Worst song ever? "Nights In White Satin" by The Moody Blues.
Should have called them "The Gloomy Blues!" Who knows how many car radios had their knobs busted by disgusted listeners looking for another station when that whiny mess came on?
Second place? "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin! Whine, whine, whine...
Both of the above make those old trolley songs sound like the work of musical geniuses!
1950s music- eesh! I rarely go to old cars shows anymore beacause it seems to be required to play 50s music at every one. Do you think the guy that bought that 55 Chevrolet is listening to Elvis? No, his kids are and he wants to listen to Artie Shaw, but they don't play that music at shows. I'd much prefer Shaw, Dorsey, Miller and Goodman but if you want to hear some awesome earlier big band music, try Fletcher Henderson or Jimmie Lunceford- they're both on You Tube and well worth checking out.
Pink Floyd music takes me right back to a 1970s basement with black light posters, incense and roaches in the ash tray. Wow man.
Another one I hate is Ramblin Man by the Allman Brothers- did that guy sing with a clothes pin on his nose? And that endless deedle-dee guitar- awful!
Not a trolley song, not a train song, but probably the 20th Century's best pop song ever!
If this doesn't put you in the mood to jump into the cockpit of an F4U "Corsair" and go on a Zero hunt, then it probably puts you in the mood to jump in the cockpit of a P-51 "Mustang" and go on a Messerschmitt hunt!
Depending on your preferences of course. Here it comes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH4N4QkBmMo
Then there's this, perfect for a moonlit night flight in a C-47...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X8sz_wgrSc
What the hell, might as well throw this in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAVejLjXVdw
Great stuff! Especially American Patrol- wow!
but have a look at this- Third Reich swing- sounds a lot like Count Basie in the opening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEkSHnyPuB0&list=RDDEkSHnyPuB0&start_radio=1
and it features trains.
This one has no trains but still...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHunO4EUfRc&list=RDBHunO4EUfRc&start_radio=1
I had no idea such music was played back then in Germany. I was in Berlin last month and I have to say that Potsdamer Platz looks nothing like that. I think the RAF and the 8th Air Force did a little urban renewal. Or made it necessary.
But, who doesn't like Lambeth Walk, one of my all-time faves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdmk3GP3iM
Lambeth Walk-- Thanks 54light15. Anything that makes those Nar-zees look ridiculous is fine with me. Makes you wonder how many of those vain peacocks were killed in the war...I bet a lot of them, and sadly which of them were involved in wiping out my ancestral family... only my Dad survived. My mom would not have survived had her mother not sheltered ( hidden) her in a Convent in the South of France.
My mother's mother had to contend with Cossacks, not nazis. Her and her siblings came through Elllis Island sometime around 1910, I think. My father's people came from Wales and settled in the hills of central Pennsylvania sometime in the late 1600s, I am told. There's no one left to ask about either side anymore. Enh, oh well.
To get back to trains, my father told me how the Pioneer Zephyr came to Towanda, PA in 1934 on a nationwide tour after it's dawn-to-dusk run and his entire school went to the station to see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP8XVE1Wibw
To get back to swing music, try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tgef-Xhqn0
and a return to vintage aircraft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6c3v9iihgw
16 of them! Oh those limeys!
Sixteen Spitfires together at one time! Fantastic!
They should call it "The Heinkel's Nightmare" formation!
Chug, chug, chug went the MOTORS ???
Oh please, gimme a break. In that era the songwriter should've known the difference between steam trains (chug, chug, chug) and electric transport (smooth, quiet motion).
About as bad as modern day parents, viewing a diesel, telling their kid to look at the choo-choo train.
I do realize that "choo-choo" is a linguistic vestige of a bygone era, but gosh, back then the composer (of Judy's lyrics) was either ignorant of contemporary urban transport, or lazy, failing to come up with a more appropriate line.
LehighLad About as bad as modern day parents, viewing a diesel, telling their kid to look at the choo-choo train.
To be fair, the GE engines do give a pronounced 'Chug Chug Chug' from the stack.
No idea how electric motors could do that, unless they were blowing up!
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Hey, I don't mind hearing modern-day parents telling their kids "Look at the choo-choo train!"
All that means is, in it's own way, STEAM LIVES!
Not quite gone, and not at all forgotten.
OK, this is not about trains or buses but it is about an essential bit of transportation if you know your history. Or watch a lot of Westerns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdQtRsiLB6s
Looks like somebody killed that covered wagon video.
But here's an interesting observation I read not too long ago, continuing the "Old West" theme. Stagecoaches never really went away, they just say "Greyhound" on the side now instead of "Wells Fargo."
Kind of makes sense when you think about it.
Flintlock76 Looks like somebody killed that covered wagon video. But here's an interesting observation I read not too long ago, continuing the "Old West" theme. Stagecoaches never really went away, they just say "Greyhound" on the side now instead of "Wells Fargo." Kind of makes sense when you think about it.
Not too surprising. Some of the smaller intercity operators that still exist do call themselves stage lines.
Greyhound does ship some freight, too. Don't know if they carry the mine's payroll to Dodge City, though.
54light15 Greyhound does ship some freight, too. Don't know if they carry the mine's payroll to Dodge City, though.
Probably not. Jesse James and Cole Younger might still be out there somewhere.
You never know, do you?
Flintlock76Stagecoaches never really went away, they just say "Greyhound" on the side now instead of "Wells Fargo." Kind of makes sense when you think about it.
Well just look at the parent company of Megabus.
Of course, 'stagecoaches' went away with the need to change horses. Might come back, though, if one of the schemes to implement all-electric buses by making the battery packs modular and rapidly replaceable were to be adopted...
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