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'baltimore' - randy newman
'baltimore' - extra glenns
'lady came from baltimore' - scott walker (tim hardin)
'from baltimore to paris' - go west

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

doesn't hoagey carmichael have a "baltimore oriole" song?

best version of newman;s song is the tamlins' reggae one, btw

― chuck, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"streets of baltimore" - bobby bare

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

tori!

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

someone said nina simone's verion of randy's was best. they were wrong, too.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

judy henske's version of baltimore oriole is wonderful.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I did a story about this years ago, and in addition to the aforementioned, I turned up a crappy Felice and Boudleaux Bryant song called "Baltimore" written for forgotten country crooner Sonny James ("Young Love"). Newman's or Bare's are probably the best Baltimore songs, but I find myself mentally wrestling with the chorus to the Bryants' song all the time:

"I miss my home on the Chesapeake Shore
The shrimp and the shellyfish I adore
And I wanna go home
To Baltimore"

"Shrimp"? "Shellyfish"!?!

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Baltimore" - Bix Beiderbecke

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

oooohhhh

"Raining in Baltimore" - Counting Crows

haha

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

And let us not forget acid-rock/metal legends SIR LORD BALTIMORE, whose 1970 "Kingdom Come" LP is the seventh-greatest album EVER!

― Myonga Von Bontee, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fleshtones, "Girl From Baltimore"
Jonathan Richman, "The Baltimores" (about a doo-wop group, not the city proper)

― mike a, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Spiral Jetty, "Baltimore."

"And the buses roll down St. Paul Street..."

― mike a, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget Woody Guthrie -- "From Baltimore to Washington"

(recently retooled by John don't-call-me-Cougar)

― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Tarzan Boy"

― daavid, Thursday, 19 February 2004 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

...oops, its Baltimore. Sorry

― daavid, Thursday, 19 February 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sparrows Point", Richard Shindell:

...I travelled mostly northeast
With my head held mostly down
Cause they said there was more in Baltimore
Where those shipyards never close
You can sell the man your labor
And send the money home

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 19 February 2004 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy Mackenzie also recorded an excellent version of Baltimore. Sigh...

― Marcel Gallingez (Marcel Gallingez), Thursday, 19 February 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Starbuck - "Moonlight Feels Right"

The wind blew some luck in my direction
I caught it in my hands today
I finally made a tricky french connection
You winked and gave me your O.K.
I'll take you on a trip beside the ocean
And drop the top at Chesapeake Bay
Ain't nothin' like the sky to dose a potion
The moon'll send you on your way...haha...Moonlight feels right

We'll lay back and observe the constellations
And watch the moon smiling bright
I'll play the radio on southern stations
'Cause southern belles are hell at night
You say you came to Baltimore from Ole Miss
A Class of '74 gold ring
The eastern moon looks ready for a wet kiss
To make the tide rise again...Moonlight feels right

We'll see the sun come up on Sunday morning
And watch it fade the moon away
I guess you know I'm giving you a warning
'Cause me and Moon are itching to play
I'll take you on a trip beside the ocean
And drop the top at Chesapeake Bay
Ainn't nothin' like the sky to dose a potion
The moon'll send you on your way...Moonlight feels right

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Harry Nilsson - "Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Bruce Springsteen, "Hungry Heart"

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"I've got a wife and kids in Monterey, Jack/Went out for some cheese, and I never came back."

― chuck, Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. Oh, just remembered "Baltimore" by Peter Case. All songs about Baltimore are about unemployment, abandonment, temptation, poverty, and crime.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is for ally c, keep them coming, please.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

All songs about Baltimore are about unemployment, abandonment, temptation, poverty, and crime.

Sounds like my kinda town.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

maryland, if not baltimore:

'the maryland sky tonight / is black and blue and beautiful'

-mark kozelek ("admiral fell promises")

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Lyle Lovett- Baltimore

― pauls00, Thursday, 19 February 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

Can't believe no one mentioned this Drifters gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ODbbS8J4iE

― Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 22:51 (twelve years ago)

buddy of mine made a big old Spotify playlist of songs that mention Baltimore: http://open.spotify.com/user/122863559/playlist/6i9Cp1gXkSwQZpn4tAvG0f

― HOOSTEENA/The Steens of God (some dude), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 23:08 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj6Tut3vXHw

― dsb, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 23:52 (twelve years ago)

And She Was

― how's life, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 23:58 (twelve years ago)

"Orioles Magic"

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 03:02 (twelve years ago)

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