Songs About Places

The aim of this page is to list songs played by Peel about real places, named in the titles, (including planets, continents, countries, regions, towns, villages and name of institutions). 
List excludes:- Songs relating to London or Liverpool, listed separately on Liverpool (city) and London pages (eg, 'Penny Lane' by the Beatles); - Name of fictitious places (eg, "The Legend Of Xanadu" by the Fall);- Name of institutions or natural locations without their given names (eg, "Roses In The Hospital" by the Manic Street Preachers and 'The River' by Bruce Springsteen);- Name of nationalities (eg, "Body Of An American" by The Pogues);- Name of our biggest star in the solar system (eg, "Here Comes The Sun" by The Beatles) (too many mentions);- Name of Earth's natural satellite (eg, "Walking On The Moon" by The Police) (too many mentions);- Name of those that are not related to places but have the same names (eg, "Aikea-Guinea" by the Cocteau Twins and "Voodoo Chile" by Jimi Hendrix);- Name of places in the lyrics but not the title (eg, ‘Pop Muzik’ by M which nameschecks a list of places and others).
== Plays ==
(If name only given in part in title, please add further details as reference note.)
Performing Artist | Song | First Known Play
=== A ===
*A.R.E. Weapons: New York Muscle (session) 18 October 2001
*Aavikko: New York-London-Siilinjärvi-Tokyo 09 May 2001
*AC Temple: America (session) 29 July 1987
*David Ackles: Road To Cairo (session) 27 October 1968
*Adamski: M25 03 January 1990
*African Head Charge: Timbuktu Express 12 November 1983 (BFBS)
*Laurel Aitken: Caledonia (session) 12 May 1980
*Alaska: Lost In Alaska (Moose Mix) 03 September 1993
*Albion Country Band: Hopping Down In Kent 06 September 1976
*Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias: Anarchy In The U.K. 19 October 1978
*Alliance: Ipswich 23 May 2002
*Amayenge: Kubatana Mu Zimbabwe 14 March 1989
*Amazulu: Cairo (session) 07 July 1982
*Amazulu: Greenham Time 03 March 1983
*Anhrefn: Croeso I Gymru (Welcome To Wales) (session) 21 May 1993
*Anhrefn: Gwesty Cymru (session) 11 September 1989Welsh for Wales Hotel.
*Anhrefn: Rhywle Yn Moscow 02 October 1985Welsh for Somewhere In Moscow.
*Animals: Club A Go-Go 07 February 1970Refers to Newcastle club of the 1960s
*Archers Of Loaf: South Carolina 24 October 1992
*Ash: Girl From Mars 08 July 1995
*Aswad: Babylon 16 March 1981
*Aswad: Three Babylon 30 March 1981
*Aswad: Back To Africa 27 August 1976
*Atari Teenage Riot: Deutschland Has Gotta Die (live) 24 March 1999German word for Germany.
*Pete Atkin: Driving Through Mythical America 24 November 1971
*Pete Atkin: Apparition In Las Vegas (session) 03 March 1972
*Attila The Stockbroker: Death In Bromley (session) 30 June 1982
*Au Pairs: America (session) 31 March 1982
*Kevin Ayers: Take Me To Tahiti (session) 19 May 1972
=== B ===
*thumb|227x227pxBanco De Gaia: Heliopolis (session) 11 February 1994Heliopolis was a major city of ancient Egypt. It was the capital of the 13th or Heliopolite Nome of Lower Egypt and a major religious centre.
*Barbel: Winchester Cathedral 14 July 1991
*Barmy Army: England 2-0 Yugoslavia 25 November 1987
*Bastro: Krakow Illinois (session) 23 July 1990
*Bays: Utrecht 06080901 29 May 2002
*Beatles; Blue Jay Way 31 December 1967 The song was named after a street in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles where George Harrison stayed in August 1967, shortly before visiting the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
*Be Bop Deluxe: Japan 19 May 1981
*Bee Gees: New York Mining Disaster 1941 (session) 15 October 1967
*Bee Gees: Massachusetts 01 October 1967
*Bee Vamp: Nigel Follows Barry To Bengal (session) 09 November 1981
*Bees Make Honey: Woman From Booterstown (session) 23 January 1973Booterstown is a coastal suburb of the city of Dublin in Ireland.
*Peter Bellamy; The Brookland Road 14 November 1970Setting of poem by Rudyard Kipling. Refers to Brookland, a village in Kent in the middle of Romney Marsh.
*Belle & Sebastian: Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem (session) 18 December 2002
*Justin Berkovi: Antarctica 12 September 1999 (BFBS)
*Chuck Berry: Back To Memphis 30 July 1967
*Chuck Berry: Memphis 10 March 1972
*Beulah: Score From Augusta 27 July 1999
*Jello Biafra: Wish I Was In El Salvador 23 May 1990
*Big Stick: California Dreamin' Peel Mid 1992
*Black Dog: Babylon 27 March 1997
*Black Dog: Kings Of Sparta 28 January 1994Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.
*Blackbeard & Winston Edwards: Downing Street Rock 17 April 2001
*Blue Sky Boys: Down On The Banks Of The Ohio 29 June 2000
*Blueboy: Toulouse (session) 03 December 1994
*Blues Magoos: Tobacco Road 18 July 1967"Semi-autobiographical" John D. Loudermilk song, set in his home town, Durham, North Carolina. "Tobacco Road in fact was Marvin's Alley, a street in East Durham that's now called Morven Place. In the 1950s, the alley was a crime haven, dominated by prostitution and gambling."
