An Evening to Forget – Places
Saturday, August 20
9pm
Hello, listeners. This week, you heard a selection of songs about places – real, imagined, of the mind, and everything in between.
- Marianne Faithfull, “Times Square”
- Joni Mitchell, “Chinese Café/Unchained Melody”
- Bonnie Raitt, “Angel from Montgomery”
- Bobbi Gentry, “Mississippi Delta”
- Ike and Tina Turner, “Nutbush City Limits”
- Neko Case, “South Tacoma Way”
- Boz Scaggs, “Harbor Lights”
- Lou Reed, “Coney Island Baby”
- k.d. lang, “Western Stars”
- George Strait, “Amarillo by Morning”
- Nanci Griffith, “Love at the Five and Dime”
- Lucinda Williams, “Crescent City”
- James Taylor, “Mexico”
- Tanya Tucker, “San Antonio Stroll”
- Loretta Lynn, “Fist City”
- Dolly Parton, “My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy”
- Bruce Springsteen, “Nebraska”
- Joanna Newsom, “In California”
- Van Morrison, “Into the Mystic”
- Liza Minnelli, “Theme from New York, New York”
- Billie Holiday, “Autumn in New York”
- Simon and Garfunkel, “The Only Living Boy in New York”
- Laura Nyro, “New York Tendaberry”
- The 5th Dimension, “On the Beach (Summertime)”
- Nina Simone, “Baltimore”
- LaBelle, “(Can I Speak to You Before You Go to) Hollywood”