Travel Channel song list includes a few featuring Oklahoma

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on December 25, 2008 at 6:00 am

Woody Guthrie   Travel Channel’s online travel site, World Hum, has compiled a list of the top 40 travel songs.
   One mentions Oklahoma in the lyrics while another was written by an Oklahoman. And both made the Top 10.
   “This Land Is Your Land” is No. 8. Woody Guthrie from Okemah (pictured at right in AP Photo) wrote the song that was released in 1940.
   The 1946 song “(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66″ by Nat King Cole is No. 7. The lyrics were written by Bobby Troup and include the lines “Oklahoma City is mighty purdy” and “You’ll like the aroma of Tulsa, Oklahoma.”
   No 1 on the list, which was compiled by more than 40 of World Hum’s contributors, is 1980’s “On the Road Again” by Willie Nelson.
   Earning eight points (but not cracking the top 40) was “Ramblin’ Boy” by Tom Paxton. It includes the line “In Tulsa town we chanced to stray” and represents Tulsa on the interactive map featured at www.worldhum.com/features/lists/world-hum-top-40-travel-songs-of-all-time-20081208/.
–Penny TV

World Hum’s Top 40 Travel Songs of All Time.
1) On the Road Again, Willie Nelson (60 points)
2) City of New Orleans, Arlo Guthrie (57)
3) Graceland, Paul Simon (46)
4) America, Simon & Garfunkel (44)
5) I’ve Been Everywhere, Hank Snow/Johnny Cash (42)
6) Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen (42)
7) (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66, Nat King Cole (33)
8) This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie (32)
9) Me and Bobby McGee, Roger Miller, Janis Joplin (28)
10) Southern Cross, Crosby, Stills and Nash/Jimmy Buffet (27)
11) Road to Nowhere, Talking Heads (27)
12) Runnin’ Down a Dream, Tom Petty (26)
13) Tangled Up In Blue, Bob Dylan (25)
14) King of the Road, Roger Miller (25)
15) Roam, B-52s (21)
16) Long May You Run, Neil Young (21)
17) Born to be Wild, Steppenwolf (20)
18) Proud Mary, Ike and Tina Turner/Creedence Clearwater Revival (18)
19) Back in the USSR, The Beatles (18)
20) Like A Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan (17)
21) When I Paint My Masterpiece, Bob Dylan/The Band (17)
22) Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen (15)
23) Midnight Train to Georgia, Gladys Knight & the Pips (15)
24) Leaving on a Jet Plane, Peter, Paul, & Mary/John Denver (14)
25) Ol’ 55, Tom Waits (14)
26) Wagon Wheel, Bob Dylan/Old Crow Medicine Show (14)
27) Africa, Toto (13)
28) Truckin’, Grateful Dead (13)
29) Travelin’ Prayer, Billy Joel/Dolly Parton (13)
30) Take Me Home, Country Roads, John Denver (12)
31) American Girl, Tom Petty (12)
32) The Long and Winding Road, The Beatles (12)
33) Radar Love, Golden Earring (12)
34) California, Joni Mitchell (12)
35) Ramble On, Led Zeppelin (11)
36) Katmandu, Bob Seger (11)
37) Where the Streets Have No Name, U2 (11)
38) Sweet Home Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd (11)
39) Roadrunner, The Modern Lovers (11)
40) Ramblin’ Man, The Allman Brothers Band (11)

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