Viva Las Vegas- ?
New York New York- Frank Sinatra
Vienna- Ultravox
Old England - Waterboys
Leaving of Liverpool - folk song wasn't it?

Take it away.....

That's enough for now. Good god I really have nothing better to do!

Battle of New Orleans Johnny Horton

I Still Call Australia Home Peter Allen

Viva Las Vegas is by Elvis Presley. (just to fill in your blank)

You must have heard these. Tanzen and I used them in a song chain...
On the Road to Gundagai
Nine Miles from Gundagai

Chicago - Frank Sinatra
April in Paris - Frank Sinatra
I Haven't The Vegas Idea - Martin Mull
Cleveland (Revisited) - Martin Mull
I Love L.A. - Randy Newman
New York City Blues - Yardbirds
A Breeze From Alabama - Scott Joplin
Holiday in Berlin - Frank Zappa
Montana - Frank Zappa
San Ber'dino - Zappa
Hawaii Blues - Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen
Take Me Back To Tulsa - Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
The Last Saskatchewan Pirate - The Arrogant Worms
North to Alaska - Johnny Horton (thanks for the hint gtho4)

a few official state songs from the U.S.A. -
Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe
Georgia On My Mind - Willie Nelson
My Old Kentucky Home - Stephen Foster
Tennessee Waltz - Patsy Cline
Carry Me Back to Old Virginia - James Bland
Oklahoma - (yes, the Rogers and Hammerstein one)

and, of course...
On Wisconsin
"On Wisconsin" is not only the University "fight song," but it has also been designated as the official State Song of Wisconsin. It is undoubtedly one of the most popular school songs in the country and has been adopted by thousands of high school bands as their own. It is rare to attend a high school football game anywhere in the U.S. and not hear "On Wisconsin" being performed by at least one of the school bands. The melody of this famous song was composed in 1909 by W.T. Purdy, a corporation clerk who prior to that time had never set foot in Wisconsin. The words were supplied by Carl Beck, a former University of Wisconsin student. These two young men in one day produced the song that John Philip Sousa called "the finest of college marching songs."

a few more...
Mull of Kintyre - Paul McCartney
the Green Fields of France - Eric Bogle
Rocky Road to Dublin - folk song

The Night Chicago Died Paper Lace

North to Alaska Johnny Horton

Galveston Glen Campbell

One night in Bangkok - Herby Hankock
Nightboat to Cairo - Madness
Israel - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Arabian nights - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Finland Red, Egypt white - the sisters of mercy (who stole my "mother Russia" ???)
Warsaw - Joy Division (you could think it is about the capital of Poland)
Moldavia - FRONT 242
Cold Turkey - the Godfathers (I suspect the song not to be about the country, but hey)
I'm in love with a german popstar - the Passions
Rammstein - Rammstein (NATO airbase in Germany)
Waterloo - ABBA

that's all for now

[ 11-03-2001: Message edited by: wimm ]

J'aimerais Voir Syracuse
The latter sung by the French singer Henri Salvador, still going strong at 83 or so, and with a new hit and clip out!
"J'aimerais voir Syracuse, l'ile de Paques et Kerouan, Voir les jardins de Babylone." Very dreamy song.

Colorado Rocky Mountain High John Denver

Great idea, by the way.

Did someone get Oklahoma? Where the wind goes rushing in your hair? LordAndry help, you probably know the lyrics!

A St Germain-des-Pres. Yves Montand.

Now Heather, just so you can have this one ringing in your ears, here's Oklahoma. (It's in my long list, if you managed to wade through it.)

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma, Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk
Makin' lazy circles in the sky.

We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.

walls of Jericho - the virgin prunes

okay, my mind is empty now (again, yes )

Blue Hawaii - Elvis Presley

I wonder if there are more songs like this...

Oh, and: England Swings - Roger Miller....

ENGLAND SWINGS LIKE A PENDULUM DO,
BOBBIES ON BICYCLES, TWO BY TWO,
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, THE TOWER OF BIG BEN,
THE ROSY RED CHEEKS OF THE LITTLE CHILDREN.

That's just what England's like! Remarkable observation there, Roger!

quote:

---

Originally posted by SuperFurryAnimal:
London Lady - The Stranglers
Dead Los Angeles - The Stranglers
Dagenham Dave - The Stranglers
Goodbye Toulouse - The Stranglers (is this is a declaration of war on Wezpenny!! You just got me thinking of them!)

---

Brighton Girls - The Stranglers
Nice in Nice - The Stranglers
Sweden - The Stranglers

And of course........Two in One
Vietnamerica - The Stranglers

er!.........were the boyz in black obsessed with Geography, when they were at School?

wez

24 hours from Tulsa - Gene Pitney
El Paso - Marty Robbins

Wangaratta Wahine - Captain Matchbox and his Whoopee Band

Don't expect anyone else has heard of it.

By The Time I get To Phoenix She'll Be Rising

Wichita Lineman

(By the way, as Arizona doesn't change to daylight savings time, she might very well be in bed still, huh?)

Exit 10... how about "Don't call Wagga Wagga Wagga"? another in joke for the Australians!!

And how about?

Londonderry Air

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Pony trekking or camping,
Or just watching TV.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
It's the country for me.

and how could I forget Finlandia by Jean Sibelius

[ 11-04-2001: Message edited by: l3i7l ]

Autumn In New York: Billie Holliday
Chatanooga Shoe Shine Boy: Freddy Cannon
(I Got A Gal) In Kalamazoo: Glen Miller

How about "you take a chick in the car and the car won't go, that's the way you spell Chicago"!