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"Great Big Friendly Town Chicago" – Dora Hall "Greater Chicago March" – composer: Jacob Valentine Havener; lyricist: Agner Clark Winkler "Green Mill Garden Blues", 1920 – composer: unknown (88 key piano roll) "Greetings. Chicago's Official Song. 1833–Chicago–1933" – composer & lyricist: George D. Gaw; transcriber & arranger: Frank ...
The song also features in the 2022 film Don't Make Me Go. Patrick Stump, lead singer of the band Fall Out Boy, performed a live voice/acoustic piano cover of the song at Wrigley Field on 21 June 2023 as part of the opening night of their "So Much for (Tour)Dust" world tour. Fall Out Boy came out of the Chicago hardcore scene in the early 2000s.
Bear Down, Chicago Bears; C. Chicago (That Toddlin' Town) Chicago (Graham Nash song) Chicago (Michael Jackson song) Chicago (Sufjan Stevens song) City of New Orleans ...
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.
In 2004, the city of Chicago – which "became notorious in the dance community around the world for passing the so-called 'anti-rave ordinance' in 2000 that made property owners, promoters and deejays subject to $10,000 fines for being involved in an unlicensed dance party" [9] – named a stretch of street in downtown Chicago [10] after ...
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.
The song made a minor appearance on the U.S. pop charts, reaching #84 in the fall of 1957. [1] It was the first of two charting songs about Chicago recorded by Sinatra. The other was "My Kind of Town" from 1964, which reached U.S. #110.
"Downtown" is a song written and produced by English composer Tony Hatch. Its lyrics speak of going to spend time in an urban downtown as a means of escape from everyday life. The 1964 version recorded by British singer Petula Clark became an international hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart.