Friday, June 6, 2008

The States

I have a lot of tunes logged away in my iTunes, I mean a lot. Like over 10,000 songs. I know, I have a problem. Aside from that disturbing notion, I was listening to Dani California by Red Hot Chili Peppers and I noticed they mention a lot of states in the lyrics. I got to wondering how many songs I have that have an American state in the title. So I created a playlist and found these statistics:

Amount songs that have a state in the title
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Alabama x2 Alaska x2 Illinois x3
New York x10* Maine x1 Oregon x3
Arkansas x2 California x9 Texas x5
Hawaii x7 Colorado x1 Kentucky x4
Mississippi x3 Kansas x5 Ohio x4
Georgia x2 Washington x1 Montana x3
Tennessee x3 Vermont x1 Nebraska x1
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States not represented in song titles**
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N. Dakota Arizona Michigan
S. Dakota Virginia Missouri
Minnesota Delaware Oklahoma
W. Virginia Wyoming Indiana
Pennsylvania Idaho Wisconsin
New Hampshire Utah Maryland
Massachusetts Iowa Louisiana
Rhode Island Nevada New Jersey
Connecticut Florida
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* I realize most of these song refer to the city, but as long as "New York" was in the title I counted it.

**Now one song has the word "Carolina" in it, but there's no distinction on which Carolina, North or South by just looking at the title. I'm sure James Taylor was singing about one of them, you just can't tell by the title alone. I have a few songs with "Mexico" in the title, but I do believe they are referring to the country and not the "New" state, New Mexico.

So I need to hunt down songs for the remaining states. Any suggestions? Remember, not necessarily songs about the state, but songs with the state name in the title. The song could be about cheese, I don't care as long as it has a state name in the title.

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