Thunder Road

Strange, he shadows me back home
Footsteps echo on the stones
Rainy nights, on Hausmann Boulevard

A classic by one of the pioneers of electric guitar music - 40 Miles of Bad Road

Crossroad Blues by Robert Johnson, another pioneer, which gave birth to the more modern version by Eric Clapton that follows next.

Last one, with a cruel irony. Jan Berry, one of the co-authors of this song and the Jan of Jan and Dean, had a terrible car crash some years later on the same Sunset Blvd. that was the subject of this song. The crash left him with severe brain damage and very disabled. He died in his early 60s.

Back-street joy ride certified bona fide
Answer to a sailor's dream

Nashville Teens

Tobacco Road

What a wonderful walk down memory lane! I have not heard Crossroads by Robert Johnson in years!

I really didn't know what the FNM threads were about. Neat theme!

More L.A. Streets

from the movie Forbidden Zone, written by Oingo Boingo.

Instead I'm on the Avenue where nobody goes
With fields of green that wilted like a last summer rose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN9H0ViglH8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2fGzKiqRM

New Jersey Turnpike in the wee, wee hours
I was rolling slowly 'cause of drizzling showers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Ggp3TJjuE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTG9dKW7EaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnV7dTXlXxs

Annie...there is a commercial now that plays "On The Sunnyside of the Street"....and I can

never get it out of my head. LOL Great Song! Thank you everyone for this Friday

Special Posting...some are old, old favorites, some not so much...but love the entire

posting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmqRx3ypWwU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L14UKBjC5Is

I can't seem to help myself!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjYg4kLUoic

...up to Lexington 125... (Lexington Ave. and 125 Street)

South Street by The Orlons , a Philadelphia group singing about a Philadelphia street, with a bunch of Philadelphia teenagers dancing on Bandstand!

Do you see that parade
Do you hear that parade
Coming down Palm Canyon Drive

I knew "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" from Mick Ronson. Googling a video, found out that it was written by Richard Rogers and used in a 1939 movie! So here's both versions:

I think streets also include alleys:

I had only heard The Ventures' version of Slaughter on 10th Avenue before

From 1987 in Downtown Los Angeles prior to gentrification. The DJ's reference to a "fashion factory" is one of the garment sweatshops which populated DTLA. Among those "sweet ladies" were many undocumented Latinas and Asians working long hours in deplorable conditions for crappy wages.

So Long Lonely Avenue

Oh my, I feel my age! I know very few of those singers!

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Pines of Rome: Appian Way

Lars, that was great fun, listening to two other versions of a song I've known so long!

When my son took me to see The Music Man at the Goodman in Chicago, i picked him up on the north side of Chicago. As we turned on to LSD, just about 5 (from the song), he cued this up. i raised him right.