Music just may be NJ's biggest export. Not only do we have a history of producing a huge amount of successful and awesome (not always both) artists, but also so many genres. if you open-minded to different styles of music, wake up! It's right in your backyard.
Jersey City/Hoboken - Nancy Sinatra - "Bang Bang(My baby shot me down)"
Newark(Down Neck) - Connie Francis - "Lipstick on Your Collar"
Teaneck - Ricky Nelson - "Lonesome Town"
East Orange - Dionne Warwick - "Anyone Who Had a Heart" she supposedly nailed in one take, in the same session which also brought us "Walk on By"
Tenafly - Lesley Gore - "You Don't Own Me"
Passaic - The Shirelles - "Mama Said" and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" which was also covered by a Jersey boy and his pals from
Newark - Frankie Valli - "Cant Take my Eyes Off of You" also covered by his Newark neighbor Gloria Gaynor and by another girl from around the way in
South Orange/Maplewood - Lauryn Hill - "Every Ghetto, Every City" a real Jersey anthem
South Orange - The Fugees - "How Many Mics?" supposed they were originally guided by Ronald Bell of
Jersey City - Kool and the Gang - they may have been "Hollywood Swinging" but they were New Jeru through and through
Plainfield - Parliament - "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off The Sucka)" P-Funk started out as a doo-wop group in the back of a barber shop in good ol' Plainfield aka P-Funk
East Orange - Naughty by Nature - "Feel me Flow" they were mentored by their fellow Illtown royalty up next
East Orange/Newark - Queen Latifah - "Just Another Day" and reppin the ladies and the Jersy streets in her video "U.N.I.T.Y."
Newark - Redman - "Jersey Yo!" holding down Jerz for over 2 decades, he can still kick and ill "Freestyle Freestyle" not feeling him? "Whatever Man"
Paterson - Just Blaze (producer extraordinaire of) - "Exhibit C" - Jey Electronica and "Song Cry" - Jay-Z
New Brunswick - Cymarshall Law - "Run This Town Freestyle" I love when rappers take the beat to a shitty pop-rap song and make a way better song out of it
Paterson - Frankie Ruiz - "Esta Cobardia" born and raised in Paterson, he late moved to Puerto Rico and became one of their biggest Salsa artists
New Brunswick-ish - The Sirs - "Break My Heart..."
Jersey Shore? - Big Wig - "Alone in New Jersey"
Lodi - The Misfits - "Skulls" a beautiful love song
East Brunswick - Catch 22 - "Keasby Nights"
Elmwood Park - Adrenanlin O.D. - "Suburbia" go hang out at the Livingston Mall
Asbury Park - Fury of Five - "Takin' Respect" it's not where you're from it's where you're at... that is, except for the purpose of this mix...
Island Heights/Toms River? somewhere down the f'n shore- OS101 - "Pizzacore" nothing goes better with pizza then beer so "Fill it Up" with OS101's predecessor Hogan's Heroes
Bridgewater - Vision - "Two Wishes"
New Brunswick - Lifetime - "Turnpike Gates"
Basking Ridge/New brunswick - The Bouncing Souls - "Quickcheck Girl" ECFU!
Jersey City - Apefight - "I Wish I Was Your Bike Seat (Daniell's Song)" adorably raunchy
New Brunswick - The Gaslight Anthem - "The Navesink Banks" insert comments here
Red Bank - Count Bassie - "Red Bank Boogie" a jumping Jazz uplifter, unless you'd rather feel "Blue and Sentimental"
Hoboken - Yo La Tengo - "Night Falls on Hoboken"
-Jersey Jane
