Wonderful!
Here is a version that provides lyrics:
Thanks Overmod, I'll try it sometime. and I hope everyone enjoys the video. If you get a little misty eyed that's OK, I do.
If you want to see Johnny Cash the railfan check this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=itVvaLeu6d4 If someone can figure out how to activate it, I can't!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=itVvaLeu6d4 If someone can figure out how to activate it, I can't!
Let's see if this works:
Open the YouTube video in its own window; right-click on the video and select "Copy video URL". Then go to your post, pick the 'insert/edit video' icon, and paste the copied URL on the 'source' line. On my system, the actual video doesn't appear in its frame until you post the message.
If you want to see Johnny Cash the railfan check this out:
Or search You Tube Johnny Cash Ride This Train Story 33
(The Vast Webs of Cross Ties & Iron)
Some of Johnny's best work as a musician AND a storyteller.
I recall Johnny doing print ads for Lionel, along the line of being sturdy and not finicky so they hold up. I miss him too. As an aside, I used to have a cassette of him, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins live at a concert at Stuttgart, Germany. You hear Johnny speaking German on it and I played it a couple of times and it got eaten. Damn it. Doesn't Neil Young own Lionel now?
watch?v=A4M0D5hYhtI
watch?v=O5HzgPk69k4
Kevin
http://chatanuga.org/RailPage.html
http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html
[quote user="Fred M Cain"]
What about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kezstyCBWck
-Fred M. Cain
Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back Up front there ought to be a Man In Black
I wear it for the sick and lonely old For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been Each week we lose a hundred fine young men
Firelock76 My God how I miss Johnny Cash. Thanks for posting this Overmod.
My God how I miss Johnny Cash. Thanks for posting this Overmod.
Add a BIG AMEN To that !
[On BOTH COUNTS! ]
Firelock76 The only critisism I had of the show was it appeared to have been shot on really cheap film...
As I noted, it was shot on 16mm film, which even then didn't often have the requisite quality for network TV, which is why 35mm was used. My recollection is that at that time, we only had a 16mm projector on our older Norelco film chain, which was not the good equipment that we used on network movies and commercials at that point. At least the sound track was on magnetic film so the quality there was pretty good using a so-called double-system transfer.
Somebody needs to mention Johnny Cash's first recording and first hit: "Hey Porter." Oh, guess that I just did; I still love that record and pay attention when it comes up on my random iTunes play.
SSW9389If you haven't heard it find and listen to his song Ridin' on the Cotton Belt that Cash says was a tribute to his father.
I love the Cotton Belt too. Start this video at 1:31.
Well Chuck you did a helluva job on "Ridin' The Rails", my compliments! I remember seeing it when it aired in 1974 and enjoyed it tremendously. The only critisism I had of the show was it appeared to have been shot on really cheap film, but no matter, it was still a great show.
I've got it on a VHS tape which I don't dare play at this time, the VCR's gone cannibal on me and is eating tapes! Got to get a new VCR, assuming there's any being made.
Nice to hear from someone who was involved in the project!
Well, this show aired on a Friday night on (I think) ABC in 1974, which I remember very well as it came into my department for transfer from film to tape two days before the air date. The producers were way behind schedule on the finished product and were bringing in show segments on 16mm (that was very unusual for anything going onto the networks at that time) from the lab late into the evening for transfer. We got the whole thing on tape at about three in the morning and by seven or eight that morning the master and one copy were on a plane from LAX to JFK being hand-carried by someone.
I actually enjoyed the show, in spite of the insanely last-minute rush to get the show to the network. It was, fortunately, the only time I ever had to work with the two producers. Did love that golden time on the next paycheck, though.
PolishPower2 and he apparently is driving a Southern Railroad Steam Locomotive with no Fireman in sight! http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Cash-Ridin-Rails-American/dp/B0007PLL1A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-p5bTHT3e8&feature=related
and he apparently is driving a Southern Railroad Steam Locomotive with no Fireman in sight!
http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Cash-Ridin-Rails-American/dp/B0007PLL1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-p5bTHT3e8&feature=related
Here is another that Johnny Cash often used in is act: "Wabash Cannon Ball"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZiQ89_s67Q&list=PLFE1FDB5AEBCD7F20
Railroads and Railroading have been an on-going theme in Country Music; Another personalit who was a railfan and model railroader was Merle Haggard. Born in Oklahoma, his family moved to Bakersfield, and his father Jim was a carpenter with the Santa Fe.
Here is a link to a Model Railroader Forum Thread from about 4 years back about Merle Haggard, and how he worked hisrail interest into his life (See the photo of his Tour Bus), and the mention of his Lionel ( O gauge collection) @
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/177162.aspx
Does anybody have any additional info or details on Johnny Cash, the railfan? I've tried searching online and other than finding lists of train songs, I can't find anything about his personal interest in trains.
I recently bought his autobiography from 1997 and he didn't mention it in there, either.
Regards,
Fred M. Cain
Johnny Cash was a rail fan, both real and models.
In the late 1970s, when Lionel Trains started the "Lionel Railroader Club", Johnny Cash was given Club Member Card #1 by Lionel. Later he did some advertizing for them. He also released an Album called "Victora Station", all railroad songs from "City of New Orleans" to "Wabash Cannonball".
Don U. TCA 73-5735
The fireman is on the other side of the cab, firing. I really liked Clinchfield #1 in the video and the U36Cs slamming by. That video on youtube is all spliced up.
Johnny Cash was born in a shotgun house in Kingsland, Arkansas that was backed up to the Cotton Belt main line. His uncle was a Cotton Belt engineer who used to take him for rides in his steam engine. Cash sometimes attended the Fordyce on the Cotton Belt Festival in the Spring. If you haven't heard it find and listen to his song Ridin' on the Cotton Belt that Cash says was a tribute to his father.
Ed
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