Train Songs

Editorial Reviews
From the Label
Two Dollar Guitar is a band. Alhough the group's history to this point has been constituted primarily by the fleshing-out of the fecund muse of singer/guitarist Tim Foljahn, their brand new CD of instrumental improvisations, Train Songs, reveals a new facet of the trios work altogether. Darkly spun but still always hopeful, the music continues to chart a course through the classic riddims/motifs of American song, exploring and exploding conventions along the way.

Think how a train slides across countryside, smoothly punching its course, piercing lush prairie or flush forests. Think of high, certain velocities - the sexyness of speed and the theatrics and mythologies of criminal lore, or empty boxcar stowaways and highclass dining car patrons. Tophatted 1800s folk with false smiles and smoking tiredly...

This record is the band's rhythmic engine exposed, its skeletal riffing and ensemble magicks engaged, locked in tight thematic locomotion. All pitched together spontaneous, free and un(self)conscious. Dave Motamed's electric bass rides home-tones that suggest the basic affintites and overlapping currents of Chicago-style electric blues, reggae and rhythm and blues, mapping their simple but profoundly physical weight. Steve Shelleys drums scope out a range from Sousa to Stubblefield and an ability to backward-bend between them for the sake of the song. Atop it all, Tim places both his trademark command of electric string-twang, as well as some newfound electronic devices, frequencies dripped spectral over the tracks' feral pulse. And then they switch instruments, adding to the already intricate weave.

You might view Train Songs as a sort of companion to Tim's recent solo release Hotel Opera (done under the pseudonym La Lengua Asesina). Where that release consisted of pure song material stripped to its most intimate and revealing state, Train Songs maxes out the band's rich musical interaction in sublime instrumental drifts. It's as if the group decided to split its two dimensions, sound and song, in order to refine each half before reuniting them for their upcoming third proper full-length album. We anticipate nothing less than monumentality.

From the Artist
these songs came from the souls of soldiers, salesmen, pioneers. engineers, brakemen, firemen, porters and pimps. prostitutes, preachers and freedom fighters. field workers, convicts and children. union men, policemen. chinamen, irishmen, poles. and two dollar guitar, this trio, it's members having occupied many of the roles listed above. traveling either on the train or in their minds as they watched it slide away from them toward the horizon, were destined to become the most renowned of the train song outfits. it was a less than auspicious beginning...

t. foljahn: "we were all in a sidelined box car outside of topeka. i didn't really know 'em all that well. seen 'em around. it was dark and a little cold. no fire 'cuz the bulls were always watchin' but we had a jug. you know. anyway old steve starts shuffling around in the hay. sort of pacing, mostly scuffing his feet. i thought he was just doing his little drunk dance or something."

d. motamed: "i got just a little scared. he looked nutty. had on a funny hat. i remember thinking no sane man wears a hat like that"

s. shelley: " for sometime i had been perfecting a technique where by i could simulate the rhythm of the trains with my feet. i could even imitate several specific types in various conditions. i started performing in the jungles on my travels and it met with a little derison but mostly people seemed to enjoy it. it was really quite musical"

t. foljahn: "anyway, dave seemed to catch on to what he was doing and started going at it with this jaw harp he had real low and growly like. and so i got out my harpoon and blew a little and it was real spooky but pretty kinda. i started coughing up blood though so we had to stop"

d. motamed: "but we sorta worked up some songs and started buskin' around and before long we were in the gravy"

s. shelley: "i can still do it. wanna see?"

--tim foljahn 9/1/98

Train Songs,Two Dollar Guitar,Smells Like Records,Alternative Pop/Rock,Indie Rock,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Choo Choo Music Perfect for kids that love choo-choo trains!!! Turn up the volume! Right On Track! My son and daughter love this CD! There is a video too!

