Songs where the title is a city name

San Luis 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.

Olympia by Hole

Which is actually not a city, so I guess doesn’t count?

Calcutta, a German pop song that was a hit for Lawrence Welk in 1961.

Abilene, a hit for George Hamilton IV in 1963.

Riverside – Beat Farmers

Bowling Green by The Everly Brothers
Houston by Dean Martin
San Diego by Blink-182
Cleveland by Jewel
Gainesville by Tom Petty

“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

You mean “Woman from To-Kay-Yo”? :wink:

La Grange, ZZ Top

Houston, The Gatlin Brothers

Dallas, Alan Jackson

Salt Pork, West Virginia–Louis Jordan

“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

That was what I was going to say. It makes the city in Indiana sound way more of a tropical paradise than it actually is.

Yeah! And why can’t we post our favorite types of onion? What’s up with that?

Dublin, by Thin Lizzy
Vidalia
mmm

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.

That’s interesting, because the Champaign Illinois 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!

Baltimore, Nina Simone

Baltimore, Sonny James (an amusing song)

“Gary Indiana” from The Music Man

“Syracuse”–Pink Martini

Philadelphia by Springsteen

Oops, it is actually “Streets of Philadelphia”.