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Revision as of 21:19, 16 December 2011
This is a list of songs about different cities in the world, from both traditional and pop music.
Australia
Melbourne
Sydney
Brazil
São Salvador
- "Na Baixa do sapateiro" by Ary Barroso
Fortaleza
- "As Velas do Mucuripe", by Fagner
- "Praia de Iracema", by Ary Lobo
Porto Alegre
- "Deu pra ti", by Kleiton e Kledir
- "Anoiteceu em Porto Alegre", by Engenheiros do Hawaii
Recife
- "Coração Bobo", by Alceu Valença
- "La Belle du Jour", by Alceu Valença
- "No Romper da Aurora", by Alceu Valença
- "Para um amor no Recife", by Paulinho da Viola
- "Recife, minha cidade", by Reginaldo Rossi
- "Recife, cidade lendária", by Capiba
Rio de Janeiro
- "Cidade Maravilhosa" by Andre Filho (1935)
- "Do Leme ao Pontal" by Tim Maia
- "Rio 40 Graus" by Fernanda Abreu
- "Samba do Avião" by Tom Jobim
- "Flying Down to Rio", theme song from the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film of the same name
- "Rio" by Michael Nesmith from his album From a Radio Engine to the Photon Wing.
- "I Go to Rio" by Pablo Cruise on the album Worlds Away
- "Cariocas" by Adriana Calcanhotto
- "Rio de Janiero" by Ugly Duckling
São Paulo
- "Sampa" by Caetano Veloso
- "São Paulo, São Paulo", by Premeditando o Breque
- "São, São Paulo", by Tom Zé
- "Avenida Paulista", by Rita Lee
- "Coração Paulista", by Guilherme Arantes
- "São Paulo", by Guillemots
- "Não existe amor em SP", by ((Criolo))
Canada
Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver
Winnipeg
- Weakerthans - "One Great City!"
- "Prairie Town" by Randy Bachman, Neil Young, and even Margo Timmins.
China
Hong Kong
- "Hong Kong" by Gorillaz
- "Hong Kong Garden" by Siouxsie and the Banshees (Note: while this song has references to Hong Kong, it was inspired by a restaurant in Chislehurst in London)
- "Hong Kong" song by Ganymede
Dominican Republic
San Pedro de Macorís
France
Paris
Germany
Berlin
Israel
Jerusalem
Japan
Tokyo
Fukuoka
Kyoto
- "Alone in Kyoto" by Air
Nagasaki
- Nagasaki Wa Kyou Mo Ame Datta (長崎は今日も雨だった) by Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five (内山田洋とクール・ファイブ)
Yokohama
- Blue Light Yokohama by Ishida Ayumi (石田 あゆみ)
Korea
Seoul
- "Seoul", sung by Lee Yong[1]
- "Seoul, Seoul, Seoul" sung by Cho Yong-pil[1]
- "Seoul 1987" sung by Cho Yong-pil[2]
- "Seoului changa" (literally, "Song in praise of Seoul") sung by Patti Kim[1]
Busan
- Dorawayo Busan Hang E (돌아와요 부산항에) sung by Cho Yong Pil
Mexico
Tampico
- "Tampico" by June Christy
Nepal
Kathmandu
- "Katmandu" by Bob Seger
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Amsterdam - Coldplay
Den Haag (The Hague)
- "In Den Haag Is Een Laan" by Conny Vandenbos
- "Wat Voor Weer Zou Het Zijn In Den Haag?" by Conny Stuart
- "O O Den Haag" by Harry Klorkestein
Nijmegen
- "Nijmegen bij Zonsondergang" by Frank Boeijen
Utrecht
- "Weg van Utrecht" by Het Goede Doel, Herman van Veen and Spinvis
Portugal
Lisbon
- "Lisboa, Menina e Moça" by Carlos do Carmo
- "Lisbon" by Angra
- "Cheira bem, cheira a Lisboa" by Amália Rodrigues
Russia
Moscow
South Africa
Johannesburg
- "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" by Eddy Grant
- "Johannesburg" by Gil Scott-Heron
- "Zondag in Soweto" by Stef Bos
Sweden
Stockholm
Gothenburg
- "Känn Ingen Sorg För Mig Göteborg" by Håkan Hellström from his album Känn Ingen Sorg För Mig Göteborg
- "Kalendervägen 113.D" by Jens Lekman from bonus EP included with the initial pre-order copies of his album Night Falls Over Kortedala
Thailand
Bangkok
- "A Passage to Bangkok" by Rush in their album 2112
- "One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head (though there's an album by the same name One Night in Bangkok by the German band Sodom)
Turkey
Ankara
- "Ankara" by Vega (band)
- Ankara'da Aşık Olmak Zuhal Olcay
Istanbul
- "Sensiz İstanbul'a Düşmanım" by Gripin
- "İstanbul İstanbul Olalı" by Sezen Aksu
- "İstanbul'da Sonbahar" by Teoman
- "Yarim İstanbul" by Levent Yüksel
- "İstanbul" by Duman
- "Bu Sabah Yağmur var İstanbul'da" by MFÖ
- Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants
United Kingdom
Birmingham
Liverpool
London
Manchester
United States
Abilene
Albuquerque
- "Albuquerque" by "Weird" Al Yankovic
- "Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque" by Tony Romeo
- "Albuquerque" by Neil Young
- "Albuquerque" by Sons of the Desert
Allentown
- "Allentown" by Billy Joel
- "Allentown Jail" by Kingston Trio
