Post by theblackferret on Dec 15, 2014 10:01:42 GMT
DAY ONE
1. I’m sittin’ in the railway station, got a ticket for my destination
1966 ORIGINAL
HOMEWARD BOUND-SIMON & GARFUNKEL
2. I’ll be loaded like a freight train, flyin’ like an aeroplane
1987 ORIGINAL
NIGHT TRAIN-GUNS N' ROSES
3. And at dead of night the whistle blows, and people hear she’s running still
1975 ORIGINAL
SPANISH TRAIN-CHRIS DE BURGH
4. Train I ride 16 coaches long, well that long black train, got my baby and gone
1953 US ORIGINAL
MYSTERY TRAIN-JUNIOR PARKER
5. We’ll have one more night together, til the morning brings my train
1966 ORIGINAL
LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE-THE MONKEES
BONUS ROUND
1.Which station commemorates the writing of song 1 with a plaque?
WIDNES(Liverpool-bound platform)
2.Name the only act to make the UK top 30 chart with a recording of song 4.
ELVIS PRESLEY(Number 25 in 1957)
DAY TWO
1. I hear the train a-coming, it’s rolling round the bend
1956 ORIGINAL
FOLSOM PRISON BLUES-JOHNNY CASH
2. The distant echo of faraway voices boarding faraway trains
1978 ORIGINAL
DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT-THE JAM
3. Then I broke loose, you weren’t around
So I raised banks and trains until I tracked you down
1984 ORIGINAL
LOOK AWAY-BIG COUNTRY
4. Oh the engineers used to see him sitting in the shade,
Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made
1958 ORIGINAL
JOHNNY B GOODE-CHUCK BERRY
5. You can’t jump a jet plane, like you can a freight train, so I’d best be on my way in
1966 VERSION BY THE ACTUAL SONGWRITER.
EARLY MORNING RAIN-GORDON LIGHTFOOT
BONUS ROUND
1. Artists 3’s first album contained which single with a promotional video shot on a preserved railway?
FIELDS OF FIRE(From The Crossing album)
2. Song 5’s been recorded by a lot of people-name the LP’s on which Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley & Jerry Lee Lewis released their versions.
BOB DYLAN ON SELF PORTRAIT, ELVIS PRESLEY ON ELVIS NOW & JERRY LEE LEWIS ON THE SESSION
DAY THREE
1. I really wanna be with you, Let the music play on down the line tonight
1979 ORIGINAL
LAST TRAIN TO LONDON-ELO
2. Oh, you railway station, oh, you Pullman train
1961 UK ARTISTS
PASADENA-THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN
3. If you miss the one, you’ll never get another one
1957 ORIGINAL
LAST TRAIN TO SAN FERNANDO-JOHNNY DUNCAN & THE BLUEGRASS BOYS
4. Yes and here, right here, between the moonlight and the lane,
Between the tunnel and the train
1970 ORIGINAL
LOVE CALLS YOU BY YOUR NAME-LEONARD COHEN
5. I’m gonna cry cry cry til the end of the line
1984 UK ARTISTS
DOWN IN THE SUBWAY-SOFT CELL
BONUS ROUND
1.In which year was song 2 originally written?
1923
2.Which 1958 classic song did the writer of song 5 also co-compose, and what is his real name?
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE(with Otis Blackwell), AND JACK HAMMER'S REAL NAME IS EARL BURROUGHS
DAY FOUR
1. You leave the Pennsylvania station ‘bout a quarter to four,
Read a magazine, and then you’re in Baltimore
1941 ORIGINAL
CHATTANOOGA CHOO-CHOO-GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA
2. On a railway train to anywhere, something happened finally
1969 ORIGINAL
STOP THIS TRAIN(AGAIN DOING IT)-KEVIN AYERS
3. Now it’s a mighty long way down the dusty trail
And the sun burns hot on the cold steel rails
1973 ORIGINAL
ALL THE WAY FROM MEMPHIS-MOTT THE HOOPLE
4. Tell you more lies than cross ties on the railroad, or stars in the sky
1951 US GROUP
ON TOP OF OLD SMOKEY-THE WEAVERS
5. Well, I got one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train,
I’m goin’ back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain
1964 UK GROUP
HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN-THE ANIMALS
BONUS ROUND
1.What record in US chart history did the group who cut song 4 set earlier in 1951-it has still not been surpassed?
MOST WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE ON BILLBOARD HOT 100(13 weeks)
2.Name the Detroit band who revived song 5 in 1970 & put it in both the UK & US top tens?
