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* Pirates of the Mississippi, "[[Down and Out in Birmingham]]" | * Pirates of the Mississippi, "[[Down and Out in Birmingham]]" | ||
* [[Maria Taylor]], "[[Birmingham 1982]]" | * [[Maria Taylor]], "[[Birmingham 1982]]" | ||
* Telluride, "[[Birmingham Tonight]]" | * [[Telluride]], "[[Birmingham Tonight]]" | ||
* Keith Whitley, "[[Birmingham Turnaround]]" | * Keith Whitley, "[[Birmingham Turnaround]]" | ||
* Edith Wilson, Fats Waller (and many others) "[[Birmingham Blues]]", 1921 | * Edith Wilson, Fats Waller (and many others) "[[Birmingham Blues]]", 1921 | ||
Revision as of 20:31, 3 August 2006
- This is an incomplete listing, which may never satisfy any subjective standard for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.
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)
- Billy Joel, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
- Little Richard, "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey"
- Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama"
- Tom Waits, "Swordfishtrombone" (1983)
- Drive-By Truckers, "One of These Days"
- Andy Offutt Irwin, "Maribel"
- Birmingham J, "Alabama Anthem" (2005)
- Frank Perkins/Mitchell Parish, "Stars Fell on Alabama", 1934
- Lyle Lovett, "I Can't Love You Anymore"
- Lyle Lovett, "Her First Mistake"
- Paul Simon, "Sure Don't Feel Like Love", 2006
Source
- "List of songs about Birmingham, Alabama." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 19 Mar 2006, 17:22 UTC. 19 Mar 2006, 19:09 [1].
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