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"The Ballad of Casey Jones", also known as "Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer" or simply "Casey Jones", is a traditional American folk song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving. It tells of how Jones and his fireman Sim Webb raced their locomotive to make up for lost time, but discovered ...
Casey Jones's fame is largely attributed to the traditional song, “The Ballad of Casey Jones”, [7] [18] also known as "Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer", recorded by, among others, Billy Murray, Mississippi John Hurt, Harry McClintock, [19] Furry Lewis, Johnny Cash, Ed McCurdy, and played live by the Grateful Dead, as well as Jones' friend ...
Jones is described as being "high on cocaine" (the song even makes a double entendre of advising Jones to "watch his speed"). It was inspired by the story of an actual engineer named Casey Jones. The engineer's exploits were also sung of in an earlier folk song called "The Ballad of Casey Jones", which the Grateful Dead played live several times.
The Ballad of Casey Jones", a c. 1909 folk song about the railroad engineer "Casey Jones" (Grateful Dead song), a 1970 song by the Grateful Dead, also about the railroad engineer; Casey Jones (band), a straight edge hardcore punk band from Florida
The song rivaled that of "Casey Jones" for being the number one railroading song of all time. The actress Ann Dvorak sings two verses of the ballad in the 1932 movie Scarface. [9] The ballad was sung to the tune of "The Ship That Never Returned", written by Henry Clay Work in 1865.
The Brave Engineer is a 1950 Walt Disney-produced animated short film, [2] based on the exploits of legendary railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones. [3] It is narrated by comic Jerry Colonna and is a comedically madcap fanciful re-telling [4] of the story [5] related in the Wallace Saunders ballad, later made famous by Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert.
Catherine Zeta-Jones About 10 years ago she was doing some commercial dialogue recording in a studio I used to work at. She showed up with 3 bodyguards which was interesting.
Brian Cassar (21 March 1936 – 25 December 2022) was a British singer and guitarist known as Casey Jones. He led the first notable beat group in Liverpool, Cass and the Cassanovas , who were early rivals of The Beatles in the city.