Posted by Steven Green on July 30, 2025 at 12:23:34:
Songs that have the name of the street in the lyrics or a group with a street name.
Baker Street-Gerry Rafferty
Penny Lane-Beatles
Lake Shore Drive-Aliotta, Haynes & Jeremiah
Nights On Broadway-Bee Gees
Boogaloo Down Broadway-Fantastic Johnny C
Heartbreak Hotel-Elvis Presley (Lonely Street)
Ventura Highway-America
Shakedown Street-Grateful Dead
Truckin-Grateful Dead (Bourbon Street)
Key West-Village People (Duval Street)
Love Potions Number Nine-Searchers (34th and Vine) also by Clovers
Second Avenue-Art Garfunkel
Second Hand Rose-Barbra Streisand (Second Avenue)
442 Glenwood Avenue-Pixies Three
1432 Franklin Pike Circle-Bobby Russell
On Broadway-Cookies (Later by The Drifters)
Funky Broadway-Dyke And The Blazers (Later Wilson Pickett)
Main Street-Bob Segar
Lonlely Street-Andy Williams
Island Girl-Elton John (Lexington crosses 47th Street)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-Elton John
Kansas City (Loving)-Little Willie Littlefield (12th and Vine) Later Wilbert Harrison
52nd Street-Billy Joel
Pico And Sepulvida-Felix Figueroa and Orchestra
Dead Man's Curve-Jan And Dean (Doheny Drive)
South Street-Orlons
The Subway Song-Professor Tom Lehrer (Charles Street, Park Street et al)
Thunder Road-Robert Mitchum
I'm Fixin' To Die Rag-Country Joe and The Fish (Wall Street)
Native New Yorker-Odyssey (Broadway)
Shake Hands With Your Uncle Max-Alan Sherman (Ocean Parkway)
Movin' Out-Billy Joel (Sullivan Street)
Electric Avenue-Eddie Grant
The Great Smokeoff-Shell Silverstein (Bleeker Street)
There's Gonna Be A Showdown-Archie Bell And The Drells (Market Street)
Group names with a street in the name
Martha And The Vandellas (Name combines Della Reese and Van Dyke Street in Detroit)
Dion and The Belmonts (Belmont Street in Little Italy of The Bronx)
Gun Hill Road (A steet in The Bronx)
The Rivingtons (A street in the lower east side of Manhattan)