"Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

[hornet61]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

Please Come To Boston - Dave Loggins
Tucumcari (nm) - Jimmie Rodgers
El Paso City - Marty Robbins (1978,#1 CW)
San Antonio Nights - Eddy Raven

 

[radioman148]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

Please Come To Boston - Dave Loggins
Tucumcari (nm) - Jimmie Rodgers
El Paso City - Marty Robbins (1978,#1 CW)
San Antonio Nights - Eddy Raven

Bimbombay--Jimmy Rodgers
Sugar Town--Nancy Sinatra
St Louis Blues--Jackie Wilson

 

[nightfly61]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

Harper Valley P.T.A-Jeannie C. Riley
Cleveland Shuffle-71 North
Detroit Hustle-Stevie Wonder
Washington Square-Village Stompers
Windchester Cathedral-New Vaudville Band
Kentucky Rain- Elvis
Rocky Top- Osbourne Bros.
L.A Woman-Doors
Africa- Toto
Asia
Europe
Rio-Duran Duran

 

[radioman148]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

North To Alaska--Johnny Horton
Philadelphia Freedom--Elton John

 

[deltas69]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

didn't see them mentioned so here goes..YELLOW RIVER by CHRISTIE..doesn't mention state..but obviously going back there to home..and the double hit fron don williams and eric clapton..TULSA TIME..two chords and a roadhouse favorite..("i thought you'd be bigger").. ;D

 

[radioman148]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

didn't see them mentioned so here goes..YELLOW RIVER by CHRISTIE..doesn't mention state..but obviously going back there to home..and the double hit fron don williams and eric clapton..TULSA TIME..two chords and a roadhouse favorite..("i thought you'd be bigger").. ;D

I never knew this until recently, but somebody mentioned that many stations refused to play "Yellow River"
because it was supposedly about heroin.

 

[radiobop]

Re: Yellow River by Christie

>I never knew this until recently, but somebody mentioned that many stations refused to play "Yellow River"
>because it was supposedly about heroin.

Heroin????? The song is the thoughts of a young man whose time in the army (possibly the Vietnam War, given the time the song was recorded) is over and he is looking forward to returning to his home town in the country on Yellow River.

Nevertheless, Sugar Town by Nancy Sinatra WAS all about LSD and NOBODY (to my knowledge) refused to play it becuase of the possible drug tie-in

 

[Silkie]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

Oh, what the heck, I guess I'll go for the obvious:

Let's go for Bobby Troup's "Route 66" and call it for The Manhattan Transfer.

 

[deltas69]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

I never knew this until recently, but somebody mentioned that many stations refused to play "Yellow River"
because it was supposedly about heroin. your right..the station manager at WHIN in gallatin where i worked would not play it because thats what he thought even thogh the lyrics clearly are plain as to the songs meaning..that manager left shortly thereafter and the new manager let us roll with most anything as long as it was on the charts and the nashville stations were palying it..the nancy sinatra/lee hazlewood song "summer wine" is my favorite from her..very double entendre'...

 

[firepoint525]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

CCR had "Green River," not sure which Green River that it was referring to, although I believe there is one in Kentucky. There was a Green River Parkway there, until they renamed it for a long-serving Congressman.

CCR are probably the "kings" of place names, although they didn't necessarily make those places the titles of their songs. "Proud Mary" mentioned New Orleans and, of course, Memphis, while "Travelin' Band" also threw in a plug for the bluff city.

America's "Daisy Jane" also made mention of my old home town! 8) ;D

 

[firepoint525]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

New York State of Mind- Billy Joel
Pablo Cruise (Pablo Montana)
Tennessee-Arrested Developement
Waking Up in Vegas-Katy Perry
New York Minute-Don Henley
reaching...but...Ottowan ???

Mentions Dyersburg and Ripley! How often do small towns in west Tennessee get mentioned in songs? ;D

For East Tennessee, there is "Smoky Mountain Rain" by Ronnie Milsap, which to me is the Tennessee equivalent of "Kentucky Rain" (already mentioned, I believe) and makes mention of East Tennessee cities like Knoxville and Gatlinburg.

