From: chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU ("Bill Harrison (713)-743-2789")
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.music.classical,rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: train song tape finished
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:46:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: menudo.1992Sep8.144656.11267
Reply-To: chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston

In article <1992Sep7.130515.1304@guvax.georgetown.edu>, mchenry@guvax.georgetown.edu writes:
>To all who contributed, thanks very much. My nephew may not like
>all these choices, but I hope they will spur some serious musical
>interest. If I didn't use your selection it may not have been available
>to me. I think I have a few here, too, that no one else thought of.
>I have enough suggestions for a Vol.3! Also you'll see from the times 
>listed at right that in certain cases I used an excerpt. I chose the Mingus
>"A" Train version because it breaks down to a Mal Waldron stride piano solo
>in the middle. The Chick Corea sounds just like a train - when I have
>played it myself on the piano for kids they say "a train"! I.G.Y. of course
>talks about a train from New York to Paris in 90 "underground by rail."
>Side D may be over the head of an 8-year old, but he may come back to it
>later and like it. 
>
>Bill McHenry
>
>Tape 1
>
>    SIDE A                                                      43    14
>    Wabash Cannonball                    Seeger/Guthrie          3     0
>    Bullgine Run                         Judy Collins            2     5
>    Train Whistle                        David Murray Octet      4     0
>    Marrakesh Express                    CSN                     2    36
>    The Wreck of Old 97                  Tony Rice and Norman    3    46
>    Driving the Last Spike               Genesis                10    10
>    Children's Song 18                   Chick Corea             2    11
>    Slow Train Comin'                    Bob Dylan               5    55
>    Last Train Home                      Pat Metheny Group       5    38
>    Downtown Train                       Tom Waits               3    53
>
>    Side B                                                      43    24
>    Rock Island Line                     Johnny Cash             2    11
>    City of New Orleans                  Judy Collins            4     7
>    Night Train                          Maynard Ferguson        4    45
>    Coal Tattoo                          Judy Collins            2    48
>    Poem on the Underground Wall         Simon & Garfunkel       1    58
>    Pacific 231                          Honegger                6    35
>    Locomotive Breath                    Jethro Tull             4    23
>    Downbound Train                      Bruce Springsteen       3    35
>    Chattanooga Choo-Choo                Tex Beneke              2    26
>    Steel Rails                          Alison Krauss           2    17
>    Train in the Distance                Paul Simon              5    11
>    Barbary Coast                        Weather Report          3     8
>
>Tape 2
>
>    Side C                                                      46    10
>    Freight Train Blues                  Bob Dylan               2    16
>    Just Like That Train                 Joni Mitchell           4    23
>    Only a Hobo                          Bob Dylan               3    28
>    Hobo Ho                              Mingus                 10    10
>    The Little Train of the Caipira      Heitor Villa-Lobos      4    29
>    Train Song                           Tom Waits               3    21
>    People Get Ready                     Kenny Rankin            2    58
>    I.G.Y.                               Donald Fagan            6     5
>    Take the 'A' Train                   Duke Ellington/Mingus   9     0
>
>    Side D                                                      46    36
>    Hey Porter                           Johnny Cash             2    15
>    It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes 
>    a Train to Cry                       Bob Dylan               4     1
>    Black Crow                           Joni Mitchell           4    20
>    The Tunnel                           Wheeler/Taylor/Winsome  9    10
>    Different Trains                     Steve Reich            26    50
>

I like the idea! I guess copyright etc. stuff prevents an actual compilation.
A couple more...

*Etude a Chemin de Fer* (or similar) by Pierre Schaeffer; the first ever 
composition of *musique concrete* from around 1950.

The "mini piano concerto" from the music for the film "The Unforgettable
Year 1919", composed by Shostakovich (ca. 1948). The music apparently 
portrays Stalin's heroic train ride to the city of Gorky during the civil war.

Happy travels,
Bill


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