List of songs about Birmingham
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
This list is incomplete and may never satisfy any subjective standard for completeness. You can help Bhamwiki by expanding it.
This is a list of songs written about the city of Birmingham:
- Gene Autry, "Birmingham Daddy"
- Rachard Farina, Joan Baez, "Birmingham Sunday"
- Harry Belafonte and R. B. Greaves, "Birmingham, Alabama"
- Blackhawk, "Postmarked Birmingham"
- Bruce Cockburn, "Birmingham Shadows", 1995
- Charlie Daniels, "Birmingham Bus Station", 1994
- Ani DiFranco, "Hello Birmingham"
- Tommy Dorsey, "Birmingham Bounce", 1946
- Drive-By Truckers, "Birmingham", 2002
- Duke Ellington, "Birmingham Breakdown"
- Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Joan Baez, the Hollies, others, "Boulder to Birmingham"
- Erskine Hawkins, "Tuxedo Junction"
- Merline Johnson, "I Got a Man in a 'Bama Mine", 1937
- Tracy Lawrence, "Paint Me A Birmingham", 2004
- Leadbelly, "Birmingham Jail"
- Amanda Marshall, "Birmingham"
- John Mellencamp, "When Jesus Left Birmingham", 1993
- Robert Moore, "Sweet Birmingham" (first recorded by Taj Mahal)
- David Lee Murphy, "Breakfast in Birmingham"
- Randy Newman, "Birmingham"
- Phil Ochs, "Talking Birmingham Jam", 1965
- Pirates of the Mississippi, "Down and Out in Birmingham"
- Maria Taylor, "Birmingham 1982"
- Telluride, "Birmingham Tonight"
- Keith Whitley, "Birmingham Turnaround"
- Edith Wilson, Fats Waller (and many others) "Birmingham Blues", 1921
Birmingham is also mentioned in the following:
- Chuck Berry, "Promised Land" (later remade as a 1975 hit for Elvis Presley)
- Birmingham J, "Alabama Anthem" (2005)
- Lead Belly, "Black Betty" (early 20th century, made a hit in 1977 by Ram Jam)
- Drive-By Truckers, "One of These Days"
- Bruce Hornsby, "Jacob's Ladder" (first recorded by Huey Lewis & the News, 1987)
- Little Richard, "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey"
- Lyle Lovett, "I Can't Love You Anymore"
- Lyle Lovett, "Her First Mistake"
- Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama"
- Andy Offutt Irwin, "Maribel"
- Frank Perkins/Mitchell Parish, "Stars Fell on Alabama", 1934
- Paul Simon, "Sure Don't Feel Like Love", 2006
- Tom Waits, "Swordfishtrombone" (1983)
Source
- "List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 19 Mar 2006, 17:22 UTC. 19 Mar 2006, 19:09 [1].
| Dual licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License version 3.0 | |
| This article is published under the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license v3.0. | |