# Where The Streets Do Have Names: Song Titles Which Are Street Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776 "2005-10-25T05:00:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/21 "2005-10-25T09:34:18Z")
[Beasley Street](http://www.cyberspike.com/clarke/beasley.html) - John Cooper Clarke ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/22 "2005-10-25T10:16:58Z")
“Big Man on Mulberry Street” - Billy Joel. ---
**Author:** ![baronsabato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@baronsabato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baronsabato)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/23 "2005-10-25T11:14:47Z")
Grant Avenue from “Flower Drum Song” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/24 "2005-10-25T11:33:42Z")
“Allison Road” - Gin Blossoms “Manhattan Rumble (49th Street Massacre)” - Electric Light Orchestra ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/25 "2005-10-25T12:00:15Z")
“Fascination Street” - The Cure ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/26 "2005-10-25T12:11:33Z")
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen 10th Avenue Freeze Out - Bruce Springsteen 2120 South Michigan Avenue - The Rolling Stones ---
**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:** [October 25, 2005, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/27 "2005-10-25T12:16:01Z")
Sunset Boulevard ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/28 "2005-10-25T12:30:43Z")
Basin Street Blues ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/29 "2005-10-25T12:50:40Z")
Gilbert Street – [Sweet Thursday](http://tinyurl.com/dqvxr) (an unjustly neglected supergroup of the 70s) The Long and Winding Road – The Beatles ---
**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:** [October 25, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/30 "2005-10-25T13:03:34Z")
All these posts and no mention of Sesame Street? And it’s X-rated neighborhood, Avenue Q? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/31 "2005-10-25T13:45:39Z")
**Stanyon Street** by Rod McKuen. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/32 "2005-10-25T13:51:12Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > All these posts and no mention of Sesame Street? And it’s X-rated neighborhood, Avenue Q? Psst … see post #13. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/33 "2005-10-25T13:51:35Z")
South Street by The Orlons Pape And Danforth (a Toronto intersection) by Rush ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/34 "2005-10-25T14:06:08Z")
**Pico and Sepulveda** by Felix Figueroa, a Dr. Demento staple. It’s nothing BUT Los Angeles street names. ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/35 "2005-10-25T14:25:02Z")
_On Grafton Street_, by Nanci Griffith ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/36 "2005-10-25T14:58:32Z")
_Romance Blvd_ by Toe Beat ---
**Author:** ![Tootingkhamen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@Tootingkhamen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tootingkhamen)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/37 "2005-10-25T15:18:46Z")
Telegraph Road - Dire Straits And a couple fom the English Music Hall tradition: Lambeth Walk Knocked 'Em In the Old Kent Road ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/38 "2005-10-25T15:33:09Z")
**Ventura Highway** - America ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/39 "2005-10-25T15:37:03Z")
Since I can’t think of any more songs, I’ll ignore the OP and branch into albums _Abbey Road_ and _461 OCEAN BOULEVARD_ by Eric Clapton ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/40 "2005-10-25T15:58:29Z")
“Utopia Parkway” - Fountains of Wayne “Creeque Alley” - The Mamas and the Papas “Razor Blade Alley” - Madness “Strawberry Road” - Sam Phillips “Denmark Street” - The Kinks “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” - the Munchkins in _The Wizard of Oz_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776.md?page=3)