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name a song?
CanonRay
(16,171 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Mark.b2
(797 posts)by the great George Strait.
Just added it to my Spotify queue!
debm55
(60,568 posts)underpants
(196,490 posts)Good waiting painting a picture
Clean crisp sound
Great voice.
BarbaRosa
(2,730 posts)Marty Robbins
debm55
(60,568 posts)GreenWave
(12,640 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Mark.b2
(797 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,462 posts)Bruce Springsteen.
https://m.
debm55
(60,568 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,462 posts)Im in Philly a lot. Living in Bucks.
2MuchNoise
(767 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)doc03
(39,085 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)msongs
(73,752 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)msongs
(73,752 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)rogerashton
(3,960 posts)to miss New Orleans?
debm55
(60,568 posts)Ritabert
(2,444 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Ritabert
(2,444 posts)YorkRd
(436 posts)Join Me In LAby Warren Zevon with Bonnie Raitt singing background
debm55
(60,568 posts)Ritabert
(2,444 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)tonkatoy8888
(190 posts)James Taylor
St. Louis Blues-WC Handy
LA Woman-The Doors
Georgia On My Mind-Ray Charles
Chicago, My Kind of Town-Van Heusen & Cahn
Symphony #104, London-J. Haydn
Symphony #31, Paris-WA Mozart
Symphony #7, Leningrad-D. Shostakovich
debm55
(60,568 posts)AltairIV
(1,043 posts)Written by Frank Ebb, from the film by Martin Scorsese, and immortalized by Frank Sinatra.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Other background of the song. Thank you very much.
Thunderbeast
(3,818 posts)"Daddy won't you take me back to Muellenburg County....Down by the big I river where PARADISE lay".
"Well I'm sorry my son, but your too late in askin'. Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away".
debm55
(60,568 posts)underpants
(196,490 posts)The story of his path with Kris Kristofferson and Neil Sedaka is amazing.
Thunderbeast
(3,818 posts)Apparently, he abandoned a review of a bad movie, walked into a bar across the street, and discovered John Prine. Instead of a movie review, he heaped praise on the "Singing Mailman" in his regular column. He was a lifetime friend and fan.
underpants
(196,490 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,818 posts)yellowdogintexas
(23,694 posts)There were a number of people who moved down into our county when the town was destroyed.
The world's Largest Shovel is really huge.
greatauntoftriplets
(179,004 posts)Dave Loggins.
debm55
(60,568 posts)MadLinguist
(907 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Liberty Belle
(9,707 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)hlthe2b
(113,947 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)a kennedy
(35,971 posts)Lynyrd Skynyrd.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Chasstev365
(7,788 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)tanyev
(49,284 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Harker
(17,780 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 23, 2025, 09:02 PM - Edit history (1)
I can not hear that song without crying.
Really.
debm55
(60,568 posts)The Wizard
(13,735 posts)Oh Atlanta
debm55
(60,568 posts)The Wizard
(13,735 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Srkdqltr
(9,758 posts)MIButterfly
(2,693 posts)Kansas City (Lieber and Stoller song; not sure who sang it)
debm55
(60,568 posts)JoseBalow
(9,486 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)JoseBalow
(9,486 posts)Tucker08087
(622 posts)By Taylor Swift
debm55
(60,568 posts)AllaN01Bear
(29,485 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)riversedge
(80,804 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Alpeduez21
(2,053 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Rastapopoulos
(746 posts)BeeGees
debm55
(60,568 posts)Midnight Writer
(25,404 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)been to Kent State. as it is not far from my home at the time.
FuzzyRabbit
(2,217 posts)LogDog75
(1,301 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Botany
(77,315 posts)Ashtabula Ohio.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Trueblue Texan
(4,461 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)That song.
Trueblue Texan
(4,461 posts)My brother was in Viet Nam and he had a girlfriend here in the states named Sherry. We all had spent many hours funning on the beaches in Galveston. I was a romantic child and could just see him staring across the ocean remembering the times he and Sherry spent on the beach. I still love the song to this day. And I still love those beaches. No matter how commercial the town of Galveston gets, the beach remain beautiful and never changing.
