who sang the original dirty old town and which town does it refer to?
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Ewan MacColl, father of Kirsty, and the town is Salford, near Manchester.
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Dirty Vegas.  The song: Days go by
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It might mean you're listening to a song of that name by a popular '70's group, "Deep Purple".\n\nHere's the inspiration for the lyrics:\nThe lyrics of the song tell a true story: on December 7, 1971, Deep Purple had set up camp at Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones and known as the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio) at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino (referred to as "the gambling house" in the song lyric). On the eve of the recording session a concert featuring Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention was held in the casino's theatre; during the concert a fire broke out (said to be caused by a Swiss fan shooting a flare gun in the ceiling, as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line) that eventually destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the Mothers' equipment. The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song (credited to bass player Roger Glover, who related how the title occurred to him when he suddenly woke from a dream a few days later) referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva from the burning casino as the members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their hotel across the lake. The "funky Claude" running in and out is referring to Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival who helped some of the audience to escape the fire.
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My Kind of Town is the theme song for Chicago.  I do believe that Frank Sinatra had the best rendition of this.  Chicago is known as the Windy City.  It also boasts the tallest building in the United States (Sears Tower).  Good luck on your project.
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It's originally by Roxette but the current version is by D.H.T.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.H.T.
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FLat Line Click  - album:HOTBOY STAR(TERRIN UP THA TOWN)\n\nhttp://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=239148
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The song is by White Town AKA Jyoti Mishra, and is simply called "Your Woman" - he has a website:\n\nhttp://www.whitetown.co.uk/\n\nI love this bit from his biography: 'I formed White Town in 1989 after seeing a brill Pixies gig in late ‘88. My reasoning was that Black Francis was a porker and could get away with playing noisy pop music so maybe I could as well'
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Acually, it's 1985 and it's by Bowling for Soup. You can buy the album at circut city, but its a different version, the bad version.
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The song is called "Move Around" by B.G. and it's produced by Mannie Fresh. The line goes "I'm from the ghetto, homie/ I was raised on bread and bologna..." Answer your question?
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"Diamonds and Guns" by The Transplants : )
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The saying was originally created by fans in '81.  The song was done by Bootsy Collins.
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everclear - "am radio." that being said, where the hell are they. it's like the guys who sang "chumbawamba" speaking of, where's fred durst?
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the song is 'chirpy chirpy cheep cheep' and was at no1 for 5wks in 1971. it was sang by MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
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If it's the song I'm thinking of, you're going WAYYYYY back to about 1962. The song was "Old Rivers", by Walter Brennan.\n\n\nHOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE I FIRST SEEN OLD RIVERS?\nWHY, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN HE WEREN'T AROUND.\nWELL, THAT OLD MAN DID A HEAP OF WORK;\nSPENT HIS WHOLE LIFE WALKING PLOWED GROUND.\n\nHE HAD A ONE-ROOM SHACK NOT FAR FROM US,\nAND WE WAS ABOUT AS POOR AS HIM.\nHE HAD ONE OLD MULE HE CALLED "MIDNIGHT",\nAND I'D TAG ALONG AFTER THEM.\n\nHE'D PLOW THEM ROWS STRAIGHT AND DEEP\nAND I'D TAG ALONG BEHIND,\nBUSTIN' UP CLODS WITH MY OWN BARE FEET --\nOLD RIVERS WAS A FRIEND OF MINE.\n\nTHAT SUN WOULD GET HIGH AND THAT MULE WOULD WORK\nTILL OLD RIVERS'D SAY, "WHOA!"\nTHEN HE'D WIPE HIS BROW, LEAN BACK IN THE REINS,\nAND TALK ABOUT A PLACE HE WAS GONNA GO.\n\n(CHORUS)\nSAY, ONE OF THESE DAYS I'M GONNA CLIMB THAT MOUNTAIN;\nWALK UP THERE AMONG THEM CLOUDS,\nWHERE THE COTTON'S HIGH AND THE CORN'S A-GROWIN',\nAND THERE AIN'T NO FIELDS TO PLOW.\n\nI GOT A LETTER FROM BACK HOME THE OTHER DAY --\nTHEY'RE ALL FINE, AND THE CROPS IS HIGH --\nAND DOWN AT THE END MY MAMA SAID,\n"YOU KNOW, OLD RIVERS DIED."\nI'M JUST SITTING HERE ON THIS NEW-PLOWED EARTH,\nTRYIN' TO FIND ME A LITTLE SHADE.\nAND WITH THE SUN BEATING DOWN, 'CROSS THE FIELD I SEE\nTHAT MULE, OLD RIVERS...AND ME
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Here's a more interesting version of the song!!!\n\n...Down the lane I walk, with my sweet Mary.  Broken teeth, and legs so hairy!  It's good to smoke, the Green Green Grass of Home!\n...Down the lane I walk, with my sweet Bessie.  Good ol' cow, but she's so messy!  It's good to smoke, the Green Green Grass of Home!
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It was originally sung by "The Kinks" back in like the 60's.  They also sang a song called "Lola"
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It was a song (fictitious origin) from the 70's...\n\n"This song tells the tale of about a man who finds out from his friend Andy that his wife had cheated on him with both Andy and a guy named Seth. This being Georgia, he gets a gun and sets out to kill Andy, but when he gets there Andy is already dead. The police show up, arrest him for killing Andy and he is hanged. The singer then reveals that she is the man's sister and that she shot Andy and also killed her brother's wife."