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"Rock Island Line" is an American folk song. Ostensibly about the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad , it appeared as a folk song as early as 1929. The first recorded performance of "Rock Island Line" was by inmates of the Arkansas Cummins State Farm prison in 1934.
Rock Island Line is an album by Johnny Cash on vinyl format, later released on CD, with a few train and fun songs included of which some were from different albums before. Track listing [ edit ]
The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast [2] is a live album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, with Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber, released in 2000.Lonnie Donegan had played with the Chris Barber jazz band when he had his first hit with "Rock Island Line"/"John Henry" in 1955.
The song was also featured on Cash's 1960 Columbia album Now, There Was a Song! under the title "Transfusion Blues" substituting the line "took a shot of cocaine" with "took a transfusion" along with some other minor lyrical changes (and a tamer version of the climactic lyric "I can't forget the day I shot my woman down").
"Mighty Rock / Jupiter Creek" 47 : Paradise "Look After Yourself / Red Neck Boogie" 30 : 1978 "Back Again / Let's Get Moving" 52 "West Is the Way / No Time for Crying" — 1979 "In and Out of Love / Song for the Road" 62 : Land of Fortune "Land of Fortune / Innocent Bystanders" 93 "Wasted Words / Never Coming Back" — "Last of the Riverboats ...
Dolly Parton in 1976. American country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton has composed over 5,000 songs throughout her career. [1] The total number of individual song titles she has recorded and released is 956, totaling over 1,100 individual recordings when studio recordings, remixes, and live tracks are combined.
Melodisc records was founded by Austrian-born American citizen Emil Edward Shalit (24 December 1909 – 23 April 1983) and his business partner Jack Chilkes. Melodisc began trading in London, England, in August 1949 [1] and soon became established as one of the first—and, at the time, the largest—independent record labels in the UK. [2]
"Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy (using the pseudonym "Norman Meade"). First recorded by jazz trombonist Kai Winding and his orchestra in 1963, it was covered (with additional lyrics by Jimmy Norman) by both soul singer Irma Thomas and then later the Rolling Stones in 1964.