Come Ride Along with Me James Coffey Manufacturer: Blue Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: I Love Toy Trains - The Music! My Mama Was a Train All Aboard! I Love Toy Trains DVD Parts (10-12) Lots & Lots of Trucks ASIN: B00000DAQ6 Release Date: 1997-01-01

Tracks:

1. Come Ride Along With Me
2. Signal Lights
3. Dinosaur's Revenge
4. Choo-Choo Blues
5. Layin' Down Those Railroad Ties
6. Early In The Morning
7. I'm An Engineer
8. I've Been Workin' On The Railroad
9. My Big Machine
10. Stop, Look & Listen
11. I Love Toy Trains
12. Do You Wanna Play In My Playground
13. Aboard A Train
14. We All Live In A Neighborhood

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Customer Reviews:

Choo Choo Music.......2007-06-05

Perfect for kids that love choo-choo trains!!!.......2006-08-22

Turn up the volume!.......2000-11-14

Right On Track!.......2000-02-23

My son and daughter love this CD! There is a video too!.......1999-11-24

Average customer rating: Return to Sanity Have Some Madeira British humour at its best If you haven't heard this... Gentle Satire

Complete Flanders & Swann Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Divertimentos | Serenades & Divertimentos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Cantatas | Romances French Horn | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Comedic Music | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Broadway & Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Box Sets | Stores | Music Comedy & Spoken Word | Box Sets | Stores | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Songs of Michael Flanders & Donald Swann At the Drop of a Hat The Best of Flanders & Swan - A Transport of Delight Beyond The Fringe (1961 Original London Cast) Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer ASIN: B000006T4S Release Date: 1997-04-30

Tracks:

1. Warthog, The (The Hog Beneath The Skin)
2. The Sea Horse
3. The Chameleon
4. Whale, The (Mopy Dick)
5. Je Suis Le Tenebreux
6. Songs For Our Time
7. A Song Of The Weather - Flanders & Swann
8. The Reluctant Cannibal
9. Greensleeves
10. Misalliance
11. Kokoraki
12. Madeira M'Dear?
13. Too Many Cookers
14. Built Up Area
15. In The Bath (From 'At The Drop Of A Hat')
16. Sea Fever
17. The Hippopotamus Song

Tracks:

1. The Gas Man Cometh
2. Sounding Brass
3. Los Olividados
4. In The Desert
5. The Sloth
6. The Rhinoceros
7. Kangaroo Tango
8. Jaguar
9. Dead Ducks
10. The Elephant
11. By Air
12. Slow Train
13. A Song Of Patriotic Prejudice - Flanders & Swann
14. The Humming Bird
15. The Portuguese Man-Of-War
16. Sea Fever
17. The Hippopotamus Song

Tracks:

1. The Gas Man Cometh
2. Sounding Brass
3. Los Olividados
4. In The Desert
5. The Sloth
6. The Rhinoceros
7. Kangaroo Tango
8. Jaguar
9. Dead Ducks
10. The Elephant
11. By Air
12. Slow Train
13. A Song Of Patriotic Prejudice - Flanders & Swann
14. The Humming Bird
15. The Portuguese Man-Of-War
16. The Wild Boar
17. The Ostrich
18. The Wompom
19. Twice Shy
20. Commonwealth Fair
21. P** P* B**** B** D******
22. Paris
23. Eine Kleine Nacht Musik Cha Cha Cha
24. The Hundred Song
25. Food For Thought

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Customer Reviews:

Return to Sanity.......2005-07-27

Have Some Madeira.......2005-07-06

British humour at its best.......2003-03-15

If you haven't heard this..........2003-01-16

After being told to take up singing as a means of strengthening his polio-weakened lungs, the wheelchair-bound Flanders teamed up with pianist Swann and proceeded to write such classic songs as "The Hippo Song (Mud Mud Glorious Mud)", "The Gasman Cometh", "The Gnu Song", "A Transport of Delight" and many others. As well as a gently satirical spirit, all these songs feature the sublime wordplay and interplay of both men.

The first two discs of this box set are actual concerts - "At The Drop Of A Hat" and its successor "At The Drop Of Another Hat". Recorded at the height of the duo's popularity and form, the sound quality is surprisingly good for recordings this old.

