From Sea to Shining Sea
\n1 Launch (Theme from ‘Armageddon’) Trevor Rabin
\n2 Daytona Demon Suzi Quatro
\n3 I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine Joan Baez
\n4 Talahassee Lassie Tommy Steele
\n5 Swannee Al Jolson<\/p>\n
Doing the Charleston
\n6 The Devil Went Down to Georgia Charlie Daniels Band
\n7 Georgia on my Mind Ray Charles
\n8 Midnight Train to Georgia Gladys Knight & The Pips
\n9 Marching Through Georgia Acker Bilk
\n10 Working on the Chain Gang Sam Cooke<\/p>\n
The Great Smoky Mountains
\n11 Summertime Billie Holliday
\n12 Carolina Moon Connie Francis
\n13 When You Get to Asheville Steve Martin & Edie Brickell
\n14 On Top of Old Smoky Harry Belafonte
\n15 Knoxville Girl The Outlaws<\/p>\n
Country Music
\n16 My Tennessee Mountain Home Dolly Parton
\n17 Cumberland Gap Lonnie Donegan
\n18 Chattanooga Choo Choo The Andrews Sisters
\n19 Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy Freddie Cannon
\n20 Nashville Cats Lovin’ Spoonful<\/p>\n
Elvis Was Here
\n21 Tennessee Waltz Patti Page
\n22 Jackson Johnny Cash & June Carter
\n23 Nutbush Tina Turner
\n24 Memphis Tennessee Elvis Presley
\n25 Walking in Memphis Mark Cohn<\/p>\n
We Don’t Smoke Stogies
\n26 Arkansas Traveller Pete Seeger
\n27 Going Back to Arkansas Big Bill Broonzy
\n28 Wolverton Mountain Claude King
\n29 Okie from Muskogee Merle Haggard
\n30 This Land is Your Land Woody Guthrie<\/p>\n
Is this the Way?
\n31 Oklahoma Gordon MacRae
\n32 24 Hours to Tulsa Gene Pitney
\n33 Route 66 Nat King Cole
\n34 Wichita Linesman Glen Campbell
\n35 Is this the Way to Amarillo? Tony Christie<\/p>\n
En Route
\n36 Lubbock Milton Mapes
\n37 Yellow Rose of Texas Roy Rogers
\n38 Deep in the Heart of Texas Bing Crosby
\n39 Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe Judy Garland
\n40 El Paso Marty Robbins<\/p>\n
Catch a Falling Star
\n41 Albuquerque ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
\n42 New Mexico Johnny Cash
\n43 By the Time I Get to Phoenix Glen Campbell
\n44 Take It Easy The Eagles
\n45 Last Train to Clarksville (Clarkdale) The Monkees<\/p>\n
Viva! Las Vegas
\n46 Flagstaff Purple Sunset
\n47 Arizona Kings of Leon
\n48 London Bridge (Children’s song)
\n49 Boulder City Dam Blue Highway
\n50 Viva! Las Vegas Elvis Presley<\/p>\n
Hollywood
\n51 California Here I Come Al Jolson
\n52 California Dreaming The Mamas & The Papas
\n53 Hotel California The Eagles
\n54 California Girls The Beach Boys
\n55 Last Train to San Fernando Johnny Duncan<\/p>\n
South to the Border
\n56 Santa Monica Boulevard Sheryl Crow
\n57 When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano Ink Spots
\n58 America the Beautiful Mormon Tabernacle Choir
\n59 San Diego Billy J Kramer
\n60 Leaving on a Jet Plane Peter Paul & Mary<\/p>\n
A few notes …
\nSome of the hints were blindingly obvious (like the blog title, for instance!), some were obscure, to be sure (‘Weird Al’ Yankovic and others), and some should be clear when you look at the pictures (‘Standing on the Corner’ Park in Winslow – the group, and a huge chunk of the lyrics can be found in one single photo!)<\/p>\n
… and an explanation.
\nNot every well-known started out with the same title as it had when it became famous. The Monkees hit ‘Last Train to Clarksville’ had no connection with any Clarksville at all. It was ‘Last Train to Clarksdale (Arizona)’, but ‘Clarksville’ sounded snappier. The Monkees neither wrote it nor sang it in the beginning. The mimed it on the show.
\nSame for the Johnny Cash\/June Carter song ‘Jackson’. It originally was ‘Memphis’. And though it doesn’t feature here, ‘Way Down Upon the Swannee River’ was originally ‘Way Down Upon the PeeDee River’. The author never even visited Florida, it is the Florida State Song, and the lyrics are somewhat politically incorrect.<\/p>\n
We will name the winner in the next blog. Hope you all enjoyed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Sea to Shining Sea 1 Launch (Theme from ‘Armageddon’) Trevor Rabin 2 Daytona Demon Suzi Quatro 3 I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine Joan Baez 4 Talahassee Lassie Tommy Steele 5 Swannee Al Jolson<\/p>\n
Doing the Charleston 6 The Devil Went Down to Georgia Charlie Daniels Band 7 Georgia on my Mind Ray Charles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-having-a-say","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}