Songs with the word Detroit in the lyrics via you tube, etc.

[Sharnelle]

A song I wrote with The Bongo Man, "What I See in the D"
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HHIFX5PfqBo

Nobody boring in Detroit!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HHIFX5PfqBo

[Steve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE4bk0nU8oY
"My Lady from South of Detroit" by Cactus

[rjlj]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v78a8TtjrU

Moke Hill - Detroit

[rb336]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE4bk0nU8oY
"My Lady from South of Detroit" by Cactus

well, half of cactus was from Detroit

[TKshreve]

A little GD representing the Dirty D. One of my favorites by them in fact. Although they are known for there extensive collection of live music, I plugged the original so you all could hear the reference to Detroit.

[Steve]

"Ride Your Pony" by Lee Dorsey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P78AZ5zntGg

[yaktown]

Detroit City - Alice Cooper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h5g9hcsFQc

Also, "Be My Lover" by Alice Cooper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ErMwsG9is

[CassTechGrad]

You heard of the boogaloo, you heard of the Boston monkey,
You heard of the Philly freeze.....we got the Detroit demolition here for ya tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY77Iidi-L8

[Plains_Thunder]

From one of my favorite rock duos, Flo and Eddie with Feel Older Now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XufAjO5Bx7Q

[old guy]

Jackson Browne 1977 The Load Out Stay.Jackson Browne 1977 The Load Out Stay - YouTube

When I lived at the Garwood, I always wondered why so many musicians would show up and hang out for a night, or a day or two. In the Load Out Stay, the line, "Detroit, I don't know, we play so many nights in a row," explains it all. I worked in the music business in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Toledo, Chicago, Rockford, Madison, Milwaukee, the Twin Cities, St. Louis, Upstate New York and numerous other areas. Lived in L.A. San Francisco, Oakland, Phoenix, Tucson, Denver, Boulder, and a lot of other places. I never experienced a music scene like Detroit.

I always wondered why so many bands would come to play at the Garwood after concerts rather than hopping on a jet and heading to another city. It seems, from Jackson Brownes song that top bands that would do one concert in a large city, would sell out so many shows in Detroit that they were looking for something to do for a few days. I've never lived in a city that had so many people that went to concerts. It was a phenomenal situation that I never saw anywhere else in this country.

[old guy]

This was circa 1969 - 1972. I'm guessing the 50's was the same thing.

[old guy]

On a side note.... The female backup singer, Rosemary Butler. There's a documentary on Netflix "20 Feet From Stardom," about the backup singers throughout the years that are what make so many great songs great, that I highly recommend watching. Great movie.

[Steve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWscxdleZzI
"I Want to Live in America" by Bobby and the Midnites. Detroit gets mentioned at the 47 second mark.
Not one of my favorites songs.

[Hermod]

Here we go, I found it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So3A7A3W4Fs

[Dan Wesson]

Here we go, I found it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So3A7A3W4Fs

Good one!!

[G-DDT]

Um yeah...... my boy.

Yeah, then they go and sue a Detroit boy, for accusing his 1984 film anthem classic as sounding too much like their drug anthem. Phhhffft. Take a seat.

[masterblaster]

Lupe Fiasco's 2011 song, "The Show Goes On", Detroit is mentioned at 2:34



Nicki Minaj's 2014 song, "Anaconda", Detroit is mentioned at 0:29

[Bro Greg]

One for us old punks..

[Bro Greg]

i didn't know what time it was until the sun went down
Detroit, Michigan on the bus downtown
last night i was fighting on the street
but tonight i have a girl next to me in this cold world
she brings me heat

i got a good feeling in a bad city tonight
i gotta good feeling everything's gonna be alright
some run some fight
i got a good feeling in a bad city tonight

[G-DDT]

Supposedly, the song "Sumac Jungle" from the Detroit-World band, the Immigrant Suns was about Detroit [["In the land, in the land, in the land where the concrete falls apart"-then it talks about a king which everything he touches turns to cheese-Ilitch?). They also did "Last Tango in Dearborn".

[Pcm]

H20!

Faster than the World:

http://youtu.be/Mmt2nubGvhU

[G-DDT]

Jackson Browne 1977 The Load Out Stay.Jackson Browne 1977 The Load Out Stay - YouTube

When I lived at the Garwood, I always wondered why so many musicians would show up and hang out for a night, or a day or two. In the Load Out Stay, the line, "Detroit, I don't know, we play so many nights in a row," explains it all. I worked in the music business in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Toledo, Chicago, Rockford, Madison, Milwaukee, the Twin Cities, St. Louis, Upstate New York and numerous other areas. Lived in L.A. San Francisco, Oakland, Phoenix, Tucson, Denver, Boulder, and a lot of other places. I never experienced a music scene like Detroit.

I always wondered why so many bands would come to play at the Garwood after concerts rather than hopping on a jet and heading to another city. It seems, from Jackson Brownes song that top bands that would do one concert in a large city, would sell out so many shows in Detroit that they were looking for something to do for a few days. I've never lived in a city that had so many people that went to concerts. It was a phenomenal situation that I never saw anywhere else in this country.

Right on! No-I mean it. Right f-n' on!

[G-DDT]

Iggy Pop's "Blah Blah Blah": "I'm from Detroit
blow the reveille"

[Carolyn.F]

Nicki Minaj loves Detroit.Beez in the Trap[[explicit version)http://www.vevo.com/watch/nicki-mina...V1200043[[clean version)http://www.vevo.com/watch/nicki-mina...p/USCMV1200040

[canuck]

Nicki Minaj loves Detroit.Beez in the Trap[[explicit version)http://www.vevo.com/watch/nicki-mina...V1200043[[clean version)http://www.vevo.com/watch/nicki-mina...p/USCMV1200040

Fun. I can't tell if she is a true blonde. At one point she has green hair. She's cute but at 1:55 I was already longing for Dionne Warwick.