The Blue Flower
(6,490 posts)nt
debm55
(60,568 posts)KitFox
(566 posts)St. Louis Blues by W. C. Handy. In 1943, Glenn Miller and the Army Air Force Band recorded St. Louis Blues March while serving in World War II. A little over a year later, tragically, his plane disappeared over the English Channel and he was later declared dead. They never found any trace of the plane wreckage. He was only 41 years old.
debm55
(60,568 posts)catbyte
(39,150 posts)oasis
(53,690 posts)the dance routine was out of this world.
debm55
(60,568 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)WestMichRad
(3,252 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Coventina
(29,730 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Coventina
(29,730 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Sneederbunk
(17,488 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Coventina
(29,730 posts)Tanuki
(16,446 posts)Tanuki
(16,446 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)pandr32
(14,270 posts)Stevie Ray Vaughan
debm55
(60,568 posts)PAMod
(944 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Wiz Imp
(9,991 posts)A Pittsburgh man used the tune for the Pittsburgh Steelers Polka in the 1970's
debm55
(60,568 posts)Eugene
(67,101 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Tanuki
(16,446 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Tanuki
(16,446 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Tanuki
(16,446 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Dulcinea
(10,085 posts)You're living in your own private Idaho...IDAHO!
debm55
(60,568 posts)SSJVegeta
(2,848 posts)Or Danny california.
Or the one with Tupac that says "now let me take you back to the wild wild west... city thats untouble like Eliot Ness"
debm55
(60,568 posts)Tanuki
(16,446 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)PufPuf23
(9,852 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)IGoToDU
(208 posts)By one of the greatest unclassifiable musicians/songwriter/singers Susan Werner. [link:susanwerner.com|
debm55
(60,568 posts)RainCaster
(13,702 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(32,133 posts)Mark.b2
(797 posts)by Waylon Jennings.
debm55
(60,568 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(179,004 posts)Well, I'm a-standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me
https://genius.com/Eagles-take-it-easy-lyrics
debm55
(60,568 posts)of the street corners.
Wiz Imp
(9,991 posts)1 Alabama Getaway - Grateful Dead
2 North To Alaska - Johnny Horton
3 Arizona - Mark Lindsay
4 The Arkansas Bazooka Swing - Bob Skyles & His Skyrockets
5 California, Here I Come! - Al Jolson
6 Colorado Sunset - Lawrence Welk
7 Connecticut - Herbie Fields
8 Delaware - Perry Como
9 Florida Rag - Van Eps Trio
10 Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
11 Hawaii Five-O - The Ventures
12 Private Idaho - The B-52's
13 When You Drop Off at Cairo, Illinois - Billy Murray
14 Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor
15 Way Down in Iowa, I'm Going to Hide Away - Irving Kaufman
16 Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison
17 Kentucky Rain - Elvis Presley
18 Louisiana Lou And Three Card Monty John - The Allman Brothers Band
19 Away Down East in Maine - Vincent Lopez
20 There's a Girl in the Heart of Maryland (with a Heart That Belongs to Me) - Harry Macdonough
21 (The Lights Went Out In) Massachusetts - Bee Gees
22 Saginaw, Michigan - Lefty Frizzell
23 Minnesota - Northern Light
24 Mississippi Queen - Mountain
25 Across the Wide Missouri - Hugo Winterhalter
26 If She Should Come To You (La Montana) - Anthony Newley
27 Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
28 Nevada Fighter - Michael Nesmith & The First National Band
29 My Old New Hampshire Home - George J. Gaskin
30 Never Going Back To New Jersey - Less Than Jake
31 Taos, New Mexico - R. Dean Taylor
32 New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife Mr. Jones) - Bee Gees
33 Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina - Gene Krupa
34 North Dakota - Lyle Lovett
35 Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
36 Oklahoma - Billy Gilman
37 Arrah Go On, I'm Going Back to Oregon - Peerless Quartet
38 Pennsylvania 6-5000 - Glenn Miller
39 Poor Little Rhode Island - Guy Lombardo
40 South Carolina - The Outlaws
41 I Got a Gal I Love (In North and South Dakota) - Perry Como
42 Tennessee - Arrested Development
43 The Yellow Rose Of Texas - Mitch Miller
44 The Utah Trail - Ford & Glenn
45 Moonlight in Vermont - Margaret Whiting
46 I'm Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia - Marion Harris
47 Washington Whirligig - Charlie Barnet
48 I Wanna Go Back to West Virginia - Milt Herth Trio
49 On, Wisconsin! - Prince's Orchestra
50 (Oh Why, Oh Why, Did I Ever Leave) Wyoming - Dick Jurgens
debm55
(60,568 posts)MIButterfly
(2,693 posts)I dont think I've seen that one mentioned yet.
