From: snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu (John Snyder)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Border song survey
Keywords: Border songs
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:08:52 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University

In article <2392@news.duke.edu> you write:
>I am in a bit of need.
>
>I hope to get a car soon and would like to have some tapes with songs
>which I could play consecutively when crossing state borders. I'd like
>to get some help since I am not the most knowledgable person on the
>best music tunes to have.
>
>Criteria:
>1) Must mention the state, a city in that state, or some other major
>geographical feature. (Exceptions are given to odd circumstances in
>which the song is appropriate; e.g., Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run"
>for New Jersey since the NJ state legislature wanted it to be its
>state song.) Basically, any association with the state is needed.
>
>2) Must be fun to listen to. I doubt that there are any songs that
>aren't fun to listen to, but the more fun the better.
>
>3) Any additional criteria will be at the discretion of me.
>
>
>WHAT I HAVE SO FAR:
>
>NC:	"Gone to Carolina"	James Taylor
>GA:	"Ramblin' Man"		??? [Need the name]

The Allman Brothers Band did this (song was written by Dickie Betts)

>	"Georgia on my mind"	(Anyone who sings it)

Willie Nelson does a good version of this

>AL:	"Sweet Home Alabama"	???

Sweet Home Alabama is performed by Lynrd Skynrd

>NJ:	"Born to Run"		Bruce Springsteen
>RI:	"Down Easter Alexa"	Billy Joel
>MD:	"Rockville"		REM
>CA:	"Hotel California"	The Eagles
>LA:	"Deep River Woman"	???	[It's my home state.]
>

GA:  Statesboro Blues      performed by many blues artists, but Taj Mahal
                           sings, "...Statesboro Georgia, that is..."

Chicago:  Sweet Home Chicago  performed by some blues artist/artists

Kentucky:  Kentucky Woman     don't know the artist

W Va:  Country Roads, Take Me Home    John Denver

LA:  Born on the Bayou       Creedence Clearwater Revival

Kansas City Missouri:  Goin' to Kansas city   performed by various R&B artists

St. Louis, Missouri:  St. Louis blues   performed by various old blues artists

New York, New York:   Frank Sinatra

Chicago:  (2 songs:  It's my kind of town; and that toddlin' town)  
                      Frank Sinatra

New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California:  Willin' (mentions Tucson, Tucumcari,
     Tehachapi, and Tonopah)    by Lowell George, performed by Little Feat
     (Linda Ronstadt also did a version)

Memphis and New Orleans and Missippi River:  Proud Mary   Creedence Clearwater
     Revival

CA:  California Dreamin'  Mammas and the Pappas

SF:  If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your 
     hair...   the artist might be Donovan, but I don't really know

San Jose:  Do you know the way to San Jose  artist=?

Los Angeles:   Comin' into Los Angeles (bringing in a couple of kee's)  
     Arlo Guthrie

Stockbridge Massachusetts:  Alice's Restaurant   Arlo Guthrie

Muhlenberg County (kentucky):  Paradise   John Prine

Illinois:  Lookin' Out My Backdoor   Credence Clearwater Revival

Rocky Top, Tennessee:  Rocky Top   various Bluegrass artists

Utah:  Friend of the Devil   the Grateful Dead

Allentown, PA:  Allentown  Billy Joel

Pittsburgh PA:  There's a Pawnshop on the Corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
     artist unknown

Philadelphia  PA:  Philadelphia Freedom   Elton John

Colorado:   Rocky Mountain High   John Denver

Ohio:   Ohio  (Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Comin')  
          Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

New Orleans:  Battle of New Orleans   various artists

Oklahoma:  Oklahoma (from the musical)   artists unknown

Texas:  Yellow Rose of Texas      various Artists
        Deep In the Heart of Texas    various Artists

Oregon and Washington:  Roll on Columbia, Roll On [ the river separates the
     two states ]  artist unknown

Nashville, Tennessee:  prabably mentioned in LOTS of country songs

Mobile Alabama:  Stuck Inside of Mobile (with the Memphis Blues Again)
     Bob Dylan

Levittown (any state that has one):  Little boxes... (...and they're all made
     out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same...)  Malvina Reynolds
     (the Weavers also did a version of this)

Florida:  Gator Country   Molly Hatchet

Puget Sound  Washington:   Surrounded by Acres of Clams  artist unknown  
    (Charlie King?)

New Jersey Turnpike:  You Can't Catch Me   Chuck Berry

Mississippi:  Johnny B. Goode   Chuck Berry and various other artists have 
     done covers of this

New Hampshire:  You Can Run (Fritz, he ... for a Mexicali hotspot, last time
     I seen him, he was low and riding high; and Gritz he caught a blues line
     even hit the big time...)  [song about a town in New Hampshire and 
     3 or 4 friends who became professional folksingers/songwriters]  
     by John Gorka [a friend of mine from college, now a famous folksinger]


I'm sure this list will contain some unusual states.

John
snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu