Popular Music
- 1934: Bluesman Tallahassee Tight records his song, Tallahassee Women.
- 1947: Bing Crosby releases the single titled, Tallahassee, with the Andrews Sisters. Within the song are the lyrics: "When you see land all green and grassy ... sit down and rest your chassis, you're in Tallahassee."
- 1959: Freddy Cannon releases a single titled, Tallahassee Lassie. Dick Clark subsequently used it on American Bandstand for a dance contest.
- 1969: Johnny Cash releases the album titled: At San Quentin, the song Wanted Man with the lyrics, "Wanted man in Tallahassee."
- 1976: Aerosmith releases the album Rocks. In the song Last Child with the lyrics, "Take me back to a south Tallahassee."
- 1978: The Rolling Stones release the album Some Girls. Contains a remake of the Freddy Cannon song Tallahassee Lassie.
- 1982: The soundtrack for the film Spring Break has a song called Hooray For The City by Jack Mack & The Heart Attack which lists Tallahassee among several cities mentioned in the lyrics.
- 2002: The Mountain Goats release the album, Tallahassee. It is composed entirely of songs from the perspective of the Alpha couple, a fictional dysfunctional married couple who have appeared in other Mountain Goats songs.
- 2002: Rap duo dead prez mention Tallahassee in their song Sellin' D.O.P.E. from Turn off the Radio: The Mixtape Vol. 1.
- 2006: Jake Owen filmed his music video for his debut song "Yee Haw" at Potbelly's, a bar next to the Florida State campus that he used to play in when he was a student there.
- 2007: T-Pain releases the CD Epiphany. The song titled Tallahassee Love.
- 2007: Akon & Friends released the song We Taking Over and the lyrics have Tallahassee in the list of the other cities: "Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Memphis TN. Holla at me then".
- 2007: Mayday Parade EP Tales Told by Dead Friends In their song Your Song - "And all that Tallahassee skylines, they keep singing out a song".
- 2007: Evergreen Terrace Titles their song "xHey Tallahassee"
- 2008: Castanets namedrop Tallahassee in the lyrics to Refuge 2 on their album City of Refuge.
- 2008: The Hip-Hop artist, Rick Ross, mentions the universities FAMU and Florida State in his song Here I Am.
- 2008: Across Five Aprils record their song "Tallahassee is for hookers"
- 2009: Molina & Johnson mention Tallahassee in the lyrics to Twenty Cycles to the Ground on their album Molina & Johnson.
- 2009: Action Item writes their song "I woke up in Tallahassee"
- 2009: T-Pain films his music video for "Take Your Shirt Off" in Frat Row in Tallahassee
- 2009: Dinosaur Jr. films part of their music video "Over It" in front of The Moon and the Benjamin Banneker Building at Florida A&M.
- 2010: DC Music released "Gold & Garnet" a spoof of Black & Yellow, which mentions Tallahassee, and Florida State University.
- 2010: Hey Marseilles - To Travel & Trunks songs starts off, "Lucy and I came from Tallahassee"
- 2010: Easton Corbin mentions Tallahassee in the lyrics to This Far From Memphis on his self-titled album.
- 2011: Go Radio LP "Lucky Street" in their song "Any Other Heart" - "Well, Tallahassee will stay gray outside instead".
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