*Eric Bogosian: (Selections From) Voices Of America 25 July 1983
*CJ Bolland: Camargue 11 September 1993
*Bongos & The Groovies: Lagos (session) 10 July 1973
*Boom Bip & Dose One: Directions to California 09 May 2002
*Boots For Dancing: (Somewhere In The) South Pacific (session) 04 December 1980
*Bothy Band: Farewell To Erin 19 March 1979
*Bothy Band: Maids Of Mitchelstown 21 March 1978
*Bothy Band: The Shores Of Loughrea 24 November 1976
*Bothy Band: The Frieze Britches All The Way To Galway 24 November 1976
*David Bowie: Amsterdam (live) 08 February 1970
*David Bowie: Panic In Detroit 17 April 1973
*Boxer: California Calling (session) 10 November 1975
*Boys Of The Lough: Farewell To Ireland (session) 18 November 1975
*Boys Of The Lough: Shetland Reels (session) 02 October 1973
*Boys Of The Lough: Shetland Wedding Marches (session) 13 March 1973
*Boys Of The Lough: The Whinny Hills Of Leitrim (session) 13 March 1973
*Boys Of The Lough: The Lass From Glasgow Town (session) 07 November 1972
*Boys Of The Lough: Lochaber No More (session) 18 November 1975
*Boys Of The Lough: The Graemsay Jig (session) 01 June 1978
*Billy Bragg: A13 - Trunk Road To The Sea (session) 03 August 1983
*Billy Bragg: A New England Peel July August 1983
*Brides Make Acid: Flying Over Frankfurt 29 May 1993
*Brides Make Acid: Flying Over Cologne 25 September 1993
*Brigadier Jerry: Jamaica Jamaica 09 September 1984 (BFBS)
*Brilliant Corners: Arlington Villas 15 December 1986
*Derek Brimstone: Back In Tobago (session) 12 March 1969
*Brinsley Schwarz: Ebury Down 28 November 1970
*Brinsley Schwarz: Egypt 07 March 1972
*Bronco: Woodstock (live) 07 February 1971
*Edgar Broughton Band: Neptune 23 July 1969
*Eric Burdon and The Animals: Monterey (session) 31 December 1967Monterey is a city on California’s rugged central coast. It staged a famous pop festival in 1967, the topic of this song.
*Butterflies Of Love: Mt Everest (session) 10 November 1999
*Butthole Surfers: Pittsburg To Lebanon 30 March 1987
*Butthole Surfers: Florida (session) 12 August 1987
*Byrds: Blue Canadian Rockies 10 November 1968
*Byrds: Bad Night At The Whiskey 02 March 1969 The “Whiskey” in the title refers to the Whiskey A Go-Go, a night club on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.
=== C ===
*thumb|225x225pxCabaret Voltaire: Greensborough (session) 25 June 1981
*Cabaret Voltaire: Voice Of America 07 August 1980
*Cabaret Voltaire: Walls Of Jericho (session) 25 June 1981
*Cable: Honolulu 13 May 1999
*JJ Cale: If You’re Ever In Oklahoma 05 April 1973
*John Cale Child’s Christmas In Wales 08 May 1973
*John Cale: Model Beirut Recital Peel Early Feb 1984
*John Cale Half Past France 29 March 1973
*Captain Beefheart: Big Eyed Beans From Venus 05 April 1973
*Cagney And Lacee: Memphis 05 June 1997 (BFBS)
*Camera Obscura: San Francisco Song (session) 07 October 2003
*Camper Van Beethoven: ZZ-Top Goes To Egypt 23 July 1986
*Camper Van Beethoven: Vladivostok 28 October 1986
*Capital Letters: U.K. Skanking 27 January 1982 (BFBS)
*Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: By The Time I Get To Phoenix 11 August 1986
*Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tupelo 03 June 1985Tupelo, Mississippi is the birthplace of Elvis Presley. 
*Chameleons: Intrigue In Tangiers 16 May 1984
*Michael Chapman: Postcards Of Scarborough (session) 31 August 1969
*Michael Chapman: New York Ladies (session) 07 April 1972
*Michael Chapman: Rockport Sunday (live) 31 May 1970Instrumental composed by Tom Rush, inspired by town in Massachusetts. Also name of Tom Rush's official website. 
*Cheviot Ranters' Country Dance Band: Morpeth Rant; Rob Roy’s Cave 13 June 1972
*Chicago Transit Authority: South California Purples 29 June 1969
*Chicken Shack: San-Ho-Zay (session) 28 January 1968
*Chrome: I Left My Heart In San Francisco 17 October 1979
*Cinerama: Manhattan 08 December 1999 
*Clash: I'm So Bored With The USA 19 July 1979
*Shirley Collins: The Banks Of The Bawn (session) 15 March 1973
*Shirley Collins: Lowlands 05 February 1969."The Lowlands could refer to a number of seafaring regions, including Holland, the Caribbean Lowlands or perhaps the ‘Virginia Lowlands’ made famous in other well-loved folk songs...."
*Colosseum: Lost Angeles (session) 22 November 1969
*Colosseum: Tanglewood '63 (live) 08 November 1970Jazz composer Mike Gibbs' tribute to the Tanglewood, Massachusetts music festival, which has been running since 1934. 
*John Coltrane: Alabama 05 December 1992 
*Colorblind James Experience: Considering A Move To Memphis 12 October 1987
*Ry Cooder:: Old Kentucky Home 12 December 1970
*Coolies: Scarborough Fair 23 June 1986
*Cornershop: 6am Jullander Shere 12 May 1995Jullandar is an alternate spelling of Jalandhar. A city in the state of Punjab in India.
