"Youngstown" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad. Although many of the songs on the album were performed by Springsteen solo, the lineup for "Youngstown" includes Soozie Tyrell on violin, Jim Hanson on bass, Gary Mallaber on drums, co-producer Chuck Plotkin on keyboards, and Marty Rifkin on pedal steel guitar. The song has also been covered by Blue Moon Rising, Show Of Hands, The Stairwell Sisters, Steve Strauss and Matthew Ryan.
History and themes
The song tells the tale of the rise and fall of Youngstown, Ohio, over several generations, from the discovery of iron ore nearby in 1803 through the decline of the steel industry in the area in the 1970s. The lyric tells its story in a style reminiscent of Bob Dylan's "With God on Our Side", evoking American history through several wars. It tells of how in the Civil War, Youngstown made the cannonballs that helped the Union prevail. Then the city built tanks and bombs to help win later wars, such as World War II. Finally, the boys of Youngstown went to fight the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Despite the town's history, when it became uneconomical to keep the steel mills in Youngstown going, they were shut down, thus doing "what Hitler couldn't do," to the devastation of the community.
The city was named for John Young, an early settler from Whitestown, New York, who established the community's first sawmill and gristmill. Youngstown is in a region of the United States that is often referred to as the Rust Belt. Traditionally known as a center of steel production, Youngstown was forced to redefine itself when the U.S. steel industry fell into decline in the 1970s, leaving communities throughout the region without major industry. Youngstown also falls within the Appalachian Ohio region, among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The 2010 census showed that Youngstown had a total population of 66,982, making it Ohio's ninth largest city. The city has experienced a decline of over 60% of its population since 1959.
Youngstown was a boy band formed circa 1998. The band made up of David "DC" Yeager, Sam Lopez and James Dallas is named for the trio's hometown, Youngstown, Ohio.
The band's first single, "I'll Be Your Everything", featured on the Inspector Gadget soundtrack is also on their debut album Let's Roll. In February 2000, Disney Channel aired a concert special featuring Youngstown and another group, Steps, titled Steps and Youngstown In Concert. The concert itself promoted the group and the sales of the album.
Their second album, Down For the Get Down, was released in 2001, and yielded the #21 Hot Singles Sales U.S. hit "Sugar." Both albums were released through Hollywood Records. They also had a song on the first Princess Diaries soundtrack called "Away With The Summer Days".
A song is a single (and often standalone) work of music intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections. Written words created specifically for music or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in classical music it is an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs in a simple style that are learned informally are often referred to as folk songs. Songs that are composed for professional singers are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are often composed by professional songwriters, composers and lyricists. Art songs are composed by trained classical composers for concert performances. Songs are performed live and recorded. Songs may also appear in plays, musical theatre, stage shows of any form, and within operas.
Song's main focus was on leisure traffic between the northeastern United States and Florida, a market where it competed with JetBlue Airways. It also operated flights between Florida and the West Coast, and from the Northeast to the west coast.
Song's aircraft were fitted with leather seats and free personal entertainment systems at every seat, with audio MP3 programmable selections, trivia games that could be played against other passengers, a flight tracker, and satellite television (provided by the DISH Network). Song offered free beverages, but charged for meals and liquor. Both brand-name snack boxes and healthy organic meals were offered. The flight safety instructions were sung or otherwise artistically interpreted, depending on the cabin crew. In addition to crew uniforms designed by Kate Spade, customized cocktails created by nightlife impresario Rande Gerber and an in-flight exercise program designed by New York City fitness guru David Barton, the airline created its own distinct mark in the industry. The Song brand was placed on more than 200 flights a day which carried over ten million passengers.
Blair, Papadimas and other area musicians will spend Dylan’s 83rd birthday on Friday performing his songs at Westside Bowl in Youngstown and celebrating his musical legacy ... “We started out with a list of between 60 and 100 song titles.
Trump speaking the NRA meeting on Saturday ... I don't know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?" ... The New York Times reported in September 2022 that music sounding like a QAnon song had been played at a Trump rally in Youngstown, Ohio.
YOUNGSTOWN — A man who could fill his entire set with songs that topped one of the Billboard country charts will be the headliner for this year’s Y-Live concert. Tim McGraw will perform at downtown Youngstown’s Wean Park on Aug.
His supposed swan song season with Compuware 18U AAA was his best yet, and it caught the attention of the YoungstownPhantoms and the USHL... As a 20th-round selection in the USHL Phase II Draft, Holtz didn’t expect to make the team in Youngstown.
DEAR EDITOR. ... I disagree with this ...ElizabethYoungstownHospital ... It’s the same old song and dance. Youngstown will always be the poorest city in the nation and a longstanding joke! Young people want no part of this joke ... Youngstown NEWSLETTER ... .
On April 26 the Youngstown band will perform with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra for a pops concert at Powers Auditorium... It made the song better.”. The Youngstown concert also will include some cover songs the band didn’t do in Canton.
Since moving to Nashville after graduating from YoungstownState University in 1978, DiPiero has had more than 1,200 songs recorded by other artists ... their songs and share stories about their creation.
Correspondent photo / Bob Jadloski Joe Bonamassa played a dozen songs in a nearly two-hour concert Wednesday at the Covelli Centre. YOUNGSTOWN — Joe Bonamassa played only his second show of 2024 on Wednesday at the Covelli Centre.
“I just sent it to them – `Hey, I wrote this song about Youngstown... “I thought that would be great to have her join us on `Youngstown Steeltown’ and perhaps maybe another song she can jam with us,” Perrico said.
The song was recorded with Gary Rhamy at Peppermint Recording Studio in Youngstown, where the band worked on its first album, “Keep Going.” Popovec’s history goes back even further.
Atlantic City
10 Aug 2023
Atlantic City
10 Aug 2023