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/73 "2019-03-24T15:00:51Z")
> [@UCBearcats](#): > > Kokomo by The Beach Boys That was what I was going to say. It makes the [city in Indiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokomo,_Indiana) sound way more of a tropical paradise than it actually is. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/74 "2019-03-24T16:46:09Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I _did_ read the OP…I merely asked _"Why_ only the city name?" Yeah! And why can’t we post our favorite types of onion? What’s up with that? Dublin, by Thin Lizzy Vidalia mmm ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/75 "2019-03-24T16:47:17Z")
> [@Kimble](#): > > Since dropping subtitles seems okay: > “Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)” from _Hamilton_ If that’s OK, then _Odessa (City on the Black Sea)_ by the Bee Gees could be included. But there is also a song titled simply _Odessa_ by Caribou. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/76 "2019-03-24T16:54:05Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > [Champaign, Illinois](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYzKamaMgEY) written by Carl Perkins and Dylan. My old home town. That’s interesting, because the [Champaign Illinois](https://youtu.be/7C-1dPETefE) by the Old 97s that I listed in the OP is basically a reworking of Dylan’s “Desolation Row” with new lyrics. So Dylan is connected to two completely different songs named Champaign Illinois! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427/77 "2019-03-24T17:07:26Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > “Mill Valley” by Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point Third Grade Class (one of the cheesiest songs to ever make the Billboard Top 100) > > “Baltimore,” written in 1927 by Jimmy McHugh, Irving Kahal and Dan Healy, and recorded by Clarence Williams, Fletcher Henderson, and several others. This song is actually about a dance called the Baltimore. Are there any more Baltimore songs? > > Gus Kahn and Tolchard Evans wrote a song called “Barcelona” in 1926, but I don’t know of any famous recordings of it. > > Luchenbach, Texas by Waylon, Jennings [Baltimore](http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0HmdB7OZnw), Nina Simone [Baltimore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fAz-RNhEuQ), Sonny James (an amusing song) ---
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“Gary Indiana” from _The Music Man_ ---
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“Syracuse”–Pink Martini ---
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Philadelphia by Springsteen Oops, it is actually “Streets of Philadelphia”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-where-the-title-is-a-city-name/831427.md?page=5)