Songs About... Cities

Cities in the title

KANSAS CITY - Wilbert Harrison 
MEMPHIS - Chuck Berry, Lonnie Mack, Johnny Rivers 
WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS - Freddy Cannon 
Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
Nashville Cats - Lovin' Spoonful 
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie 
Luckenbach Tx - Waylon Jennings 
El Paso - Marty Robbins 
San-Ho-Zay - Freddie King 
Lodi - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Big Train (From Memphis) - John Fogerty
ALLEGHENY MOON - Patti Page 
CHATTANOOGA SHOE SHINE BOY - Red Foley 
CHICAGO - Frank Sinatra 
GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY - Al Jolson 
I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO - Tony Bennett 
I'VE GOT A GAL IN KALAMAZOO - Glenn Miller, Tex Beneke voc. 
KANSAS CITY - Georgia Gibbs 
KOKOMO, INDIANA - Vaughn Monroe 
LULLABY OF BROADWAY (Manhattan) - Doris Day 
MANHATTAN TOWER - Patti Page 
MISSISSIPPI (Memphis) - Kay Starr 
MOON OVER BROOKLYN - Guy Lombardo 
MOON OVER MIAMI - Vaughn Monroe 
NEW ORLEANS - Frankie Laine 
NEW ORLEANS (THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN) - Frankie Laine 
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Frank Sinatra 
OLD CAPE COD - Patti Page 
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - Guy Mitchell 
SAN ANTONIO ROSE - Bing Crosby 
SAN ANTONIO ROSE - Patti Page 
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY - Bing Crosby 
WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS - Al Jolson & The Andrews Sisters 
WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS - Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford 
WE'LL HAVE MANHATTAN - Ella Fitzgerald 
Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson 
San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys 
Knoxville Girl - Louvin Brothers 
Streets of Laredo - Marty Robbins 
Night Train to Memphis - Roy Acuff 
Poor People of Paris - Les Baxter 
Vienna - Ultravox 
Life In Tokyo - Japan 
West Oakland Strut - Ed Kelley 
Foxy Girls In Oakland - Roger Collins 
Angels In Houston - Larry Davis 
Detroit City Blues - Fats Domino
Mardi Gras in New Orleans - Fats Domino
Walkin' to New Orleans - Fats Domino 
Fujiyama Mama - Wanda Jackson
Tallahassee Lassie - Freddy Cannon
Bristol Stomp - The Dovells
Grimsby - Elton John
Vienna - Billy Joel
Leningrad - Billy Joel
"Why Do They All Take The Night Boat To Albany" Al Jolson 
"Shuffle' Off To Buffalo" Boswell Sisters 
"On The Streets Of The Bronx" - Magic Touch 
"Manhattan Serenade" 4 Coins 
"Saratoga Swing" - Duke Ellington 
"Watertown" Frank Sinatra 
"Robert of Huntington" - Escape 
"Wild Goose Geeses in Tarrytown - Weavers 
"Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" - Monotones 
"The Windsor Waltx" - Vera Lynn 
"Liverpool Sound" - Vito & Salutations  (There is a Liverpool in NY) 
"New York City" - Village People 
"The Boy from New York City" Ad Libs 
"The Boy from New York City" - Brooklyn Bridge 
"The Boy from New York City" - Manhattan Transfer 
"The Boy from New York City" - Darts 
"I Wouldn't Live In New York City" - Buck Owens 
"Kitty From New York City" - The Gems 
"Autumn in New York" - Frank Sinatra 
"New York City Rhythm" - Barry Manilow 
"New York City Blues" Alan Freed 
"The Girl From New York City" - Beach Boys 
"Another Rainy Day In New Yor City" by Chicago 
