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"Chattanooga Choo Choo" Mack Gordon, Harry Warren: 30: 2001 instrumental "Christmas Day" Harry Connick Jr. What a Night! A Christmas Album: 2008 "Christmas Dreaming" Irving Gordon, Lester Lee When My Heart Finds Christmas: 1993 "Christmas Time is Here" Vince Guaraldi, Lee Mendelson: What a Night! A Christmas Album bonus track 2008 "The ...
Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a 1941 song that was written by Mack Gordon and composed by Harry Warren. It was originally recorded as a big band/swing tune by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra and featured in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade. [3] It was the first song to receive a gold record, presented by RCA Victor in 1942, for sales of 1.2 ...
One of Lindenberg's most famous songs is "Sonderzug nach Pankow" (Special train service to Pankow), an adaptation of "Chattanooga Choo Choo", released as a single on 2 February 1983. [4] It originated from the refusal of eastern German authorities to allow Lindenberg to perform in the GDR. [5] It was forbidden to play the song in the GDR.
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.
Of particular note is the elaborate "Chattanooga Choo Choo" sequence. The scene begins at a rehearsal with the Glenn Miller Orchestra practicing "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and includes two choruses of the song whistled and sung by Tex Beneke in a musical exchange with The Modernaires. As the Miller band concludes their feature the camera pans left ...
During pregame, the Marching Mocs make the formation of the Chattanooga Athletic's logo on the field. The Marching Mocs always perform "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "The Star-Spangled Banner", The UTC Alma Mater, The UTC Fight Song, and the "Tennessee Waltz March" while on the field for the Pregame festivities.
Miller copyrighted the song with the U.S. Library of Congress on January 23, 1935. [61] The Dorsey Brothers released the song as an A side 78 single in 1935 on Decca Records. The B side was "I've Got Your Number" written by Bonnie Lake. The song, arranged by Glenn Miller, was recorded on February 6, 1935, in New York. Kay Weber was the vocalist.
Four years later, [2] in response to this rejection, Lindenberg wrote a German lyric insulting the leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, and set it to the 1941 Glenn Miller song "Chattanooga Choo Choo". Honecker is portrayed as an ossified and hypocritical man who officially endorses the ideology of the Soviet government, but is inside a ...