Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (song)
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"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" is a popular song written by Bob Merrill in 1952.
Malvina Reynolds's song Little Boxes may have been inspired by "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania". "Little Boxes", recorded in 1952, features a melody nearly identical to Reynolds's 1962 song.
The best known version was recorded by Guy Mitchell in February 1952. This recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39663, with the flip side "Doll with a Sawdust Heart"[1]. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on March 7, 1952 and lasted 17 weeks on the chart, peaking at #6. [2]
The song is a story about how a relatively poor man falls in love with a beautiful woman and convinces her how rich he is by taking her out to fancy places, paying for it all by pawning all he has. As the song opens, he's out of things to pawn.
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- ^ http://78discography.com/COL39500.htm Columbia Records in the 39500 to 39999 series]
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top Pop Records 1940-1955. Record Research.
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