# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/41 "2008-01-16T16:33:17Z")
And there’s always “MacArthur Park.” :: shudder :: ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/42 "2008-01-16T19:51:11Z")
Probably someone mentioned it, but I didn’t see it; Primrose Lane. The other was a theme song, but it was released as a single also. It was a modest hit - hardly on the level of 77 Sunset Strip which two have mentioned already. **Surf Side 6.** ---
**Author:** ![Cool\_Cheez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Cool\_Cheez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cool_Cheez)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/43 "2008-01-17T02:53:39Z")
There is The Clash with 1977 IN 1977 KNIVES IN WEST 11 AIN’T SO LUCKY TO BE RICH STEN GUNS IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/44 "2008-01-17T07:01:10Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] And **Sir Mix-a-Lot** has a phone number in his song _Baby Got Back_: “Dial 1-900-MIXALOT, and kick them nasty thoughts”. [/QUOTE] And mentions a number of addresses (well, streets and cross streets) in _My Posse’s on Broadway_ ---
**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:** [January 17, 2008, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/45 "2008-01-17T09:18:07Z")
_I’ll be standing on the corner of 12th Street and Vine, I’ll be standing on the corner of 12th Street and Vine, With my Kansas City baby and a bottle of Kansas City wine._ I visited Kansas City once and went to see 12th and Vine. The intersection no longer exists - it was done in by redevelopment. All that’s left is a street sign in the middle of a lawn showing where the intersection used to be. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/46 "2014-03-22T05:36:11Z")
Eric Clapton—_461 Ocean Boulevard_ Sleater-Kinney ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/47 "2014-03-22T05:49:22Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > 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 Tony Bennett! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/48 "2014-03-22T06:57:30Z")
_Ice Ice Baby_ by Vanilla Ice mentions “A1A Beachfront Ave.” “Big Man on Mulberry Street” by Billy Joel? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/49 "2014-03-22T07:32:22Z")
Fronm “I’m Waiting for My Man” by The Velvet Underground _I’m waiting for my man Twenty-six dollars in my hand Up to Lexington, 125 Feeling sick and dirty, more dead than alive_ ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/50 "2014-03-22T07:33:16Z")
Billy Joel - 52nd St. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/51 "2014-03-22T09:18:20Z")
[“The Boy Next Door”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUB4XcQYq9A) from “Meet Me in St. Louis.” ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/52 "2014-03-22T10:54:58Z")
Obscure but fun. Send you postcards to [2054 Santa Marta](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUm1s93WS8), Venice. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/53 "2014-03-22T15:46:20Z")
LBJ from Hair: LBJ took the IRT Down to 4th Street USA When he got there What did he see? The youth of America on LSD LBJ IRT USA LSD LSD LBJ FBI CIA FBI CIA LSD LBJ ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/54 "2014-03-22T16:57:41Z")
Sisotowbell Lane, Joni Mitchell Love Street, The Doors ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/55 "2014-03-22T17:38:25Z")
I have no idea what the number is, but across the alley from the Alamo lived a pinto pony and a Navajo. I hear you could get some decent frijoles until that train came by. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/56 "2014-03-22T17:47:24Z")
Meet me in the morning, 56th and Wabasha. —Dylan ---
**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:** [March 22, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/57 "2014-03-22T18:11:26Z")
In Ian Anderson’s _Thick as a Brick 2_, the various possible paths the hero’s life could have taken end up at similarly named addresses: \*I seek forgiveness, I beg you pardons At number 9 Mulberry Gardens. …Deaf to dark un-heavenly host At 25 Mulberry Close. …Last man standing, bowed but alive At 33 Mulberry Drive. …Numb the senses and numb the brain At 54 Mulberry Lane. …Treasured moments, past and present, At 17 Mulberry Crescent.\* ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/58 "2014-03-22T20:24:29Z")
Jim Croce was living at the [Sunday Mission, Box #10.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn3gq-MRAIs) ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/59 "2014-03-22T22:01:34Z")
Are you gonna cruise a Miracle Mile? –It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me by Billy Joel ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561/60 "2014-03-22T23:50:25Z")
_442 GlenWood Avenue_ by the Pixies Three [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLv5GjswpOo&feature=kp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLv5GjswpOo&feature=kp) And then for the phone number we have\* Beechwood 4-5789\* by The Marvelettes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us18AUBM2RI&feature=kp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us18AUBM2RI&feature=kp) Damn I’m old ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-addresses-in-them/433561.md?page=4)