Duluth Songs Posts

The Hoot Owls – “Scandinavian Hot Rod”

Mar 14, 2017 No Comments

The Hoot Owls - Alien ScrapyardRay Pirkola’s 1936 Ford Coupe debuted at the Million Dollar Motorcade car show at the Duluth Armory in 1955. Featuring 1940 Ford fenders and a hood grafted to a chopped and channeled 1936 five-window body, it was the first “full custom” car in the region. The song “Scandanavian Hot Rod” by the Hoot Owls celebrates the car and the self-determination of Ray Pirkola, father of the Hoot Owls singer and guitar player Barry Pirkola. The song is from the band’s 2010 album Alien Scrapyard.


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Jeremy Schwarze – “Duluth”

Aug 25, 2016 No Comments

A new music video … clearly shot many months ago … that … just speaks for itself. Directed by Brad Lester.


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Video Archive: “Fly High Duluth”

Jan 16, 2016 3 Comments

It’s been ten years since Saturday Night Live aired its skit about a local band, led by Jack Daniels-guzzling Wally Hamrlik and his wife Char, who overstay their welcome while performing “Fly High Duluth,” the theme song for morning show Duluth Live. The sketch originally aired on Jan. 14, 2006, and was first posted to Perfect Duluth Day on on Jan. 16, 2006. Happy Saturday.

Sadly, there is no longer an embeddable version of the video online, but it is available on nbc.com.


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Noon – “Duluth”

Dec 29, 2015 4 Comments

Noon, a band from Munich, Germany, has a song called “Duluth.” Anyone who can translate the lyrics from Italian to English or explain the existence or meaning of this song in any way is encouraged to do so in the comments to this post.


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Nirvana – “Lake of Fire”

Sep 21, 2015 2 Comments

Wanted to make sure this was logged if it hadn’t been.

I knew a lady who came from Duluth
She got bit by a dog with a rabid tooth
She went to her grave just a little too soon
And she flew away howling on the yellow moon”


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Tin Can Gin – “Duluth” (live on the PlayList)

Jan 13, 2015 No Comments

From season six, episode one of WDSE-TV’s The PlayList, bluegrass band Tin Can Gin performs the song “Duluth.”


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Olivia Blair – “Duluth”

Jan 08, 2015 No Comments

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Greg Tiburzi – “Perfect Duluth Day”

Jan 05, 2015 1 Comment

We feel a little bit silly that we just found this tune this morning. “Perfect Duluth Day,” by Greg Tiburzi, recorded in 2011.

Greg Tiburzi – acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals, tambourine
Mike Mattson – electric guitar, vocals
Diane Eck – bass guitar
Todd Gremmels – drums
Steve Johnson – violin
Anne Fisk – vocals


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Latest Duluth Song Reference

Jun 26, 2014 No Comments

With a possible new entry for the Duluth Lyrics Vault – the new Phish album ‘plooped’ (or dripped) on Tuesday. Here are the lyrics to “Halfway to the Moon”:

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Claire Stewart – “Duluth, My Home Town”

Feb 18, 2013 3 Comments

A nifty animation by Dave and Jean Kirwan set to a 1961 jingle about our fair city. This took first place in the 2013 Playground Short Shorts Film Festival this weekend.


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50 years of being “nice-icle”

Nov 16, 2012 No Comments

Merv Griffin recorded this precious little ditty in 1962. Happy Christmas City of the North Parade everyone!


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Sexhawk – “Duluth is Still Afloat (In Our Hearts)”

Jun 30, 2012 1 Comment

When life gives you lemons, Sexhawk gives you lemonade. And a stirring anthem about last week’s flood: “Duluth is Still Afloat (In Our Hearts)”


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Tom Russell – “Mesabi”

Sep 18, 2011 No Comments

Have you ever seen Duluth
when the Great Lake waves were pounding?
There must be some way out of there
You might end up lost or drowning

And the polkas at the Polish dance halls
And the carnivals of Spring
Rock and roll on that upright piano
And the kids make the high school rafters ring


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Good Knight – “Duluth, Minnesnowta”

Sep 08, 2011 31 Comments

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Songs about Duluth Places/Neighborhoods

Jul 27, 2011 42 Comments

Expanding on the post that lists “songs with ‘Duluth’ in the lyrics or title,” it seems appropriate to also list songs that might not mention Duluth directly, but reference Duluth neighborhoods, businesses, historical occurances or icons.

Here’s a running list from songs mentioned in the comments:

The Black-eyed Snakes – “Hillside Stomp”
The Boomchucks – “Hillside”
The Branditos – “Broken Hearts & Oxygen”
Crew Jones – “Memory of Me”
Bob Dylan – “Desolation Row”
Equal Xchange – “Superior Crimes”
The Fractals – “Woodland Boys”
Giljunko – “Gangsta Spur”
Giljunko – “Misbent Life”
Giljunko – “R.T. Quinlan’s Nine”
Giljunko – “Raised in the Ruins”
Giljunko – “St. Paul Caves”
Ingeborg von Agassiz – “William A. Irvin”
The Keep Aways – “Hillside”
The Little Black Books – “East Hillside Freeze Out”
Charlie Parr – “Jefferson Street Express”
Charlie Parr – “Adrift in Lake Superior at Sunrise”
Matt Ray and Those Damn Horses – “Locust Street”
Leon Rohrbaugh – “Michigan Street”
Al Sparkhawk – “How the Weather Comes Over the Central Hillside”
Swimming with Nancy – “Fourth Street”
Tangier 57 – “Moorish Room”
The Tisdales – “On a Swim”
Ryan Van Slooten – “Lakeside”
Yester – “Hunters Park”


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