Paris, Kentucky

Everything Paris is known for

8 songs mention this city 2 artists from here

Music in Paris

Songs About Paris

Political Science
Randy Newman
10%
"Boom goes London, boom Paris"
Home
Blake Shelton
8%
"Another summer day has come and gone away in Paris and Rome"
Only One You
T.G. Sheppard
8%
"One Paris"
I Love You Tonite
Johnny Cash
6%
"We checked into the best hotels from San Francisco to Paris"
Me Acostumbré
Arcángel
5%
"Me acostumbré a modelo' con flow de París, yeh"
Your Love
Austin Plaine
5%
"And I could fly to Paris or Osaka every night"
Blue Sky
Common
4%
"My broad up in Paris, looking all purty"
Paris, Tennessee
Kenny Chesney
3%
"Gonna take you all the way to Paris, Tennessee"

Artists From Paris

C
Cam Clark & His Orchestra
jazz Pop: 1
T
Them Lasses & The Old Dogs
americana Pop: 1

Rivers & Roads in Song near Paris

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Paris.

Ohio River 17 songs

History of Paris

The Birds of America Heist RoadyGoat

2004

On December 17, 2004, four Transylvania University students attempted one of the most audacious rare-book thefts in U.S. history. Disguised as an elderly man, Warren Lipka entered the university's special collections library in Lexington, Kentucky, used a stun gun on rare-books librarian Betty Jean Gooch, then pulled a hat over her head, zip-tied and gagged her. The targets included the original double-elephant folios of John James Audubon's 'The Birds of America,' a two-volume 'Hortus Sanitatis,' and a first edition of Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' — a collection valued at well over five million dollars. Unable to find their planned escape route and hampered by the sheer size of the Audubon folios, they abandoned the most valuable books and fled with roughly three-quarters of a million dollars' worth. They tried to authenticate the loot at Christie's in New York under a fake collector's name; the FBI traced them and raided their homes on February 11, 2005. All four were sentenced to about seven years in federal prison. The 2018 film 'American Animals' dramatized the heist.

17.0 mi away

Kentucky Horse Park

1978

Working horse farm and equine theme park in Lexington, home to the International Museum of the Horse.

14.9 mi away

Mary Todd Lincoln House

1832

Childhood home of Mary Todd Lincoln in Lexington, first historic site restored to honor a First Lady.

17.4 mi away

Everything Near Paris

22 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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