*Cornershop: England's Dreaming (session) 13 February 1993
*Cornershop: Hong Kong Book Of Kung Fu 26 May 1995
*Cornershop: Welcome To Tokyo, Otis Clay 05 August 1999
*Creedence Clearwater Revival: Born On The Bayou 15 June 1969
*Crosby, Stills & Nash: Marrakesh Express 18 June 1969
*Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Ohio 25 July 1970
*Cud: Only (A Prawn In Whitby) 06 June 1989
*Cul De Sac: The Portland Cement Factory At Monolith, California 02 October 1992
=== D ===
*Daddy Longlegs: New Mexico Song 23 May 1970
*Ronnie Dawson: Down In Mexico (session) 21 January 1994
*De Dannan: The Bells Of St Louis 16 May 1984
*De Dannan: The Trip To Tuam Reel 02 May 1988
*De Dannan: Trip to Durrow 03 February 1978
*De Dannan: The Sandmount Reel 10 September 1985
*De Dannan: The Clogher Reel 10 September 1985
*Dick Dale: Mexico 01 April 1995
*Godfrey Daniel: Woodstock 19 August 1977
*Miles Davis: A Night In Tunisia 24 July 1982
*Dead Kennedys: California Uber Alles 12 July 1979
*Dead Kennedys: Holiday In Cambodia 05 February 1980
*Delgados: Blackpool (live) 01 July 1998
*Delgados: California Uber Alles (session) 16 October 2002
*Sugar Ray Dinke: Cabrini Green Rap 27 April 1987
*Johnny Dodds: East Coast Trot 10 July 1968
*Die Doraus & Die Marinas: Fred Vom Jupiter 03 March 1982
*DJ SS: Canada 06 January 1999
*Lonnie Donegan: Wabash Cannonball 11 December 1968
*Lonnie Donegan: Cumberland Gap 03 October 1992
*Lonnie Donegan: Rock Island Line 30 May 1981 (John Walters)
*Lonnie Donegan: Grand Coulee Dam 13 April 1996 (BFBS)
*Lonnie Donegan: Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos 13 November 2002
*Lonnie Donegan: Fort Worth Jail 03 December 2002
*Donovan: Isle Of Islay 11 January 1997 
*Doobie Brothers: Pursuit On 53rd Street 28 February 1974 
*Doors: Spanish Caravan 04 September 1968 
*Doors: L'America 20 April 1981
*Doors: The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) 18 August 1982 
*Robin & Barry Dransfield: The Talcahuano Girls 11 October 1977
*Robin & Barry Dransfield: The Morpeth Rant / Nancy 10 July 1997
*Robin Dransfield: When It's Night Time In Italy It's Wednesday Over Here (session) 21 February 1974
*Dr. Strangely Strange: On The West Cork Hack (live) 01 November 1970
*Dr. West's Medicine Show And Junk Band: The Eggplant That Ate Chicago 09 May 1970
*Dreadzone: Little Britain (live) 21 April 1995
*Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity: Ellis Island 03 August 1969
*Dub Syndicate: Dubaddisabbaba Peel October 1993
*Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited 31 August 1969
*Bob Dylan: Mozambique 06 October 1977
=== E ===
*East Of Eden: 'Northern Hemisphere 16 February 1969
*East Of Eden: Scott of the Antarctic (session) 12 September 1970
*Egg: A Visit To Newport Hospital (live) 14 February 1971
*Eire Apparent: Highway '61 Revisited (session) 20 April 1969
*Electric Flag: Texas 04 September 1968
*Eno & David Byrne: America Is Waiting 22 February 1981 (BFBS)
*Etchingham Steam Band: The Hard Times Of Old England (session) 05 November 1974
*Eton Crop: To Moscow By Covered Wagon 01 December 1987
*Ex: Uh-Oh Africa (session) 04 December 1985
=== F ===
*thumb|220x220pxFaces: Memphis, Tennessee (live) 26 February 1972
*John Fahey: The Singing Bridge Of Memphis, Tennessee 02 April 1969
*John Fahey: Sunflower River Blues (session) 28 May 1969The Sunflower River (also known as the Big Sunflower River) is one of the main tributaries of the Yazoo River in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
*John Fahey: Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XV (session) 22 June 1969.
*John Fahey: Knoxville Blues 09 May 1972
*John Fahey: New Orleans Shuffle 24 July 1973
*John Fahey: Stomping Tonight On The Pennsylvania/Alabama Border 17 January 1974
*John Fahey: In A Persian Market 13 January 1976
*John Fahey: Indian Pacific R.R. Blues 10 September 1986
*John Fahey: Afternoon Espee Through Salem 26 June 1989
*John Fahey: Are You From Dixie? 29 March 1991 (BFBS)
*John Fahey: Lewisdale Blues 08 October 1993 From the album liner notes: "The "Lewisdale Blues" refers of course to that part of Prince George's County, known as "Lewisdale," where (Nancy) McLean lived with her mother and sister (father deceased) at the time. At least minor flirtation occurred between Fahey and McLean, which may explain some of their musical empathy...".
*John Fahey: Sligo River Blues Worried Blues 20 January 1995
*John Fahey: Revelation on the Banks of the Pawtuxet 27 February 2003 The Pawtuxet River, also known as the Pawtuxet River Main Stem and the Lower Pawtuxet, is a river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
*Fairport Convention: Chelsea Morning (session) 10 December 1967
*Fairport Convention: Nottamun Town (session) 02 June 1968 ""Nottamun Town", also known under other titles such as "Nottingham Fair" and "Fair Nottamon Town" is an American folk song...".
*Fairport Convention: Fotheringay (session) 01 September 1968.
