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Pittsburgh Town - Woody Guthrie
Smoky Ole Town
Legendary folk musician Woody Guthrie came to Pittsburgh in 1941 on tour with the Almanacs folk group that also featured Lee Hays, Millard Lampell, and Pete Seeger. Seeing the belching steel mills of the Mon Valley he wrote the song “Pittsburgh Town” that starts with the verse "Pittsburgh Town is a smoky old town / Solid iron from McKeesport down." The Mon Valley mills were in the midst of a strike when the Almanacs arrived. Guthrie sympathized with the strikes writing the verses “What did Jones & Laughlin steal now Pittsburgh?" "From the Monongahela to the Ohio / They're joining up with the CIO" Pittsburgh Town has been recorded by Pete Seeger, and the NewLanders on their album “Where the Allegheny Flows” Guthrie also wrote the song “Hard Travelin” that refers to Pittsburgh steel workers.
I've been working that Pittsburgh steel, I thought you knowed
I've been a dumpin' that red-hot slag, way down the road
I've been a blasting, I've been a firin', I've been a pourin' red-hot iron
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania – Guy Mitchell
Pittsburgh –The City of Pawnshop Fueled Love
In the 1952 Top 10 hit “Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania” singer Guy Mitchell tells the story of a love sick young man from Pittsburgh who has pawned everything he owns to take a beautiful woman to fancy places trying to convince her he is rich. Written by Bob Merrill the single hit the Billboard charts on March 7, 1952 and peaked at number six after 17 weeks. A cover version of the song that Big Crosby recorded for a radio broadcast is included on the Bing Crosby compilation CDs “Everything I Have Is Yours” and “High Profile”. Song writer Bob Merrill, who grew up in Philadelphia, also wrote “Love Makes the World Go 'Round", "Honeycomb", "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?", "Mambo Italiano". Bob Merrill wrote a string of hit songs for Guy Mitchell who was also a movie actor and hosted a television variety show.
There's a pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
And I've just gotta get five or ten (five or ten)
From the pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Gotta be with my angel again
Ode to Pittsburgh - Louden Wainwright III
“Ode To Pittsburgh” was first release on Loudon Wainwright’s debut album “Album I” in 1970. Loudon got to know Pittsburgh while he attended drama school at Carnegie Mellon University from 1965 to 1967. It was released on the Wainwright compilation “The Atlantic Recordings” in 2000.
Pennsylvania's western daughter With your tubes of liberty Princess of pig-iron slaughter With your boyfriend Carnegie Oh you were stained glassed You were smoke stacked You were laid in cobblestone You were trolley car tracked And for you the red sky shone
Pumping Iron - The Iron City Houserockers
The Iron City House Rockers "Pumpin' Iron Sweatin' Steel" tape lived for Clarion University TV in 1988 at the Red Stallion (aka The Roost) in Clarion, PA. The Houserockers dde to the hard working and hard partying mill workers of Pittsburgh.
Homestead Town - Mike Stout - Story of a Glory Boom Town xxxx
Homestead Town honors the memory of the steel workers of Homestead Pa who fought Frick and Carnegie for workers rights and made the steel that built America. It was released on Mike Stout's Point of Pittsburgh CD in honor of Pittsburgh''s 250th birthday.
Homestead Town, Homestead Town,
Used to be the story of a glory boom town.
Homestead Town, Homestead Town,
when the mill was there and the smoke was all around.
Road signs pointing to you from everywhere;
You were the forge of the universe, the belly of the bear.
Streets full of people in the middle of the night;
Days gray and dark when the furnace was alive.
Pittsburgh - They Might Be Giants - A song about the Electric Banana and Mr. Smalls
They Might Be Giants wrote the Pittsburgh song and video for Mr. Smalls club in Pittsburgh. The video which features actor John Hodgman as the Deranged Millionaire was directed by Pascal Campion. The song is included on TMBGs “Venue Song” DVD/CD that was released in 2008. The band sings about going from the Electric Banana to Mr. Smallis.
Dahntahn - Mark Eddie
Rock comedian Mark Eddie pokes fun a Pittsburghese and the Pittsburgh scene. Click here DAHNTAHN to hear Mark Eddie and the Granati Brothers studio version with a full chorus of Jaggoffs Dont hang around in the wrong parts of town, where all the jag-offs go . . . Dahn tahn! Go see the Buccos, the Penguins or the Donnie Iris Show! Dahn tahn!
I Love Pittsburgh - Jimmy Sapienza
I Love Pittsburgh was written and sung by Jimmy Sapienza, arranged by Dave Lalama, and performed by the Trinity Jazz Orchestra - Pittsburgh's repertory jazz orchestra.
I'm In Pittsburgh - It's Raining -The Outcasts
The Outcasts were a garage rock and psychedelic rock band from San Antonio, Texas that released five singles between 1965 and 1967. 'I'm in Pittsburgh" released in 1966 was their most successful single. It received national airplay and charted locally in San Antonio, Houston and Austin. The Cynics, a Pittsburgh band, covered the song in 1990. In the song the narrator pins for his lover Where she goes, that's where I'll follow / Her trail took me down to Chicago."
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