List of songs about Sydney

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This is a list of songs which mention or are about Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales, Australia, as well as the suburbs of Sydney and nearby locations such as Katoomba, Newcastle and Wollongong.

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[edit] Song listings

The list is ordered alphabetically by suburb and within suburb alphabetically by song title. Where known, the songwriters, performing artists and album or CD on which the track has appeared are listed. Some of the tracks listed appear on the Sony Music 2000 double-compilation CD Somewhere in Sydney - 30 songs from the Harbour City, which was compiled and conceived by Glenn A. Baker.

[edit] Bellevue Hill

  • "Somewhere in Sydney" (Greg Macainsh) Skyhooks

[edit] Beverly Hills

  • "Naomi Campbell" 360

[edit] Blacktown

[edit] Bondi

[edit] Botany

  • "To the Shores of Botany Bay" (Traditional arrangement The Bushwackers) The Bushwackers

[edit] Cabramatta

  • "I Hang Out With The Guys In Jet('s Uncle)" Root!

[edit] Camperdown

  • "Rose of Camperdown" (Fenton/Rumble) Holly

[edit] Centennial Park

  • "Letter to Alan" (Don Walker) Cold Chisel Album Circus Animals

[edit] Chatswood

[edit] Circular Quay

[edit] Coogee

[edit] Darlinghurst

[edit] Drummoyne

[edit] Ermington

  • "This Is Not My Town" (The Model School)

[edit] Erskineville

[edit] Five Dock

[edit] Glebe

[edit] Hornsby

[edit] Kings Cross

[edit] Llandilo

  • "Meth Labs and Daygos" 360

[edit] Lavender Bay

[edit] Leichhardt

  • "Norton Street" *(Raoul Graf/Ed Kuepper) Raoul Graf

[edit] Manly

[edit] Maroubra

[edit] Marrickville

[edit] Newtown

[edit] North Shore

  • "North Shore Girls Get Off" (Dave Beniuk) David Beniuk
  • "Somewhere in Sydney" (Greg Macainsh) Skyhooks

[edit] Paddington

[edit] Palm Beach

[edit] Parramatta

[edit] Randwick

  • "Randwick Bells" (Paul Kelly) Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls

[edit] Redfern

  • "Ivy Street" (Tim O'Reilly) The Mexican Spitfires Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records
  • "The Day John Sattler Broke His Jaw" Perry Keyes The Last Ghost Train Home Album Laughing Outlaw - the song mentions several other Sydney suburbs
  • "The Last Ghost Train Home" (Perry Keyes) Perry Keyes

[edit] Stanmore

[edit] Strathfield

  • "Murder City Nights" (Denis Tek)Radio Birdman
  • "Rookwood" (Stephen McCowage) The Mexican Spitfires Lupe Velez EP Red Eye Records

[edit] Summer Hill

[edit] Surry Hills

  • "Green Ginger Wine" The Rumjacks
  • "Incident on South Dowling" Paul Kelly


[edit] Sydney

[edit] Tamarama

  • "Tamarama Doorslammer" *(C.Sue/A.Wilson) Killers On The Loose

[edit] Tempe

  • "You sound like Louis Burdett" - The Whitlams

[edit] Warilla

  • "Song to Warilla" (Martin Adamson [aka Lee Martin])[3] Geeza, Laser Records as a single from Streetlife (mid-1977)

[edit] White Bay

  • "The White Bay Paper Seller" *(Judy Small) Judy Small

[edit] Woolloomooloo

[edit] See also

  • "I've Been Everywhere" - a popular novelty song which mentions, inter alia, several Sydney suburbs albeit not Sydney itself.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm. Retrieved 2007-09-29. [dead link]
  2. ^ ""Sydney City Ladies" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Sydney%20City%20Ladies. Retrieved 13 January 2012. 
  3. ^ (1977) Album notes for Streetlife – Side One by Geeza [Vinyl label]. Laser Records / RCA Records (VXLI 4046).

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