“Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia
Tidewater four ten o nine
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line”
"Promised Land" (1964)
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American rock-and-roll musician 1926–2017Related quotes

“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
(2021 rev. ed.), this quote was attributed to Wright in Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Whole Grains: Book of Quotations (1973), but a similar quote was credited to Will Rogers in The Washington Post on May 17, 1964: "Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles."
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Yale_Book_of_Quotations/FtU4EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA906&printsec=frontcover New Yale Book of Quotations

“If the folks back home could see me now, they’d know the surveillance system works.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

18th October 1968
1960s
Source: https://archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/flatview?cuecard=34499

“Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me.”
Source: Entwined with You