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    Default Does every US state have a song?

    Like the title says,does every US state have a song featuring it's name?

    Springsteen's got Streets of Philadelphia.
    Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin did Oregon Girl.
    Sufjan Stevens had Illinois on the album of the same name.

    Help me fill in the blanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by twilight View Post
    Like the title says,does every US state have a song featuring it's name?

    Springsteen's got Streets of Philadelphia.
    Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin did Oregon Girl.
    Sufjan Stevens had Illinois on the album of the same name.

    Help me fill in the blanks.
    Modest Mouse and CSN&Y have songs called Ohio.

    Neil Diamond Kentucky Woman

    Caustic Resin had a song called Man from Michigan.

    Captain Beefheart Moonlight on Vermont

    Sonic Youth New Hampshire

    There's also Sweet Home Alabama and New York, New York.

    Don't know any songs about Delaware.
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    Quote Originally Posted by the film freak View Post
    Don't know any songs about Delaware.
    I think The Who did Screen Door Factory Boogie ;)

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    There's a website called 'Art of the Mix' where people post their mixed CD tracklistings. One guy put together a set of CDs (I think it covered 2 discs) where each song was the name of a state, and he had songs for all 50 states. So, yes, there's a song for each state, and many states have more than one. And if you count titles that just contain the names of states, well, there are probably dozens per state.

    (By the way, I live in Canada, so I may have missed this news item... when did Philadelphia become a state?)
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    Rhode Island has this one: Link.

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    Quote Originally Posted by twilight View Post
    Like the title says,does every US state have a song featuring it's name?

    Springsteen's got Streets of Philadelphia.
    Philadelphia isn't a state ;)

    How about Ringo Starr's "Missouri Loves Company"?
    And there's "Mary, Queen of Arkansas" and "Nebraska" by Bruce Springsteen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matthew E View Post
    (By the way, I live in Canada, so I may have missed this news item... when did Philadelphia become a state?)
    Oops :o

    I live in Australia so for some reason I thought it was a state.
    I knew I should've checked that first.

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    Also..."My Heads in Mississippi" - ZZ Top
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    Not a state, but Counting Crow's Raining in Baltimore

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    Hello? The best one ever.

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    I do like Mel Torme singing it too.

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    "Louisiana 1927" by Randy Newman ... about a devastating flood.

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