Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#0Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 1:36am
I know this seems a tad pointless, but I dunno, in our high school summer theatre program where I'm playing in the pit and interning for, we do a "list" every year apparently, and the above is this year's list, so ehh you get into it and wanna make it long. I think we're up to 108 now, most of the broadway contributions coming from me. Below are some of the broadway ones I at least remember being on the list, of course might have left out a few, but what other ones can you guys think of?
America(West Side Story)
Atlantic City(Ragtime)
The Gods Love Nubia(Aida)
No Place Like London(Sweeney Todd)
The Worst Pies in London(Sweeney Todd)
In LA(Fame)
Barcelona(Company)
Oklahoma!(Oklahoma!)
Oklahoma?(Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Kansas City(Oklahoma!)
Don't Cry For Me Argentina(Evita)
A New Argentina(Evita)
Buenos Aires(Evita)
A Cinema in Buenos Aires, etc.(Evita)
The Heat Is On In Saigon(Miss Saigon)
The Fall of Saigon(Miss Saigon)
My Girlfriend Who Lives In Canada(Avenue Q)
Good Morning Baltimore(Hairspray)
Miss Baltimore Crabs(Hairspray)
Manchester, England(Hair)
Santa Fe(Rent)
Camelot(Camelot)
The Rain In Spain(My Fair Lady)
Finland/Fisch Schlapping Dance(Spamalot)
Gary, Indiana(The Music Man)
Iowa Stubborn(The Music Man)
Ehh, I know I already have more, but can't think of them all, they're on the blackboard in the high school. Anywayz, yeah, give me more to add!
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#1re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 1:39amvery clever
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#2re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 1:46am
Ohio Wonderful Town
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
#3re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 1:47am
Sunset Boulevard from the same
I Happen to Like New York from The Gay Divorce
I will climb back up that mountain!
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#4re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 1:50am
Heh couple of rules...
Street names/road names, etc. don't count
Neither do fake places such as Oz
I thought of Sunset Boulevard, but that's defintiely a street, correct?
But thanks for the others! Keep them coming!
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#5re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 1:52am
I Still Call Australia Home from The Boy From Oz.
I will climb back up that mountain!
#6re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 2:00am
Minnesota Strip- Runaways
Dallas- Most Happy Fella (I think). I love this song...and I don't even like Loesser much.
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#7re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 6:46am
Paris By Night - VICTOR/VICTORIA
Paris Makes Me Horny - VICTOR/VICTORIA
Nicer In Nice - THE BOYFRIEND
Kansas City - SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE (ok, maybe not a proper musical & a song made for a musical but still...)
New York, New York - ON THE TOWN
I Go To Rio - THE BOY FROM OZ
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 6:58am
That song is called "Big D," not "Dallas"
How about
"Montana" from Whoop-Up
"Nebraska" from Hot Spot
"Maine" from No Strings
"Florida" from Tip-Toes
"Boca Raton" from Bounce
"All I Owe Ioway" from State Fair
"The Queen of Terre Haute" from Fifty Million Frenchmen
"Nashville Nightingale" from Niceties of 1923
"The Lees of Old Virginia" from 1776
"Louisiana Purchase" from Louisiana Purchase
"In Louisiana" from Sugar Babies
"Plenty of Pennsylvania" from Plain and Fancy
"Wilkes Barre, PA." from Tovarich
"Colorado Love Call" from Little Mary Sunshine
"Beautiful People of Denver" from Unsinkable Molly Brown
"The Denver Police" from Unsinkable Molly Brown
"Hawaiian Wedding Song" from When Pigs Fly
"Do You Ever Dream of Vienna?" from Little Mary Sunshine
"Women of Vienna" from Romance, Romance
"Wonderful Copenhagen" from Hans Christian Andersen
"Give England Strength" from The Rothschilds
"This Amazing London Town" from The Rothschilds
"You're a Long, Long Way from America" from Sail Away
"Here We Are In Nice Again" from Divorce Me Darling
"What Are We Doing in Egypt?" from Her First Roman
"Africa Burning in the Sun" from Sarafina
"Once Upon the Natchez" from The Robber Bridegroom
"Union Square" from Let 'em Eat Cake
"Rhode Island Is Famous for You" from Inside USA
"Little Old New York" from Tenderloin
"Ah, Paris" from Follies
"Shanghai Lil" from Chrysanthemum
"Coney Island USA" from I Had a Ball
"Don Jose of Far Rockaway" from Wish You Were Here
"In New York, The Only Sin Is Being Timid" from Onward, Victoria!