debm55
(60,568 posts)underpants
(196,490 posts)I lived in Oregon Hill for a year. Basically (white) Appalachia in the middle of the city. Descendants of Appalachia.
debm55
(60,568 posts)bpj62
(1,067 posts)I checked all the posts before I listed this one by Elton John.
debm55
(60,568 posts)yellowdogintexas
(23,694 posts)Blue Moon of Kentucky
Tennessee Waltz
Rocky Top
Nashville Cats
Back Home Again in Indiana
Chicago (my home town)
Memphis
Battle of New Orleans
Jackson
Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
Carolina in the Morning
Sweet Georgia Brown
Big Daddy's Alabamy Bound
Mississippi Mud
debm55
(60,568 posts)Coventina
(29,730 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Coventina
(29,730 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Coventina
(29,730 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)JoseBalow
(9,486 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,764 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)HowlingWulf
(587 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)chicoescuela
(3,080 posts)Same city I imagine
debm55
(60,568 posts)The Blue Flower
(6,490 posts)by Glen Campbell
debm55
(60,568 posts)MichMan
(17,149 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)MichMan
(17,149 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Dorothy V
(508 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Harker
(17,780 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Harker
(17,780 posts)LogDog75
(1,301 posts)by Marty Robbins
debm55
(60,568 posts)Keepthesoulalive
(2,301 posts)A little Hispanic ditty that was played in the northeast.
debm55
(60,568 posts)CanonRay
(16,171 posts)Glen Cambell
debm55
(60,568 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(14,361 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)soldierant
(9,354 posts)`but don't ask me which 19th century operetta that was in. I just know I hear it from time to time, sometimes with lyrics, sometimes not.
debm55
(60,568 posts)The Wizard
(13,735 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)dflprincess
(29,341 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)NoPasaran
(17,317 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Morbius
(997 posts)Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
Chicago - Graham Nash (aka We Can Change the World)
Here's a favorite, by the only band that mattered:
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row
You can crush us, you can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
The money feels good
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in Heaven as in Hell
You see, he feels like Ivan
Born under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin'
At the end of the harder they come
You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun
You can crush us, you can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
You can crush us, you can bruise us
And even shoot us
But oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
Shot down on the pavement
Waiting in death row
His game was survivin'
As in Heaven as in Hell
You can crush us, you can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
debm55
(60,568 posts)rickyhall
(5,509 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Delarage
(2,597 posts)by Bruce Springsteen
debm55
(60,568 posts)JPPaverage
(638 posts)Ray Charles among others.
debm55
(60,568 posts)JPPaverage
(638 posts)"Folsom Prison Blues"
Johnny Cash. Folsom is a city in Calofornia.
I really need a hobby.
debm55
(60,568 posts)justaprogressive
(6,903 posts)Arlo Guthrie
debm55
(60,568 posts)DBoon
(24,982 posts)That's San Pedro, California, the harbor area of Los Angeles formerly famed for its tuna fisheries.
debm55
(60,568 posts)VTderry
(120 posts)The band also released songs titled
"Leaving New York" and "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)"
debm55
(60,568 posts)AmBlue
(3,460 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)AmBlue
(3,460 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)ballardgirl
(191 posts)The Bluest Skies are in Seattle, performed by Perry Como. Who, you say? Active singer/television star 1932-1997.
debm55
(60,568 posts)Eugene
(67,101 posts)There's also "Native New Yorker" from the disco era.
debm55
(60,568 posts)electric_blue68
(26,856 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)electric_blue68
(26,856 posts)he chants a whole litany of Cities, and States!
You need some energy? This'll do it!
🎤 🎸🎶🎵🎶 Brooooce!🩷😄
debm55
(60,568 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)sakabatou
(46,143 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)yellowdogintexas
(23,694 posts)later covered by Steely Dan.
Both versions are lovely.
Also by Steely Dan: The Boston Rag, The Caves of Altamira, Babylon Sisters,Barrytown
Did anyone name "Detroit City"?
debm55
(60,568 posts)RazorbackExpat
(938 posts)RazorbackExpat
(938 posts)for the first time in almost 60 years
RazorbackExpat
(938 posts)getting ready for school, so many happy memories
RazorbackExpat
(938 posts)brings me to tears
debm55
(60,568 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Emile
(42,281 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)Mz Pip
(28,454 posts)I think it was sung by Johnny Horton. Old song, so I could be wrong.