*Fall: Australians In Europe 20 October 1987
*Fall: Birmingham School Of Business School 01 March 1992
*Fall: Bonkers In Phoenix 10 February 1995
*Fall: Bournemouth Runner 24 September 1986
*Fall: Bremen Nacht Run Out 21 December 1987
*Fall: Cheetham Hill 08 June 1996
*Fall: Chicago, Now! 08 February 1990
*Fall: Edinburgh Man 09 March 1991
*Fall: Glasgow Advice 28 July 1995
*Fall: I'm Going To Spain 16 April 1993
*Fall: Jerusalem 01 November 1988 (Radio Bremen)
*Fall: Lucifer Over Lancashire 25 August 1986
*Fall: Pittsville Direkt 09 March 1991
*Fall: Portugal Tour 05 May 2004
*Fall: Prague 91 05 August 1995 (BFBS)
*Fall: Theme From Sparta F.C. 02 October 2003Greek football club based in Sparta, Laconia, Greece.
*Fall: U.S. 80's - 90's 15 September 1986
*Fall: Zagreb 26 July 1990
*Famous Jug Band: Going To Germany (session) 11 June 1969
*Fatal Charm: Paris 27 November 1979‎
*Fats Domino: Swanee River Hop 26 June 1997 (BFBS)
*Five Hand Reel:: The Haughs O'Cromdale 9th to 13th May 1977 (?) Describes the Battle at the Haughs o’ Cromdale, near Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire, on 30 April and 1 May 1690.
*Five Hand Reel: Carrickfergus 03 June 1977
*Five Hand Reel: Sheriffmuir 05 May 1978The Battle of Sheriffmuir was an engagement in 1715 at the height of the Jacobite rising of 1715 in England and Scotland. The battlefield has been included in the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland and protected by Historic Scotland under the Scottish Historical Environment Policy of 2009.
*Five Hand Reel: The House Of Airlie 28 November 1979A traditional Scottish folk song of the seventeenth century, telling the tale of the raid by Archibald Campbell]], Earl of Argyll, on Airlie Castle, the home of James Ogilvy, Earl of Airlie, in the summer of 1640.
*Fleetwood Mac: Tallahassee Lassie (session) 11 May 1969
*Frank Chickens: Fujiyama Mama (session) 05 October 1983
*Frank Chickens: Night Of Akasaka (session) 05 October 1983
*Frank Chickens: Tokyo Boogie (session) 30 May 1983
*Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Disneyland 02 December 1982
*FSK: Bokassa In San Francisco 02 April 1986
*FSK: In Mogadischu 28 March 1982 (BFBS)German spelling for Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia.
*FSK: Odenwald 13 March 1997The Odenwald is a low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. It was also the name of a progressive boarding school which closed in 2015 after revelations of sexual abuse
*FSK: Tel Aviv 11 March 1997
*Billy Fury: All The Way To The USA 29 November 1969
*Future Sound Of London: Papua New Guinea 09 February 1992
=== G ===
*Garage Class: Terminal Tokyo 20 February 1985
*Dick Gaughan: Farewell To Sicily (session) 21 November 1974 
*Dick Gaughan: Florence In Florence 12 December 2001
*Genesis: The Fountain of Salmacis (session) 28 January 1972Salmacis was the name of a fountain or spring located in modern-day Bodrum, Turkey.
*Georgia Browns: Decatur Street 81 10 January 1989Address of a theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, where black vaudeville singers performed in the 1920s and '30s.
*Joe Gibbs & The Professionals: Angolian Chant PM055
*Joe Gibbs & The Professionals: The Entebbe Affair 21 November 1977
*Gilded Lil: Motherfucker Of Calcutta 27 May 1997
*Gilgamesh: Island Of Rhodes (session) 03 November 1975
*Stefan Grossman: Mississippi Blues (session) 05 June 1968
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=== H ===
*Merle Haggard: Okie From Muskogee 29 August 1972
*Half Japanese: U.S. Teens Are Spoiled Bums 10 November 1987
*Half Man Half Biscuit: A Shropshire Lad 28 December 1996
*Half Man Half Biscuit: All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit 11 March 1986
*Half Man Half Biscuit: I Left My Heart In Papworth General 16 September 1986
*Half Man Half Biscuit: New York Skiffle 04 July 2001
*Half Man Half Biscuit: San Antonio Foam Party 24 September 2002
*Half Man Half Biscuit: Vatican Broadside 27 June 2001
*Tim Hardin: Danville Dame (session) 28 July 1968 Danville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
*George Harrison: Bangla-Desh 24 July 1971
*PJ Harvey: Highway 61 Revisited 01 May 1992
*PJ Harvey: Memphis October 2000 (FSK)
*Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Hong Kong 23 April 1969 
*Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Love Paris 27 November 1979
*Heavenly: Escort Crash On Marston Street 01 February 1992
*Christie Hennessy: Far Away In Australia 21 June 1973
*Hole: Olympia (session) 16 April 1993Olympia, the capital of Washington state.
*Holidaymakers: Cincinnati 17 January 1989
*Honeybus: Warwick Town (session) 15 September 1968
*John Lee Hooker: Tupelo 03 June 1985
*Alan Hull: Tynemouth Song (session) 18 January 1973
*Hydroplane: We Crossed The Atlantic 24 July 1997
=== I ===
*Ikara Colt: Belgravia 14 February 2002
*Ikara Colt: Sink Venice 19 February 2002
*Incredible String Band: Down Before Cathay (session) 17 March 1972
*Inspiral Carpets: Sackville 10 April 1990
*It's Immaterial: A Gigantic Raft (In The Philippines) 01 June 1981
=== J ===
*J.M.K.E.: Tbilisi Tänavad 14 March 1990 Translated from Estonian as 'Streets Of Tbilisi'.
*Jack The Lad: Oakey Strike Evictions (session) 21 May 1974 "The events occurred during the 1885 stoppage in the North West Durham coalfield when striking miners could be evicted from their mine-owned houses..."