"We Open in Venice" from Kiss Me, Kate
"I've Come to Wive it Wealthily in Padua" from Kiss Me, Kate
"Two Gentlemen of Verona" from Two Gentlemen of Verona
"Dear Old Syracuse" from The Boys from Syracuse
"Rome" from Bravo Giovanni
"Normandy" from Once Upon a Mattress
"Spirit of Capsulanti" from Flahooley
"Nacogdoches Vaudeville Sequence" from Minnie's Boys
"Shuffle Off to Buffalo" from 42nd Street
"Meet Me In St. Louis" from Meet Me in St. Louis
"The Last 'I Love New York' Song" from Mayor
"London Is A Little Bit of Alright" from Girl Who Came to Supper
"The Lambeth Walk" from Me and My Girl
"Welcome to Brooklyn" from My Favorite Year
"Not Since Nineveh" from Kismet
"Las Vegas" from Miss Spectacular
"A Little Girl from Little Rock" from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
"It's Delightful Down in Chile" from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
"Come to Columbia" from Magdalena
"NYC" from Annie
"See Seattle" from Jennie
"When You're Far Away from New York Town" from Jennie
"Dateline: Milwaukee" from Zombies from the Beyond
"The American Way" from Zombies from the Beyond
"The Last Man on Earth" from Zombies from the Beyond
"Chicago" from Pal Joey
"Sports of Gay Chicago" from Show Boat
"Chicago, Illinois" from Victor/Victoria
"When You Meet a Man in Chicago" from Sugar
"The Dream of Atlanta" from Parade
"The People of Atlanta" from Parade
"Up Chickamauga Hill" from Johnny Johnson
"Oh, the Rio Grande" frm Johnny Johnson
"The Rutland Bounce" from Hazel Flagg
"Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York" from Hazel Flagg
"So Much to Do In New York" from Song and Dance
"There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York" from Porgy and Bess
"Do You Want to See Paris?" from Fifty Million Frenchmen
"You Don't Know Paree" from Fifty Million Frenchmen
"Paree, What Did You Do to Me?" from Fifty Million Frenchmen
"I Love Paris" from Can-Can
"Paris Loves Lovers" from Silk Stockings
"What Do They Know of Paris?" from Fashion
"There Is Only One Paris for That" from Irma La Douce
"Sons of France" from Irma La Douce
"Bridge of Calaincourt" from Irma La Douce
"Maidens Typical of France" from Can-Can
"Montmart'" from Can-Can
"The Glory That Is Greece" from Happiest Girl in the World
"The Bus from Amarillo" from Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
"Texas Has a Whorehouse in It" from Best Little Whorehouse...
"Take Me Back to Manhattan" from The New Yorkers
"Liverpool Sunset" from Charlotte Sweet
"For Poland" from The Grand Tour
"The Pearl We Call Prague" from Hannah, 1939
"The Washington Square Dance" from Call Me Madam
"The Washington Twist" from Mr. President
"One Night in Bangkok" from Chess
"Monte Carlo!" from Lucky Stiff
"Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo." from Damn Yankees
"Come to The Supermarket (in Old Peking)" from Aladdin
"Move Over, New York" from Bajour
"Dallas...I'm Coming" from Debbie Does Dallas
"You're In Paris" from Ben Franklin in Paris
"Arkansas" from Big River
"Singapore Sue" from Dames at Sea
"Song of Singapore" from Song of Singapore
"Welcome to Kanagawa" from Pacific Overtures
"A Night in the Ukraine" from Hollywood/Ukraine
"I Want to Go to Hollywood" from Grand Hotel
"Poor Little Hollywod Star" from Little Me
"Amsterdam" from Jacques Brel is Alive and Well...
"Brussels" from Jacques Brel is Alive and Well...
"The Road to Ixopo" from Lost in the Stars
"Train to Johannesburg" from Lost in the Stars
"Murder in Parkwold" from Lost in the Stars
"The Morning Music of Montmatre" from Oh, Captain!
"All American" from Stop the World...
"Island in the West Indies" from Ziegfeld Follies of 1936
"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spellling Bee" from 25th Annual...
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
Updated On: 7/29/05 at 06:58 AM
#9re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 7:49amGo magruder, cane it!
I will climb back up that mountain!
#10re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 8:14am
Excellent job Macgruder! Unless I missed them....
"I'm Tired of Texas" from "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'"
"Paris Makes Me Horny" from "Victor, Victoria"
"You're In Paris" from "Ben Franklin in Paris"
Title song from "Texas L'il Darlin'"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 8:31am"Song Of Norway" from Song Of Norway
#12re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 10:07am
I tried scanning most of the things people sent in and I don't think it was put here soooo
"A Summer in Ohio" from The Last Five Years.
Thats all I can think of.
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 11:28am
*"The Heat is on in Saigon" ( Miss Saigon)
*"Broadway Baby" ( the street is a geograhical name - from Follies)
#14re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 12:14pm
"new york, new york" - On the town
"Copenhagen" - Hans Christian Anderson
that's all i can think of to add
"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died
#15re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 3:08pm"Only in New York" - Thoroughly Modern Millie
#16re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 3:15pmThe Bishop of Digne ~ Les Mis.
#17re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 3:16pmOoops sorry, my mistake.
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
jlm96um
Understudy Joined: 8/22/04
#18re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 3:18pm
"Off to Massachusetts" from Little Women
"The Lees of Old Virginia" from 1776
"Shuffle off to Buffalo" from 42nd Street
"Santa Fe" from Rent
Gingerbread houses along golden, frothy canals. Like Venice... only different?
#19re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 3:28pmBali Ha'i from South Pacific
"Because what is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it. It can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog; hidden behind a curve of road, and then suddenly there in full glory. Its waves come like breaths, in and out, in and out, body stretched to forever in its possibilities, and yet its heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic."
#20re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 3:59pm
a few I thought of not sure if they were said:
Poor Jerusalem- Jesus Christ Superstar
Goodnight Saigon- Movin' Out
Kansas City- Oklahoma!
and if the movie Newsies counts then Santa Fe, King of New York, and Santa Fe (reprise)
pndmnd
Broadway Star Joined: 4/3/04
#21re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 5:06pm
I didn't catch these in here (and I'm sorry if I missed them):
Rock Island (from The Music Man)--that's the actual title of the opening song on the train.
Those Canaan Days (Joseph...)
Havana (Guys and Dolls), although that's a dance number/scene.
Paris Original (How to Succeed...)
Streets of Dublin (Man of No Importance)
America (West Side Story)
Could Have Gone to Nashville (Nunsence)
#22re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 5:18pm
NYC from "Annie".
Santa Fe from "Newsies". Not a Broadway show(Not yet anyway,lol), but still a good song. Those are all I can think of right now.
"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation."
#23re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 5:27pm
Times Square
The Imaginary Coney Island
The Real Coney Island
All dances from On the Town.
"WHEN is the winter of our discontent?"
"NOW is the winter of our discontent!"
Visit My Blog
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#24re: Songs with proper name geographic locations in their titles
Posted: 7/29/05 at 5:52pm
There is a new, unknown musical called Rebels and one of the songs in the score is called "Falmouth Bay."
http://www.lodinandsquier.com
That is the website for the composer/lyricist team of Jeffrey Lodin and William Squier. One of their biggest successes was co-writing the DisneyWorld attraction Disney's Doug Live, the first completely original book musical in the theme park's history.
