Rich here remembering all the cool songs named after cities, which has always been a "thing," but was particularly big in the Sixties. No doubt you remember "Kansas City" (They got some crazy little women there, and I'm going to get me one) or "Chicago" (that toddlin' town). And after every Yankee win, they still play "New York, New York" (If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere).
After working in Seattle for 30 years, I hate to say it, but "Seattle" has to be the stupidest city-named song, ever. Any songwriter who describes Seattle as having "the bluest skies you've ever seen" has obviously never spent much time here.
Then, there's one of the most popular city-named rock songs of all, Chuck Berry's "Memphis," which every garage band in America seemingly played at one time or another. But my favorite version is Lonnie Mack's instrumental version:
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