*Wanda Jackson: Fujiyama Mama 20 May 1986
*Jam: Eton Rifles 16 October 1979
*Jam On The Mutha: Hotel California (Eagles) 30 June 1990 (BFBS)
*Elmore James: Canton, Mississippi Breakdown 30 July 1969
*John James: Lampeter (session) 02 October 1968
*Bert Jansch: Haitian Fight Song 18 December 1968
*Jesus And Mary Chain: Surfin' USA 16 August 1988
*Johnny & Jon: Christmas In Vietnam 01 April 1994
*Robert Johnson: Sweet Home Chicago 22 June 1969
*Wilko Johnson: Cairo Blues 09 February 1981
*Nic Jones: Rufford Park Poachers (session) 29 August 1972 Also recorded by Martin Carthy, who wrote: "Rufford Park is not far from Mansfield, and in 1850 there was a showdown between local people and gamekeepers in the shape of a vicious and bitter fight, after which ringleaders were selected, tried and transported for up to 14 years...." 
*Nic Jones: Donald The Pride Of Glencoe (session) 11 July 1972 
*Nic Jones: The Harper Of Lochmaben (session) 11 July 1972 
*Nic Jones: The Island Of Helena (session) 11 July 1972 
*Nic Jones: The Green Mossy Banks Of The Lea (session) 07 December 1972 
*Nic Jones: Lakes Of Shillin (session) 07 December 1972 "The song is very likely based on a real incident and is said to be from around 1800 in the Enniskillen area...."
*Nic Jones: Isle Of France (session) 20 September 1973 Isle of France (i.e. Mauritius) is a ballad about a convict being shipwrecked on the way back home from his transportation sentence
*Nic Jones: The Working Lads Of Russia (session) 07 November 1974
*Nic Jones: Bonny Banks Of Fordie (session) 07 November 1974 "There is a Fordie in Perthshire, between Comrie and Crieff, although it’s unlikely that’s the location of the ballad, not least since it’s often found as The Bonnie Banks o Airdrie,..."
*Nic Jones: Barrack Street 10 June 1980 A "story of an evening of misfortune en route to Windsor town for one young sailor..."
*JSD Band: Dowie Dens Of Yarrow 17 May 1973
*JSD Band: The Galway Races (session) 28 December 1972
*JSD Band: Glasgow (session) 19 July 1973
*JSD Band: Castle Kelly (session) 19 July 1973
*JSD Band: Downfall Of Paris (session) 1 February 1974
=== K ===
*Kak: Golgotha 11 May 1969
*KK Kings: Trance Delhi Express (session) 06 May 1994
*KK Kings: Holidays In The UK 29 January 1994
*KLF: America What Time Is Love 18 January 1992
*Jo-Ann Kelly: Louisiana Blues (session) 04 September 1968
=== L ===
*Led Zeppelin: Kashmir 24 February 1975
*Deke Leonard: Map Of India (session) 27 February 1978
*Jeffrey Lewis: The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song 30 April 2002References New York city landmark known for its famous guests, also subject of song by Leonard Cohen.
*Jerry Lee Lewis: What Made Milwaukee Famous 11 August 1968
*LFO: Simon From Sydney 27 May 2003
*Liverpool Scene: Tramcar to Frankenstein (session) 19 January 1969Tells of a trip to Frankenstein Castle, near Darmstadt, Germany.
*Liverpool Scene: Wild West (session) 19 January 1969
*Liverpool Scene: Boathouse (session) 03 January 1970About a visit to the Boathouse at Laugharne in south Wales, where Dylan Thomas spent the final four years of his life
*Lovindeer: Babylon Boops 29 October 1986
=== M ===
*thumb|220x220pxLonnie Mack: Memphis 24 November 1968
*Rabbit MacKay & The Somis Rhythm Band: Mexico Town 08 September 1968
*Mad Professor: South African Crossfire 15 September 1982 (BFBS)
*Mad Professor: Jordan River 15 May 1983 (BFBS)
*Kansas Joe McCoy: Joliet Bound 05 January 1991Refers to the prison in Joliet, Illinois
*Fred McDowell: Red Cross Store Blues 02 April 1969
*Fred McDowell: 61 Highway 04 July 1970
*Fred McDowell: All The Way From East St. Louis 05 January 1996:
*Scott McKenzie: San Francisco 17 July 1967
*Blind Willie McTell: Statesboro' Blues 26 June 1968
*Madness: Night Boat To Cairo 22 October 1979
*Man Or Astro-man?: Bermuda Triangle Shorts 02 October 1993
*Man Or Astro-man?: Transmission From Venus 94 08 July 1994
*Manic Street Preachers: Tennessee [I Get Low] 02 April 1997
*Steve Marcus: Scarborough Fair 30 April 1969
*Wink Martindale: America: An Affirmation 23 August 1988
*John Martyn - Memphis Blues (session) 10 July 1968
*Matching Mole: Nan True's Hole 17 October 1972Peel's own home called Peel Acres, which was originally named 'Nan True's Hole'.
*Matthews’ Southern Comfort: Colorado Springs Eternal 24 January 1970
*Matthews Southern Comfort: Woodstock 12 August 1976
*John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers: (featuring Paul Butterfield) Riding on the L&N 19 July 1967 "L&N" refers to the Louisiana and Nashville Railroad
*John Mayall: Saw Mill Gulch Road 15 November 1969:
*Megadeth: Anarchy In The U.K. 09 February 1988
*Melt Banana: Surfin' USA‬ 09 March 1999
*Men They Couldn't Hang: The Green Fields Of France (session) 12 July 1984
*Steve Miller Band: Living in the USA 27 October 1968:
*Joni Mitchell: Chelsea Morning (session) 29 September 1968
*Joni Mitchell: California (live) 27 December 1970
*Joni Mitchell: Free Man In Paris 12 February 1974
*Joni Mitchell: In France They Kiss On Main Street 16 December 1975
*Moby Grape: Omaha 02 August 1967:
*Christy Moore:: Spancilhill 06 June 1972 "Spancil Hill is located in Muckinish townland, parish of Clooney, Bunratty Upper barony, County Clare, Ireland, just outside Ennis on the road to Tulla...."
