And there’s always “MacArthur Park.”
:: shudder ::
And there’s always “MacArthur Park.”
:: shudder ::
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.
There is The Clash with 1977
IN 1977
KNIVES IN WEST 11
AIN’T SO LUCKY TO BE RICH
STEN GUNS IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE
And mentions a number of addresses (well, streets and cross streets) in My Posse’s on Broadway
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.
Eric Clapton—461 Ocean Boulevard
Sleater-Kinney
Tony Bennett!
Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice mentions “A1A Beachfront Ave.”
“Big Man on Mulberry Street” by Billy Joel?
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
Billy Joel - 52nd St.
“The Boy Next Door” from “Meet Me in St. Louis.”
Obscure but fun. Send you postcards to 2054 Santa Marta, Venice.
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
Sisotowbell Lane, Joni Mitchell
Love Street, The Doors
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.
Meet me in the morning, 56th and Wabasha.
—Dylan
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.*
Jim Croce was living at the Sunday Mission, Box #10.
Are you gonna cruise a Miracle Mile?
–It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me by Billy Joel
442 GlenWood Avenue by the Pixies Three
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
Damn I’m old ![]()