Inserting the name of north-eastern English towns into song titlss

Genius this thread

north yorkshire is arguably in the north east

the local sports news used to cover york city, I remember

the west riding, several miles south of Leeds, is not in the north east, not even in a pig’s eye

In scope the north-east:

All of Northumberland and County Durham

All of the former Metropolitan Counties of Tyne and Wear and Cleveland

and, ok, north yorkshire

I think Alston’s in Cumbria but I’ll allow it anyway

I see no justification for a cutoff at Alnwick rather than at the scottish border, nor for excluding the considerable amount of northumberland west of hexham

Easington Like Sunday Morning.

Laz, I bet you didn't expect to tun with your OP on this one But congrats anyway.

Btw, Alston is indeed in Cumbria (just) but given the geographic laxity that so many others were displaying, I thought I would include it as being close to the Northumberland border (what's more, probably a better case for inclusion than Highway to Hull and many others e.g. Workingtown Ride ffs!).

Paul Simon - You can call me Allenheads

I like Alston. Quite often drive up there. I’d like a farmhouse nearby, with Range Rover

Highway to Hull tickled me but I have retrospectively decided to exclude the East Riding. That is actually slightly debatable tho as the old Northumbria meant, literally, everything north of the Humber.

Workington is absolutely disqualified for obvious reasons.

Yes but it also included much of southern Scotland

In which case, Look Wot You Duns

Just the Two of Usworth - Bill Withers

"A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-Bam-burgh!” - Little Richard (Tutti Frutti)

heh 9.5/10

Killingworth Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack

Ryton Time - Black Box

Londonderry Calling counts btw (just off A1M).

Let It Bedale - The Beatles

Steely Dan - Deacon Blues (I'll drink Scotch Corner whiskey all night long and die......)

Brimful of Ashington - Cornershop

Lindisfarne - meet me on the scotch corner

(Double points?)

Into the Great Wideopen - Tom Petty

Consett You Outta My Head - Kylie Minogue

Annfield Rap

Oh, Darlington - the Beatles

Darlington Pretty - Mark Knopfler

Darlington County - Bruce Springsteen

Denton Burn

Allenheads - Billy Joel

Deeply Dipton - Right Said Fred

Stupid Prudhoe - Nicki Minaj

“Ryton Time” gets some love.

Should be obvious, but multi-syllable puns like Ryton Time or Billingham the Name, that use all the syllables of the town name, carry a massive premium over constructs that leave the rest of the name hanging (like Let it Bedale). The latter are very welcome but unlikely to win any prizes.