#d22%ddathd21.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (10/12/85)
====================================================================== Ralf Bayer BITNET/EARN Node DDATHD21 TH Darmstadt User-ID #D22 Hochschulrechenzentrum/Beratung AB From ARPANET: Petersenstr. 30 <#d22%ddathd21.bitnet@wiscvm.ARPA> 6100 Darmstadt / WEST GERMANY Tel. 06151/16-3939 ====================================================================== I really like hearing railroad songs, such as "City of New Orleans", "Ride the Trains" and others. Do you know more of them, possibly with singer/performer? Over here in Germany we have also some railroad songs, like "Auf der Schwaebschen Eisenbahn" (that's a traditional), "Sonderzug nach Pankow" (that's Chattanooga Choo Choo, adaptet by U. Lindenberg to some current political questions), "Es faehrt ein Zug nach Nirgendwo" (a hit song of some years ago), "Intercity Linie Nummer 4" (by Gunter Gabriel, about rr workers) Just now I don't remember more of them. Ralf (#d22%ddathd21.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA) (Beware of the number sign (#) - it's part of my User-ID)
cmoore@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) (01/22/86)
One After 909, by the Beatles on "Let It Be" LP (& film) Chattanooga Choo-Choo, from dance band days On the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe--I heard it on Best of Four LP (so it originally came out during or before early 1950s) Night Train (also called All Night Long)--early 1950s instrumental Chocolate Train--children's song which I heard many times in a (toy) chocolate display last August at Dutch Wonderland, Lancaster, Pa.; it alternated with "Good Ship Lollipop" and I believe Crosby, Stills & Nash did "taking me to Marrakesh...all aboard the train". (Speaking of Dutch Wonderland: It has a monorail. So does the Phila. Zoo.)
ron@brl-smoke.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (01/28/86)
> Chattanooga Choo-Choo, from dance band days
For those who don't know, Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo-Choo
was the recipient of the first "Gold Record" award ever.rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) (02/03/86)
For those who don't know, Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo-Choo
was the recipient of the first "Gold Record" award ever.
The first award, yes, but the first record to sell a million copies was
recorded much earlier by Nick Larocca's Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
I think it was the 1918 cut of Tiger Rag, but I could be wrong there.
My current favorite train song is Choo Choo Ch'boogie, recorded by
Bill Haley and his Comets.