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An alert Phillyist reader was wandering about the iTunes Music Store recently and noticed that although the "My Groove" section includes many playlists celebrating specific cities, a number of them -Ist cities, there is no playlist for Philadelphia. Obviously, this is a horrible oversight, and must be remedied! Therefore, we propose that you, our faithful readers, nominate songs for a Philadelphia playlist. They can be songs by a Philly band, songs that make you think of Philly, songs that mention Philly - whatever, as long as there's a strong Philly connection of some kind. We'll pick the best ones, compile them into a final list, and send it on to Apple. Obviously there's no guarantee it'll end up in the iTunes Music Store, but we'll do our best. Hey, maybe we'll put together an iMix, too. But let's actually get that playlist together first. Post your song suggestions as comments to this post, or send them via email. Don't forget a title for the playlist, too. We're sure you can do better than "I <3 New York."
(Note that in order to make it into the iTunes playlist, your song will have to be available on the iTunes Music Store. Obviously this will limit your choices, but sometimes that's a good thing. Of course, you can still send us songs that aren't available on iTunes; we can put those in an ultimate, non-iTunes Philly playlist or something.)
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Roxborough Dance Party
1. Gonna Fly Now (Rocky Theme Song)
2. Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John
3. And We Danced - The Hooters
3. I'm in a Philly Mood - Darryl Hall
4. Who Says You Can't Go Home - Bon Jovi
5. The Sound of Philadelphia - The Three Degrees
6. Motown Philly - Boyz II Men
7. Wildwood Days - Bobby Rydell
8. I Love Music - The O'Jays
9. Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
10. Eagles Fight Song
11. Maneater - Hall & Oates
12. Day By Day - The Hooters
13. Summertime - Will Smith
14. On the Way to Cape May - Al Albert
15. Dancing in the Dark - The Boss
16. Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Atom and His Package- "Philadelphia"
The Orlons- "South Street"
Kick Drum - GLove
I love this idea, here are acouple of suggestions:
Check out "Into Philadelphia" by IKE, who will be opening for the Hooters on Friday at the Electric Factory. The song is often played before Phillies games. The song was written by frontman John Faye, formerly of the John Faye Power Trip ("Miss Catch-22", the JFPT lineup is the same as IKE) and The Caufields ("Devil's Diary").
You can hear the song on their myspace account here:
Ike's My Space
Ike Official Site
And of course from the Hooters, "Beat Up Guitar" with the great chorus "From the Town that Rocked a Nation, Philadelphia, PA"
I second the vote for the Hooters "Beat Up Guitar"
Also:
T.S.O.P (The Sound of Philadelphia) - MFSB
(I'm tempted to include the OJay's "Back Stabbers" as well, since it's a great song from the Philly sound - but oh, the bad connotations!)
Punk Rock Girl - by the Dead Milkmen
Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
Summertime as covered by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Alternately: Parents Just Don't Understand. (And I am horrifed to discover that The Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme has both a cover and karaoke version of available on iTunes).
Sara Smile - Hall and Oates
Summer in the City - The Lovin' Spoonful (not a Philly band, I know - but humid July and August days in Philly always make me think of this song.)
Argh. No Tommy Conwell tracks on iTunes. (Holy cow, am I showing my age.)
Gotta go w/ local band Silvertide's song Devil's Daughter
I would have to go with the Action News theme since it so bad, out of date and quite stupid, just like a lot of things there. It is the worst peice of music ever written for anything and is so dated it is pathetic. WTF is up with Jim Gardner anyway, it is like he has a stick up his ass or something.
All the smart people up and left for New Jersey, where we sing Positively New Jersey and have people pump our cheap gas!