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  2. List of songs about cities - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. I Want You (Marvin Gaye song) - Wikipedia

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    The accompanying music video for "I Want You" was shot on August 5 and 6, 1995 at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, New York and directed by Earle Sebastian, produced by Joel Hinman, edited by Bruce Ashley, the video was inspired by and pays homage to A Telephone Call, a short story written by American writer, Dorothy Parker.

  4. List of songs about New York City - Wikipedia

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    "Long Island" by that dog. "Long Island" by Trevor Rabin "Long Island Boogie" by Flip Phillips "Long Island Degrees" by De La Soul "Long Island Expressway (LIE)" by Urszula Dudziak "Long Island Fling" by Richard Maltby Sr. "Long Island Lady" by Marshall Tucker Band "Long Island Low Down" (from The Five O'Clock Girl) "Long Island Sound" by Stan Getz

  5. The Lonely Island Teams With Charli XCX for New Song ... - AOL

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    The Lonely Island’s latest song debuted on “Saturday Night Live,” recruiting pop sensation Charli XCX who sang with Andy Samberg about white people in suburban neighborhoods calling the cops.

  6. Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song) - Wikipedia

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    "Candy" is based on Candy Darling, a transgender actress and the subject of an earlier song by Lou Reed, "Candy Says". She grew up on Long Island ("the island") and was a regular at "the back room" of Max's Kansas City. [16] [17] "Little Joe" was the nickname of Joe Dallesandro, an actor who starred in Flesh, a 1968 film about a teenage hustler.

  7. Manhattan (song) - Wikipedia

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    The song describes, in several choruses, the simple delights of Manhattan for a young couple in love. The joke is that these "delights" are really some of the worst, or cheapest, sights that New York has to offer; for example, the stifling, humid stench of the subway in summertime is described as "balmy breezes", while the noisy, grating pushcarts on Mott Street are "gently gliding by".

  8. Harry Chapin - Wikipedia

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    Harry Forster Chapin was born on December 7, 1942, in New York City, ... Chapin was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on October 15, 2006.

  9. The Illusion (band) - Wikipedia

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    The Illusion were an American psychedelic hard rock band from Long Island, New York. [1] They released three albums in the United States, the first of which was also issued in the United Kingdom. All three albums were produced by Jeff Barry. [1] They are best known for their single "Did You See Her Eyes", which reached #32 in the US in mid-1969.