Get on the Love Train--Love Train

[vsmith]

Surprised no one's mentioned one of the greatest jazz songs of all time...

"Take The 'A' Train"

Duke Ellington

[Anonymous]

Many thanks to all of you who mentioned Hendrix, Arlo Guthrie, Allman Brothers, Cash, Ten Years After, Aerosmith, etc. I thought I was the only guy left who remembered Ten Years After.

Only other song like that I can remember is "Train Kept a Rollin" by Yardbirds, who did it about forty years before Aerosmith.


mike

mike

[Anonymous]

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe by Johnny Mercer

B&O Trestle at Takoma Park by Al Greene
Back Up Train by Al Greene

Belle of the Monon by French Lick Springs Resort Orchestra

Between Trains by Flatt & Scruggs
Big Black Train by Flatt & Scruggs

Big Steel Rail by Gordon Lightfoot
Big Train From Memphis by Credence Clearwater Revival

[Shoot man lets open the floodgates]

Big Train Running by The Doobie Brothers

Boxcars by Joe Ely

Bummin An Old Freight Train by Lester Flatt


Canadian Pacific by Gordon Lightfoot

Cannonball Blues by Bruce "Utah" Phillips

Clinchfield Special by Toe River Valley Boys

Coal Smoke, Valve Oil and Steam by Johnny Horton

Daddy, What's a Train? by Bruce "Utah" Phillips

Daughter of A Railroad Man by Johnny Cash

Daybreak Express by Duke Ellington


Downbound Train by Bruce Springsteen

Fast Freight by Kingston Trio

Freedom Train by Merle Haggard

Freight Train Comin' by Metallica

Freight Train, Freight Train by Peter, Paul and Mary

Frisco road by Bruce "Utah" Phillips

the Gallopin' Goose by C. W. Mccall

Ghetto Train by Luther Ingram

Glendale Train by The New Riders Of The Purple Sage

Graveyard Train by Credence Clearwater Revival

Greenlight On the Southern Railway Line by Doc Watson

Greenville Trestle High by Doc Watson

I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow by Hank Williams Sr

I've Got A Thing About Trains by Johnny Cash

Jay Gould's Daughter by Sweethearts of the Rodeo

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry by Bob Dylan

Jump that train by Foghat

L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore by Johnny Cash

Life Is A Mountain Railroad by Carter Family

Long Train Runnin' by The Doobie Brothers

Mystery Train by Elvis Presley

Nickel Plate Road 759 by Bruce "Utah" Phillips

Railroading On the Great Divide by Jim Croce

Railroading and Gambling by Jim Croce

Railroads and Riverboats by Jim Croce

Red Streamliner by Little Feat

Refrigerator Car by Spin Doctors

Ridin On the Cottonbelt by Johnny Cash

Rock Island Line by Huddy Ledbetter

Smoke Along the Track by Emmylou Harris

Steel Rails by Allison Kraus

Tolono by Bruce "Utah" Phillips


Tons of Steel by Grateful Dead

Train Kept A Runnin by Yardbirds

Trains, Tracks and Travel by Hank Snow

Up On the CP Line by UP Country Western Band

UP Song by UP Country Western Band

Zion Train by Bob Marley and the Wailers

Whew,....let some other guy beat that list

[:o)]

[dharmon]

"Peace Train" originally by Cat Stevens, but the 10,000 Maniacs version was better.....come to think of it...10,000 Maniacs sounds alot like this place........

[Murphy Siding]

QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh

QUOTE: Originally posted by fuzzybroken

"Train, train... take me on out of this town..." -- I don't know who did the original, but I know Warrant recorded it on their "Cherry Pie" album.

[:D]
-Mark
www.fuzzyworld3.com

a band called the allman brothers i believe
stay safe
Joe

I guess I must be from a different generation? In college, this was a julebox song. I think the group was blackfoot?

[Murphy Siding]

QUOTE: Originally posted by RLHainey

My wife helped me here;

Can't You See---Marshal Tucker Band

"Gonna take a freight train, far as I can Lord
I don't care where it goes.
Ride me a south bound, all the way to Georgia Lord
"Till the train runs outta track"

[CopCarSS]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates

Midnight train to Georgia by Gladys Knight and the pimps

I believe that would be Gladys Knight and the "Pips." [8D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CopCarSS

QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates

Midnight train to Georgia by Gladys Knight and the pimps

I believe that would be Gladys Knight and the "Pips." [8D]

Aw, c'mon Cop Car, you know you've called them the pimps-we all have!

m

[TrainFreak409]

She's got the boogie woogie woogies spead all over the place,
Got 'em stacked to the ceiling, gotta stick 'em in your face,
You know my baby likes to rock it like a
BOOGIE WOOGIE CHOO-CHOO-TRAIN!
-The Tractors "Boogie Woogie Choo-Choo-Train"

Let's take a ride, let's take a ride on the Love Train,
Unwind, we'll be chuggaluggin' all the way-y.
Let's roll, like the Stones playing all day-ay!
Let's take a ride, let's take a ride on the Love Train, ain ain ain!
-Big and Rich "Love Train"

[morseman]

a great site for railroad songs and music is

www.uclan.ac.uk/library/musrail.htm
this is a listing of all rr songs and music from 1820 to sept 1/2005
compiled by the library of the university of central lancashire

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CopCarSS

QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates

Midnight train to Georgia by Gladys Knight and the pimps

I believe that would be Gladys Knight and the "Pips." [8D]

Whoops!! my bad.... [:D]

[espeefoamer]

There's a song that contains the line,"That old white train costs a lot to ride..."
It's about cocaine.

