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The following is a list of songs about cities. It is not exhaustive. Cities are a major topic for popular songs. [1] [2] Music journalist Nick Coleman said that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else." [1] Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation.
Steven Benjamin Goodman [1] (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk and country singer-songwriter from Chicago.He wrote the song "City of New Orleans", which was recorded by artists including Arlo Guthrie, John Denver, The Highwaymen, and Judy Collins.
Juha Vainio wrote Finnish lyrics "Hyvää huomenta Suomi" ("Good morning Finland"), which was a domestic hit for the band Karma in 1976 and Matti Esko in 1989. Instead of train song, it became a truck song. The lyrics describe a semi-trailer truck driver moving cargo through Finland on Finnish national road 4 over night to his destination. To ...
To promote the song, Roan created an accompanying dance for the song's chorus, spelling out the letters of the song's title with a person's arms; similar to the Village People's "Y.M.C.A." [20] Roan also appeared in promotional posters featuring a phone number; according to Emily Bloch of The Philadelphia Inquirer, the number led to a Balkamp ...
The song was revived on a number of occasions in the twentieth century with recordings by Bing Crosby (recorded December 9, 1940), [26] Johnny Mercer (1945), [27] Al Jolson (recorded July 17, 1950), [28] Julie London (included in her album Swing Me an Old Song, 1959), and Frankie Laine (included in his album Deuces Wild, 1961). [29]
"Cities in Dust" is a dance-rock, [1] and dance-pop song. [2] The lyrics describe the city of Pompeii, destroyed in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD.Imagery describing the volcano and its magma chamber, the condition of the victims of the eruption, and the subsequent discovery and excavation of the city comprises the bulk of the lyrics.
The official B-side song was "I Like To Lead When I Dance". The song was recorded as a 45 on Reprise Records. [6] The sheet music was copyrighted and published by Sergeant Music Co., Glorste Inc. and Van Heusen Music Corp. The music is written in the key of A-flat, in 2/2 meter (known as cut time) with an allegro tempo. [7]
The synth-pop, [5] dance-pop, [6] power pop, [7] and disco [8] song follows the story of a woman from a small town in Tennessee who moves to Southern California, taking a job as a stripper at a gay strip club [5] [9] [10] inspired by a local strip club in Roan's former hometown of Springfield, Missouri, that was in "all hot pink". [11]