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Originally posted by treibeis View PostI'd left England before it was released, so I'm not entirely sure:
Did Peter And The Test Tube Babies' "Shit British Tour" ever get to Number One?
This is quite amusing, however:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articl...g-donald-trump
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Wilbert Harrison's Kansas City was a US #1. New Orleans is mentioned in House of the Rising Sun (and in other #1 songs surely.) And — still with the 60s' — Eve of Destruction namechecks Selma Alabama, Red China and the Jordan River, while Ode to Billie Joe features Choctaw Ridge and the Tallahatchie Bridge (not sure if they're real places) but Tupelo is.Last edited by Amor de Cosmos; 03-11-2017, 17:23.
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James Brown had a bit of a habit of releasing singles in which he sang a bunch of names of cities he was planning to tour and/or names of radio stations he wanted to play the song. I would assume at least one of these must have made #1 on a R&B charts, but I'm buggered if I'm going to check, there are several of them (I did just look up his version of 'Night Train', though, and that one didn't).
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Kokomo by the Beach Boys, US #1, has 12: Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama, Key Largo, Montego, Florida Keys, Kokomo, Key West, Martinique, Montserrat...and..."Port au Prince, I want to catch a glimpse"
Fortunately, Brian Wilson was not involved in this monstrosity in any capacity so it does not stain his legacy.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 04-11-2017, 10:16.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostRoute 66 includes San Bernardino, if we ever do a niche thread on sites of mass killing in chart hits (#14 on Billboard)
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Did "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" get to number 1 anywhere? Tulsa, Oklahoma, Albuquerque...
Think Gene Pitney's "24 hours from Tulsa was a british number 1.
Think "St. Louis Blues" was a huge hit in the 20s/30s. although whether they kept close track of numbers in the, er, "race records" market then, I don't know.
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