Sunday, March 8, 2009

Travel Tunes \ Music inspired by, about, and related to Travel! (from Road Trip Junkie)

(photo: Graceland)
Songs About Destinations
Allentown (Billy Joel)
Amarillo (Neil Sedaka)
America (Neil Diamond)
American Pie (Don McLean)
Back in the USSR (Beatles)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
Born on the Bayou (CCR)
By the Time I get to Arizona (Public Enemy)
Caribbean Queen (Billy Ocean)
Caribbean Wind (Bob Dylan)
Carolina in My Mind (James Taylor)
Chapel Hill (Sonic Youth)
China Girl (David Bowie)
Copacabana (Barry Manilow)
Detroit Rock City (Kiss)
Don't Cry for Me Argentina (Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Down Under (Men at Work)
Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell)
Georgia on My Mind (Ray Charles made famous)
Goin' to Acapulco (Bob Dylan)
Graceland (Paul Simon)
Guns of Brixton (The Clash)
Holiday in Cambodia (Dead Kennedys)
I Think I'm Turning Japanese (The Vapors)
Istanbul (not Constantinople) (They Might Be Giants)
Kansas City\Hey Hey Hey Hey (Beatles)
Kentucky Rain (Elvis Presley)
Key Largo (Bertie Higgins)
Kids In America (Kim Wilde)
Kokomo (Beach Boys)
Leaving Las Vegas (Sheryl Crow)
Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffet)
Mexico (James Taylor)
Miami Vice Theme Music
Midnight Train to Georgia (Gladys Knight)
Mississippi Queen (Mountain)
My Head in Mississippi (ZZ Top)
Ohio (Crosby, Steels and Nash)
One Night in Bangkok (Murray Head)
One Way Ticket to Memphis (Bobby King)
Philadelphia (Bruce Springsteen)
Philadelphia Freedom (Elton John)
Planet Earth (Duran Duran)
Please Come to Boston (Dave Loggins)
Proud Mary (Ike & Tina Turner)
Rocky Mountain High (John Denver)
Surf City (Jan & Dean)
Surfin' USA (The Beach Boys)
Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynard)
Sweet Home Chicago (Robert Johnson)
Take it Easy (The Eagles) 'standin' on a corer in Winslow, AZ'
Tennessee (Arrested Development)
Tennessee River Run (Darryl Worley)
The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Charlie Daniels)
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (Vicki Lawrence)
This is England (The Clash)
Up on Cripple Creek (The Band)
Viva Las Vegas (Elvis)
Walking in Memphis (Marc Cohn)

Road Trippin' \ Vacation Tunes
Alphabet Street (Prince)
Blue Highway (Billy Idol)
Born to be Wild (Steppenwolf)
Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
Cars (Gary Numan)
Cool Rider (from Grease 2)
Free Ride (Jefferson Airplane)
Highway to Hell (AC\DC)
Hit the Road Jack (Ray Charles)
Holiday Road (Lindsay Buckingham)
Go West (Village People)
Greyhound Bus (Mick Abrahams)
I Can't Drive 55 (Sammy Hagar)
King of the Road (Roger Miller)
Life is a Highway (Rascal Flats)
Long Lonesome Highway (Michael Parks)
Long and Winding Road (The Beatles)
Magic Bus (The Who)
Midnight Rider (Allman Brothers)
Movin' Right Along from the Muppet Movie (Kermit the Frog)
No Particular Place to Go (Chuck Berry)
On the Road Again (Willie Nelson)
Open Road (Bryan Adams)
Rambling Man (Allman Brothers)
Roam (B52'S)
Route 66 (Bing Crosby)
Shakedown Street (Greatful Dead)
Slow Ride (Foghat)
Sweet Hitchhiker (CCR)
Take it Easy (The Eagles)
Take Me Home Country Road (John Denver)
The Gambler (Kenny Rogers)
The Wanderer (Dion DiMucci, 1962)
Traveling Band (CCR)
Truckin' (Greatful Dead)
Vacation (The Go Gos)
Ventura Highway (America)

Tunes about California
A Long December (Counting Crows)
All the Gold in California (Gatlin Brothers)
Beverly Hills (Weezer)
Born in East LA (Cheech & Chong)
California Dreamin' (The Mamas & The Papas)
California Girls (The Beach Boys)
California Paradise (The Runaways)
Californication (The Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Come Monday (Jimmy Buffet)
Do You Know the Way to San Jose (Dionne Warwick)
Free Fallin' (Tom Petty)
Going Back to Cali (LL Cool J)
Hotel California (The Eagles)
I Left My Heart in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
It Never Rains in Southern California (Albert Hammond)
LA Woman (The Doors)
Little Old Lady From Pasadena (The Beach Boys)
Mendocino (The Sir Douglas Quintet)
Route 66 (Nat 'King' Cole)
San Francisco (Scott McKenzie)
Ventura Highway (America)

Tunes about New York
Angel of Harlem (U2)
Arthur's Theme (Christopher Cross)
Big Apple (Kajagoogoo)
Boy from New York City (made famous by Manhattan Transfer)
Cabbie on Crack (Ramones)
Lullaby of Broadway (from musical 42nd St)
No Sleet till Brooklyn (Beastie Boys)
New York, New York (Liza Minelli)
New York State of Mind (Billy Joel)
On Broadway (The Drifters)
Rockaway Beach (The Romones)
Subway Train (New York Dolls)
Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)

Bands\Musicians with Travelie Names
Alabama
America
Asia
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Bauhaus
Bay City Rollers
Beach Boys
Berlin
Big Country
Blues Traveler
Boston
Box Car Willie
Buena Vista Social Club
Buffalo Springfield
Chicago
Europe
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
John Denver
Jefferson Airplane\Starship
Jets
Kansas
LA Guns
Linkin Park
Manhattan Transfer
Miami Sound Machine
New York Dolls
The Cars
Traveling Willburys
When In Rome

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