(Is This the Way to) Amarillo (Is This the Way to) Amarillo "(Is This The Way To) Amarillo" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. It is about a man traveling to Amarillo, Texas, to find his girlfriend Marie. The reason that Amarillo was chosen for the song was because it was the only place name that Sedaka could think of that rhymed with "willow" and "pillow". The song was originally to be titled "Is This the Way to Pensacola" referring to Pensacola, Florida, but Sedaka felt that Amarillo worked better than Pensacola. Written by two Americans with a strong country-western lyrical theme,
Born This Way (album) BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend festival, where she sang "The Edge of Glory" for the first time. After returning to the United States, Gaga sang the first three singles from "Born This Way" on the season 36 finale of "Saturday Night Live" (May 21) and "The Edge of Glory" on the final show of the tenth season of "American Idol" (May 25), where she was joined by Clemons in person. On May 27, she held a concert for "Good Morning America" at Central Park in New York, where she performed the first three singles from "Born This Way" and, for