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The song went to number one in Canada and made the top ten on the UK Singles Chart in 1990. Stewart received a Grammy nomination for the song in the category Best Male Pop Vocal performance. [3] Originally released as a non-album single, Stewart's version of "Downtown Train" was included on some editions of his 1991 album Vagabond Heart.
Storyteller spans the whole of Stewart’s career beginning with the 1964 release of "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" and ending with "Downtown Train", a new song for 1989. It was designed for release in the US and contains four discs each covering a different period somewhat chronologically.
Downtown Train is a compilation album by Rod Stewart released in March 1990 only in the United States by Warner Bros. Records. The album is made up of twelve tracks from the previously released Storyteller Anthology. The album is skewed toward the more recent period of Stewart's career, most of the songs dating after 1980.
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.
William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) [1] was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades.
Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) was an American singer and songwriter whose career spanned nearly 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005.
Frank Comstock - "Theme from The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends" (Seasons 1–2), "Theme from Adam-12" Marius Constant - "Theme from The Twilight Zone" Bill Conti - "Come with Me Now" (Theme from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous) (with Norman Gimbel), "Theme from Dynasty", "Theme from Falcon Crest", "Theme from Cagney & Lacey"
Johnny Cash sang "Down There by the Train", which Waits wrote for him, on American Recordings (1994), calling Waits "a very special writer, my kind of writer." [ 411 ] Tori Amos covered "Time" on Strange Little Girls (2001); she performed it on the Late Show With David Letterman , the first musical performance on the show after 9/11 . [ 412 ]