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Morning Open Thread Saturday June 28, theme: songs about numbered streets [1]
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Date: 2025-06-28
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>>>>This diary is about songs with titles that are ‘numbered’ street names.
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"Twelfth Street Rag" is a ragtime musical composition published by Euday L. Bowman in 1914.
It was more than 15 years after Bowman composed the song before he actually wrote the music down in manuscript form. He sold it to Jenkins Music Company in 1913. The Jenkins company felt Bowman's arrangement was far too difficult however, hiring C. E. Wheeler to simplify it.
With a big advertising push "Twelfth Street Rag" began to sell better. In 1919, James S. Sumner added lyrics. The song was popular with early Kansas City bands, and became a hit after Bennie Moten recorded it for RCA Victor in1927.
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"16th Avenue" is a song written by Thom Schuyler, and recorded by American country music artist Lacy J. Dalton. It was released in September 1982.
The location referred to in the song is Music Row in Nashville, which in the 1960s was being changed from residential homes to refurbished office space for the music industry.
Before even diving into its background, it’s worth noting that “16th Avenue” is often hailed as one of the best celebrations of Music Row songwriters ever. The line, “One night in some empty room, where no curtains ever hung, like a miracle some golden words rolled off someone’s tongue,” rips away the veneer to reveal the harsher reality.
This isn’t the naive idealist thinking of becoming an artist – this is the songwriter who knows if you’re not writing singles, you’re not getting paid, even if you pour your soul into it. And even in a town like Nashville, it’s an endlessly vicious cycle and the relationships are flaky; you may just end up in that empty room at some point again. “16th Avenue,” then, is a tribute to those who toil away in nameless darkness.
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"6th Avenue Heartache" is a song by the American rock band The Wallflowers. It was released in April 1996. It was the most played song on adult alternative radio stations in the United States in 1996. Jakob Dylan, the band's lead singer, wrote the song when he was 18 years old and considers it the first real song he had written. The lyrics are based on Dylan's own experiences while living in New York City, in particular the story of a homeless man who would sit outside Dylan's window and play the same songs every day. One day, the man was gone, but his things were still there, until gradually people started taking them.
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The following are sources for the words above:
Twelfth Street Rag
16th Avenue source 1 16th Avenue source 2
Sixth Avenue Heartache
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Here are the songs:
Twelfth Street Rag, by Roy Clark
16th Avenue by Lacy J. Dalton
6th Street Heartache by the Wallflowers
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