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My future happiness may depend....
There must be loads of songs about the place given the number of great musicians therefrom, but at the moment all I can think of it 'St. Louis Blues' 'Meet me in SL' and 'you came a long way from SL' .... there must be a ton of Blues/ Rn'B stuff though, right?

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Saturday, 7 October 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Low - Missouri

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

It may not count but
Steely Dan - East St. Louis Toodle-OO

― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Saturday, 7 October 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

"Jefftown Creek" by Head East is about Jefferson City, Missouri, I assume; how close is that? ("Train To Kansas City" by the Shangr-Las is definitely too far away, I know that for sure.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 7 October 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Nelly and/or Chingy must have at least a couple, right?

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 7 October 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

a ha, I knew there was a Stan Musial song:

"Stan the Man (St. Louis Stan)"

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dennismassa

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 7 October 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Stan the Man (St. Louis Stan)"

that's made my day

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Saturday, 7 October 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

"STL" - Nelly
"Gimme What You Got" - St. Lunatics
"St. Louis Cemetary Blues" - Squirrel Nut Zippers

― monocle (Sean Miguel), Saturday, 7 October 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Being Scott Joplin was from St. Louis, after Ragtime became America's trend, St. Louis was a major topic for much pre-electric pop music, and remained in the venacular for a couple more generations:

(1904) Vess L. Ossman - The St. Louis Rag
(1906) The Ossman-Dudley Trio - St. Louis Tickle
(1921) Original Dixieland Jazz Band - St. Louis Blues
(1923) WC Handy - St. Louis Blues
(1928) Leroy Smith and his Orchestra - St. Louis Blues
(1935) Boswell Sisters - St. Louis Blues
(1962) Louis Prima - St. Louis Blues
(and any other version of St. Louis Blues)
(1940) Earl Hines - Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues

― PappaWheelie: Giving out breaks to the needy since September 25th, 2006 (PappaWh, Saturday, 7 October 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Chuck Berry is from St. Louis too, right? (I should look it up to make sure but I'm not going to. And doesn't he say "all over St. Louuuiee" in "Sweet Little Sixteen"? Beyond that, I'm not sure.)

Were Shooting Star from St. Louis or KC? How 'bout Drunks With Guns?

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 7 October 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, never knew AMG had this function:

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE67818DE4EAD7E20C79A3A40CDAD67FD1BFE5AFB86112F0456D3B82D40AF1844C34FA39A81B0FA6AB366ADFF2EA21609D9CBEE5CFED9765D40&sql=13:BPST.|LOUIS,|MO

― xhxuk (xheddy), Saturday, 7 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

amg won't let me create a link to this, though:

Song Search Results for:
ST. LOUIS

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Title
Occurrences

St. Louis 36
St. Louis Blues 1707
St. Louis Gal 16
St. Louis Rag 11
St Louis #2 1
East St. Louis 18
St. Louis Bop 1
St. Louis Hop 1
St. Louis Man 3
St. Louis Stomp 9
Back to St. Louis 2
St. Louis Baby 2
St. Louis Jump 1
St. Louis Mama 1
St. Louis Mood 2
St. Louis Runs 1
St. Louis Song 1
St. Louis Stop 1
St. Louise 1
St. Louis Tickle 15
St. Louis Boogie 14
Belle of St. Louis 1
Bells of St. Louis 1
On St Louis Blues 1
St. Louis Bound 2
St. Louis Child 1
St. Louis Daddy 1
St. Louis Mambo 1
St. Louis Pants 1
St. Louis Scene [Spoken]/Randalls' Tune [Piano Instrumental]/Maple Lea 1
St. Louis Slide 1
St. Louis Story 1
St. Louis to Cairo 1
St. Louis Waltz 1
St. Louis Woman 2
St. Louis Women 2
St. Louis Blues March 81
St. Louis Shuffle 22
St. Louis (Anthem) 1
St. Louis Breaks 1
St. Louis Bridge 1
St. Louis Browns 1
St. Louis Niggas 1
St. Louis Sierra 1
St. Louis Summer 1
St. Louis, Misery 1
All the Way to St. Louis 1
Bye Bye St. Louis 1
St. Louis Chicken 1
St. Louis Come Up 1
St. Louie 4
Joe Louis Strut 11
New St. Louis Blues 7
St. Louis Boogaloo 1
St. Louis Serenade 1
St. Louis to New York 1
St. Louis, Missouri 1
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo 145
East St. Louis Blues 20
Meet Me in St. Louis 16
St. Lous Blues 1
St. Louis Blues, Pt. 2 5
St. Louis Blues, Pt. 3 1
St. Louis Blues, Pt. 4 1
St. Louis Breakdown 2
St. Louis Cathedral 1
St. Louis Christmas 1
St. Louis Nightmare 1
Boss St Louis Blues 1
St. Louis Blue March 1
St. Louis Blues, No. 2 2
St. Louis Blues, Pt. 1 4
St. Louis Born Again 1
St. Louis Fair Blues 4
St. Louis Fire Blues 2

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 7 October 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Chuck Berry lives in Wentzville, MO - a suburb of St. Louis.

Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer

― darin (darin), Saturday, 7 October 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't really count, but Bunnygrunt was named after a phrase uttered by KMOX-AM talk show host Jim White.

― mike a (mike a), Sunday, 8 October 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Being Scott Joplin was from St. Louis, after Ragtime became America's trend, St. Louis was a major topic for much pre-electric pop music, and remained in the venacular for a couple more generations:

-- PappaWheelie: Giving out breaks to the needy since September 25th, 2006 (evieandjo...), October 7th, 2006. (later)

Uh, and of course, the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair was a massive influence. I mean, that is what Meet Me in St. Louis was about...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_Me_in_St._Louis%2C_Louis

Nice find on AMG Mr. Eddy. Being St. Louis Blues obv dominates this thread:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Blues_%28song%29

Researcher Guy Marco in his book Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States, stated that the first audio recording of "St. Louis Blues" was by Al Bernard in July 1918 on the record company label Aeolian-Vocalion (cat. no. 12148). This is however not true, since Columbia's house band, directed by Charles A. Prince, had recorded a released instrumental version already in December 1915 (Columbia A5772). Bernard's version may have been the first US issue to include the lyrics though. However, by then Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra, a group of black American artists appearing in Britain, had already recorded a version including the lyrics in September 1917 (UK Columbia 699).

Thanks to sonofstan for starting this thread and sparking some new a new path of research for me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:St._Louis_music

― PappaWheelie: Giving out breaks to the needy since September 25th, 2006 (PappaWh, Monday, 9 October 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

The Easybeats have a song called St Louis.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

blur did a song called "st. louis"

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 9 October 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

If mentions are fair game, Nat Cole's "Route 66": "Now you go through Saint Louis..."

Note: Chuck Berry is from East St. Louis, which is in a whole different state 'n' shit.

Thanks for noting that the Landing in "Heavy Metal Drummer" is Laclede's.

"You've Come a Long Way from St. Louis" was allegedly sung to T.S. Eliot by the music hall singer Marie Lloyd at a party in London.

"The Boy Next Door," also from "Meet Me in St. Louis," mentions Kensington Avenue.

Little to add but I should say that "St. Louis!" is one of the shout-outs in Huey Lewis's shameless "Heart of Rock & Roll." But then so is "Champaign, Illinois!" so do with that what you will.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

You've Come a Long Way from St. Louis" was allegedly sung to T.S. Eliot by the music hall singer Marie Lloyd at a party in London.

Old sour Tom's face at the 'you've come a long way from St. Louis/ But baby, you've got a long way to go' Line would have been worth seeing

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

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