*Van Morrison: Cyprus Avenue 25 September 1973
*Van Morrison: Santa Fe / Beautiful Obsession 13 November 1978
*Mothers Of Invention: America Drinks & Goes Home 18 July 1967
*Mothers Of Invention: Camarillo Brillo 04 October 1973
*Mott the Hoople: All The Way From Memphis 21 June 1973
*MX-80 Sound: I Left My Heart In San Francisco 17 October 1979
=== N ===
*Na Filí: Mary From Ballyhaumis (session) 17 July 1973Ballyhaunis is a town in County Mayo, Ireland.
*Nazareth: Alcatraz 05 April 1973
*New Fast Automatic Daffodils: Stockholm 25 September 1992
*Randy Newman: Louisiana (session) 03 June 1974
*Randy Newman: Birmingham (session) 03 June 1974
*Randy Newman: Albanian Wedding Day (session) 03 June 1974
*Randy Newman New Orleans Wins The War 11 October 1988
*Nice: America (2nd Amendment) 30 June 1968
*Nice: Intermezzo From The Karelia Suite (session) 01 December 1968 The Karelia Suite is a subset of pieces from the longer Karelia Music (named after the Finnish region of Karelia) written by Jean Sibelius in 1893
*Nice: Blues Of The Prairies (session) 20 April 1969 From jazz pianist Oscar Peterson's Canadiana Suite
*Nice & Roy Harper: St. Thomas (session) 08 June 1969 Named after one of the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the tune's composer Sonny Rollins's mother was born
*Number One Cup: The New Virginia 15 April 1997
 
=== O ===
*Occasional Word Ensemble: Brownsville Blues (session) 24 July 1968
*Occasional Word Ensemble - Georgia Skin Game (session) 24 July 1968
*Phil Ochs: Talking Birmingham Jam 18 July 1967
*Phil Ochs: No Christmas In Kentucky 24 December 1992
*Bill Oddie: On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at 07 February 1970
*Will Oldham: Barcelona 10 December 2002
*Dr Oloh: Sierra Leone Unite (session) 30 January 1993
*One Way System: Jerusalem 10 March 1983
*Onyeka: Trina Four (Highland Town) 19 February 1985
*Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Stanlow 27 October 1980
*Orchids: Avignon 01 January 1994
*Ordinaires: Kashmir 05 April 1990
=== P ===
*thumb|220x220pxAugustus Pablo: Babylon Wounded 14 June 1989
*Augustus Pablo: Struggle In Soweto 08 January 1985
*Augustus Pablo: West Abyssinia 01 April 1995
*Palace Brothers: The Ohio Boat Song 26 March 1993
*Palace Music: Old Jerusalem 30 September 1995
*Palace Music: West Palm Beach (session) 07 July 1995
*Panama Limited Jug Band: Going To Germany (session) 20 August 1969
*Paris: Istanbul 18 February 1987
*Van Dyke Parks: FDR In Trinidad 13 June 1972 "FDR in Trinidad" (also known as "Roosevelt in Trinidad") is a calypso song written by Fritz McLean and popularized by Atilla the Hun (Raymond Quevedo) to commemorate U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1936 trip to Trinidad.
*Kenneth Patchen: 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven 29 May 1968
*Big Amos Patton: Going To Vietnam 20 April 1988
*Frankie Paul: Ethiopia Here I Come 18 January 1989
*Pavement: Kentucky Cocktail (session) 10 July 1992
*Pavement: Saginaw 13 January 1996Saginaw is a city in and the seat of Saginaw County, Michigan, United States.
*Pavement: Zurich Is Stained 04 May 1992 (Ö3)
*Tom Paxton: Forest Lawn 09 May 1970
*Pentangle - Bruton Town (session) 18 May 1969
*Pere Ubu: 30 Seconds Over Tokyo 15 July 1989 (BFBS)
*Pink Military: After Hiroshima 09 June 1980
*Pixies: Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons 15 September 1991Olympus Mons (Latin for Mount Olympus) is a shield volcano on Mars. It is over 21.9 km (13.6 mi or 72,000 ft) high as measured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA),and is about two and a half times Mount Everest's height above sea level. It is Mars's tallest volcano, its tallest planetary mountain, and is approximately tied with Rheasilvia on Vesta as the tallest mountain currently discovered in the Solar System.
*Pixies: Letter To Memphis (session) 04 August 1991
*Pixies: River Euphrates 10 August 1988
*Plaid: Radio Prague 04 September 1997
*Plaid: Scoops In Columbia 08 January 1998
*Plainsong Nobody Eats At Linebaugh's Anymore (session) 30 November 1972John Hartford song about decline of Linebaugh's, "a popular restaurant among those in the Nashville music community"
*Planxty: West Coast Of Clare (session) 08 August 1972Clare is the seventh largest of Ireland's 32 traditional counties in area and the 19th largest in terms of population.
*Pogues: Fairytale Of New York 30 November 1987
*Pogues: Greenland Whale Fisheries (session) 17 April 1984
*Pogues: South Australia 01 February 1988
*Pogues: The Battle Of Brisbane 16 October 1984
*Pop Group: The Boys From Brazil 16 May 1979
*Elvis Presley: Blue Moon Of Kentucky 24 February 2000 (Radio Eins)
*John Prine: Angel From Montgomery (session) 17 April 1973
*Propellerheads: Take California 23 November 1996
*Psychedelic Furs: India 03 March 1980
*Public Enemy: By The Time I Get To Arizona 06 October 1991
=== Q ===
*Que Bono: Burton Wood (session) 16 June 1981Burtonwood is a village in the civil parish of Burtonwood and Westbrook, in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England.
