Songs about.......VIII!

[RICHARD]

A few songs about my home town.

* "Alabama" by John Coltrane (1963)
* "Backin' to Birmingham" by Lester Flatt (1972)
* "Back to Birmingham" by the Delmore Brothers (1940)
* "Birmingham" by Amanda Marshall
* "Birmingham" by the Drive By Truckers (2002)
* "Birmingham" by Randy Newman
* "Birmingham" by Katherine McElroy (2004)
* "Birmingham 1982" by Maria Taylor
* "Birmingham, Alabama" by Harry Belafonte and R. B. Greaves
* "Birmingham Black Bottom" by Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten (1927)
* "Birmingham Blues" by Edith Wilson, Fess Whatley (1921), Birmingham Jug Band (1930), John Lee Hooker, Charlie Daniels and others
* "Birmingham Boogie" by Hot Lips Page
* "Birmingham Bounce" by Hardrock Gunter (1950), Tommy Dorsey, Amos Milburn
* "Birmingham Breakdown" by Duke Ellington
* "Birmingham Boys" by the Birmingham Jubilee Singers (1926)
* "Birmingham Bus" by Romo Vincent (1945)
* "Birmingham Bus Station" by Charlie Daniels (1994)
* "Birmingham Daddy" by Gene Autry (1931)
* "Birmingham Jail" by Darby and Tarlton (1927)
* "Birmingham Lucy" by Bobby Goldsboro
* "Birmingham Mama" by Tony Conn
* "Birmingham Mistake" by Sammi Smith (1973)
* "Birmingham Road" by Jeff Black (1998)
* "Birmingham Shadows" by Bruce Cockburn (1995)
* "Birmingham Sunday" by Richard Farina, Joan Baez
* "Birmingham Tonight" by Delbert McClinton, Telluride
* "Birmingham Turnaround" by Keith Whatley
* "Boulder to Birmingham" by Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Joan Baez, the Hollies, and others
* "Breakfast in Birmingham" by David Lee Murphy
* "Days of Birmingham" by Whisky Falls
* "Down and Out in Birmingham" by Pirates of the Mississippi
* "Fat Sam from Birmingham" by Louis Jordan (1947)
* "Fifteen Miles from Birmingham" by the Delmore Brothers (1938)
* "Hello Birmingham" by Ani DiFranco (1999)
* "I Got a Man in a 'Bama Mine" by Merline Johnson (1937)
* "Leaving You Behind" by Emily DeLoach (2003)
* "The Magic City" by Sun Ra (1965)
* "Paint Me A Birmingham" Recorded by Ken Mellons (2003) and Tracy Lawrence (2004)
* "Postmarked Birmingham" by Blackhawk
* "Sparrows over Birmingham" by Josh Rouse (2003)
* "Sweet Birmingham" by Robert Moore, recorded by Taj Mahal
* "Talking Birmingham Jam" by Phil Ochs (1965)
* "Train to Birmingham" by John Hiatt
* "Tuxedo Junction" by Erskine Hawkins, recorded by Manhattan Transfer and many others
* "When Jesus Left Birmingham" by John Mellencamp (1993)
* "Wither Vulcan" by Remy Zero (1998)

Birmingham is also mentioned in the following:

* "Alabama Anthem" by Birmingham J (2005)
* "Black Betty" by Leadbelly (early 20th century),by Ram Jam (1977)
* "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" by Little Richard
* "Jacob's Ladder" by Bruce Hornsby, first recorded by Huey Lewis & the News (1987)
* "Gun Street Girl" by Tom Waits, (1985)
* "Her First Mistake" by Lyle Lovett
* "I Can't Love You Anymore" by Lyle Lovett
* "Maribel" by Andy Orfutt Irwin
* "One of These Days" by the Drive-By Truckers
* "Playboy Mommy" by Tory Amos (1998)
* "Promised Land" by Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley (1975)
* "Rip This Joint" by the Rolling Stones (1972)
* "Stars Fell on Alabama" by Frank Perkins & Mitchell Parish (1934)
* "Sure Don't Feel Like Love" by Paul Simon (2006)
* "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
* "Swordfishtrombone" by Tom Waits (1983)
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Wow!
Shout outs to the Home Team!

Good work!

[phesina]

Speaking of "Sweet Home Alabama" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UuFJoexdlU

[wombat2u2004]

Speaking of "Sweet Home Alabama" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UuFJoexdlU

My God, what did they do to their hair ????

[phesina]

Oh, here's an even better version of this that doesn't have them all fogged out by the smoke effects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFR...eature=related This one also includes female members of the group!

I don't know how they do that with the hair, or if those are wigs or extensions or God-knows-what. Did you notice their shoes also are much longer than usual and curl up at the ends?

The Leningrad Cowboys are a Finnish rock band, and I think I read that the backup musicians really are the Red Army Choir (interesting direction they've taken since the breakup of the Soviet Union! ). They've done many performances together.

[wombat2u2004]

They actually do a good version of the song.....but gee....their getups are off this planet....LOLOL

[momcat]

Walkin to New Orleans - Fats Domino
Lisbon Antigua - instrumental
I Love Paris - don't remember who did it
Tallahasse Lassie - Freddie Cannon
Old Cape Cod - Anne Murray
San Antonio Rose - instrumental, don't remember who did it
Dancing in the Streets - Martha and the Vandellas
Going Back to Houston - Dean Martin (I think, not sure)
Shuffle Off to Buffalo
On the Boardwalk In Atlantic City
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
Midnight In Moscow - 60's instrumental
Shanghai Breezes - John Denver
Meet Me In St. Louis Meet Me At the Fair

[phesina]

Somerville (Massachusetts) by the Pernice Brothers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eKDr4Mfw3o