See thread title. Object is to identify (preferably real) street and related thoroughfares that provide the title for songs, movies, fictional works, etc. Examples follow:
“On Broadway,” (NYC), song, IIRC the Drifters
'Forty-Second Street," (NYC), musical
“Sunset Boulevard,” (LA), movie
“Ventura Highway,” (LA), song, the Eagles
(U.S.) “Route 66”, (Multiple states), song and '60s-era TV show
It would be fun an interesting if we can get as wide a geographical sprfead as possible.
42nd Street (NYC) – song from the movie & musical of the same name.
Broadway (NYC) – too many songs and movie to mention, including Broadway Melody and On Broadway.
Abbey Road (London) – Album title.
Penny Lane (Liverpool)
Toulouse St. - Doobie Brothers
Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
Seven Bridges Road - Eagles
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
88 Elmira Street - Danny Gatton (album)
Shakedown Street - Grateful Dead
Grey Street - Dave Matthews Band
Overture - Cotton Avenue - Joni Mitchell
Ammonia Avenue - Alan Parsons Project (album)
Williams Avenue - Quarterflash
157 Riverside Avenue - REO Speedwagon
Main Street - Bob Seger
Gasoline Alley - Rod Stewart
Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting
555 Lake - Derek Trucks Band
Bledsoe Avenue - Steve Vai
Feedback On Highway 101 - Johnny Winter
Inca Roads - Frank Zappa
Oh, and Ventura Highway is by America, not the Eagles.
Does This Bust Stop At 82nd St.? - Bruce Springsteen
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out - Bruce Springsteen (on preview, a little late…)
53rd & 3rd - Ramones
Highway 101 - Social Distortion
Highway 666 figured in a few movies and urban legends before the highway department gave up and changed it to 491 (much to the confusion of my father, who, during a vacation, couldn’t figure out where we were till I explained it to him. )
Ragged Ass Road: The album and the song by Tom Cochrane. It’s a real road, in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. Beale Street Blues, by many artists, including Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, and Tommy Dorsey.