=== R ===
*Ramones: California Sun 10 December 1976
*Ramones: Havana Affair 21 May 1976
*Ramones: It's A Long Way Back To Germany 15 April 1987
*Ramones: Palisades Park 08 August 1989Located in New Jersey.
*Red Alert: In Britain 02 July 1981 (BFBS) 
*Residents: I Left My Heart In San Francisco 17 October 1979
*Rezillos: Destination Venus (session) 08 June 1978
*Marc Riley & The Creepers: Location Bangladesh 29 November 1983
*Ritual Tension: Hotel California 18 August 1987
*Jess Roden Band: US Dreams (session) 17 December 1976
*Rodney Rogers' Red Peppers: Milenberg Joys 17 June 2004‘In 1830, a railroad was built to connect New Orleans to the lakefront at Milneburg....From the 1830's to the 1930's, Milneburg was a popular place for dances and parties every weekend during New Orleans' long hot summers....'
*Rolling Stones: Route 66 03 August 1978
*Max Romeo (& The Upsetters): War Ina Babylon 16 March 1976
*Tim Rose: Roanoke (session) 07 July 1968
*Tim Rose: Foggy Mountain Breakdown On Rye With Mustard (session) 11 August 1968
*Roxy Music: Virginia Plain 21 July 1972
*Roxy Music: Amazona 08 November 1973
*Roxy Music: A Song For Europe 11 December 1973
*Tom Rush: Tin Angel (session) 21 January 1968Refers to a cafe at 149 Bleecker St., New York City, the setting for this Joni Mitchell song 
*Tom Rush: Merrimack County II 08 September 1972 County in New Hampshire, U.S.A.
*Ruts: Babylon's Burning (session) 29 January 1979
=== S ===
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*Savoy Brown Blues Band: Louisiana Blues (session) 30 June 1968
*Screaming Blue Messiahs: President Kennedy's Mile 14 June 1986 (BFBS)
*Scritti Politti: Asylums In Jerusalem (session) 24 May 1982
*John Sebastian: Face Of Appalachia 10 October 1974
*Márta Sebestyén: Dances from Village Szek 13 April 1988
*Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The U.K. 19 November 1976
*Shamen: Jesus Loves Amerika 24 May 1988
*Sandie Shaw: Tonight In Tokyo 17 July 1967
*Shellac: Canada 19 February 1998
*Shop Assistants: Somewhere In China (session) 21 October 1985
*Shop Assistants: Train From Kansas City 09 January 1987 (BFBS)
*Silicon Teens: Memphis, Tennessee 31 July 1979
*Simon and Garfunkel: Bleecker Street 18 July 1967
*Singing Nolans: Blackpool 03 October 1989
*Siouxsie & The Banshees: Hong Kong Garden 26 July 1978
*Siouxsie & The Banshees: Israel 12 November 1980
*Small Faces: Itchycoo Park 10 August 1967 Title refers to a park in Ilford, Essex, according to band members Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane
*Smiths: Rusholme Ruffians 05 February 1985
*Soledad Brothers: Going’ Back To Memphis (live) 06 November 2002
*Solex: Athens, Ohio 28 September 1999
*Solex: Santa Monica (session) 13 November 2001
*Sonic Youth: Pacific Coast Highway 15 December 1991State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north–south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California. At 656 miles (1,056 km), it is the longest state route in California, and the second-longest in the US after Montana Highway 200. SR 1 has several portions designated as either Pacific Coast Highway (PCH), Cabrillo Highway, Shoreline Highway, or Coast Highway.
*Sonic Youth: Tokyo Eye 06 May 1994
*Henry Spaulding: Cairo Blues 30 October 1968Refers to Cairo, Illinois
*Squirrel Bait: Tape From California 24 February 1987
*Steeleye Span: The Hills Of Greenmore (session) 11 April 1970
*Steel Pulse: Handsworth Revolution 27 April 1978
*Al Stewart: In Brooklyn (session) 15 September 1968
*Al Stewart: Memphis, Tennessee (session) 20 August 1969 
*Al Stewart: Clifton In The Rain (session) 20 August 1969 Refers to Clifton, a suburb of Bristol
*Al Stewart: Electric Los Angeles Sunset (session) 13 December 1969
*Mark Stewart: Jerusalem 22 September 1982 (BFBS)
*Stiff Little Fingers: Alternative Ulster (session) 13 April 1978
*Frank Stokes: Memphis Rounder's Blues 12 June 1968
*Stranglers: Sverige (Jag Är Insnöad På Östfronten) 07 July 1979 (BFBS)Swedish language translation of 'Sweden'.
*Stranglers: Sweden (All Quiet On The Eastern Front) 10 May 1978
*Stretchheads: Afghanistan Bananastan (session) 27 July 1991
*String Driven Thing: Starving In The Tropics (session) 29 March 1976
=== T ===
*June Tabor & Tim Hart: Scarborough Fair Town (session) 10 March 1975
*June Tabor: Plains Of Waterloo 01 September 1976
*June Tabor: Derry Jail 19 July 1977
*June Tabor: Riding Down To Portsmouth 19 July 1977
*June Tabor: Streets Of Forbes 19 July 1977
*June Tabor: No Man's Land 19 July 1977
*June Tabor: The Overgate 01 February 1978 "The Overgate was a street in Dundee, the “Reeperbahn” target for ploughmen on the lookout for a good night on the tiles...."