 

[firepoint525]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

Please Come To Boston - Dave Loggins
Tucumcari (nm) - Jimmie Rodgers
El Paso City - Marty Robbins (1978,#1 CW)San Antonio Nights - Eddy Raven

He had "El Paso" and "El Paso City"! 8) ;D

 

[firepoint525]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

KISS, "Detroit Rock City," the B-side of "Beth," but it was originally intended to be just the reverse, with "Detroit Rock City" being the A-side, and "Beth" the B-side. Not sure how they got reversed, unless some program director somewhere determined (correctly!) that "Beth" could be a big hit if it were the A-side.

And Detroit Rock City became the title of a movie about a group of fictional fans trying to get to go see KISS back in the '70s!

 

[radioman148]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

New York's A Lonely Town--Tradewinds
"Cripple Creek"--The Band ;D

 

[hornet61]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

Please Come To Boston - Dave Loggins
Tucumcari (nm) - Jimmie Rodgers
El Paso City - Marty Robbins (1978,#1 CW)San Antonio Nights - Eddy Raven

He had "El Paso" and "El Paso City"! 8) ;D

Trivia :"El Paso" by Marty Robbins was the first #1 of the 60's....making "Why" - Frankie Avalon the last #1 of the 50's. "Someday We'll Be Together" - Supremes was the last #1 of the 60's. This is how they are listed on the Billboard Charts, the chronological dates are slightly overlapping, but the charts are final.

 

[radioman148]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

Please Come To Boston - Dave Loggins
Tucumcari (nm) - Jimmie Rodgers
El Paso City - Marty Robbins (1978,#1 CW)San Antonio Nights - Eddy Raven

He had "El Paso" and "El Paso City"! 8) ;D

Trivia :"El Paso" by Marty Robbins was the first #1 of the 60's....making "Why" - Frankie Avalon the last #1 of the 50's. "Someday We'll Be Together" - Supremes was the last #1 of the 60's. This is how they are listed on the Billboard Charts, the chronological dates are slightly overlapping, but the charts are final.

A little different on the Chicago charts. WJJD which was Chicago's Top 40 station before WLS, opened 1960 with "Why" at #1, followed by "Running Bear" by Johnny Preston.

 

[hornet61]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

Yes, that makes sense, Running Bear replaced EP after a two week run and in turn was bumped by "Teen Angel" in Billboard, and the local charts use listener imput, to a bigger extent that Billboard.

 

[radioman148]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

Yes, that makes sense, Running Bear replaced EP after a two week run and in turn was bumped by "Teen Angel" in Billboard, and the local charts use listener imput, to a bigger extent that Billboard.

I again checked the Chicago charts and found that Teen Angel made it to #4, and El Paso only made #5. Always interesting to see how the regional charts differ.

 

[Silkie]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

Please Come To Boston - Dave Loggins
Tucumcari (nm) - Jimmie Rodgers
El Paso City - Marty Robbins (1978,#1 CW)San Antonio Nights - Eddy Raven

He had "El Paso" and "El Paso City"! 8) ;D

Trivia :"El Paso" by Marty Robbins was the first #1 of the 60's....making "Why" - Frankie Avalon the last #1 of the 50's. "Someday We'll Be Together" - Supremes was the last #1 of the 60's. This is how they are listed on the Billboard Charts, the chronological dates are slightly overlapping, but the charts are final.

The last song on a CCR Greatest Hits CD is entitled, "Someday Never Comes".

Tuxedo Junction - The Glenn Miller Orchestra

 

[radioman148]

Re: "Kicks on Route 66" - songs with city titles. Fantasy weekend programming

Please Come To Boston - Dave Loggins
Tucumcari (nm) - Jimmie Rodgers
El Paso City - Marty Robbins (1978,#1 CW)San Antonio Nights - Eddy Raven

He had "El Paso" and "El Paso City"! 8) ;D

Trivia :"El Paso" by Marty Robbins was the first #1 of the 60's....making "Why" - Frankie Avalon the last #1 of the 50's. "Someday We'll Be Together" - Supremes was the last #1 of the 60's. This is how they are listed on the Billboard Charts, the chronological dates are slightly overlapping, but the charts are final.

The last song on a CCR Greatest Hits CD is entitled, "Someday Never Comes".

Tuxedo Junction - The Glenn Miller Orchestra

Tuxedo Junction--Frankie Avalon