U.S. Place names in pop music

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Mentions LA and NYC

The Beach Boys: "Salt Lake City" (1965)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City_%28song%29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv89vHZwrSI

The Village Stompers - Washington Square


Marina and The Diamonds - Hollywood

"just a little bit south of north Carolina" by the late great anita o'day backed by gene krupa's band.

Just a little bit south of North Carolina
That's where I long to be
In a little brown shack in South Carolina
Someone waits for me
In each letter she says that the weather is fine and the folks are feeling great
That the garden looks grand and the red rose vine is clinging to the gate
Just a little bit south of North Carolina
That's where my thoughts all stray
To the one I love best in South Carolina
I'm going back some day
I can hardly wait to see the face of the one I like
Just a little bit south of North Carolina
I'll find paradise
Just a little bit south of North Carolina
That's where my thoughts all stray
To the one I love best in South Carolina
I'm going back some day
I can hardly wait to see the face of the one I like
Just a little bit south of North Carolina
I'll find paradise

Songwriters: ARTHUR SHAFTEL, BETTYE CANNON, SUNNY SKYLAR
© THE SONGWRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA

Steely Dan - "Daddy Don't Live in that New York City No More" - both New York and Hackensack
Steely Dan - "West of Hollywood"
PiL - "Seattle"
Magazine - "Philadephia"

elton john- Philadelphia freedom

Elvis - "The Kentucky Rain"

Elvis- "Viva Las Vegas"

Wilbert Harris- "Kansas City"

Eagles- "Take It Easy" (mentions Winslow Arizona)

Eagles- "Hotel California"

Randy Newman "Baltimore"

Springsteen- "Atlantic City"

Frank Zappa- "Moving to Montana"

Mambo Sauce - "Welcome to D.C."

Chili Peppers -"Dani California"

Louis Armstrong -"Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?"

Arlo Guthrie - "Coming Into Los Angelos"

Arlo Guthrie -"City Of Orleans" (the name of a train in the song. But the song mentions several cities).

B52'a- "Private Idaho"

Frank Sinatra "It Happened in Monterey"

Dionne Warwick "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"

Rita Abrams +her third grade class - "Mill Valley (That's My Home)" 1970 national hit.

Jeff Beck "Girl From Mill Valley"

Spike Jones, and His Whacky Wakikians: "Hawaiian War Chant"


And.....


Brazil's Gilberto Gil..........."Soy Loco Por Ti America" ( I'm crazy for you America).

From 'Raise Up' by Petey Pablo:

North Carolina, come on and raise up
Take your shirt off, twist it around your head
Spin it like a helicopter
North Carolina, come on and raise up
This one's for you? Uh-uh!
This one's for who? Us, us, us!

Half of me and Carolina niggaz, I'm tired of y'all
Polk, Bladen, Marshall, Hoke, Greene County, Timbaland, damn
Transfer, Sandy Ridge, Browns over here (greens over here)
Pasqoutank, down on the, Odom East (lemme think)
Johnson County, Franklin, Burgaw, Newport, Warren, Shelby, Kenansville
(Man Catawba) Tarboro, Triangle, Goldsboro, Halifax, Statesville
And all my niggaz doin life behind the wall
This right here, right here, right here's for

From 'Show Me What You Got' by Limp Bizkit:

Where you at Jacksonville,
Rochester., Louisville,
Columbia, Hartford,
Milwaukee, and Lewiston Maine?
where you at Providence, Nashville,
Memphis, Lauderdale,
Portland, Orlando, Chicago, and Frisco?
I left my heart in Austin with Mary Campbell.
Got lost in Boston lookin' for the tea party.
Met a child molester in Worchester
Need a Kleenex every time I'm leavin' Phoenix.
I get silly when I play in Philly.
Limp Bizkit committee down in Kansas City.
Never know what I'm in for when I'm play in Denver.
Hard rock don't stop down in Vegas.
In Cincinnati the girls call me daddy
and I probably aint leavin' the next time I'm in Cleveland.
Found my lucky coin in Des Moine
and spit on a boy named Tina in Pasadena.
We get the swing from new Orleans.
Ft Worth and Dallas we toast when we're tippin' up the challis.
Tulsa, St. Louis, Sacto, Mesa, Norfolk, Lawrence, Minneapolis,
St. Paul, North Hampton, Detroit, Omaha, New York, LA,
what can i say, i cant name'm all.
so somebody,
anybody,
everybody
get the f**k up!!

I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE [hank snow, johnny cash et al]

I was totin' my pack along the dusty Winnemucca road
When along came a semi with a high and canvas covered load
If you're going to Winnemucca, mack, with me you can ride
So I climbed into the cab and then I settled down inside
He asked me if I'd seen a road with so much dust and sand
And I said, "Listen, I've traveled every road in this here land"

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Across the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo
Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow
Sarasota, Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa
Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama
Mattawa, La Paloma, Bangor
Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo
Tocopilla, Barranquilla and
Padilla, I'm a killer

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Across the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

I've been to Boston, Charleston, Dayton
Louisiana, Washington, Houston
Kingston, Texarkana, Monterey, Ferriday
Santa Fe, Tallahoosa, Glen Rock
Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa
Tennessee, Hennessey, Chicopee Spirit Lake
Grand Lake, Devil's Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Across the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

I've been to Louisville, Nashville
Knoxville, Ombabika, Shefferville
Jacksonville, Water ville, Costa Rica
Pittsfield, Springfield, Bakersfield
Shreveport, Hackensack, Cadillac
Fond Du Lac, Davenport, Idaho, Jellicoe
Argentina, Diamontina, Pasadena
Catalina, see what I mean'a

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Across the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravellburg
Colorado, Ellensburg, Rexburg Vicksburg
El Dorado, Larrimore, Atmore, Haverstraw
Chattanika, Chaska Nebraska, Alaska
Opelika, Baraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo
Kansas City, Sioux City, Cedar City
Dodge City, what a pity

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Across the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

"American Girl", by Bonnie McKee
"American Idiot", by Green Day
"Made in the USA", by Demi Lovato
"New Americana", by Halsey
"Party in the U.S.A.", by Miley Cyrus
"White America", by Eminem

Surfin' U.S.A., sung by The Beach Boys

entering Marion [john forster]