Famous old songs about your city. (deposit, beach, train)

[LancasterNative]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown was about Chicago?

Oh yeah! It sure was. Cool tune...

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by LancasterNative

Oh yeah! It sure was. Cool tune...

Yeah, great song indeed. I must have missed the opening line in that song many times or just forgot about it.


Here are some more song titles about cities:

"Little Rock" (forget what female country artist sang it)
"Amarillo By Morning" by George Strait
"New York, New York" (Sinatra?)
"New York State of Mind" Billy Joel
"Allentown" Billy Joel

[LancasterNative]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

"Little Rock" (forget what female country artist sang it)

I'm thinking that was Reba, but I could be wrong...

Originally Posted by Steve-o

"Amarillo By Morning" by George Strait

Love it!!! That is such a great song... George rules

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by LancasterNative

I'm thinking that was Reba, but I could be wrong...

Yep, youre correct. Looked it up. Reba it is!

Originally Posted by LancasterNative

Love it!!! That is such a great song... George rules

Yeah, great tune! Weird thing is, Im not a fan of country. lol Its gotta be a real good song to get me to like it, and that song definitely is one of them.

[Jdawg8181]

"Leningrad"...

:::sings::: "Children live in levitttownnnn"

It's the closest to my town that I could find.

[CortlandGirl79]

Bruce Springsteen sings "Youngstown"

Here in northeast Ohio
Back in eighteen-o-three
James and Dan Heaton
Found the ore that was linin' Yellow Creek
They built a blast furnace
Here along the shore
And they made the cannonballs
That helped the Union win the war

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy worked the furnaces
Kept 'em hotter than hell
I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer
A job that'd suit the devil as well
Taconite coke and limestone
Fed my children and make my pay
Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
Sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy come on the Ohio works
When he come home from World War Two
Now the yard's just scrap and rubble
He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do."
These mills they built the tanks and bombs
That won this country's wars
We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam
Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

From the Monongahela valley
To the Mesabi iron range
To the coal mines of Appalachia
The story's always the same
Seven hundred tons of metal a day
Now sir you tell me the world's changed
Once I made you rich enough
Rich enough to forget my name

And Youngstown
And Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

When I die I don't want no part of heaven
I would not do heaven's work well
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell

[Katiana]

"Sweet Home Alabama", not about a city, but a state.

[Futcha]

'New York, New York' by Frank Sinatra! Everybody knows that one!
'Living for the City' by Stevie Wonder

Some Hip Hop songs:
N.Y. State of Mind-Nas (AMAZING lyrics) It's the 4th one down... LISTEN TO IT. Nas - 'Greatest Hits' Item Detail - Underground Hip Hop dot com - Store
New York-Ja Rule feat. Fat Joe & Jadakiss
Streets of New York-Kool G Rap
New York, New York-The Dogg Pound feat. Snoop Dogg
N.Y. State of Mind Pt. 2-Nas feat. 2Pac
Old School-2Pac
New York-The Game
Welcome to New York City-Cam'ron, Juelz Santana, Jay-Z
Bronx-Kurtis Blow
Bronx Tale-Fat Joe
Brooklyn-Mos Def
Brooklyn High-Jay-Z
Brooklyn's Finest-Notorious B.I.G. feat. Jay-Z
Brooklyn Zoo-Ol' Dirty Bastard
Cali to New York-Black Eyed Peas
Christmas in Hollis-Run D.M.C.
Crooklyn-The Crooklyn Dodgers
5 Boroughs-KRS-One with Bounty Killer, Buckshot, Cam'Ron, Keith Murray, Killah Priest, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Redman, Rev. Run, and Vigilante
Gotham City-R. Kelly
I Run New York-50 Cent feat. Tony Yayo
King of New York-Schooly D.
King of N.Y.-Fat Joe
Live from New York-Raekwon
New York-AZ
New York Strait Talk-Gang Starr
Q.U.--Hectic-Mobb Deep
Streets of NY-Terror Squad
The Place Where We Dwell-Gang Starr
Walk in N.Y.-Fabolous
Welcome to Brooklyn-Lil' Kim

Well, that's all I got...

[cottonwood2420]

"Salt Lake City" by The Beach Boys.

Lyrics:

Down in Utah
The guys and I dig a city called Salt Lake
It's got the grooviest kids
That's why we never get tired of Salt Lake
And the way the kids talk so cool
Is an out of sight thing
And the number one radio station
Makes the town really swing yeah
Salt Lake City we'll be coming soon

There's a park near the city, yeah
All the kids dig the Lagoon now
It's full of all kinds of girls
And rides and we'll be flyin' there soon now
And girl for girl
They've got the cutest of the Western states
They got the sun in the summer
And winter time the skiing is great yeah
Salt Lake City we'll be coming soon

Salt Lake City we'll be coming soon

We'll be coming soon
We'll be coming soon
We'll be coming soon

[normie]

Here's the WORST song ever written about a city, recorded in the 1960's by some Patti Page type singer. It sorts sounds like "How Much Is That Doggie in the WIndow:

Oh me-oh
Oh My-oh
In Cleveland, Ohio
We'll all have a WON-derful time.
The sailboats galore
On Lake Erie's shore...
We'll have some fun
We've not had before!