If you can’t understand the words that are being sung/rapped, music isn’t a universal language. The foundation of music is the melody of instrument sounds coming together to form a beat. You know the sound of a piano, violin, guitar, drum, and other instruments even if you’re not from here. Words are wrapped over a beat in a variety of different tones, speeds, and lengths to create what we know today as songs.
My hometown of Kalamazoo is no stranger to music and instruments. The state theatre, the Junior symphony orchestra, and the Gibson guitar are some of the places that provide music in Kalamazoo. These places could be involved in the making of songs about Kalamazoo, Michigan.
We still get love from the music industry even though we are not a big name city like LA, Vegas, Paris, Calabasas, or other places that have tons of people writing songs about the city or casually name-dropping the city within their art. A user asked about a song that was playing at Vintage in the Zoo that was about the city of Kalamazoo, and I ran across the post. I was turned on by the question and wondered what other songs mention Kalamazoo.
Songs About Kalamazoo
Local artists, big-time artists, and passionate natives writing music about their town are just some of the reasons that there are a few songs about Kalamazoo. People born in the early 1900s to people my age are familiar with the song “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo” by the Orchestra Wives.
Songs That Mention Kalamazoo
There is a lot of music that only mentions the city of Kalamazoo. It’s getting a lot of airtime because some of them mention the name in their chorus, while others only mention it once. There is a special occasion where the song is called Kalamazoo and it doesn’t name the city. One of the most well-known songs about the city is by the band. You can read about the hit about the city by Primus.