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Which states or cities or places have the best songs written about them ?

gonna start with a top 3:

1. Country Roads (West Virginia)
2. Sweet Home Alabama
3. New York, New York

there seems to be quite a lot about California... but noone ever sings about Delaware

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calicuz · 56-60, M

Seriously, how do you write a song, when this is all you have to work with: 😅

Delaware:

State Beverage: Milk
State Bird: Blue hen chicken
State Bug: Lady bug
State Butterfly: Tiger swallowtail
State Dessert: Peach pie
State Fish: Weakfish
State Flower: Peach blossom
State Fruit: Strawberry
State Herb: Sweet golden rod
State Macroinvertebrate: Stonefly
State Marine Animal: Horseshoe crab
State Motto: Liberty and Independence
State Nickname: Diamond State; First State
State Star: Delaware Diamond
State Tree: American holly
State Wildlife Animal: Grey Fox

novaguy2u · 70-79, M

@calicuz Peach pie, apple of my eye, gonna let a lady bug that stonefly. How's that for starters?

calicuz · 56-60, M

@novaguy2u

Ok, you may be on to something. 😂

SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M

Rocky Mountain High(Colorado)
[media=https://youtu.be/eOB4VdlkzO4]

Going to California
[media=https://youtu.be/bS56mvv9XI8]

Adstar · 56-60, M

The best one has to be.. Sweet home Alabama.. sucha positive upbeat song..

The mamas & the papas Calafornia dreaming is a good one, although the calafornia dream has ended up a woke nightmare..

[media=https://youtu.be/aQ53_yJ7tKw]

Georga from Ray Charles..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggGzE5KfCio

Massacutsis by the Bee Gees

[media=https://youtu.be/k7_gMwufFVo]

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Adstar · 56-60, M

@Really So you're a part of the segregationists / apartheid woke fascists then..

Really · 80-89, M

@Adstar 🥴 😵‍💫 🙄
Nitwit

Really · 80-89, M

@Adstar Nitwit blocked

ElwoodBlues · M

Strawberry Fields (a place just outside of Liverpool)
Penny Lane (a street in Liverpool)

Just a sampling of London songs:
Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon)
Streets of London (Ralph McTell)
London Calling (The Clash)
A Foggy Day In London Town (by the Gershwins)
London Boys (T. Rex)
London (The Smiths)
London's Brilliant Parade (Elvis Costello)
London Town (Paul McCartney & Wings)

Obligatory Grateful Dead contributions

[media=https://youtu.be/IFSnOZy955U]

[media=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0G4hKpHBno&t=7s]

[media=https://youtu.be/om6L59TqXmw]

RedBaron · M

@ElwoodBlues Strawberry Fields is also a memorial to John Lennon in Central Park in Manhattan, near The Dakota, in which Lennon lived.

https://www.centralparknyc.org/locations/strawberry-fields

Ontheroad · M

[media=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUh1DSIsUOY]

And a classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le1QF3uoQNg

Ynotisay · M

There's "Delaware Slide" by George Thorogood who grew up in Delaware. Not one of his hits though.

JPWhoo · 36-40, M

@Ynotisay His group I believe was called George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers.

Ynotisay · M

@JPWhoo You are correct. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and still touring.

eli1601 · 70-79, M

[media=https://youtu.be/vHXjcdNIN-Q]

Zaphod42 · 51-55, M

Has anyone else done a song about Lodi, CA other than CCR “Stuck in Lodi Again”

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@calicuz @Zaphod42 Riverbank here, and my late partner lived in Lodi before moving in with me. And the Fogarty's kids spent a day at my house with my kids back in the day.

calicuz · 56-60, M

@dancingtongue

I don't think I've ever been to Riverbank, but I used to go to Modesto for the Grafitti Summer Cruise, so I may have passed through without knowing it.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@calicuz Easy to do these days. Pretty much one big sprawl with back-to-back city limits signs. But it was a small town of 2,700 in my teens, and we had to bus to Oakdale High School. I was involved in a lot of after school activities so return home in the evening was mostly by thumb.

icedsky · 51-55, M

https://youtu.be/j-IkE5TtO2U?si=ea5-gVHPHiRzutIF
Covers quite a few places

SW-User

Waterloo, London, UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_MqfF0WBsU&pp=ygUZd2F0ZXJsb28gc3Vuc2V0IHRoZSBraW5rcw%3D%3D

cinsac

Lodi [media=https://youtu.be/w0VDnQv-rLA] by CCR

BlueSkyKing · M

[media=https://youtu.be/Kh5lcx0kAMo]

[media=https://youtu.be/0saZiLV7-7E]

[media=https://youtu.be/XpEGxHLJpK4]

SW-User

@BlueSkyKing

Heads and shoulders above the song that calls Chicago "that toddlin' town".

eli1601 · 70-79, M

[media=https://youtu.be/euJ22UqLD5Y]

SW-User

He's credited with co-writing this. Don't believe it for a second.

[media=https://youtu.be/rPH5ZQIpUrw]

Any way, there's only one song about California that grabs me:

[media=https://youtu.be/DR2lvcdKSdU]

PeachyK · 100+, F

What did Delaware boys, what did Delaware?
She wore her New Jersey boys, she wore her new Jersey

Really · 80-89, M

@PeachyK I thought it was like Tupperware but more feminine.

Pfuzylogic · M

Indianapolis and or Indiana
[media=https://youtu.be/v68dkNSKu0s]
It does rain in Indianapolis during the summertime
[media=https://youtu.be/68E9CGTZdeU]
Back to Indiana
[media=https://youtu.be/eG2LI1hb35U]
Indiana wants me 1970

Pretzel · 61-69, M

4) Missouri Waltz
5) New York New York
6) Carolina on my mind
7) California here I come
8) Viva Los Vegas!

SethGreene531 · M

Marty Robbins - El Passo

James Taylor - Carolina

Marc Con - Walking In Memphis

Bee Gees - Massachusetts

HumanEarth · F

The Milwaukee Polka (Very Funny Video About My Home Town)
[media=https://youtu.be/E3jgDUd-c0w]

Nanoose · 61-69, M

Boston for the song Dirty Water by The Standells. Cheers!

Mudkip · 31-35, M

Probably my favorite song with a city/state in the title
[media=https://youtu.be/gVJ_UQJ87lQ]

SW-User

London calling
Guns of Brixton
Sunshine on Leith

RedBaron · M

There’s not much to Delaware to sing about.

eli1601 · 70-79, M

[media=https://youtu.be/nPqvnS_Oxyk]

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SW-User

@eli1601

Not on American Bandstand, that's fer sure!

ElwoodBlues · M

@SW-User [media=https://youtu.be/w8VHLYXaVaU]

SW-User

@ElwoodBlues

Babbitt is way funnier!

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

Is there anything about Wisconsin?

[media=https://youtu.be/4GEzWCx3vGg]

Poppies · 61-69, F

Here is a song about Delaware!

[media=https://youtu.be/NztfOSyCCFM]

BohemianBabe · M

Bielefeld

[media=https://youtu.be/nHAK-udyKfA]

bijouxbroussard · F

These are my favorites…
California Soul
[media=https://youtu.be/p65xs9KpxQA]

San Francisco
[media=https://youtu.be/X1tnpLs1lns]

Massachusetts
[media=https://youtu.be/MX2ZRw8MPyE]