"Down and Out In New York City" - James Brown 
"New York City Lady"- Lennie Coco & Chimes 
"In New York City" - Dion 
"New York City Blues" - The Yardbirds 
"Talkin' New York" - Bob Dylan 
"New York Boogie" - Lightning Hopkins 
"I Wouldn't Live In New York City" - Buck Owens 
"Going To New York" - Jimmy Reed 
"I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City" - Harry Nilsson 
"New York Girls" - The Kingston Trio 
"The Only Living Boy In New York" - Simon & Garfunkel 
"A Heart In New York" - Simon & Garfunkel 
"Four Little Girls In Boston" - Jimmie Rodgers 
"Goin' Back To Boston Town" - Tony Conn 
"Boston Burglar" - Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys 
"San Francisco Girls" - Fever Tree 
"San Francisco Blues" - Lowell Fulson 
"San Francsico Lady" - Billy Lee Riley 
"San Francisco Mabel Joy" - Mickey Newbury 
"San Francisco" - Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks 
"Summer in Monterey" - Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks 
"L. A. Women Love Uncle Bud" - Boozoo Chavis 
"I Love L. A." - Randy Newman 
"Seattle Hunch" - Jelly Roll Morton 
"Streets of Bakersfield" - Buck Owens 
"By The Time I Get To Phoenix" - Glen Campbell 
"Galveston" - Glen Campbell 
"Houston" - Dean Martin 
"Wichita Lineman" - Glen Campbell 
"Wichita" - Big Joe Williams 
"Wichita Falls Blues" - T-Bone Walker 
"Abeline" - George Hamilton IV 
"Viva Las Vegas" - Elvis 
"Las Vegas" - Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris 
"Saginaw, Michigan" - Lefty Frizzell 
"Carrie's Gone To Kansas City" - Scott Joplin 
"Goodbye Kansas City" - Wilbert Harrison 
"Kansas City Boogie Woogie Stomp" - Sam Price 
"Kansas City (We Gonna Move To Kansas City)" - Robert Nighthawk 
"Kansas City Bound" - Lowell Fulson 
"Leaving Kansas City" - Ike Turner 
"Kansas City Dog Walk" - Charlie Turner 
"The Kansas City Song" - Buck Owens 
"Kansas City (Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey)" - Little Richard 
"Kansas City Papa" - Leadbelly 
"Everything's Up To Date In Kansas City" - Oklahoma (the musical) 
"Kansas City Railroad Blues" - Roland White 
"Kansas City Baby" - Jimmy Reed 
"Kansas City Woman" - Chuck Willis 
"Kansas City Dog" - Little Cameron 
"She Moved To Kansas City" - Doug Stone 
"Little Joe From Chicago" - Nat Cole 
"Chicago Jump" - Jimmy Lee 
"Sweet Home Chicago" - Robert Johnson 
"Going To Chicago" - Fenton Robinson 
"Chicago Blues" - Lonnie Johnson 
"Chicago Flyer" - Meade "Lux" Lewis 
"Chicago Breakdown" - Doctor Ross 
"Chicago Is Just That Way" - Eddie Boyd 
"Trip To Chicago" - Lightnin' Slim 
"Chicago Bound" - Jimmy Rogers 
"Chicago Special" - Big Bill Broonzy 
"Back To Chicago" - Johnny Young 
"Streets of Old Chicago" - Martin, Bogan & the Armstrongs 
"Born In Chicago" - Paul Butterfield 
"Wine-O From Chicago" - Howard Crockett 
"Chicago Bound Blues" - Bessie Smith 
"New Chicago Blues" - Jimmy Reed 
"Chicago City" - The Monarchs 
"I Used To Work In Chicago" - Tin Ear Tanner 
"St. Louis Blues" - various 
"St. Louis Bound" - Omar & The Howlers 
"East St, Louis Toodle-Oo" - The Widespread Depression Orchestra 
"St. Louis Breakdown" - Luck Millinder 
"St. Louis Rag" - various 
"St. Louis Boogie" - Pete Johnson 
"East St. Louis Rock" - Ike Turner 
"East St. Louis Blues" - Blind Willie McTell & Curley Weaver 
"Goin' Back To St. Louis" - Mack Vickery 
"East St. Louis Baby" - Professor Longhair 