"At The Drop Of A Hat" opens with three of the Flanders and Swann classics. "Transport Of Delight", a song in praise of the "97 horsepower omnibus" features the wonderful harmonies of the duo on lines like "any more fares" and Flanders' dead-on impression of a London busdriver "Geddardait, we're full right up inside". "Song of Reproduction" deals with the new, as it was then, stereo technology and features Flanders delivering an incredible monologue using every conceivable piece of audiophile jargon. "The Gnu Song" (in which "gnu" is pronounced phonetically) is a real treat. The audience's reaction to the reappearance of the gnu is superb.
As well as this opening trio, the disc features Flanders' snippets of "Songs For Our Time" (in which he experiments with conventions of hit songs), "Song of the Weather" (a rundown of English weather throughout the year), "The Reluctant Cannibal" (featuring Swann in the tititular role and the chorus "I can't eat people/I won't eat people/eatin' people is wrong"), Swann's foray into Greek folksong "Kokraki" and the justifiably famous "Madeira M'Dear". The performance ends with a rousing version of "The Hippo Song".
Flanders is in fine voice throughout and his comments introducing each song are delivered with deadpan accuracy. The story behind "The Gnu Song" is an absolute masterpiece. Flanders' monologue about the creation of "Greensleeves" is also superb - "'Greenfleeves'. That's an interesting name for a fong" (referencing old English script) being just a taste.

"Another Hat" begins in equally fine form with "Gasman Cometh" and "Ill Wind". "Gasman", presaged as "a tale of unending domestic upheaval", is sure to have most people who've ever dealt with unreliable tradesmen nodding in agreement, while "Ill Wind" is Flanders' attempt at setting words to a French horn concerto featuring the immortal lines "I lost that horn/lost that horn/lost that horn/found that horn/gorn". The performance continues with Swann's Russian/English song "In The Desert", the ending of which is truly side-splitting. "All Gall" (a reinterpretation of "This Old Man" to fit then-French President Charles de Gaulle) is a little dated but very cleverly done. "Song of Patriotic Prejudice", with its introduction and opening lines grabbing the audience's attention is another triumph, while the "Hippo Encore" is a great end to the performance.
Again Flanders is at his peak. His loving description of the Spanish olive-stuffers ("Olividados") and his superb story about flying ("By Air") are both brilliant examples of the shaggy dog story.
My favourite from both of these discs would have to be "First and Second Law". Flanders decides to educate Swann in elementary science and picks on the first and second laws of thermodynamics ("heat is work and work is heat" and "heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body") and the repetition of these phrases in time to Swann's barely-there piano accompaniment is one of the finest moments in British comedy.

The third disc is largely forgettable. It begins with a series of animal-related songs performed in a studio and without much of Flanders' rambling introductions. "Warthog" has its moments, while the others were clearly not performed in front of an audience for a reason. "Wompom" is also mildly diverting, presenting a story about a made-up substance which is the answer to everything.
The rest of the disc is then filled out with much earlier material in a rather poorly-recorded concert. "20 Tons of TNT" (related to the calculation the pair had done which gave that as the amount of TNT per person on the planet at the time) provides food for thought, but little more.

Is this box set for everyone? No. Much of the humour both within and without the songs does require a bit of background knowledge to what was going on in Britain and Europe at the time (1960s), John Profumo is referenced a few times as well as Charles de Gaulle and the Common Market, while a smattering of classical music knowledge can help out a bit with Swann's work and "Ill Wind". The fact that my grandfather (who's in his late 70s) recalls hearing these songs and laughing may give an indication as to the age of some of the subject matter. Equally the fact that "First and Second Law" references an awful lot of physics might do the same.

Nevertheless, for anyone who loves British humour done in a gentle manner or who is interested in the source of "mud mud glorious mud/nothing quite like it for cooling the blood", give these CDs some serious consideration.

Gentle Satire.......2002-04-03

Here are some samples of Michael's verbal wit.

Wordplay:
- "A Transport of Delight," their song of the pleasures of the double-decker bus "has recently been adopted as the theme song of the Underground resistance movement."
- Speculating that Henry VIII wrote Greensleeves: "and the royalties go to royalty."
- About a tennis referee late in the day: "the umpire upon whom the sun never sets."
- Explaining how he was hoisted in his wheelchair onto airliners by a fork lift: "Why they need a great machine like that to lift forks I do not know. Well, they're only plastic, now, aren't they?"
- On status symbols: "The object is to Gunga Din your neighbor: 'I'm a better man than you' is the acid test," and, "let's bang our status cymbals with the best."
- To a disenchanted cannibal: "You used to be a regular anthropophagi."
- Of a lecher: "And he said as he hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar, and the lamps," while the girl "lowered her standards by raising her glass, her courage, her eyes, and his hopes."
- At the corrida d'olivas (the Andorran festival of olive stuffing, not to be confused with the Spanish corrida de toros, or bullfight): "And a great cry goes up of Ole! He has made an 'ol."
- "It's no good going up to a scientist and saying to him like you would to anybody else, 'Good morning, how are you, lend me a quid, and so on.' He'll just glare at you, or make a rude retort."

