Pop Songs about Iowa/Iowa Towns

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Road Trip to Decorah​

 

[AuH2O]

Pretty much the best song ever.

 

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BIX'S DAVENPORT BLUES

 

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(I got Arrested Up in) Ames · Hello Dave..

 

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Hell Greyhound Bus Ride

Wesley Willis
It's Wednesday, April 2, 1997, at 12: 00 pm
I took a Greyhound bus to Des Moines, Iowa
It was a six-hour profanity demon hell ride
At 6: 00 pm, the Greyhound bus
Arrived at the Des Moines bus station

 

[StClone]

Damn Yankees--Piledriver

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!

 

[Cy4Lifer]

The Fort Dodge song "Kothomo" still eludes me.

Kokotho

 

[SouthJerseyCy]

Didn't read the entire thread, so sorry if already mentioned....

On a long and lonely highway, east of Omaha....

 

[qwerty]

There is only one city named Cedar Rapids in the United States — Cedar Rapids, Iowa and it's in this song:​

John Prine - Taking A Walk​

Yeah, but the girl from Cedar Rapids is now residing in Iowa Falls . . . .

 

[qwerty]

What a fun song.

 

[StClone]

Yeah, but the girl from Cedar Rapids is now residing in Iowa Falls . . . .

I'll need that obscure connection's details:

John Prine - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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Kokotho

Wonder if the Radio Station has a copy of Kokotho.
.

Here's Fort Dodge:

 

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Five decades of Iowa music lesson 101:

 

[12191987]

The Iowa connection in 'Til Tuesday's "Coming Up Close" stems directly from the song's opening lyrics: "One night in Iowa / He and I in a borrowed car / Went driving in the summer / Promises in every star." [1]
Aimee Mann, who wrote the track, has explained that the song was inspired by a romantic epiphany she experienced while driving through the cornfields of Iowa with a friend while listening to a tape of Bob Dylan. The memory of that summer road trip served as the creative foundation for the song's nostalgic and bittersweet

Aimee Mann is so ******* good.

If we’re going to use references, there is this:

“Evelyn's kiss was oxygen
I leaned over to take it in
As we went howling through the edge of south Des Moines
It came over me at a bad time
She burned over the double line
She impaled as I reached my hand for the guardrail”

 

[Cy4Lifer]

Wonder if the Radio Station has a copy of Kokotho.
.

Here's Fort Dodge:

Uh, that’s not Kokotho.

 

[StClone]

Uh, that’s not Kokotho.

No, It's a Fort Dodge Song. Kokotho is nowhere to be found unless the local radio station is curating it.

 

[Cy4Lifer]

No, It's a Fort Dodge Song. Kokotho is nowhere to be found unless the local radio station is curating it.

Last I know (probably 1990’s?) the radio station in Ft. Dodge, 94.5, played this song. Otho used to have a recording studio (my mind is a little fuzzy on this?) and that was where the song Kokotho was born and recorded?

I welcome other CF’ers who might be more knowledgeable on this topic to correct my info.