Friday night is British place names music night

[Rusty Nails]

It was originally called Message to Merthyr but they changed it to sell more in America


View: https://youtu.be/SvpAM5oABf0?feature=shared

 

[Jenkins]

California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas


It's a suburb of Ipswich

 

[kynikos]

 

[iandg]

Way too chilled for Dundee bars 🙄


View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vSjmfCdPQeA&si=HrdnIl_IupoP7Hj3

 

[Chris S]

The Jam - London Girl


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZRi7shRieM

 

[Chris S]

The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_MqfF0WBsU

 

[tony111]

View: https://youtu.be/m0oJ8_VTu3c?si=l8hnBI4b2_Y5FyAf

Not exactly about Widnes, but that is where Paul Simon wrote it.

 

[newfhouse]

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue

View: https://youtu.be/vtPk5IUbdH0

 

[newfhouse]

Lionel Hampton - It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)

View: https://youtu.be/o4K_F9rmyuA

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There’s an Egypt, west of Bradford *

Madness
Night Boat To Cairo


View: https://youtu.be/lLLL1KxpYMA?si=Gm_gDbFgZ4nmM3r7

*If you look at the lowest 2 photographs in the link, that road went through 'The Walls Of Jericho'!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

West of Bradford (not far from Egypt)

Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen
Midnight In Moscow


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbrXHMYAz-E

 

[mistyoptic]

California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas


It's a suburb of Ipswich
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On that basis, Pennsylvania 6-5000


View: https://youtu.be/m_muFwwTSMs?si=34Dy3WizMTwW6B3o


It being in Zummerzet 'n all

 

[mistyoptic]

Going Back to Bradford - Smokie


View: https://youtu.be/Nlf8IX01tUA?si=wcY2sUla8RzT_O6L

 

[GuyBoden]

Bradford Executive, Allan Holdsworth.

Probably the best electric guitar solo performance by a bloke from Yorkshire.


(EDIT: This is not really about his obvious technical genius, but his emotions being transmitted through his guitar.)

 

[Dogtrousers]

Little known fact: Elvis is actually referring to Bethlehem in Carmarthenshire

View: https://youtu.be/RrOI962wNng?si=4FyEPpEeYMdQveJZ