From: frank.carew@bigpond.com   
      
   More countries in the world other than the USA.   
   London's Burning   
   I Still Call Australia Home   
   Asia Minor   
   Midnight In Moscow   
   Berlin   
   One night In Bangkok   
   French Kiss   
   Norwegian Wood   
      
      
   "Harold Groot"  wrote in message   
   news:4d159ce1.8969562@news.west.earthlink.net...   
   > On 24 Dec 2010 21:32:13 -0800, R H Draney    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>I'd like to see if enough knowledgeable music fans are still reading the   
   >>group   
   >>to create a list based on a theme that just popped into my head...if   
   >>you're   
   >>willing to dig, there's probably at least one charting hit about each of   
   >>the   
   >>fifty states...some are going to be obvious: "Arizona" by Mark Lindsay,   
   >>"Okie   
   >>From Muskogee" by Merle Haggard, "Born to Run" (for New Jersey) by   
   >>Springsteen...with others (California, New York) it's going to be hard to   
   >>narrow   
   >>it down to just one...and some are going to be hard to find anything at   
   >>all   
   >>(seriously, *are* there any hit songs about New Hampshire?)...should be   
   >>songs   
   >>*about* the state, of course, not just ones that casually mention it in   
   >>passing....   
   >   
   >   
   > Here's a few to start:   
   >   
   > Sweet Home Alabama (Leonard Skynard)   
   >   
   > North To Alaska (Johnny Horton)   
   >   
   > Rocky Mountain High (for Colorado) (John Denver)   
   >   
   > California Dreamin' (The Mamas and the Papas)   
   >   
   > Country Roads (for West Virginia) (John Denver)   
   >   
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