Last time I saw Marie
She was waving me goodbye....
Information please,
help me get in touch with her
in Memphis Tennessee....
"Memphis, Tennessee" by Chuck Berry
So,what else did we do in Memphis?
After Graceland and Sun studio we went to the
Memphis Rock n Soul Museum
Memphis Rock n Soul Museum
It's a very interesting place that takes you through the evolution of the music from the farms and churches into the cities.
there are some gorgeous guitars...
these belong to Tony Gentry of the Bar Kays and autographed by people he performed with.
The black guitar is signed by Bill Clinton.
We walked around some on Beale Street.
Had a beer at B B King's...
but didn't have enough time for everything we wanted to do....
Well, it's a reason to return!!!
I've re-designed the blog to make it easier to read.
Let me know what you think.
In keeping with the "educational" part of this blog...
the following is from "Teresa's Memphis Blog"
I recently learned an interesting bit of trivia that I thought I would share with you here. It turns out that Memphis has the distinction of being mentioned in the lyrics of more songs than any other city in the world. And these are recorded and distributed songs, not just the creations of wannabe songwriters. So just how many songs have "Memphis" somewhere in the lyrics? A whopping 899....
When I first read this statistic, I was dubious. Could there possibly be that many? And if there were, surely they were all really obscure songs sung by unknown artists. But then I saw the list and discovered that I knew far more of them that I would have guessed. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to see how many you could come up with before I post a link to the complete list. So if you can think of a song with "Memphis" anywhere in the lyrics, post it in a comment below. I'll give you the link to all 899 next week. In the meantime, I'll get us started:
1. City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie (one of my all time favorite songs)
2. Walking in Memphis by Marc Cohn
3. Maybe It Was Memphis by Pam Tillis
Update: as of 9/20/2010, there were 971 songs on the list--you can read them all here.*
When I first read this statistic, I was dubious. Could there possibly be that many? And if there were, surely they were all really obscure songs sung by unknown artists. But then I saw the list and discovered that I knew far more of them that I would have guessed. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to see how many you could come up with before I post a link to the complete list. So if you can think of a song with "Memphis" anywhere in the lyrics, post it in a comment below. I'll give you the link to all 899 next week. In the meantime, I'll get us started:
1. City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie (one of my all time favorite songs)
2. Walking in Memphis by Marc Cohn
3. Maybe It Was Memphis by Pam Tillis
Update: as of 9/20/2010, there were 971 songs on the list--you can read them all here.*
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