Train songs update

Artist: David A. Oram

Oh, wow. I owe an enormous thank you to all the nice people who sent train songs my way since I put out the appeal earlier this week. I have 80 tracks at this point. My dad's going to be thrilled (and a little overwhelmed). If you're curious to see what I've collected, here's the list. And if you're one of the people who contributed songs, feel free to email me for a track or two.

They're all fantastic, but these are a couple favorites from my collection and reader's contributions:

I Hate That Train They Call the M&O - Lucille Bogan

Devils Train - Crooked Fingers

Yonder Comes a Freight Train - Laura Cantrell

Train Ride in G - Mason Williams

Truck Train Tractor - The Pastels

Waiting On a Train - Steve Forbert

Betting On Trains - Hem

This Train - The Staple Singers

Train to Rainbow City - The Pyramids

I was so intrigued by that Pyramids song, I did a little digging on the band. Didn't find a lot, except that they were a British ska act of the late 60s that once played back-up to Prince Buster. Eddy Grant produced " Train to Rainbow City," which was apparently The Pyramids' only (UK) charting song. There's a little more information at this blog.

Also check out the train songs currently hosted by other mp3 blogs (but hustle--not sure how long they'll be up):

The Caboose of Train Songs - Dave Lang's Big Mountain Indian Plain at Songs: Illinois
Seat On This Train - Tom Freund at Puddlegum
The Train Song - Elsie & Gene Jaggers at The Record Robot
The Train Singer's Song - The Band of Blacky Ranchette at Big Rock Candy Mountain
Two from Norman Blake at Old Blue Bus