Throw-aways
- During the height of the cold war the Soviet Union sent the Moscow Ballet on a world tour. Donald sang one chorus of the Hippopotamus Song "mud, mud, glorious mud - nothing quite like it for cooling the blood" in Russian. Michael: "That should improve our cultural relations."
- During the 1963 Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keeler scandal: "None of that going around saying no smoke without fire. Nil cumbustibus, Profumo." Also, from "Friendly Duet," "such models of friendship are precious and rare, while the friendship of models is not."
- "Now if you're writing a musical, as I'm sure practically all of you are, . . ."
- Of Donald: "You know that no one has a higher regard for your music . . . than you do yourself. I merely meant that you are not great because you are not dead. If you wish to be great you must stop composing and start decomposing."
- "We never found a rhyme for (Soviet Premier Nikita) "Kruschev" until he was dead: Did he die or was he "pushed off"?"
- "We spent two dreadful, uh, delightful years, entertaining the Americans whose need, let's face it, is greater even than yours. Of course, when we're over there we say that the other way 'round."
- "No matter what you may say about the Germans, and who doesn't . . ."
- "Some of the songs that have made our names a household word, like slop-bucket . . ."
- "They've started testing cars now. They started at 10 years, then 5, now three. There's even some talk of having them tested before they leave the factory."

Absurdities
- "I'm delirious about our new oven fitted with the eye-level grill. This means that without my having to bend down the hot fat can squirt straight into my eye."
- A spectator during the construction of Stonehenge: "So, it's not going to be lived in. Well, that's something anyway. So what is it, then? It's a what?! A calendar?! A bit big for a calendar isn't it? You'd look pretty foolish with that on your desk."
- "Donald knocked himself out this morning. Got one of those new pop-up toasters. Nasty things."

Incredible multiple rhymes:
- "The fair hippoptama he aimed to entice from her seat on her hilltop above, as she hadn't got a ma to give her advice, went tip-toeing down to her love."
- Of Josephine: "Nonsense, said Bonaparte. She lives on her own, apart, in her own apartment."
- "Oh let us be married if our parents don't mind. We'd be happy and inseparable. Inextricably entwined. We'd live happily every after, said the Honeysuckle to the Bindweed."
- "And you'll always see a single lace-less left-hand leather boot. A bootless British river bank's a shock. We leave them there at midnight, you can track a member's route by the alternating print of boot and sock."

Average customer rating: Warning: this CD is addictive Clever, but.... Bhosle, Pavrotti, Sinatra Cheap music I Think They Should Have Selected a More Contemporary Singer

You've Stolen My Heart: Songs from R.D. Burman's Bollywood Kronos Quartet , and Asha Bhosle Manufacturer: Nonesuch Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music India | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mugam Sayagi: Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh Best of Asha Bhosle: The Golden Voice of Bollywood Rise Dimanche a Bamako Kiran Ahluwalia ASIN: B0009X1PAM Release Date: 2005-08-23

Tracks:

1. Dum Maro Dum - Take Another Toke
2. Rishte Bante Hain - Relationships Grow Slowly
3. Mehbooba Mehbooba - Beloved, O Beloved
4. Ekta Deshlai Kathi Jwalao - Light a Match
5. Nodir Pare Utthchhe Dhnoa - Smoke Rises across the River
6. Koi Aaya Aane Bhi De - If People Come
7. Mera Kuchh Saaman - Some of My Things
8. Saajan Kahan Jaoongi Main - Beloved, Where Would I Go?
9. Piya Tu Ab To Aaja - Lover, Come to Me Now
10. Dhanno Ki Aankhon - In Dhanno's Eyes
11. Chura Liya Hai Tum Ne - You've Stolen My Heart
12. Saiyan Re Saiyan - My Lover Came Silently

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Customer Reviews:

