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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.
New Mexico has two state songs in Spanish: "Así Es Nuevo México" is the official Spanish state song, while "New Mexico - Mi Lindo Nuevo Mexico" is the state bilingual song. Iowa's "The Song of Iowa" uses the tune from the song "O Tannenbaum" as its melody. [4]
The song became popular in the United States under the name "Kiss of Fire" after English language words written by Lester Allen and Robert Hill were added to the song. The English version of the song was first recorded by Louis Armstrong, and later became a number 1 charting song with over a million record sales for singer Georgia Gibbs. [1]
Georgia (Carolyn Dawn Johnson song) Georgia (Elton John song) Georgia (Field Mob and Ludacris song) Georgia on My Mind; Georgia Peaches; Georgia Peaches (Lynyrd Skynyrd song) Georgia Rain; Georgia Rose (song) God's Country (Blake Shelton song)
The "I'll Never Go Back to Georgia" chant was taken from Dizzy Gillespie's intro to the Afro-Cuban jazz standard "Manteca". The piece refers to racial tensions in the United States. [1] Jimmy Sabater Sr., has said however: "None of us had ever been to Georgia." [4] David Gonzalez from the New York Times writes: ″'Oye, ese pito!' Hey, that ...
Since Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan are inconsistent with the definition of Latin music (Billboard states that the US Latin Digital Songs chart only ranks Spanish-language songs [114] but the English-language song "Conga" was ranked on the 2016 US Latin Digital Songs year-end chart), [115] some Spanglish songs primarily sung in English were excluded from the table above.
This is a list of songs about the city of Atlanta, Georgia. "Preachin' the Blues" by Bessie Smith "Atlanta, G.A.", pop/big band song written by Sunny Skylar and Artie Shaftel 1945 "Atlanta Blues (Make Me One Pallet On Your Floor)" by Eartha Kitt from "St. Louis Blues" 1958 [1]
In 1960, Ray Charles, a native of Georgia, recorded a version of the song that went to No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot 100. [4] [12] Charles' hit rendition would become the most widely-known version of the tune from this time on. [13] [4] [14] [15] It would also be the song most