Amarillo
- "Is This the Way to Amarillo" by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield
- "Amarillo by Morning" by George Strait
- "If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do)" by Don Williams
- "Amarillo Sky" by Jason Aldean
Anchorage
Atlanta
Arlington, Virginia
- "Arlington" by Trace Adkins
Austin
- "Austin in My Sights" by The Bluescasters
- "Amy's Back In Austin" by Little Texas
- "Austin" by Blake Shelton
Baltimore
- "Raining in Baltimore" by Counting Crows
- "Streets of Baltimore" by Bobby Bare
- "Willie Jones" by the Charlie Daniels Band
- "Hungry Heart" by Bruce Springsteen
Beaumont, Texas
- "Pretty Little Lady From Beaumont, Texas" by George Jones
- "The Night's Too Long" by Patty Loveless
Birmingham
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
- "Burn On" by Randy Newman
- "Christmas in Cleveland" by The Raveonettes
- "Cleveland" by Jewel
- "Cleveland is the City" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
- "Cleveland" by All-Time Quarterback
- "Cleveland is the Reason" by Kid Cudi
- "Cleveland Rocks" by Ian Hunter
- "Cuyahoga" by REM
- "The Heart of Rock & Roll" by Huey Lewis and the News
- "In the Heartland" by the Michael Stanley Band
- "Let's Move to Cleveland" by Frank Zappa
- "Look Out, Cleveland" by The Band
- "Mean Night in Cleveland" by Cactus
- "Missing Cleveland" by Scott Weiland
- "Ohio (Come Back to Texas)" by Bowling for Soup
- "Skinny Little Boy from Cleveland" by Alex Bevan
- "There's No Surf in Cleveland" by the Euclid Beach Band
- "Pancho and Lefty" by Townes Van Zandt, covered by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
- "Cleveland Ohio Blues" by Bull Moose Jackson
Dallas
- "Dallas Days and Fort Worth Nights" by Chris LeDoux
- "Dallas" by Alan Jackson
- "Big D" from The Most Happy Fella
- "Goin Through The Big D" by Mark Chesnutt
- "Dallas" by Holly McNarland
- "I Drove Her To Dallas" by Ty England
- "Dallas" by Johnny Winter
- "Trudy" by the Charlie Daniels Band
- "Dallas After Midnight" by Ray Wylie Hubbard (with Jack Ingram)
- "Dallas" by The Flatlanders
- "People In Dallas Got Hair" by Waylon Jennings
- "Pecos Promenade" by Tanya Tucker
Denver
- "Get Out of Denver" by Bob Seger
- "O.D.'d in Denver" by Hank Williams Jr.
Detroit
El Paso
- "El Paso" by Marty Robbins ("Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl...")
- "Texas Women" by Hank Williams Jr.
- "El Paso" by Old 97's
Fort Worth
- "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind" by George Strait
- "Dallas Days and Fort Worth Nights" by Chris LeDoux
Galveston
- "Galveston" by Jimmy Webb
- "Pecos Promenade" by Tanya Tucker
Houston
- "Bloody Mary Morning" by Willie Nelson
- "Houston" by R.E.M.
- "Telephone Road" by Steve Earle
- "Telephone Road" by Rodney Crowell
- "Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer to You)" by Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
- "Uneasy Rider '88" by the Charlie Daniels Band
- "Dixie On My Mind" by Hank Williams Jr.
Jackson, Mississippi
- "Jackson Mississippi" by Kid Rock
- "Jackson" by Johnny Cash & June Carter
- "Uneasy Rider" by the Charlie Daniels Band
Kansas City
- "Kansas City", from the musical Oklahoma! ("Everything's up to date in Kansas City...")
- "Kansas City", performed by Wilbert Harrison
- "Kansas City Lights" by Steve Wariner
- "Kansas City Kitty" by Walter Donaldson
La Grange, Texas
Laredo
- "Streets of Laredo" (old cowboy song)
- "Laredo" by Band of Horses
Las Vegas
- "Viva Las Vegas" by Elvis Presley
- "Let's Go To Vegas" by Faith Hill
- "Gone Country" by Alan Jackson
- "Vegas" by Sara Bareilles
- "Waking Up in Vegas" by Katy Perry
- "Leaving Las Vegas" by Sheryl Crow
Laurel, Mississippi
- "Goin' Down to Laurel" by Steve Forbert
Little Rock
- "Little Rock" by Free Micah
- "Little Rock" by Collin Raye
Los Angeles
Luckenbach, Texas
Mayberry, North Carolina
- "Mayberry March" by Andy Griffith
Marina del Rey
Memphis
- "Memphis, Tennessee" by Chuck Berry
- "Maybe It Was Memphis" by Pam Tillis
- "Truck Drivin' Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn
- "Nothing 'Bout Memphis" by Trisha Yearwood
- "Wrong Side of Memphis" by Trisha Yearwood
- "Queen of Memphis" by Confederate Railroad
- "Memphis" by Johnny Rivers
- "Memphis" by PJ Harvey
- "Memphis Blues" by W. C. Handy
- "Messed Up In Memphis" by Darryl Worley
- "Memphis Skyline" by Rufus Wainwright
- "Memphis Belle" by Hank Williams Jr.
