Posted by Steven Green on September 20, 2024 at 18:14:45:
Songs that have the names of a real or fictional street in the song title or lyric. Took some time to come up with my list. Would love to see others that I did not remember.
Baker Street-Gerry Rafferty
Lake Shore Drive-Aliotta, Haynes & Jeremiah
Nights On Broadway-Bee Gees
Boogaloo Down Broadway-Fantastic Johnny C
Lonely Street-Andy Williams
Ventura Highway-America
Penny Lane-Beatles
Shakedown Street-Grateful Dead
Truckin' Grateful-Dead
Second Hand Avenue-Art Garfunkel
Second Hand Rose-Barbra Streisand (Second Avenue)
442 Glenwood Avenue-Pixies Three
1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero-Bobby Russell
Heartbreak Hotel-Elvis Presley (Lonely Street)
On Broadway-The Cookies (Original Version)
Funky Broadway-Wilson Pickett
Mainstreet-Bob Segar
Island Girl-Elton John (Lexington Crosses 47th Street)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-Elton John
Kansas City-(Any version) (Twelfth Street and Vine)
Key West-Village People (Duval Street)
Pico And Sepulvida-Felix Figueroa
Dead Man's Curve-Jan And Dean (Doheny Drive)
You Oughta Know By Now-Billy Joel (Sullivan Street)
The Subway Song-Professor Tom Lehrer (Many Boston streets)
Thunder Road-Robert Mitchum
I'm Fixin' To Die Rag-Country Joe And The Fish (Wall Street)
Native New Yorker-Odyssey or Frankie Valli (Broadway)
Shake Hands With Your Uncle Max-Alan Sherman (Ocean Parkway)
All's Quiet On West 23rd street-Jet Stream
Peppermint Twist-JOey Dee and Starlighters (Meet Me on 47th Street)
Group Names:
Vandellas (combined Della Reesa and Van Dyke Street in Detroit)
Dion And Belmonts-Belmont Street in Little Italy in The Bronx
Gun Hill Road-A street in The Bronx
The Rivingtons-Rivington Street on Lower East side in Manhattan
Seventh Avenue-disco group that did Miami Heat Wave.
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