Warning: this CD is addictive.......2007-01-12

Clever, but...........2006-04-07

Bhosle, Pavrotti, Sinatra.......2006-02-12

Cheap music.......2006-01-02

I Think They Should Have Selected a More Contemporary Singer.......2005-11-05

Average customer rating: great An American Treasure Gotta love it. Freight Train and other songs Move Over John Hurt

Freight Train And Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes Elizabeth Cotten Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Revival | Folk | Styles | Music Appalachian | North America | International | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Smithsonian Folkways Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Shake Sugaree One-Dime Blues Railroad Bill Etta Baker With Taj Mahal Live! ASIN: B000001DGA Release Date: 1992-02-14

Tracks:

1. Wilson Rag
2. Freight Train
3. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
4. I Don't Love Nobody
5. Aint' Got No Honey Baby Now
6. Graduation March
7. Honey Babe Your Papa Cares For You
8. Vastopol
9. a) Here Old Rattler Here
10. a) Run...Run
11. a) Sweet Bye and Bye
12. Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
13. Spanish Flang Dang
14. When I Get Home

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Freight Train includes guitar and banjo accompanied songs and tunes and features Mike Seeger's updated notes that include comments on Cotten's life, musical style, and song lyrics.

Customer Reviews:

great.......2007-07-12

An American Treasure.......2005-12-30

Gotta love it........2002-12-12

Freight Train and other songs.......2002-04-29

Move Over John Hurt.......2002-02-26

Cotten's completely "by ear" playing is among the most subtle and harmonically nuanced in "roots folk music". Strangely, she does not get anywhere near the attention of Mississipi John Hurt, though she is a far better and more interesting guitar player (this is not to knock John Hurt, who is also great.)

Cotten was able to pick up everything from blues, to ragtime, to the UNC "graduation march" just by listening. At risk of sounding cliched, I believe she was a genius who was never fully able to realize her potential. But at least we have these wonderful songs to give us a sense of it.

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Emperor Waltz Manufacturer: Delta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Josef Strauss | Strauss, Josef | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Rieu, Andre | ( R ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs Under $7 | Waltzes | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Waltzes | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Roses from the South Andre Rieu Collection (2 CD) The Vienna I Love, Waltzes From My Heart From Holland with Love: Waltzes I've Saved for You 100 Years of Strauss ASIN: B000021XYI Release Date: 2005-06-28

Tracks:

1. Enjoy Your Life, Waltz Op.340 - Norbert Neukamp, Andrieu, ,
2. Pleasure Train, Polka, Op.281 - Joseph Francek, Andrieu, ,
3. Emperor Waltz, Op.437 - Andrieu,
4. Eljen a Magyar, Polka, Op. 332 - Joseph Francek, Andrieu, ,
5. Wine, Women & Song, Waltz, Op.333 - Andrieu,
6. Egyptian March, Op. 335 - Norbert Neukamp, Andrieu, ,
7. Tales from the Vienna Woods, Waltz, Op.325 - Andrieu,
8. Bitte SchFrench Polka, Op.372 - Norbert Neukamp, Andrieu, ,
9. Morning Papers, Waltz, Op.271 - Joseph Francek, Andrieu, ,
10. Carefree, Polka, Op.114 - Andrieu,
11. Love Songs, Waltz, Op.114 - Joseph Francek, Andrieu, ,
12. Light Hearted, Polka, Op.319 - Joseph Francek, Andrieu, ,

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Sacred Songs & Spirituals Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Franck, César | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gounod | Gounod, Charles | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Gounod, Charles | C to G | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Franck, Cesar | C to G | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Schubert, Franz | Q to T | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anonymous | A to B | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Yon, Pietro | U to Z | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Norman, Jessye | Divas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: Amazing Grace: Jessye Norman Negro Spirituals - Derek Lee Ragin, Moses Hogan, Moses Hogan Richard Strauss Lieder Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit: Spirituals The Essential Leontyne Price: Spirituals, Hymns & Sacred Songs ASIN: B0007XZUF0 Release Date: 2005-05-10

Tracks:

1. Sanctus
2. Ave Maria, Op.52/6
3. Panis Angelicus
4. O Divine Redeemer
5. The Holy City
6. Amazon Grace
7. Greensleeves (What Child Is This)
8. Let Us Break Bread Together
9. I Wonder As I Wander
10. Sweet Little Jesus Boy
11. Gesu Bambino (When Blossoms Flowered)

Tracks:

