Songs with state names in the title... all 50? Without looking them up?
- Sweet Home Alabama
- Ant In Alaska (Liz Phair)
- There Is No Arizona (Jamie O'Neal)
- Arkansas Traveler
- Hotel California
- Colorado Sunrise (Merle)
- The Wives are in Connecticut (Carly Simon)
- Delaware
- Mainline Florida (Clapton)
- Georgia On My Mind
- Blue Hawaii (Elvis)
- Private Idaho (B52s)
- Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois (Sufjan Stevens)
- Indiana Wants Me
- Iowa (Slipknot)
- Kansas City Here I Come
- Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bill Monroe)
- Louisiana (Randy Newman)
- Maine
- Maryland (Vonda Shepard)
- Massachusetts (Scud Mountain Boys)
- Saginaw, Michigan
- Jordan, Minnesota (Big Black)
- Mississippi Delta Blues
- Missing Missouri (Sarah Evans)
- Moving to Montana (Zappa)
- Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen)
- Stop in Nevada
- No One Likes New Hampshire (They Might Be Giants)
- Las Lomas De New Jersey (Marc Ribot and Los Cubanos Postizos)
- New Mexico (Billy Joel)
- New York, New York
- North Carolina (Les McCann)
- North Dakota
- Ohio is for Lovers
- Oklahoma!
- The Oregon Trail
- Pennsylvania 65000 (Glenn Miller)
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee Stud
- Yellow Rose of Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- New Virginia Creeper (Old Crow Medicine Show)
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Sweet Wyoming Home (Bill Staines)
I don't know if this can be done.
Is it cheating to use such things as, e.g., the Iowa Fight Song?
Hmm, let’s see if this link works?
If not, probably going to be fairly easy (there “On Wisconsin”, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On,_Wisconsin!"for example).
hmm. tough call. maybe that makes it too easy, since every state has a college song, or two, or twelve. on the other hand, i suspect that’s all there is for some states.
interesting HREF, BTW :)
Whoops! I’m sure it’s exciting stuff.
Can we count “Gone to Carolina in my Mind”? Taylor doesn’t specify North or South, but…
Also, I like “Alabama Bound” better than “Sweet Home”.
Is “Mississippi Delta Blues” the name of a song as well as of a genre?
Oklahoma!
The Oregon Trail
Can we count “Gone to Carolina in my Mind”?
nope!
Is “Mississippi Delta Blues” the name of a song as well as of a genre?
yep
Oklahoma, The Oregon Trail. noted.
Ohio is for Lovers, by Hawthorne Heights
Indiana Wants Me, I will need to look up the performer.
Private Idaho, The B-52’s
Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen
Pennsylvania 65000 by Glenn Miller.
Also, I like “Alabama Bound” better than “Sweet Home”.
or “Stars Fell On Alabama” – it’s on their license plates !
Louisiana 1927 by Randy Newman.
This link might help with the rest
http://elbo.ws/post/1137926/songs-of-the-fifty-states-south-dakota-to-wyoming/
well that ain’t no fun!
“Blue Sky” by the Allman Bros. Maybe it doesn’t count because it doesn’t specify N vs. S–but it’s surely N.
When I was in Girl Scouts we sang a song that had every state name in it. I don’t remember them all, but I do remember this:
Why did “Cali-fone-ya, why did Cali-fone…”
She called to say “Haw-wi-ya, she called to say Haw-wi-ya.”
and there was something about wearing a “new jersey.”
oh yeah! an old country song has these lyrics–“i was born, in saignaw, michigan.” i don’t know who it’s by or if it’s that the title.
maybe merle haggard?
OK–last post:
The GS song was: “What did Delaware, boys? What did Delaware?
She wore her New Jersey, boys, she wore her New Jersey.”
in the title, P. !
Paige — we sang that song too, in boy scouts or something like that — the line “What did Cunnecta cut, boys? What did Cunnecta cut?” always seemed totally ridiculous to me. And I can’t even remember what she did end up cutting!
Oh and the title of that song is apparently “Delaware” so there’s that. The version I link does not have the Cunnecta verse, but that was definitely in the one we sang.
Ok. Let’s see…
Colorado Sunrise – Merle Haggard
The Wives are in Connecticut – Carly Simon
Blue Hawaii – Elvis
Maryland – Vonda Shepard
Saginaw, Michigan
Missing Missouri – Sarah Evans
Moving to Montana – Zappa
Stop in Nevada – Can’t remember the artist
No One Likes New Hampshire – They Might Be Giants
New Mexico – Billy Joel
Stopping here because I am too lazy to think more and I was missing a bunch.
awesome. 72% done!
Moonlight in Vermont
Bill Staines did a song called “Sweet Wyoming Home.” If that’s too obscure an artist, I’m pretty sure there’s a John Denver song with Wyoming in the title.
Also, Slipknot did a song called “Iowa” (on the album of the same name).
Bill Staines will do. the only thing i’m looking up is spelling.
“Las Lomas De New Jersey”, Marc Ribot and Los Cubanos Postizos
Yes. I know of Bill Staines. But since you asked…. John Denver did cover Chris LeDoux’s “Song of Wyoming”. Chris has a couple of others as well.