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"Mystery Train" is a song written and recorded by American blues musician Junior Parker in 1953. Originally performed in the style of a Memphis blues or rhythm and blues tune, it was inspired by earlier songs and later became a popular rockabilly song, as first covered by Elvis Presley , then numerous others.
Parker died on November 18, 1971, at age 39, in Blue Island, Illinois, [1] during surgery for a brain tumor. His next album was released by United Artists Records in 1972, titled I Tell Stories Sad and True, I Sing the Blues and Play Harmonica Too, It Is Very Funky.
The concert is one of the longest live performances by the Doors. Among the 25 songs played that night, the group played eight blues standards such as "Back Door Man", Junior Parker's "Mystery Train" and "Crossroads" by Robert Johnson.
L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on April 19, 1971, by Elektra Records.It is the last to feature lead singer Jim Morrison during his lifetime, due to his death exactly two months and two weeks following the album's release, though he would posthumously appear on the 1978 album An American Prayer.
Mystery Train, a 1975 book about rock 'n' roll, by Greil Marcus; Mystery Train, blues musician Willie D. Warren's backing band "Mystery Train", a song by Bon Jovi song from Crush "Mystery Train", Everybody's Rockin- Neil Young & The Shocking Pinks- released 1983
Live in Boston is a triple CD live album by American rock band the Doors released in 2007. It was recorded at the Boston Arena on April 10, 1970, during the band's Roadhouse Blues Tour . The band performed two shows, one starting at 7 pm and a second scheduled for 10 but not actually starting until past midnight.
Paul Cohen, a Decca executive who doubled as its house producer in Nashville, had a song in mind for Helms: "Jingle Bell Hop," a tune written by Joe Beal and Jim Boothe, a pair of 50-something ...
The song is notable for being the last time the Beatles performed a song for the BBC that wasn't recorded for EMI. The song is also notable for its double-time rhythmic changes during the bridge . The band was becoming more experimental at the time; after they recorded " I Call Your Name ", they used that song's ska-influenced middle section ...