Highways mentioned in songs

[Stephane Dumas]

So this means that the numbering used to be consistent with Ontario's.... or almost!. Interesting. (As QC-117 ends, it becomes ON-66 for a short while until it connects with ON-11.

Some numbers was consistent with Ontario mainly Hwy-2 (from the border to Dorion,it's PQ-338, then A-20 down to St-Pierre interchange and up to Quebec City, it's PQ-138) and Hwy-17 (now PQ-342). PQ-11 used to be a sort of loop by using PQ-117 and PQ-105 with PQ-107 playing the role of an alternate routing (PQ-11A). In LaVerendrye Park, PQ-117 was PQ-58 up its junction with PQ-113 (numbered PQ-58 up to Seneterre) while the remaining was numbered PQ-59.

[Stephane Dumas]

No highway mentionned in this song but you can see lots of highways sightings in this video clip from Eric Lapointe titled "Terre Promise".

[golden eagle]

^^^^

What are you talking about? 

He must be talking about a post I made on the first page about the rap song "Holidae In" that mentioned a highway 270.

[hm insulators]

No highway mentionned in this song but you can see lots of highways sightings in this video clip from Eric Lapointe titled "Terre Promise".

Good song!

[Stephane Dumas]

Some highway sighting in this early 1990s clip from the band Petra with the song "Beyond Belief", there even a map from a Rand McNally road atlas sighting at 4:31 in the clip.

[Brian556]

"Wrong Side Of Memphis"-Trisha Yearwood
"headed down 40 with my old guitar"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zu2OAIYMDk

[berberry]

Detroit's Woodward Avenue is mentioned in Bob Segar's Fire Down Below.  Gerry Rafferty sang about London's Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes lived.  

Although it doesn't mention a specific road, Kraftwerk's Autobahn from 1972 is, to my mind, the ultimate homage to the joy of freeway driving.    Remixed in the early 90s, this is an excellent edit of the 22-minute original.  The sound effects were produced entirely on a moog synthesizer,  and if you've never heard it I'm sure you'll have troubled believing it was produced so long ago.

And did anyone mention Aretha's Freeway Of Love?  Opens with a beautiful black-and-white shot of a stack interchange and features a number of other traffic scenes (I've got it cranked to an ear-splitting volume right now - one of my absolute favorite pop songs of all time, and I'm not a big pop fan).

[Henry]

I absolutely love that song! It ranks up there with R-E-S-P-E-C-T and Natural Woman as the Queen of Soul's best hits of all time. Brings back memories of L.A.

[golden eagle]

"Freeway of Love", if I recall, doesn't mention a specific highway, which is why I didn't mention it.

[agentsteel53]

Kraftwerk's Autobahn from 1972 is, to my mind, the ultimate homage to the joy of freeway driving.    

clearly these guys have never been on the 405.  For that, I would suggest Razor's "Road Gunner".

[berberry]

"Freeway of Love", if I recall, doesn't mention a specific highway, which is why I didn't mention it.

Depends on how you look at it.  It's specific but fictional, as are the streets and exits mentioned.  Let's see, there's the eponymous freeway, Better-Than-Ever Street, at least a couple of exits - one named Peace, another Love - and so on.

And the video certainly features real freeways and interchanges, although they aren't named.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Detroit's Woodward Avenue is mentioned in Bob Segar's Fire Down Below.  Gerry Rafferty sang about London's Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes lived. 

Although it doesn't mention a specific road, Kraftwerk's Autobahn from 1972 is, to my mind, the ultimate homage to the joy of freeway driving.    Remixed in the early 90s, this is an excellent edit of the 22-minute original.  The sound effects were produced entirely on a moog synthesizer,  and if you've never heard it I'm sure you'll have troubled believing it was produced so long ago.

My dad had the Autobahn LP from Kraftwerk (wins title for best roadgeek album cover ever), so I've heard the entire 22 minutes.

[Scott5114]

"Freeway of Love", if I recall, doesn't mention a specific highway, which is why I didn't mention it.

Depends on how you look at it.  It's specific but fictional, as are the streets and exits mentioned.  Let's see, there's the eponymous freeway, Better-Than-Ever Street, at least a couple of exits - one named Peace, another Love - and so on.

And the video certainly features real freeways and interchanges, although they aren't named.

How about that frame full of state name I-94 and Michigan US 25 cutouts?? Surprised Jake hasn't thrown that up on the Shield Gallery yet...

[agentsteel53]

How about that frame full of state name I-94 and Michigan US 25 cutouts?? Surprised Jake hasn't thrown that up on the Shield Gallery yet...

dang, that's what I get for not having the patience to watch videos!

when I get home this weekend...

[kharvey10]

Roadhouse Dogs (a UK based band) has several songs that have references to various highways and rail lines in the USA (Route 62, Chain of Rocks, San Fernando Road, The Old Soo Line)

I'll won't forget Brak from Space Ghost singing a song about Highway 40

[hobsini2]

I am amazed no one has mentioned anything from John Mellencamp yet. 
Minutes to Memories:
Another hot one out on Highway Eleven
This is my life, it's what I've chosen to do
Pink Houses:
There's a black man with a black cat livin' in a black neighborhood. He's got an interstate runnin' through his front yard. You know he thinks that he's got it so good.
It's a general one here but in the video, it is an I-65 shield.
Our Country:
From the East coast to the West Coast,
Down the Dixie Highway, back home
This is our country.