1. I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
2. My Lord, What A Morning
3. Do Lawd, Oh Do Lawd
4. There's A Man Going Round - Jessye Norman
5. Ev'ry Time I Feel De Spirit - Dalton Baldwin
6. There Is A Balm In Gilead - Dalton Baldwin
7. Gospel Train - Dalton Baldwin
8. Great Day - Dalton Baldwin
9. Mary Had A Baby
10. Live A-Humble
11. Walk Together Children
12. Were You There - Jessye Norman
13. Hush! Somebody's Callin' My Name
14. Soon Ah Will Be Done
15. Give Me Jesus

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Blue River Train & Other Cowboy & Country Songs Carson Robison Manufacturer: Jasmine Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Old-Time Country | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Similar Items: Country Music's Yodelling Cowboy Crooner Volume 2 ASIN: B000QCQUCO Release Date: 2007-06-25

Tracks:

1. I Was Born In Old Wyoming
2. Just Break The News To Mother
3. Life Gets Tee-Jus Dont It
4. Naw I Dont Wanna Be Rich
5. Plain Talk
6. Nobodys Darling But Mine
7. The West Aint What It Used To Be
8. Ramblin Cowboy
9. Ninety Nine Years
10. The Runaway Train
11. Darling Nellie Gray
12. Home On The Range
13. Cowboy Yodelling Song
14. The Old Grey Mare Is Back Where She Used To Be
15. The Prison Fire
16. Aint Yer Coming Out Tonight?
17. Open Up Dem Pearly Gates
18. Wind In The Mountains
19. Way Out West In Kansas
20. Strawberry Roan
21. Rockin & Rollin With Grandmaw
22. In The Cumberland Mountains
23. When The Bloom Is On The Sage
24. Dont Let My Spurs Get Rusty While Im Gone
25. More N More Tee-Jus, Aint It?
26. Blue River Train

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25 Classic Train Songs: Songs of Rural America Various Artists Manufacturer: Rural Rhythm ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Bluegrass | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Bluegrass | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Bluegrass | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Folk General | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Folk General | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Country | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Great American Train Songs Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 1: Steel Rails Train 45: Railroad Songs Of The Early 1900s Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 2: Mystery Train ASIN: B0000950W2 Release Date: 2003-05-13

Tracks:

1. Kansas City Railroad Blues - Don Reno & Red Smiley With The Tennessee Cut-Ups (Featuring Buck Ryan)
2. Bringing In The Georgia Mail - Mac Wisman
3. Little John Henry - Hylo Brown
4. Ghost Train - Earl Taylor & Jim McCall With The Stoney Mountain Boys
5. New River Train - Jack Casey
6. East Bound Train - Jimm Greer & The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks
7. Train 45 - Log Cabin Boys
8. Waiting For A Train - 'Big' John DeMarcus
9. Nine Pound Hammer - Ernie & Mack With The Blue Grass Cut-Ups
10. Freight Train Blues - Hylo Brown & The Timberliners
11. Wreck Of The Old '97 - Earl Taylor & Jim McCall With The Stoney Mountain Boys
12. Lightning Express - Jimm Greg & The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks
13. Long Lost John - Curly Fox
14. Wabash Cannonball - Patsy Montana
15. 900 Miles - Red Smiley & The Bluegrass Cutups
16. K.C. Whistle - The Maggie Valley Country Singers
17. Engine No. 9 - James Wall
18. He's Coming To Us Dead - J.E. Mainer & The Mountaineers With Morris Herbert
19. Fireball Mail - Hylo Brown & The Bluegrass Cut-Ups
20. Blue Railroad Train - Roy Ross & His Blue Ridge Mountain Boys
21. Streamlined Cannonball - Lee Moore
22. Jesse James - Jim Greer & The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks
23. In The Pines - Red Smiley & The Bluegrass Cut-Ups
24. Bye Bye Black Smoke Choo Choo - Dick Unteed
25. Casey Jones - Frosty Mountain Boys With Raymond Fairchild

Average customer rating: Superb collection Boskovsky and the Strauss Family of Vienna. Strauss's Lover Must Own!!!!!

