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Ace posted:

Caution: may be too radical for geriatric types

Train Kept a Rollin'

Ooops, this tune has already been posted but this version has video with train scenes.

Are you kidding? That's mainstream now, some of the geriatrics filled the stadiums. An "Oldies station" around the campfire classic.

Just good sense to mention the Carter family in any musical topic

I've bean thinkin', ouch,.. no, it's the song, the "too much fun" look, it hurt

If you ever need to look up train song, Wikipedia has a List Of Train Songs. I've used this to create a playlist on an MP3 player that I use in my train room.

Here are just a few of my favorites:

Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running

Tommy Dorsey - Down By The Station (the original)

Louis Jordan - Choo Choo Cha-Boogie

Leadbelly - Linin' Track

Golden Gate Quartet - Gospel Train

All aboard again: "Chattanooga Choo Choo" • Sung in German, at a Jazz Festival.

Also take note of the couple dancing. 

Published on Jul 11, 2016 - On You Tube

Gesungen von der Band Swing Tanzen Verboten, Augsburg, beim 35. Bayerischen Jazz Weekend am Neupfarrplatz, Regensburg, 10. Juli 2016

Gary - Took German in High School, Easy "A" my mother spoke German.

Guess for me I have to add my vote to Arlo doing 'City Of New Orleans' ... the line that gets me every time:

'The sons of Pullman porters & the sons of engineers ride their fathers magic carpets made of steel'

One I haven't seen is 'Train Leaves Here This Morning' by the Eagles.  I also have very vivid memories of my Father In-Law listening to Roy Acuff perform 'Wabash Cannonball', he loved it.

bd

 

I do not have a single favorite railroad tune or song.  But I do have a favorite album and I do mean an LP record in all its vinyl glory.  From the bicentennial year (1976 - I'm dating myself), it is "Col. Hal Carstens presents This Train Is Bound For Glory" featuring Dan Igor Glenn. Mr. Glenn has a great baritone voice and the instrumental arrangements are some of the most appealing I've heard.  Interspersed among the songs are railroad sounds, many of which feature specific steam locomotives at work, which is appropriate since the recording was put out by Semaphore Records which specializes in railroad sound recordings.  Two of the railroad sound tracks I've come to really appreciate are from the old Pennsylvania Station New York with the various named trains and their station stops and destinations being called out on the public address system and East Broad Top 2-8-2 No. 14 making a station stop with the baggage car being loaded and a conversation between the train's conductor and a railroad official.  The conductor's "All Aboard" with the steam locomotive's starting chuffs with a bit of driver slippage is classic.

Anyhow, my favorite song from that album mainly because of the way Dan Igor Glenn sings it so evocatively is "Streamline Cannonball."  

Roy Acuff

It's a long steel rail and a short cross tie.
I'm on my way back home.
I'm on that train, the king of them all,
That Streamline Cannonball.

Chorus:
She moves along like a cannonball,
Like a star in it's heavenly flight.
The lonesome sound of the whistle you love
As she travels through the night.

I can see a smile on the engineer's face,
And although he's old and gray,
A contented heart, he waits for his call
On the Streamline Cannonball.

Chorus

The headlight beams out in the night,
And the firebox flash you can see.
I ride the blinds. It's the life that I love.
Lord, it's home sweet home to me.

I don't think I saw it posted......Can I get some love for "Locomotive Breath" by Jethro Tull?

Always thought this song was outstanding. I likened it to the opening of Jaws with the tease, then crescendo of sound.

All the songs mentioned are good - the best is the one you like the most.

I also don't believe this was mentioned, "Big Railroad Blues" by the Grateful Dead:

"Well my mama told me, my papa told me too
Now my mama told me, papa told me too
Well I shouldn't be here tryin' to sing these railroad blues"

Paul

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