https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbaz_T6BN3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2XwZTc7QHw
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
Euclid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbaz_T6BN3g
I forgot Emmylou was ever young.
Johnny Cash and the Stanley Brothers in 1964. It seems Led Zep infringed their song title.
Not exactly a song.
Moose turd pie.
https://youtu.be/0zb1qsVqjwg
wanswheel Euclid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbaz_T6BN3g I forgot Emmylou was ever young.
A couple years ago, they took a lot of her high quality early videos off of Youtube. I really like her early era circa 1977. This is an example, although not live and not a train song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LQeRqTBK4
https://vimeo.com/3624087
I have a couple favorites.
1. Mystery Train - Elvis Presley
2. Cmon N Ride It - Quad City DJs
3. Little Red Caboose - Buckwheat Zydeco
4. The Train is Coming - Ken Boothe
5. Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
6. Life is Like a Mountain Railroad - Boxcar Willie
7. Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight
8. Midnight Special - Johnny Rivers
9. Wreck of the Ole 97 - ????
10. Choo Choo Bugaloo - Buckwheat Zydeco
Inspired by the rhythm of train wheels:
And, for tree68, here is something extraordinary from the close of a Mass celebrating the Paris firefighters: Listen, and be moved.
There is a bluegrass song called Eastbound Freight Train. A live band used to sing it on the Sewanee Steam Special years ago. This train was pulled by none other than NS 611. It was also pulled at times by 1218.
Here is Milwaukee Blues, an old song by Charlie Poole sung here by Dom Flemons, formerly with the Carolina Chocolate Drops:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf43lUsqnHw
I'm not a big fan of DVDs, butout here in Australia, the Post Office is trying to turn its shopfronts into stores with other products in order to remain open in the face of falling letter traffic (but expanding parcels business).
They sell a lot of stationery items, digital media and so on.
Anyway to return to relevance, they recently offered movie DVDs at $5 each, including several old Musicals, including "The Harvey Girls".
At that price I had to have one. As well as the full movie, there is a version of the full "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" with real stereo sound. The original production used multiple microphones which were separately recorded and have been combined in post production into good quality stereo.
There is also an interview with Director George Sidney where he speaks over the movie action as vision. Two points were that he described bringing the train down to Hollywood from Truckee by road in 1945 using war surplus aircraft transporters, and the various difficulties they faced. He also spoke about the final scene in the big production number where the cast were in the path of the locomotive cylinder drain cocks as it started. I'd noticed this but the director was fully aware of it at the time, and praised the cast.
The song won the Academy Award in 1946.
I was born in 1948, and I remember in the early 1950s that my Father would sing the chorus on occasions, but at the time I had no idea what it was all about.
M636C
Do you realize how hard it is to say, "The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"? Not sing it, say it.
Midnight Special by CCR.
Paul of Covington Do you realize how hard it is to say, "The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"? Not sing it, say it....
Do you realize how hard it is to say, "The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"? Not sing it, say it....
Darned near impossible...
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tree68 Paul of Covington Do you realize how hard it is to say, "The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"? Not sing it, say it.... Darned near impossible...
There is some comment in the director's discussion on the "Harvey Girls" DVD about the music for the big production number, how it was supposed to evoke the sound of a train but with syncopation that matched the railroad name.
These guys were real professionals, and the song didn't get an Oscar by accident.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/arts/music/john-loudermilk-dead.html?_r=0
R.I.P. Mr. Loudermilk.
As long as we're firing up this thread again ....
"Old Charlie stole the handle andThe train it won't stop goingNo way to slow down."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/arts/music/oscar-brand-folk-singer-whose-radio-show-twanged-for-decades-dies-at-96.html
I was always partial to Stonewall Jackson's "Smoke Along the Tracks" which was a big and long lasting hit on the local radio back when I was a teenager in 59-60. The Emmy Lou Harris cover of it was also good.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/
Wanswheel- Remarakable win by the Cubs tonight..history! ...and my beloved Blackhawks came from behind by 2 goals with 2 minutes left to defeat Toronto 5-4 in a shootout.
Hard to believe but there was a time when I was as young as Steve Goodman in that clip...I think it was the Pleistocene.
Miningman I think it was the Pleistocene.
I think it was the Pleistocene.
Speaking of geology...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Schmitt
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17CONO.html
Miningman Hard to believe but there was a time when I was as young as Steve Goodman in that clip...I think it was the Pleistocene. Yes, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. I remember the first time I heard Steve singing "City" at the Quiet Knight. He also wrote The Dying Cub Fan's Last Request, but maybe this isn't the time for that song. Tom
Yes, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. I remember the first time I heard Steve singing "City" at the Quiet Knight. He also wrote The Dying Cub Fan's Last Request, but maybe this isn't the time for that song.
Tom
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