Pop Songs about Iowa/Iowa Towns

[Mtowncyclone13]

4th Street Moon by Stephen Kellogg is about Cedar Falls. Well, not about it but written there after a gig at The Hub which is on 4th Street.

It's a really good song.

 

[00clone]

My buddy and I put this together last weekend. He's obviously a professional video/photographer (ISU Grad). Based on a 45 RPM record I owned. We did it just for something fun to do...

Getting out of Muscatine...Good choice! (the song ain't bad either)

 

[StClone]

That's a good one! He also mentions Eldon, Ottumwa, Mt. Pleasant and Burlington in the song. The drummer is wearing a Case iH t-shirt so he must be in the red zone. The sax player does a heck of a job. What's a "floater"?

Fairfield was home to Fairfield College which was taken over by Maharishi University http://www.mum.edu/ in the '70's (I think). The school made Transcendental Meditation part of its curriculum. In a trance practitioners claimed to levitate..."float"...in reality they hopped around on wrestling mats. "Floaters" made national news and added whimsy to the school, Fairfield and Iowa.

 

[StClone]

I never mentioned the connection between the song "Iowa City Make Love to Me" and Ames. It is that the label of the record is from Ames: Maximum Ames Records. And it has a four day music festival in Ames, September 25-28 and here is the line-up: http://www.maximumames.com/?post_type=tribe_events

 

[BoxsterCy]

So, still no beach and surfin' songs about Iowa?

 

[aauummm]

Fairfield was home to Fairfield College which was taken over by Maharishi University http://www.mum.edu/ in the '70's (I think). The school made Transcendental Meditation part of its curriculum. In a trance practitioners claimed to levitate..."float"...in reality they hopped around on wrestling mats. "Floaters" made national news and added whimsy to the school, Fairfield and Iowa.

Crap, I should have made the connection! duh I remember when they bought it too. Thanks for jogging my memory!

 

[Cyrok]

Didn't see anyone post this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ReB9sqS8aIc

 

[ronandkay]

Manfred Mann "Stranded In Iowa"....after a concert in Davenport, Iowa. Song was on Chances which was released in 1980.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi_5G_rKKTE

 

[FarminCy]

Van Halen - Panama

What else could it be about but Panama, Iowa obviously!!!

 

[Al_4_State]

Four pages and not a single Hangdogs reference. Time to change that. Not a ton on YouTube but hit up Spotify. "St Clair of Cedar Rapids" and "Flatlands" are very Iowa laden songs.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDqWEsGmfM

 

[Cyvilian]

Fairfield was home to Fairfield College which was taken over by Maharishi University http://www.mum.edu/ in the '70's (I think). The school made Transcendental Meditation part of its curriculum. In a trance practitioners claimed to levitate..."float"...in reality they hopped around on wrestling mats. "Floaters" made national news and added whimsy to the school, Fairfield and Iowa.

It was Parsons College. And whimsy? Yeah.... Probably not the word I'd use.

 

[urb1]

Piledriver by Damn Yankees.

I was cruizin' backstage in Des Moines, Iowa
And a little girl comes up next to me and says
"Mr. Nugent do you think my skirt is short enough?"
I said, "Baby, you want to be alive you've got to piledrive!"

 

[StClone]

It was Parsons College. And whimsy? Yeah.... Probably not the word I'd use.

Thanks for correcting it to Parson's, I forget too. But whimsy fits: as odd or fanciful notions. I don't think harsher words are needed. :smile:

 

[StClone]

If anyone is interested in updating the links that would be great in this fun old thread.

Here is a story I've never heard of:

 

[StClone]

Fairfield

 

[StClone]

"Iowa City, make Love to me." by Pete Balestrieri

Found on Spotify.

This song was recorded or maybe produced in Ames!

 

[StClone]

"Duke of Dubuque" is a song originally recorded by the Four Vagabonds in 1941, celebrating the city of Dubuque, Iowa, and later revived by The Manhattan Transfer.​

 

[Cyforce]

Bob Seger.

On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha.

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I went to school with some guys from Glenwood. They claim Seger got his ass kicked in a bar just outside of town.

 

[Al_4_State]

This doesn’t specifically say Iowa, but Hailey is very proud of being Iowan, and this whole album is about growing up in eastern Iowa. This song is a total banger too.

 

[StClone]

This doesn’t specifically say Iowa, but Hailey is very proud of being Iowan, and this whole album is about growing up in eastern Iowa. This song is a total banger too.

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