Strauss: Waltzes, Polkas & Marches Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Johann Strauss Sr. | Strauss Sr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Josef Strauss | Strauss, Josef | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | ( V ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Bargain Box Sets | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Grieg: Complete Music with Orchestra Schubert: The String Quartets Lehár: Waltzes Liszt: Piano Works Wagner: Lohengrin ASIN: B0000042GN Release Date: 1997-11-11

Tracks:

1. Walzer, Op. 314: An der schonen, blauen Donau
2. Polka schnell, Op. 373: Auf der Jagd
3. Walzer, Op. 410: Fuhlingsstimmen
4. Pizzicato-polka
5. Op. 335: Egyptischer Marsch
6. Op. 214: Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka
7. Op. 173: Dynamiden-Waltzer
8. Polka-Mazurka, Op. 144: Die Schwatzerin
9. Walzer, Op. 270: Carnavals Botschafter
10. Op. 117: Annen-Polka
11. Walzer, Op. 75: Fesche Geister
12. Polka schnell, Op. 278: Jokey Polka
13. Walzer, Op. 235: Spharenklange
14. Polka francaise, Op. 269: Feuerfest
15. Op. 29a: Wettrennen-Galop

Tracks:

1. Walzer, Op. 325: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald
2. Polka schnell, Op. 240: Eingesendet
3. Op. 228: Radetzky-Marsch
4. Op. 269: Demolirer-Polka
5. Walzer, Op. 367: Du und Du
6. Polka-Mazurka, Op.129: Brennende Liebe
7. Op. 433: Spanischer Marsch
8. Polka schnell, op.45: Bahn frei!
9. Walzer, Op.258: Aquarellen
10. Polka schnell, Op.393: St|rmisch in Lieb' und Tanz
11. Polka-Mazurka, Op.166: Frauenherz
12. Op. 411: Lagunen-Walzer
13. Polka francaise, Op. 235: Piefke un Pufke
14. Freuet euch des Lebens Walzer, op.340
15. Musikalischer Scherz, Op.257: Perpetuum mobile

Tracks:

1. Walzer, Op. 333: Wien, Weiss und Gesang
2. Polka francaise, Op. 336: Im Krapfenwaldl
3. Walzer, Op. 346: Tausend und ein Nacht
4. Op. 156: Napoleon Marsch
5. Walzer, Op. 364: Wo die Citronen blueh'n!
6. Polka-Mazurka, Op. 204: Die Libelle
7. Polka francaise, Op. 57: Moulinet
8. Walzer, Op. 443: Seid umschlungen, Millionen
9. Polka schnell, Op. 413: So angstlich sind wir nicht
10. Polka-Mazurka, Op. 315: Lob der frauen
11. Op. 43: Explosions Polka
12. Walzer, Op. 184: Transactionen
13. Polka francaise, Op. 281: Heiterer Mut
14. Op. 42: Sperl Galopp

Tracks:

1. Walzer, Op. 354: Wiener Blut
2. Op. 211: Champagner-Polka
3. Walzer, Op. 307: Wiener Bonbons
4. Op. 449: Neue Pizzicato-Polka
5. Walzer, Op. 114: Liebeslieder
6. Ungarische Polka schnell, Op. 332: Eljen a Magyar
7. Walzer, Op. 316: Krleben
8. Op. 378: Banditen-Galopp
9. Op. 426: Russischer Marsch
10. Polka schnell, Op. 324: Unter Donner und Blitz
11. Walzer, Op. 279: Morgenbler
12. Polka schnell, Op. 133: Auf Ferienreisen
13. Walzer, Op. 164: Dorfschwalben aus terreich
14. Op. 126: Kaiser Franz Joseph I. Rettungs-Jubel-Marsch

Tracks:

1. Walzer, Op. 388: Rosen aus dem S
2. Polka schnell, Op. 281: Vergnzug
3. Op. 437: Kaiserwalzer
4. Polka schnell, Op. 319: Leichtes Blut
5. Walzer, Op. 154: Loreley-Rhein-Kle
6. Polka, Op. 291: 'S gibt nur a Kaiserstadt, 's gibt nur a Wien !
7. Walzer, Op. 143: Schneeglhen
8. Polka-Mazurka, Op. 282: Die Emancipirte
9. Polka schnell, Op. 259: Mit Extrapost
10. Walzer, Op. 234: Accelerationen
11. Polka Francaise, Op. 372: Bitte Sch
12. Op. 289: Persischer Marsch
13. Walzer, Op. 212: Delirien
14. Op. 365: Tik-Tak-Polka

