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RQM	Jul 14th 2012 4:29 pm

Just for Fun: Performers With Place Names

Names of singers or bands that have the name of a city, town, village etc in their name.

Hopefully I won´t be talking to myself :fingerscrossed:

David Essex .....

bobd22

Jul 14th 2012 4:36 pm

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Originally Posted by RQM (Post 10172080)

Names of singers or bands that have the name of a city, town, village etc in their name.

Hopefully I won´t be talking to myself :fingerscrossed:

David Essex .....

Not that I'm a fan but Bay City Rollers.

I am a fan don't know if this by chance but Fairport Convention

johnnyone

Jul 14th 2012 4:42 pm

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E 17

RQM	Jul 14th 2012 4:46 pm

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Detroit Spinners ...... Working my way back to you!

Dick Dasterdly

Jul 14th 2012 5:05 pm

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Judith Durham for me.

Lynn R

Jul 14th 2012 5:08 pm

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Originally Posted by RQM (Post 10172109)

Detroit Spinners ...... Working my way back to you!

Detroit Emeralds too

RQM	Jul 14th 2012 6:31 pm

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Originally Posted by Lynn R (Post 10172152)

Detroit Emeralds too

New York Dolls - Not a pretty sight
http://www.100xr.com/artists/N/New_Y...-band-1973.jpg

Fredbargate

Jul 14th 2012 6:32 pm

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Elvis Presley

RQM	Jul 14th 2012 6:37 pm

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Originally Posted by Fredbargate (Post 10172266)

Elvis Presley

Was Elvis named after a place or was it named after him :confused:

bobd22

Jul 14th 2012 7:10 pm

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Missisippi

agoreira

Jul 14th 2012 7:15 pm

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Originally Posted by RQM (Post 10172273)

Was Elvis named after a place or was it named after him :confused:

There's a hamlet in the county I live in called St Elvis. He definitely never came from there!

anonimouse

Jul 14th 2012 7:16 pm

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Boontown Rats

johnnyone

Jul 14th 2012 7:28 pm

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The Dubliners
There are loads. What about all the Northern brass bands! Brighouse etc.

RQM	Jul 14th 2012 7:42 pm

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Nazareth

JLFS	Jul 14th 2012 9:52 pm

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Texas

JLFS	Jul 14th 2012 10:03 pm

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Dover / Chicago/

Dick Dasterdly

Jul 14th 2012 10:32 pm

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Willie Nelson

jimenato

Jul 14th 2012 11:00 pm

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Portishead

WTFs Boontown?:confused:

Lenox

Jul 15th 2012 4:46 am

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Taj Mahal: a good ol' blues singer. Hmm... I think I'll go look him up on YouTube.

RQM	Jul 15th 2012 9:15 am

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The Manhattan Transfer

Lenox

Jul 15th 2012 10:19 am

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:) - I was looking for a town called Howlin' Wolf... but no joy.

Dick Dasterdly

Jul 15th 2012 10:41 am

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Dusty Springfield

stuboy

Jul 15th 2012 11:03 am

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Fleetwood Mac

Dick Dasterdly

Jul 15th 2012 11:44 am

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Johnny Preston

RQM	Jul 15th 2012 2:59 pm

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Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 10173294)

Johnny Preston

Showing your age now ;)

Terence Trent Darby

Pocaloca

Jul 15th 2012 3:18 pm

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Mica Paris
Jools Holland

jimenato

Jul 15th 2012 5:18 pm

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Dionne Warwick

Dick Dasterdly

Jul 15th 2012 6:09 pm

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Alabama Hayriders.

dorishaslop

Jul 15th 2012 6:19 pm

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Asia.

RQM	Jul 15th 2012 6:45 pm

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Giving my age away now
Julie London.

Pocaloca

Jul 15th 2012 6:58 pm

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Is UB 40 an Uxbridge postcode?

RQM	Jul 15th 2012 7:06 pm

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Originally Posted by Pocaloca (Post 10173901)

Is UB 40 an Uxbridge postcode?

:rofl: It may be but I think you will find it is based on Unemployment Benefit paperwork. Not that I ever managed to receive any but my girlfriend in the UK works for Benefit fraud.

Pocaloca

Jul 16th 2012 1:16 pm

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Originally Posted by RQM (Post 10173909)

:rofl: It may be but I think you will find it is based on Unemployment Benefit paperwork. Not that I ever managed to receive any but my girlfriend in the UK works for Benefit fraud.

Doh, there's me thinking it was a Brummie reggae band! :unsure:

How about Kings of Leon?

Lenox

Jul 16th 2012 4:33 pm

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Chevy Chase. Grover Washington. Keith Moon. Pluto the Dog.

JLFS	Jul 16th 2012 4:50 pm

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Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston

johnnyone

Jul 17th 2012 6:52 am

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Originally Posted by JLFS (Post 10175664)

Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston

You forgot Mary Wells and Diana Ross.

RICH	Jul 17th 2012 7:04 am

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Spandau Ballet
Berlin
Donny Deutsch

RQM	Jul 17th 2012 11:18 am

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John Denver
Brian Poole and the Tremeloes

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