- "Guitar Man" by Jerry Reed
Miami
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
- "New York I love you But you're bringing me down", by LCD Soundsystem
Olema, California
- "Hippie From Olema" by The Youngbloods
Olympia
- "Rock Star" by Hole (from the album Live Through This)
Omaha
- "Omaha" by Counting Crows
Panama City, Florida
- "Guitar Man" by Jerry Reed
Philadelphia
- "Phildelphia" by Neil Young
- "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John
- "Sailing to Philadelphia" by Mark Knopfler
- "Sit Down, John" from the musical 1776
- "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen
Phoenix
Reno
- "Reno Bound" by Southern Pacific
- "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash
Richmond, Virginia
- "Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde" by Travis Tritt
- "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band
- "We Are Marching On To Richmond" aka "Our knapsacks sling" (Union Civil War song) words and music by E.W. Locke [3] [4]
South Park, Colorado
- "Going Down To South Park" by Primus
- "Mountain Town" from the South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (soundtrack)
St. Louis
San Antonio
- "New San Antonio Rose" by Bob Wills
- "San Antonio Stroll" by Tanya Tucker
- "Anybody Going To San Antone" by Charlie Pride
- "San Antonio Rose" by Lee Ann Womack
- "It Came from San Antonio" by Bruce Robison
- "Remember the Alamo" by George Strait
- "Across the Alley from the Alamo" by Bob Wills
- "San Antonio Romeo" by Tish Hinojosa
- "San Antone" by Denny Brooks
Santa Fe
- "Santa Fe" by The Bellamy Brothers
- "Santa Fe" by The Bluescasters
San Francisco
Seattle
Shanksville, Pennsylvania
- "Let's Roll" by Ray Stevens
- "Have You Forgotten?" by Darryl Worley
Thibodaux, Louisiana
- "Amos Moses" by Jerry Reed
Tucson
- "Send Me Down To Tucson" by Mel Tillis
Tulsa
- "Tulsa Time" by Don Williams
- "Tulsa Turnaround" by Kenny Rogers
- "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma" by David Frizzell & Shelly West
- "The Day That She Left Tulsa" by Wade Hayes
- "24 Hours From Tulsa" — Gene Pitney
- "Almost to Tulsa" – Buddy Charleton
- "Don't Let the Sun Set on You in Tulsa" - Waylon Jennings
- "Don't Make Me Come to Tulsa" - Wade Hayes
- "Halfway to Tulsa" – Larry Sparks
- "Last Trip to Tulsa" – Neil Young
- "Take Me Back to Oklahoma" – Chubby Checker
- "Take Me Back to Oklahoma" – Henson Cargill
- "Take Me Back to Tulsa" - Bob Wills
- "Tampa to Tulsa" – The Jayhawks
- "Tear Drops in Tulsa" – Mustang Mesa
- "Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsa" -George Strait
- "Ten Miles to Tulsa" – Billy & Liza
- "Tulsa" – Rufus Wainwright
- "Tulsa" – Travis Linville and the Burtschi Brothers
- "Tulsa" – Wayne "The Train" Hancock
- "Tulsa Baby" –Dave Stogner
- "Tulsa County" –The Byrds
- "Tulsa Girl" - Dwight Twilley
- "Tulsa on a Saturday Night" – Benny Kubiak
- "Tulsa Queen" –Emmylou Harris
- "The Tulsa Shuffle" – The Tractors
- "Tulsa Sounds Like Trouble to Me" – Shawn Camp
- "Tulsa Straight Ahead" – Jimmy Hall
- "Tulsa Telephone Book" – Tom T. Hall
Wichita
- "Wichita Lineman" by Jimmy Webb
- "Wichita Skyline" by Shawn Colvin
Vietnam
Saigon
- "Goodnight Saigon" by Billy Joel
- "Saigon" by Martha and the Muffins
- "Saigon Bride" by Joan Baez
- "Saigon Ơi Vĩnh Biệt" (Saigon, Goodbye) by Nam Lộc - an anthem for Vietnamese refugees having to flee their homeland after the Fall of Saigon.
- "Still in Saigon" by the Charlie Daniels Band
- "Saigon" by Barry Sadler
Other
Bedrock
- "Bedrock Twitch" by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
References
- ^ a b c Park, Jeong-ho (박정호) (2008-05-30). "(BOOK북카페) 가요로 되돌아본 `서울~ 서울~ 서울` 70년" (in Korean). Ilgan Sports.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ Kim, Gyu-won (김규원) (1998-06-25). "늘 우리 곁에 있는 '영원한 오빠'" (in Korean) (213). Hankyereh 21.
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