Tracks:

1. Op. 363: Fledermaus-Quadrille - Various Artists
2. Polka, Op. 271: Ohne Sorgen - Various Artists
3. Walzer, Op. 263: Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb und Lust - Various Artists
4. Op. 236: Orpheus-Quadrille - Various Artists
5. Polka, Op. 230: Im Fluge - Various Artists
6. Walzer, Op. 361: Bei uns z'Haus - Various Artists
7. Schutzen-Quadrille - Various Artists
8. Polka, Op. 241: Extempore - Various Artists
9. Walzer, Op. 390: Nordseebilder - Various Artists
10. Polka, Op. 241: Freikugeln - Various Artists
11. Walzer, Op. 101: Mephistos Hollenrufe - Various Artists
12. Marsch, Op. 478: Aufs Korn - Various Artists
13. Walzer, Op. 329: Erinnerung an Covent-Garden - Various Artists
14. Op. 152: Rudolfsheimer-Polka - Various Artists

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Customer Reviews:

Superb collection.......2006-03-07

Boskovsky and the Strauss Family of Vienna........2003-06-12

No combination has ever excelled Willi Boskovsky and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in performing this repertoire. Although the waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, marches and overtures were performed over and over again by these musicians, there is never a hint of workaday routine or staleness to be heard here. Everything seems to unfold naturally. Each item's inherent character is displayed. Tiny nuances and felicities of phrasing and a balance that favors the melody and reduces the accompaniment make these performances inimitable. The performance of "Morgenblätter" seems to provide a tad more excitement and impact than the other 85 items.

The recordings were made between 1960 and 1976. They are studio recordings, not deriving from the famous New Year concerts, and all but the few items from the very earliest year provide excellent sound.

Strauss's Lover Must Own!!!!!.......2001-10-09

Average customer rating: A Treasure For Parents & Toddlers Kids will love it, parents will love it My kid LOVES this CD. Yours will too!!! Songs relating to the lure and lore of trains

My Mama Was a Train Manufacturer: Rounder Select/Idn ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Come Ride Along with Me I Love Toy Trains - The Music! All Aboard! Animal Groove Lots & Lots of Trucks ASIN: B000063CEB Release Date: 2002-04-02

Tracks:

1. My Mama Was A Train
2. What Do You Hear?
3. That Little Red Caboose Behind The Train
4. Nine Hundred Miles
5. Counting Those Railroad Cars
6. Old Engine No. 9
7. Build A Bridge
8. Rock Island Line
9. Wabash Cannonball
10. New River Train
11. Im A Train
12. Casey Jones
13. Down At The Station
14. Little Red Caboose
15. Workin In The Railway Yard

Album Description

Customer Reviews:

A Treasure For Parents & Toddlers.......2004-07-15

At age 3, one grandson had all the songs memorized. This grandmother in her sixties provides all the grandchildren and their friends with this CD and the others in the collection. A mood lifter, an educational tool, an all around great CD for all ages. The musical arrangements are fantastic.

Kids will love it, parents will love it.......2004-03-07

My kid LOVES this CD. Yours will too!!!.......2003-03-07

So--when at the local library I spied this CD, I borrowed it. Oh my gosh. My son just LOVES this thing. Especially the songs with sound effects--but in other songs he hears the key words: train, railroad, etc. He is only 2 years old--so the focus of this CD on one subject, his favorite subject, helps him to appreciate all the songs--not just the ones with a whistle here, a bell there, etc.

Finally, I have to say that even I really like the CD. It is some old standards mixed with new songs--but almost always in a style that an adult can stand to listen to. Coffey has a nice voice--and he is not a gaggle of kids singing nursery rhymes. It is really a nice break from that kind of kids music CD. A couple songs are a bit new-Jazzy, and while not bad are just not MY cup of tea. But others include very tasteful folky sounding songs and some straight ahead foot-stomping real travelin' music, if ya know what I mean.

From 2 to 92 years old, nobody will be offended, and many will be happy to hear old favorites and tasteful music that kids (and big kids) who love trains will love. Buy this CD if your kid is into trains.

Songs relating to the lure and lore of trains.......2002-05-17

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