Friday Fun: Songs Naming American States

Ok there must be one for every state. Please post a video and name the song and state in your post so folks can search to avoid repeats. I'll kick off with Keith Whitley - Talk to me Texas.



Let's get 'em all!

 

My favorite.

California Dreaming

 

Beatles Get Back - Arizona and California
Simon and Garfunkel America - Michigan

 

W.A.S.P. - Blind In Texas

 

My state hardly ever gets named in songs, but here's another one:

Grateful Dead - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo.

Are we talking naming in the title, or just anywhere?

 

Zappa - Montana

 

Reno Nevada by Mimi and Richard Farina...also could add Nevada Fighter by Mike Nesmith!

 

"Ohio"

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

7" Single
B-side: "Find the Cost of Freedom"

Recorded May 21, 1970
Released June 1970

Later released on So Far compilation.

 

Texas and Virginia:

 

I remember this one from my childhood:

John Phillips ''Mississippi''

 

From Finland: Juice Leskinen Slam, Alabama, Arizona, Alaska ja Utah (also mentions California, Ohio and Oklahoma)

 

Sonic Youth - New Hampshire

 

Winslow, Arizona in "Take It Easy"

 

Wow, 10 posts in and nobody mentioned Bee Gees - Massachusetts.

 

Tennessee Jed - Grateful Dead

 

Massachusetts:

 

Theme from "New York, New York"
Frank Sinatra

7" single released in 1980

Note:
Liza Minnelli released her single earlier, on June 21, 1977

 

"North To Alaska" Johnny Horton

 

New York either.

 

I've never heard that song, but the title is enough to make me never want to.

 

"Massachusetts"
Bee Gees

 

that's what sprang to my mind - but I am an Aussie

 

"Going To California"
Led Zeppelin

From Led Zeppelin IV
Released 8 Nov 1971

 

In my mind, I'm going to Carolina - James Taylor