Nashville Cats

Johnny, Los Angeles, CA...If you really, really like listening to The Loving Spoonful ; listen to their songs "Summer In The City" and "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice" .. plus, John Sebastian song "Welcome Back" (Theme song from "Welcome Back, Kotter"). I think you'll like them. ( ^_^ )

Sam Phillips expanded Sun Records with studios in Nashville.

John (Dundee) I couldn't agree more. I was a little disappointed to see only a handful (5) of their songs here. I was hoping for the likes of Rain on the Roof, or Six O'clock, or Darlin' Be Home Soon, or She's a Lady, or The Dr. Said Give Him Jug Band Music, etc. *** Joshua (TwinCities) & Robin (Morrisburg) -- I believe Josh is right about pro teams named after *a specific song*. The Blues are named after a whole genre of music, and there is at least one other example of this -- the Jazz (NBA, orig. in N. Orleans, now in SLC, UT??). There is, perhaps, one more, although it's admittedly a (very long) stretch: poets of old used to refer to poetry as "song," and there is one pro team named after a poem--the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, after Edgar Allan Poe's poem, The Raven. (Poe did much of his writing while living in Balt., and died there.) *** Andy (Custer, SD) You know, I always thought I was hearing, "the record man said everyone was yellin' some (or ", son,") record from Nashville," but your way makes more sense, now that I know about Sun Records.

Hey Y'all,
This is about guitar players from Nashville.
Interestingly enough, one of the most successful session guitar players in Nashville is from bleedin' London. Albert Lee. I see from some comments that you haven't much experience of JS and the Lovin' Spoonful, go get it. Wonderful writer/human being.

In reply to Joshua's comments, what about the St. Louis Blues of the NHL? They're not a major league team but the hockey team from Macon Georgia is known as the Macon Whooppee.

Sun records was in Memphis. However the song clearly states "the record man said every one was a yellow Sun record from Nashville"
Del McCoury Band's bluegrass cover of this song is brilliant, even better than the original.

Sun records was in Memphis, not Nashville.

I am 13. I am hearing this song for the first time and I like it. It sounds like Johnny Cash. The Lovin Spoonful are unique apparently, I haven't heard much of their stuff.

Arena Football's Nashville team is nicknamed the Kats, presumably after this song. It is one of only two North American teams in major pro sports to be named after a song (the other being the NFL's New Orleans Saints, after the traditional "When The Saints Go Marching In").

I love this song. Mostly because I am from Nashville and the lyrics describes the inhabitants of this great city perfectly.

Interesting, Ed.

Even though Roy conjured visual images of "Halloween at the old folks'home," no singer even came close to the Big O.