Songs About Cities
#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?
#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
#3re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:06pmGood Morning BALTIMORE.......
#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
#5re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:12pm"Camelot" [I know its Mythical, but what the hay!]
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#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
#7re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:16pm
Rodney,
I still LOVE your icon! :)
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)
#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).
#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
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#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
#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
#15re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:25pmGary, Indiana!
#16re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:25pmIs there any song from Brooklyn?
#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)
#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)
#19re: Songs About Cities
Posted: 10/25/04 at 5:37pm
"Meet Me in St Louie, Louie"
"Chicago, Chicago"
#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... :)
#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"
#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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