*James Taylor: Carolina In My Mind (live) 01 November 1970
*Teardrop Explodes: Kilimanjaro 02 October 1980
*Teardrop Explodes: Thief Of Baghdad 24 April 1980
*This Heat: The Fall Of Saigon (session) 22 April 1977
*George Thorogood And The Destroyers: Delaware Slide 15 June 1978
*Three Johns: Coals To Newcastle (session) 23 July 1985
*Transglobal Underground: Sirius B 02 April 1993
*Tuxedomoon: I Left My Heart In San Francisco 17 October 1979
*Tyrannosaurus Rex: Once Upon the Seas of Abyssinia (session) 11 May 1969
*Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Misty Coast Of Albany (session) 11 May 1969
=== U ===
*UK Decay: Jerusalem Over (The White Cliffs Of Dover) 04 August 1982
*Ultramarine: Nova Scotia (session) 22 May 1992
*Uncle Tupelo: Sauget Wind 24 July 1992
=== V ===
*Velvet Opera: Statesboro Blues 22 June 1969The title refers to the town of Statesboro, Georgia, USA.
*Vibes: I'm In Pittsburgh (And It's Rain'in) 10 February 1985 (BFBS)
=== W ===
*thumb|220x220pxLoudon Wainwright III: East Indian Princess 22 May 1971
*Loudon Wainwright III: Jerusalem Town 23 June 1973
*Loudon Wainwright III: Detroit's A Dying City 12 May 1975
*Loudon Wainwright III: Ode To A Pittsburgh 24 April 1971
*Loudon Wainwright III:9: Hollywood Hopeful 26 September 1979
*Gordon Waller: Rosecrans Boulevard 21 January 1968Los Angeles street (actually Rosecrans Avenue), setting for this Jim Webb song and later "West Coast rap’s boulevard of dreams".
*Joe Walsh: Rocky Mountain Way 28 June 1973
*Watersons: Willy Went To Westerdale 23 April 1969:
*Wedding Present: California 29 May 1992
*Wedding Present: Cumberland Gap 03 October 1992The Cumberland Gap is a pass in the eastern United States through the long ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, within the Appalachian Mountains and near the tripoint of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.
*Wedding Present: Kansas 12 October 1996
*Wedding Present: Montreal 01 September 1996
*Wedding Present: Niagara 28 April 1991
*Wedding Present: Rotterdam 05 May 1991
*Werefrogs: Slovenia (session) 06 March 1993
*Where's The Beach: Suakin 31 August 1989
*Bukka White: Parchman Farm Blues 19 April 2000
*White Stripes: Lafayette Blues 25 October 2001Lyrics are a list of French names of streets in the band's hometown of Detroit, Michigan.
*White Stripes: Goin' Back To Memphis 08 November 2001
*Wild Man Fischer: Go To Rhino Records 11 October 1976
*Robin Williamson & His Merry Band: Lough Foyle 01 August 1979
*Johnny Winter: Leland Mississippi Blues 22 June 1969
*Robert Wyatt: Caimanera 31 March 1980Municipality in Cuba.
*Robert Wyatt: East Timor 27 November 1985
*Robert Wyatt: A Sunday in Madrid 14 August 1997
=== X ===
*Xmal Deutschland: Xmass In Australia 27 June 1984 (BFBS)
*XTC: Dance With Me, Germany 09 March 1983
=== Y ===
*Yes: America Radio Luxembourg Tracklistings 2 (1972)
*Neil Young: Alabama 18 February 1972
*Neil Young: On Broadway 12 October 1989
*Young Tradition: Banks Of The Nile 12 February 1969
*Young Tradition; Claudy Banks 27 August 1969"Claudy is in the north of Ireland, and the Australian version of the song refers also to Newry, not too far from Claudy. So we may reasonably conclude that this ballad began life in Ireland. But it has long been acclimatised in Britain, and some nineteenth century Scottish collectors indeed claimed that it originated in that country...."
*Young Tradition; Ratcliff Highway 11 September 1968"The Ratcliff Highway lies within what is today the area of Shadwell and is known simply as The Highway...."
*Yourcodenameis:milo: Scandinavia (session) 19 March 2003
*Yummy Fur: Hong Kong In Stereo 18 March 1995
*Yummy Fur: Playboy Japan 16 November 1998 (BFBS)
=== Z ===
*Frank Zappa: Transylvanian Boogie 05 December 1970
*Frank Zappa: Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy J P D34 (1975)
*Frank Zappa: The Illinois Enema Bandit 23 March 1978
*Zebra Stripes: El Paseo 07 January 1987
*Benjamin Zephaniah: Free South Africa Stewart Tape Oct 1983
*Benjamin Zephaniah: Uganda's What I Mean 10 January 1983
*Zimbabwe Cha Cha Cha Kings: South Africa 08 February 1992
*Zion Train: Babylon's Burning 09 June 1996
*Zion Train: Brazil 1970 17 December 1993
*Zion Train: Gargantua Del Diablo 21 May 1994A play on the name of Garganta Del Diablo, spectacular cataract on the Río Iguazú (Rio Iguaçu) at the border of Argentina and Brazil.
*Zion Train: Jericho 28 October 1995
*Zion Train: Kilmanjaro 28 May 1994 (BFBS)
*Zion Train: Llanberis Pass 14 May 1994The Llanberis Pass lies between the mountain massifs of Snowdon and the Glyderau in the county of Gwynedd, in northwestern Wales.
*Zion Train: The Great Barrier Reef 03 June 1994
===0-9===
*15: Bucharest 16 January 1989
*2/5 BZ: Oxvz Istanbul 22 December 2004 (Rob Da Bank)
*70 Gwen Party: This New Model England (session) 26 May 1991
*808 State: Pacific State 26 July 1989
*90 Day Men: My Trip To Venus 08 July 1999
== See Also ==
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