Songs About Cities
Songs About Cities
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#0Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 4:59pm
Let's see how many songs we can name about cities.
I'll start--I live in Dallas, so I'll go with "Big D."
Who wants to go next?
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#1re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:03pm
New York, New York - Kander and Ebb
April in Paris - Harburg and Duke
A Foggy Day in London - Gershwin
Manhattan - Rodgers and Hart
We Open in Venice - Porter
#2re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:05pm"Take Me Back to Manhattan" - Cole Porter
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#3re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:06pmGood Morning BALTIMORE.......
"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man" - Tears for Fears
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#4re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:07pm
GOOD, KMC!
How about:
"New York, New York" - Bernstein, Comden and Green
"Paris Loves Lovers" - Porter
"I Love Paris" - Porter
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#5re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:12pm"Camelot" [I know its Mythical, but what the hay!]
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:14pm
"Paris by Night" from Victor Victoria (have no idea who wrote it)
"Streets of Philadelphia" Bruce Springstein
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#7re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:16pm
Rodney,
I still LOVE your icon! :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#8re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:17pm
Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse wrote the Vic/Victoria songs.
"Kansas City" - Rodgers & Hammerstein
"Dear Old Syracuse" - Rodgers & Hart (that's Syracuse in Greece - not New York)
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#9re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:17pmAre we talking about songs in general, or theater songs? (this is on the off-topic board, so I wasn't sure).
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#10re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:17pm
"NYC" from Annie
"Good Morning Baltimore" from Hairspray
"Only in New York" from Thoroughly Modern Millie
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#12re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:20pm
Do I have to know who wrote them?
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
My Kind of Town, Chicago is...
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#13re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:23pm
Viva Las Vegas
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
#14re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:24pmPoint Me in the Direction of Albequeque
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
Millie42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/04
#15re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:25pmGary, Indiana!
"My friends have made the story of my life."
-Helen Keller
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#16re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:25pmIs there any song from Brooklyn?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#17re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:32pm
Under Paris Skies
Paris, Tu N'as Pas Change
Haydn's "Paris" Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#18re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:36pmBrooklyn in My Blood (is one from Brooklyn although I intentionally blocked it out up until now)
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
#19re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:37pm
"Meet Me in St Louie, Louie"
"Chicago, Chicago"
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#20re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:37pm
#1Elphie,
This is the OFF-topic Board, so ANYTHING GOES. (Hey! What a great title for a show! Now who should I get to play Reno... :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Updated On: 10/25/04 at 05:37 PM
#22re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:40pm
There's also "Santa Fe" in Newsies
As well as "King of New York"
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#24re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:40pm
Thanks, ME!
I'm a big Counting Crows fan, so Omaha, Raining in Baltimore, Goin' Down to New York Town, and Miami are all songs by them about cities. Oh, Chelsea as well. Then there's New York by U2.
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