# Songs with addresses in them. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561 "2008-01-15T03:08:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/21 "2008-01-15T14:44:06Z")
“Alfredo’s” by **ALL**. The whole song is a tribute to their favorite Mexican restaurant, and includes the line: _1733 Pacific Coast Highway, in Lomita, 90717…534-9924 - give 'em a call!_ My friend Charlie and I did just that, and went and ate there based solely on the information in the song. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/22 "2008-01-15T16:09:38Z")
I’m going to stick to specific addresses, but I’m assuming that squares and smallish parks are specific places. If you get in a taxi, and say, “Take me to \_\_\_\_\_,” she’ll know where it is. NYC’s Central Park is out, because it’s huge. Sonny Landreth sings (approximately) that he don’t believe in Voodoo, but he says a prayer when he hears the drums on Congo Square. (New Orleans) Is Lincoln (Linkin) Park in Chicago too big to be an address? Johnny Cash sang about Folsom Prison. In _My Kind Of Town_, Frank Sinatra sang of the Wrigley Building. Frank Zappa had several songs mentioning El Monte Legion Stadium. Lonnie Mack sang about getting locked up in the Cincinnati Jail. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/23 "2008-01-15T16:18:07Z")
Not specific addresses, but: _Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out_ - Bruce Springsteen And in _You Don’t Mess Around With Jim_ by Jim Croce, Big Jim Walker is “the king of 42nd street.” And in _The Boxer_ by Simon and Garfunkle, the singer finds some comfort from “the whores on 7th Avenue.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/24 "2008-01-15T17:24:43Z")
They say the neon lights are bright on BROADWAY! 42nd Street is the name of a whole musical. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/25 "2008-01-15T18:33:05Z")
There are a lot of places that could match **U2** ’s title _Where The Streets Have No Name_. (Which someone I knew used to claim, non-facetiously, referred to Manhattan, where the streets are numbered, and hence “have no name”. What a numbskull.) ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/26 "2008-01-15T18:45:09Z")
Bobby Russell - _1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero_ “He’s the 1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero And you can see him every weekend with a carful of kids and sno-cones The people 'cross town don’t know his name but on Franklin Pike Circle he’s king The 1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero…” ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/27 "2008-01-15T18:48:37Z")
The song I Buy the Drugs by Electric Six has a PO box number. PO Box 900 Los Angeles, California 90212 ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/28 "2008-01-15T18:51:06Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] For phone numbers, there’s “Pennsylvania 6-5000.” An actual phone number (for the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City) still in use today. [/QUOTE] And **Sir Mix-a-Lot** has a phone number in his song _Baby Got Back_: “Dial 1-900-MIXALOT, and kick them nasty thoughts”. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/29 "2008-01-15T19:01:20Z")
There’s a swingin’ town I know called … Capital City people stop and scream hello in … Capital City It’s the kind of place that makes a bum feel like a king And it makes a king feel likes some nutty, cukoo super-king It’s against the law to frown in…Capital City You’ll caper like a stupid clown when you chance to see… 4th street and D ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/30 "2008-01-15T20:17:56Z")
REO Speedwagon: [157 Riverside Avenue](http://www.allthelyrics.com/song/245535/) ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/31 "2008-01-16T01:05:20Z")
Happytown by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer: \* Here in the shining city Here in the endless summer Here in the cave of wonder Number 92.\* ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/32 "2008-01-16T01:40:38Z")
The Bears - 117 Valley Drive ---
**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:** [January 16, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/33 "2008-01-16T02:04:18Z")
Peter Gabriel told us the **Lamb Lies Down on Broadway**. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/34 "2008-01-16T02:11:56Z")
Somebody already said it, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/35 "2008-01-16T04:00:16Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] There are a lot of places that could match **U2** ’s title _Where The Streets Have No Name_. (Which someone I knew used to claim, non-facetiously, referred to Manhattan, where the streets are numbered, and hence “have no name”. What a numbskull.) [/QUOTE] I don’t know if that’s true or not. However, last time I was in East Saint Louis, Illinois, almost all the street corners had no signs at all. A cat on the other side of the river laughed and said they’d all been stolen. Oh, and let’s not forget the TV theme song, **77 Sunset Strip**. \*\*Winchester Cathedral \*\* is a real place somewhere, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/36 "2008-01-16T04:18:06Z")
Does “our house in the middle of our street” count ? ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/37 "2008-01-16T05:59:43Z")
The Television Personalities would say what Syd Barrett’s address was when they performed “I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives” live. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/38 "2008-01-16T12:30:23Z")
Harry Partch’s “Barstow” contains presumably real addresses transcribed from hitchhiker grafitti: \*Go to 530 East Lemon Avenue in Monrovia for an easy handout. Marie Blackwell. Age 19. Brown eyes, brown hair, considered pretty. 118 East Ventura Street, Las Vegas, Nevada. Object: matrimony. Hoping to get the hell out. Here’s my name: Johnny Reinwald, 915 South Westlake Avenue, Los Angeles.\* ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/39 "2008-01-16T14:25:26Z")
Well, Gerry Rafferty hung out on Baker Street: > [@](#): > > Windin’ your way down on Baker Street > Light in your head and dead on your feet And Simon and Garfunkel hung out on Bleeker Street: > [@](#): > > Fog’s rollin’ in off the East River bank > Like a shroud it covers Bleeker Street ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/40 "2008-01-16T16:01:08Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Well, Gerry Rafferty hung out on Baker Street [/QUOTE] Maybe he saw Jethro Tull there, because thewy have a 16-minute song called “Baker St. Muse” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561.md?page=3)