50 Greatest Cincinnati Songs
November 7th, 2010 § 1 Comment
Cincinnati Magazine recently ran a great article called “The 50 Greatest Pop Songs Recorded In Cincinnati“. Chris Varias makes a damn fine argument for Cincinnati’s place with Chicago, Memphis, and New Orleans as a truly great American music town. Read the article, and then check out the playlist, which includes as many of the songs as I could track down.
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I don’t know about pop music, but Cincinnati was great for classical music when I was growing up there. Besides the Cincinnati Symphony, which had a regular season, I attended the “Zoo Opera” in the summer. Given in an outside pavilion at the zoo, the opera brought in well-known singers. I heard Rise Stevens sing Carmen and saw Enzio Pinza as Mephistopheles in Faust.