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Name a song about the town you grew in.
This one fits my town perfectly.
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Enter stage left
(4,560 posts)
viva la
(4,598 posts)Really skewers the hypocrisy of small-town moralists.
surrealAmerican
(11,879 posts)Archae
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Upthevibe
(10,180 posts)I'd never heard this song until the T.V. series, Weeds came out. It's snappy!
surrealAmerican
(11,879 posts)My parents were big folk music fans when I was a child.
Lochloosa
(16,733 posts)Oh yeah, with Bob Dylan
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Our Town at end of Northern Exposure
BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)And. Theme from Rocky
getagrip_already
(17,802 posts)
Gruenemann
(1,054 posts)Town Without Pity
Boomerproud
(9,291 posts)The Association (1967). Theme song from the film.
Niagara
(11,849 posts)Fourth of July specifically would be the song Smoke on the Water.
Lots of "lakers" come in once spring and summer hit.
Hopefully I can add the music videos once I'm home tomorrow.
DEbluedude
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BluesRunTheGame
(1,964 posts)…probably the best description of my feelings about the town where I grew up.
It might be a bit more upscale these days and better for the kids who are growing up there now. At the time I just wanted to get out of there.
Hats off for starting the thread with the perfect song. Paul Simon is the best. 
Archae
(47,245 posts)I live in Sheboygan now, 10 miles south of the town I grew up in.
Howards Grove.
So many of that song's lyrics sum up my time there.
Upthevibe
(10,180 posts)which is on the TX Gulf Coast. Other than some really traumatic family drama, I had good friends and for the most part we had a blast! I've spent an incalculable amount of time at the beach.
When I was a small child (my parents were friends with the family that owned trailers for sleeping) my whole family would spend entire weekends on Padre Island with about five other families (including a bunch of kids our age while the adults had cocktails and smoked cigarettes around the campfires).
Then, as my friends and I started driving, even more time was at the beach. In those days, you would drive you car onto the beach and man did we have some great times!
I now live in Redondo Beach (not on the ocean but about five minutes away by car). I've lived in CA since 1988.
Tikki
(15,140 posts)We left 57 years ago.
The Tikkis
elleng
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Emile
(42,281 posts)dembotoz
(16,922 posts)i remember it as made a fool out of me but alas
Not Heidi
(1,555 posts)Huntington Beach, California
Jan & Dean recorded it in 1963, the year of my birth.
God, I miss surfing.
wnylib
(26,008 posts)and too small for big city complaints. A dominant feature of Erie is its location on Lake Erie. Sandwiched in between Cleveland to the west and Buffalo to the east, it has more in common with other Great Lakes cities than with PA's own city of Pttsburgh just a couple hours south of Erie.
The lake is the place to be in summer, with a natural harbor and miles of beaches at Erie. I grew up hearing water temperatures, Coast Guard storm warnings, and beach openings and closings according to weather all summer long. Fishing, boating, swimming.
Autumn brings even stronger winds and more frequent lake craft warnings. Lake effect snow and winds come with winter. Lake Erie can get choppy and stormy very quickly.
So, although this song is about Lake Superior, it depicts the maritime life of people on the Great Lakes.
DFW
(60,180 posts)My parents, barely 30, got the chance to buy some land way out in the middle of nowhere in Virginia (it was, then, anyway), and built a house that was thought up by someone who had access to the future. It cost them $50,000, which they didn't have by any means. New houses back then were more like $12,000. It was so far out in the woods, there were no paved roads, and ours was the third house in the area. Can you call it a neighborhood if you don't have any neighbors?
Gradually, the Washington bureaucracy grew, and the Federal government needed their people to live somewhere. So, a few more houses showed up in short order. They paved the roads, and suddenly we had neighbors! The area grew and grew, and morphed into the Washington Suburbs. Our postal address was Falls Church, even though it was a 20 minute car ride to Falls Church. After 15 years, our home had transitioned from "Home On The Range" to "Pleasant Valley Sunday." But it happened so gradually that we never really noticed it.
But there was no point that I can recall that it deserved its own song. At age 16, I moved to Spain, and after that only spent parts of summers, as well as a few school breaks, back in the house I grew up in. I recently saw a photo of what was made of it by the people who bought it out of my parents' estate. They got it for a song (at the time), but much of it had the infrastructure of the original house, finished in 1955. They must have sunk hundreds of thousands into it, and it looks like it from the outside. I assume they did as much for the inside. For all the number of times I have been back to DC since I lost my parents, I have not been back to the house since. I suppose I would if invited, and had the time, but neither has happened, and probably won't. Sic transit gloria mundi.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,681 posts)To the tune of "Fifty Ways to Leave All Your Friends, Again"
Onthefly
(1,289 posts)Have friends for a year or two. They would move or we would move. It is interesting how few times a transfer to another base included encounters with former friends. Each new base included making new friends. It seems we all kept a focus on activities versus developing close friendships. Small-town life was the transitional environment of the military base. The PX or “exchange,” the movie theatre, swimming pool, and sports teams or scouts gave some structure. None of it seemed particularly permanent. Once a military brat…always a military brat.
kimbutgar
(27,248 posts)Though I think it’s a sappy song!
That said, Tony Bennett I lost my heart in San Francisco is still the best!
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Probatim
(3,285 posts)I love the lyrics. Hope some of you find this enjoyable.
cloudbase
(6,270 posts)Brother Buzz
(39,895 posts)Factoid: Huey Lewis attended Strawberry Point
Hekate
(100,133 posts)🌺That was Hawai’i Pono’i.
🌺But when I returned for the 50th reunion, the song the whole group sang was an equally old one that has apparently become kind of an anthem for all Hawaiians and kama’aina, and here it is. So that’s it — not a song for the town, but a song for the land.
