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However, in January 1991, while doing recorded rehearsals in Sussex, England for the initial Unplugged TV show, Paul McCartney and his band performed various classic skiffle songs. The concluding number was "Freight Train", though it was abruptly stopped just a few seconds into the song (this recording is available on an unauthorized release ...
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
The song "Freight Train", sung by Nancy Whiskey with the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group, appears in full in the Bermondsey Town Hall concert sequence at the end of the 1957 film The Tommy Steele Story. [6] Also, in 2023, "Freight Train", sung by Whiskey, was featured in Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City. [7]
At the ARIA Music Awards of 1992, it received a nomination for Best Children's Album. [1] The music video for the title track, "Dancing in the Kitchen", was compiled into ABC for Kids Video Hits Volume 2 , a various artists' video released in 1992.
"Freight Train Boogie/Choo Choo Ch'boogie" (medley) (Ken Griffin, Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milton Gabler) "Steel Rails" (Louisa Branscomb) "Waiting for a Train" (Jimmie Rodgers) "I've Been Working on the Railroad" (Traditional) "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren) "Old Train" (Herb Pedersen)
The album is also known as Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes and was originally released as Elizabeth Cotten: Negro Folk Songs and Tunes. [3] [4] It is best known for containing the earliest recording of her classic "Freight Train." The album cover was designed by Ronald Clyne. [4]
Shining Time Station is a children's television series jointly created by British television producer Britt Allcroft and American television producer Rick Siggelkow. The series was produced by Quality Family Entertainment (the American branch of The Britt Allcroft Company), in association with Catalyst Entertainment in seasons 2 and 3, for New York City's PBS station WNET, and was originally ...
Play Safe is a 1936 animated short film produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures.This film was part of Max Fleischer's Color Classics series. [1] The film follows the story of a boy who has a dream about being on a real train (and learns a lesson about train safety).