[hobsini2]

Some other songs i have in my music library that have references to highways (even in generic terms):
Gin Blossoms - "Allison Road"
Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) - "Telegraph Road"
Jonh Mellencamp - "Rural Route"
Sheryl Crow - "Everyday Is A Winding Road"
Sheryl Crow - "Maybe Angels": "I took the I-95 down to Pensacola..."
Bob Seger - "Main Street"
Bruce Hornsby - "On The Western Skyline": "Rooftops sag on 2nd St..."
Counting Crows - "Sullivan Street"
Tom Petty - "Even The Losers": "Two cars parked on the overpass..."
Police - "Synchronicity II": "The secretaries pout and preen like cheap tarts on a red light street..."
Bon Jovi - "It's My Life": "My heart is like an open highway..."
Amanda Marshall - "Birmingham": "As the rain falls down upon the interstate..."
U2 - "Where The Streets Have No Name"

[jwolfer]

The Atlanta Hwy in the B52s "Love Shack"

[1995hoo]

Little Feat's "Let It Roll" (off the album of the same name) leads off with the lyric "Rollin' down Highway 95."

Bruce Springsteen's "Working on the Highway" (from the Born in the USA album) contains the lyric "Now I work for the county out on 95/All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by." In "Reason to Believe" (off the Nebraska LP) the man standing over a dead dog "Got his car door flung open, he's standin' out on Highway 31."

[roadman]

Convoy by C.W. Mcall. It mentions I-10, I-44, and a cloverleaf, and Toll roads my guess would be the NJTP from the lyrics.
BigMatt

How about CW McCall's Night Rider (from the Wolf Creek Pass album):  "White lines are lasers burnin' holes in my eyes  Feelin' like I'm hyponitized Think I'm gonna die.  Interstate 80 gonna give me no sleep.  It's just a winkin' and a blinkin' with a stinkin load of sheep."

[roadman65]

Highway 41 is mentioned in Ramblin Man by the Allman Brothers.
US 19 is mentioned in Bob Segar's Nutbush City Limits, but it erroneous as TN 19 goes through the town in Tennessee that the song is about.
Highway 9 is mentioned in Springsteen's Born To Run.
US 441 is mentioned as the line Out on 441 in Tom Petty's American Girl.
Key West, FL's Caroline Street is in a song by Jimmy Buffett.

[roadman]

Highway 41 is mentioned in Ramblin Man by the Allman Brothers.
US 19 is mentioned in Bob Segar's Nutbush City Limits, but it erroneous as TN 19 goes through the town in Tennessee that the song is about.
Highway 9 is mentioned in Springsteen's Born To Run.
US 441 is mentioned as the line Out on 441 in Tom Petty's American Girl.
Key West, FL's Caroline Street is in a song by Jimmy Buffett.

Florida's AIA is not only mentioned in a Jimmy Buffett song (Tryin' to Reason with Hurricane Season), but it's the title of the album that song is on as well.

[PHLBOS]

From the Mamas and Papas' Creeque Alley:

When Cass was a sophomore, planned to go to Swathmore
But she changed her mind one day.
Standin' on the turnpike, thumb out to hitchhike,
"Take me to New York right away."
When Denny met Cass he gave her love bumps;
Called John and Zal and that was the Mugwumps.
McGuinn and McGuire couldn't get no higher
But that's what they were aimin' at.
And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass.

Opening verse to Frank Sinatra's My Way:

And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.

I've lived a life that's full.
I've traveled each and ev'ry highway;
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Chorus to Jim Corce's I Got A Name:

Movin' me down the highway
Rollin' me down the highway
Movin' ahead so life won't pass me by

The Long and Winding Road by The Beatles (off their Abbey Road album)

Opening verse to Bob Seger's Turn The Page as well as the chorus:

On a long and lonesome highway
East of Omaha
You can listen to the engine
Moanin' out his one note song
You can think about the woman
Or the girl you knew the night before
But your thoughts will soon be wandering
The way they always do
When you're ridin' sixteen hours
And there's nothin' much to do
And you don't feel much like ridin',
You just wish the trip was through

Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go
Playin' star again
There I go
Turn the page

Chorus to Judas Priest's Heading Out to the Highway:

So I'm heading out to the highway
I got nothing to lose at all
I'm gonna do it my way
Take a chance before I fall
A chance before I fall!

[Brian556]

Florida's A1A is also mentioned in "Ice, Ice, Baby" by Vanilla Ice.

[Brandon]

And did anyone mention Aretha's Freeway Of Love?  Opens with a beautiful black-and-white shot of a stack interchange and features a number of other traffic scenes (I've got it cranked to an ear-splitting volume right now - one of my absolute favorite pop songs of all time, and I'm not a big pop fan).

All of the scenes in that video are of Detroit and vicinity.