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Musical Dice -- Placing The Tunes

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     This article is all about top-10 hit song titles that have the names of places in them. To keep the length of this article to a manageable length, I'm going to limit these tunes to ones that have proper names for places in the titles.


Place The Tunes

  • "Yellow Rose Of Texas" -- Mitch Miller with his Orchestra & Chorus (1955, #1 for 6 weeks)

  • "Kansas City" -- Wilbert Harrison (1959, #1 for 2 weeks)

  • "Battle Of New Orleans" -- Johnny Horton (1959, #1 for 6 weeks)

  • "El Paso" -- Marty Robbins (1960, #1 for 2 weeks)

  • "Walking To New Orleans" -- Fats Domino (1960, #6)

  • "North To Alaska" -- Johnny Horton (1960, #4)

  • "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" -- Freddy Cannon (1960, #3)

  • "Georgia On My Mind" -- Ray Charles (1960, #1 for 1 week)

  • "Tallahassee Lassie" -- Freddy Cannon (1960, #6)

  • "Calcutta" -- Lawrence Welk & his Orchestra (1961, #1 for 2 weeks)

  • "Palisades Park" -- Freddy Cannon (1962, #3)

  • "Memphis" -- Lonnie Mack (1963, #5)

  • "Washington Square" -- The Village Stompers (1963, #2 for 1 week)

  • "Memphis" -- Johnny Rivers (1964, #2 for 2 weeks)

  • "The Girl From Ipanema" -- Stan Getz (1964, #5)

  • "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" -- Jan & Dean (1964, #3)

  • "California Girls" -- The Beach Boys (1965, #3)

  • "The Boy From New York City" -- The Ad-Libs (1965, #8)

  • "California Dreamin'" -- The Mamas & Papas (1966, #4)

  • "Last Train To Clarksville" -- The Monkees (1966, #1 for 1 week)

  • "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" -- Scott McKenzie (1967, #4)

  • "San Franciscan Nights" -- The Animals (1967, #9)

  • "Do You Know The Way To San Jose" -- Dionne Warwick (1968, #10)

  • "Wichita Lineman" -- Glen Campbell (1969, #3)

  • "Hawaii Five-O" -- The Ventures (1969, #4)

  • "Galveston" -- Glen Campbell (1969, #4)

  • "Montego Bay" -- Bobby Bloom (1970, #8)

  • "Rainy Night In Georgia" -- Brook Benton (1970, #4)

  • "Arizona" -- Mark Lindsay (1970, #10)

  • "Indiana Wanta Me" -- R. Dean Taylor (1970, #5)

  • "It Never Rains In Southern California" -- Albert Hammond (1972, #5)

  • "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" -- Vicki Lawrence (1973, #1 for 2 weeks)

  • "The Cisco Kid" -- War (1973, #2 for 2 weeks)

  • "Midnight Train To Georgia" -- Gladys Knight & the Pips (1973, #1 for 2 weeks)

  • "T.S.O.P. (The Sound Of Philadelphia)" -- M.F.S.B. feat. the Three Degrees (1974, #1 for 2 weeks)

  • "Waterloo" -- ABBA (1974, #6)

  • "The Night Chicago Died" -- Paper Lace (1974, #1 for 1 week)

  • "Sweet Home Alabama" -- Lynyrd Skynyrd (1974, #8)

  • "Hollywood Swinging" -- Kool & the Gang (1974, #6)

  • "Philadelphia Freedom" -- Elton John (1975, #1 for 2 weeks)

  • "Please Come To Boston" -- Dave Loggins (1975, #5)

  • "Weekend In New England" -- Barry Manilow (1977, #10)

  • "Hotel California" -- The Eagles (1977, #1 for 1 week)

  • "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" -- The Charlie Daniels Band (1979, #3)

  • "America" -- Neil Diamond (1981, #8)

  • "The Boy From New York City" -- The Manhattan Transfer (1981, #7)

  • "Key Largo" -- Bertie Higgins (1982, #8)

  • "Africa" -- Toto (1983, #1 for 1 week)

  • "Down Under" -- Men At Work (1983, #1 for 4 weeks)

  • "China Girl" -- Davie Bowie (1983, #10)

  • "Born In The U.S.A." -- Bruce Springsteen (1985, #9)

  • "California Girls" -- David Lee Roth (1985, #3)

  • "Miami Vice Theme" -- Jan Hammer (1985, #1 for 1 week)

  • "One Night In Bangkok" -- Murray Head (1985, #3)

  • "R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. (A Salute To 60's Rock)" -- John Cougar Mellencamp (1986, #2 for 1 week)

  • "Living In America" -- James Brown (1986, #4)

  • "Kokomo" -- The Beach Boys (1988, #1 for 1 week)

  • "Motownphilly" -- Boyz II Men (1991, #3)

  • "Hazard" -- Richard Marx (1992, #9)

  • "Tennessee" -- Arrested Development (1992, #6)

  • "The Streets Of Philadelphia" -- Bruce Springsteen (1994, #9)

  • "Gotham City" -- R. Kelly (1997, #9)


     Some honorable mentions are definitely in order here. Those include "Panama" by Van Halen (1984, #13), "China Grove" by the Doobie Brothers (1973, #15), and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" (Glen Campbell, 1967, #26, and Isaac Hayes, 1969, #37). Given what tunes are included here, if you feel like I overlooked something, e-mail me at musicaldice323@gmail.com.