[Murphy Siding]

....."but the train don't run by here no more-poor, poor, pitiful me!!!"...


-Linda Rhonstadt

[edblysard]

Wait,
Dosnt this one belong over on the Futuremodal/Michael Sol thread/love fest?

Ed

QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding

....."but the train don't run by here no more-poor, poor, pitiful me!!!"...


-Linda Rhonstadt

[Murphy Siding]

Ed: What's the matter? Can't think of a song with a train reference?[:)]

[edblysard]

Well,
My middle daughter just finished learning to play the Midnight Special on her guitar, the Johnny Rivers version...so I jacked up the CD player and played the Creedence version...silly girl likes the original better...

How about Marc Cohn’s version of the Ghost Train…little Memphis Blues with a touch of jazz…

[Murphy Siding]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Well,
My middle daughter just finished learning to play the Midnight Special on her guitar, the Johnny Rivers version...so I jacked up the CD player and played the Creedence version...silly girl likes the original better...

How about Marc Cohn’s version of the Ghost Train…little Memphis Blues with a touch of jazz…

Well allright! I, with absolutely no musical talent am always in awe of those who can play an instument. Can she play The Orange Blossom Special?

[edblysard]

No, but my sister can do the violin part, and plays the piano too...

My middle daughters next on the I want list is a banjo....she wants to try the Dueling Banjo thing from Defiance...
Oldest daughter plays the piano and keyboard, I can fake it on drums, and can still noodle around on the violin and guitar...but have managed to break enough fingers enough times I don’t have the reach any more to be a serious threat on string instruments.
Middle daughter is joining the jazz/swing band at school, she also plays the clarinet.
The kid blows me away too, last year she could barly pick out the cords from Smoke on the Water, less than a year later she is her music teachers pet project.

I built her and her older sister classic guitars, beech and mahognay bodies, ebony necks with paduck inlays, and she darn near slept with it till we bought her a Fender Electric.

Ed

[Tulyar15]

Songs about trains are not so common on my side of the pond, but back in the 1960's the BBC commissioned a folk musician to write some. One of my favourites is the turn table song:-

"At half past five on a Wednesday morn the driver and his mate
came hurtling out of a loco shed in a *** great number eight
The fireman wiped his greasy hands as they rolled along the track
to pick up a gallon of water and a couple of tubs of slack.

They waited till the clock was showing a couple of hundred pounds
they took her to the turntable and they quickly turned her round
but when they went to park her they made their big mistake;
they left her on a gradient and forgot about the brake!

It happened when the table was only half way round
the mighty engine's wheels began to turn with an ominous rumbling sound!
The driver when he saw this began to scream and spit
as the mighty engine humped its back and plunged in to the pit!

He went to tell the foreman, he was quaking at the knees
saying "Sir, you've got an engine parked at 45 degrees!"
The foreman turned a ghastly green and grabbed the telephone;
then half a bottle of aspirins and he caught the next bus home.

They fetched the gang from Nottingham and they soon set about
with chains and jacks and dirty words they got the *** thing out!
The fireman's lost his shovel now he's sweeping up the coal
and I haven't seen the driver since but I think he's on the dole!

PS I think a "*** great number 8" probably refers to an LMS 8F 2-8-0.

[fuzzybroken]

A guy out in southern Wisconsin sent me a couple pictures of what happened when the brake wasn't set on an engine in the Janesville roundhouse. Back in the old days, the Milwaukee Road designed the roundhouse so that it would be easy to roll an engine out of the roundhouse, but they also put a "lip" on the turntable so it would roll back before it got to the pit. This would also cause no damage with the side-swinging doors.

But of course the WSOR had to have some newfangled doors on their roundhouse, the type that rolls down from the top. Well, one day an engine decided to go for a ride all by itself, crashed through the roll-down door (not all that difficult a feat), rolled up to the pit, and then rolled back and crashed through the door again!

But there's no song about it...

-Mark
www.fuzzyworld3.com

[Murphy Siding]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

No, but my sister can do the violin part, and plays the piano too...