"I'm Going To St. Louis" - Washboard Sam 
"St. Louis Tickle" - various 
"St. Louis Gal" - Bessie Smith 
"St. Louis" - Bobby Smith & The Neat-Beats 
"I Walked All The Way From East St. Louis" - Fred McDowell 
"Memphis" - Donnie Owens 
"Memphis Gal" - Bullmoose Jackson 
"Going Back To Memphis" - Sunnyland Slim 
"Going Back To Memphis" - Gene Simmons 
"Memphis to New Orleans" - Harmonica Frank 
"Hello Memphis" - Ted Dixon 
"Memphis In The Meantime" - John Hiatt 
"Gotta Get To Memphis" -  Buddy Aldo 
"Memphis Blues Again" - Bob Dylan 
"West Memphis Blues" - Sonny Boy Williamson 
"Memphis Mail" - Eli Owens 
"Memphis Boogie" - Doctor Ross 
"Memphis Town" - Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell 
"Memphis Rounder's Blues" - Frank Stokes 
"Night Train To Memphis" - Roy Acuff 
"Going To Memphis" - Johnny Cash 
"Memphis Yo Yo Blues" - Memphis Jug Band 
"Memphis Boy Blues" - Memphis Jug Band 
"Memphis Sprawler" - Blue Ribbon Syncopaters 
"Memphis Scrontch" - Williamson's Beale Street Frolic Orchestra 
"Memphis Shake" - Johnny Dodds 
"Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town" - Bessie Smith 
"Music Makin' Mama From Memphis Tennessee" - Hank Snow 
"Memphis Belle" - Miss Toni Fisher 
"Memphis Women and Chicken" - Dan Penn 
"Back To Memphis" - The Band 
"Last Train To Memphis" - The Band 
"From Memphis To Mobile" - Johnny Horton 
"Memphis Soul Stew" - King Curtis 
"Goin' Home To Memphis" - Barry Boyd 
"Memphis Rocking" - Rex Toran 
"From Memphis To New Orleans" - Curtis Gordon 
"West Memphis" - Sonny Burgess 
"Shreveport Blues" - Lillian Glinn 
"Shreveport Stomp" - Jelly Roll Morton 
"Lake Charles Do-Do-Dia" - Boozoo Chavis 
"Creole De Lake Charles" - Queen Ida 
"Lake Charles Waltz" - Jennings Playboys 
"Lake Charles Stomp" - Roosevelt Sykes 
"Mamou Two Step" - The Tail Gators 
"Big Mamou" - various 
"Good Old Mamou" - Rockin' Dopsie & The Twisters 
"Going Back To Big Mamou" - Marcel Dugas & The Entertainers 
"La Village De Mamou" - Sunny Dupan 
"Zu Zu Mamou" - Dr. John 
"New Orleans Shuffle" - Roomful of Blues 
"Walking To New Oreleans" - Fats Domino 
"New Orleans Blues" - Sam Price 
"Goin' To New Orleans" - Little Sam Davis 
"Song Of New Orleans" - Eddie Cochran 
"Queen Of New Orleans" - Danny Williams 
"Mardi Gras In New Orleans" - Fats Domino / Professor Longhair 
"Going Back To New Orleans" - Joe Liggins 
"New Orleans Bound" - Lightnin' Slim 
"New Orleans Waltz" - Nathan Abshire 
"In New Orleans" - Leadbelly 
"New Orleans Stop Time" - Bumble Bee Slim 
"New Orleans Jump" - Roosevelt Sykes 
"South In New Orleans" - Johnnie & Jack 
"New Orleans Hopscotch Blues" - Bessie Smith 
"New Orleans Wins The War" - Randy Newman 
"City Of New Orleans" - Sonny Boy Williamson 
"New Orleans" - U. S. Bonds 
"Down In New Orleans" - The Marathons 
"New Orleans" - Elvis 
"New Orleans Wimmen" - Rosco Gordon 
"I Wish I Was In New Orleans" - Tom Waits 
"Tryin' To Get To New Orleans" - The Tractors 
"Witch Queen of New Orleans" - Redbone 
"Little Old Home in New Orleans" - Hank Snow 
"Tulsa County Home" - Oklahoma Thunder 
"West of Tulsa" - Bill Caswell 
"Tulsa Telephone Book" - Tom T. Hall 
"Tulsa Waltz" - Jimmie Revard & The Oklahoma Playboys 
"Tulsa Twist" - Dickie McBride & The Village Boys 
"Take Me Back To Tulsa" - Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys 
"The Tulsa Shuffle" - The Tractors 
Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa" - Gene Pitney 
"Tulsa, Straight Ahead" - Leon McAuliffe 
"Living on Tulsa Time" - various 
"Little Rock Rock" - Rock Rogers (Leon Payne) 
"Little Rock Getaway" - various 
"Little Rock Special" - Vic Fontaine 
"Nashville Stonewall Blues" - Robert Wilkins 
"Nashville Blues" - The Everly Brothers 
"Nashville Cats" - The Lovin' Spoonful 
"Down In Nashville, Tennessee" - Cowboy Copas 
"Nashville Woman's Blues" - Bessie Smith 
"Nashville Jumps" - Cecil Gant 
"Goin' Down To Nashville" - Carl Campbell 
"Nashville Again" - Paul Siebel 
"Nashville" - Bob Neuwirth 
"Never Goin' Back To Nashville Anymore" - John Stewart 
"Outside the Nashville City Limits" - Joan Baez 
"Nashville's Gone Hollywood" - Heather Myles 
"Cincinnati Fireball" - Johnny & Dorsey Burnette 
"Good Night Cincinnati, Good Morning Tennesse" - Shorty Long 
"Cincinnati Woman" - Ramblin' Everett & Sandy Stanton 
"Cincinnati Rock" -  Cliff Nash 
"Cincinnati Lou" - Merle Travis 
"Cincinnati's Dancing Pig" - ? 
"Cleveland, Ohio Blues" - Bullmoose Jackson 
"Look Out Cleveland" - The Band 
"The Continuing Saga of the Classic Bummer or Is This My Free One-Way 
Bus Ticket To Cleveland" - Jerry Jeff Walker 
"Going On To Detroit" - Wes Montgomery 
"Detroit Blues" - Tampa Red 
"I'm Going To Detroit" - John Wrencher 
"Detroit City" - Bobby Bare 
"Detroit Hula Girl" - The York Brothers 
"Detroit Arrow Blues" - Shy Guy Douglas 
"Indianapolis Jump" - Shirley Griffith 
"Eight More Miles To Louisville" - Grandpa Jones 
"Louisville Burglar" - The Hickory Nuts 
"Champaign, Illinois" - Carl Perkins 
"Queen From Bowliing Green" - Art Buchanan 
"He's Long Gone From Bowling Green" - Buck & Bubbles 
"Bowling Green" - The Everly Brothers 
"Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy" - Red Foley 
"Chattanooga Blues" - Austin & Lee Alllen 
"Chattanooga Mama" - The Allen Brothers 
"Chattanooga" - Phil Baugh 
"Chattanooga Drummer Man" - Helen Thomas & the Rhythm Heirs 
"The Night The Ice Age Came To Mobile" - Pacheco & Alexander 
"Mobile, Alabama" - Curtis Gordon 
"Mobile Boogie" - The Delmore Brothers 
"Atlanta Town" - Chasey Collins Washboard Band 
"Atlanta Strut" - Blind Willie McTell 
"Lonesome Atlanta Blues" - Bobby Grant 
"Atlanta Moan" - Barbeque Bob 
"Oh Atlanta" - Little Feat 
"Atlanta Boogie" - Tommy Brown 
"Charlotte Hot Step" - David Fletcher & Gwen Foster 
"Denver Blues" - Tampa Red 
"Santa Fe (Is A Long Way From Broadway)" - Leon McAuliffe 
"Sioux City Sue" - various 
"Last Train To Jacksonville" - Freddie Scott 
"Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone" - John Prine 
Detroit City - Various Artists 
The Motor City is Burning - MC 5
Honolulu Lulu -- Jan & Dean  
Salt Lake City  -- Beach Boys 
Tucumcari -- Jimmy Rodgers 
Gary, Indiana (from The Music Man)
Cleveland Rocks - Ian Hunter 
Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller, Harpers Bizarre
London By Night - Frank Sinatra
Streets Of London - Ralph McTell
Next Plane To London" by Rose Garden 
Mobile - Julius LaRosa

Cities in the lyrics

Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry 
Surfin USA - Beach Boys
I've Been Everywhere - Hank Snow, Stompin' Tom Connors, Johnny Cash
Route 66

Close but no cigar

Rio - Duran Duran 

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Paul Maclauchlan () Last change: Fri Jul 29 22:52:54 EDT 2005