My middle daughters next on the I want list is a banjo....she wants to try the Dueling Banjo thing from Defiance...
Oldest daughter plays the piano and keyboard, I can fake it on drums, and can still noodle around on the violin and guitar...but have managed to break enough fingers enough times I don’t have the reach any more to be a serious threat on string instruments.
Middle daughter is joining the jazz/swing band at school, she also plays the clarinet.
The kid blows me away too, last year she could barly pick out the cords from Smoke on the Water, less than a year later she is her music teachers pet project.

I built her and her older sister classic guitars, beech and mahognay bodies, ebony necks with paduck inlays, and she darn near slept with it till we bought her a Fender Electric.

Ed

You BUILT them guitars??? Boy am I feeling under-talented about right now![:)]

[Murphy Siding]

Oh, and ......How Much is a Ticket Back to Georgia?.....

-Head East

[Murphy Siding]

I'm driving today and on the radio comes a song from some long-forgotten 60's group:......".sittin' downtown in a railroad station, one toke over the line"........yuck!

I change the channel, and get the down home country station:......" I guess I'll take my foolish pride, and put it on a southbound freight and ride".........
I Wanna Go Home -Bobby Bare

[edblysard]

One Toke over the Line, by...
Brewer and Shipley...actually a some what anti dope song....they sing about the death that awaits the heavy user.

"Waiting for the train to carry me home sweet Mary, hoping that the train is on time"...(I'm) one toke over the line sweet jesus, one toke over the line..."


Yeah, built them their gutiars...not that hard once you figure out how to thin the back of the wood for the body... thiner in some places makes them sound more "twangy", thicker gives you more the the Classic sound, deeper and richer...and trying to copy a really nice Spanish bass for her music teacher.

Ed

[Murphy Siding]

You make that sound easy! Are you going to work your way up to building pianos?[8D]

[edblysard]

Ha, ha,
No, don’t have the room, and can’t afford that much top quality wood!

I have a wood shop/machine shop out back, been wood working since I was a small kid, Dad was a wood worker/jack leg house builder...I also have several lathes.
I can turn you wheels for your model locomotive or railcar, or craft you a fountain pen, roller ball pen, or a mechanical pencils...a little hobby that has managed to pay for the machine tools.

Biggest piece of furniture I have build is a chest of drawers, dresser, and bedroom set, some dinning room tables, and a 1/2 scale roll top desk for my youngest daughter...

It’s kinda a stress release thing, if I have a rough day at work, I can go back there and work it off, and make something useful in the process.

My wife calls me an extreme puttizier...

I think everyone needs a hobby, mine are wood working and model railroads, I like to build the locomotive models.

After all, if you can’t play, even as an adult, life becomes just a daily grind.

Ed

[tree68]

I can pick and grin (6 & 12 string, banjo), but certainly not with the best of 'em. Building something like that is way over my head.

If I put on any folk rock on the stereo for my listening enjoyment, I can pretty well write off accomplishing whatever I was planning to do with music as a background - I'll be playing along in short order...

The piece used in "Dueling Banjos" is actually a song called "End of a Dream." I can play it, but have to learn a different roll to really do it justice. Same with "Foggy Mountain Breakdown."

Wasn't a country star known as "the singing brakeman?"

[SALfan]

There's an old hymn (at least I think it's a hymn) that I remember only in fragments. Part of it goes "Life is like a mountain railroad", and another part goes "Keep your hand upon the throttle, and your eye upon the rail". I'd be grateful if anyone could supply the missing parts.

[Murphy Siding]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

I can pick and grin (6 & 12 string, banjo), but certainly not with the best of 'em. Building something like that is way over my head.

If I put on any folk rock on the stereo for my listening enjoyment, I can pretty well write off accomplishing whatever I was planning to do with music as a background - I'll be playing along in short order...

The piece used in "Dueling Banjos" is actually a song called "End of a Dream." I can play it, but have to learn a different roll to really do it justice. Same with "Foggy Mountain Breakdown."

Wasn't a country star known as "the singing brakeman?"

I think Jimmy Rodgers was called the singing brakeman.[:)]

[morseman]

Life is like a mountain railroad, with an engineer that's brave,
We must make the run successful from the cradle to the grave;
Watch the curves, the fills, the tunnels, never falter, never fail,
Keep your hand upon the throttle and your eye upon the rail.

CHORUS: Blessed Savior, thou will guide us 'till we reach
the blissful shore,
Where the angels wait to join us in thy praise evermore.

As you roll up grades of trial, you will cross the bridge of strife;
See that Christ is your conductor on the lightning train of life.
Always mindful of obstruction, do your duty, never fail,
Keep your hand upon the throttle and your eye upon the rail.
Chorus:

As you roll across the trestle look for storm or wind or rain.
On a curve or fill or trestle they will almost ditch your train;
Put your trust alone in Jesus, never falter, never fail,
Keep your hand upon the throttle and your eye upon the rail
Chorus

As you rolll across the trestle, spanning death's dark swelling tide,
You behold the union depot into which your train will guide;
There you'll meet the superintendent, God the Father, God the Son,
With a hearty joyous plaudit, weary pilgrim, welcome home.
Chorus