FRIJID PINK
DAY FIVE
1. Engineer blows the whistle loud and long, can’t stop the train, gotta let it roll on
1971 UK B-SIDE LIVE RECORDING IN LEEDS
LET IT ROCK-THE ROLLING STONES
2. You know, I thought it was a Streamline, but it was a B & O
1966 ORIGINAL
SO MANY ROADS-JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS-HOWEVER, THE ORIGINAL WAS ACTUALLY SO MANY ROADS, SO MANY TRAINS BY OTIS RUSH IN 1960-BOTH HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED. SORRY-I LOOKED AT THE WRONG SIDE OF THE DOUBLE A-SIDE MAYALL SINGLE FOR COMPOSING CREDITS WHEN SETTING THIS !!!
3. Oh how lonely I have been, but when that Santa Fe pulls in
1957 ORIGINAL
HOT DOG-ELVIS PRESLEY
4. And the steel rails are cold and hard
For the miles that they go down
1973 ORIGINAL
LONG TRAIN RUNNING-THE DOOBIE BROS
5. Going to Madrid from Lisbon, This train is a flying machine
1981 ORIGINAL
LUCITANIA EXPRESS-GILLAN
BONUS ROUND
1.Who is the lead guitarist on song 2?
PETER GREEN, before Fleetwood Mac began OR OTIS RUSH-SEE ABOVE. ANYONE WHO GOT CONFUSED & PUT SOMETHING WRONG INSTEAD OF OTIS RUSH GETS THE POINT ANYWAY.
2.In which 1957 film does song 3 feature?
LOVING YOU
DAY SIX
1. Well I might take a train, I might take a plane, but if I have to walk, I’m gonna get there just the same
1959 US #1 VERSION
KANSAS CITY-WILBERT HARRISON
2. Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows;
I walked into such a sad time at the station
1968 ORGINAL
WHITE ROOM-CREAM
3. When the train it left the station, there was two lights on behind
1937 US ORIGINAL
LOVE IN VAIN-ROBERT JOHNSON
4. The old home town looks the same, as I step down from the train
1966 UK CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1 VERSION
THE GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME-TOM JONES
5. She packed her bags, left me behind, she bought a ticket on the Central Line
1984 ORIGINAL
DOWNBOUND TRAIN-BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
BONUS ROUND
1.Under what alternative title was song 1 originally recorded in 1952, and by whom?
AS KC LOVIN' BY LITTLE WILLIE LITTEFIELD
2.The writer of song 3 also wrote and recorded artists 2’s perennial live finale number-which was?
CROSSROADS, (written as Crossroads Blues by Robert Johnson)
DAY SEVEN
1. And we are leaving on that train, and we will roam this land, where we
All will be free
1966 JAMAICAN ORIGINAL
THE TRAIN IS COMING-KEN BOOTHE
2. Oh, how the passengers shrieked with pain, they go to Satan to stop that train
1956 US B-SIDE
DOWNBOUND TRAIN-CHUCK BERRY
3. My baby takes the morning train
1981 ORIGINAL
NINE TO FIVE(aka MORNING TRAIN)-SHEENA EASTON
4. Old Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won’t stop going, no way to slow down
1971 ORIGINAL
LOCOMOTIVE BREATH-JETHRO TULL
5. That big eight wheeler a rollin' down the track
Means your true lovin' daddy ain't comin' back
1950 US ORIGINAL
I'M MOVIN' ON-HANK SNOW
BONUS ROUND
1.Which act recorded song 1 with the original artist in 1994 and which other act recorded it alone in 1998?
SHAGGY RECORDED IT WITH KEN BOOTHE, UB40 ON THEIR OWN
2.Who released song 5 on a 1965 live EP?
THE ROLLING STONES(On Got Live If You Want It)
DAY EIGHT
1. His boiler it was leaking, and its drivers on the bum
And his engine and its’ bearings, they were all out of plumb
1955 US RECORDING, WITH TITLE VARIATION
CASEY JONES(THE UNION SCAB)-PETE SEEGER
2. Third boxcar, midnight train, destination-Bangor,Maine
1965 ORIGINAL
KING OF THE ROAD-ROGER MILLER
3. Just a small town girl, livin’ in a lonely world,
She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
1981 ORIGINAL
DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'-JOURNEY
4. For they looked in the future and what did they see
They saw an iron road runnin’ from sea to the sea
1967 ORIGINAL
CANADIAN RAILROAD TRILOGY-GORDON LIGHTFOOT
5. Perfumed by a Nepal night, the express gets you there
1976 ORIGINAL
A PASSAGE TO BANGKOK-RUSH
BONUS ROUND
1.Where was the boy, the girl in song 3 is destined to meet later in the song, born and raised??
SOUTH DETROIT
2.Which album was song 5 on?
2112
DAY NINE
1. When I was a boy in the days of the train, I’d sit by the tracks on a long summer day
1966 ORIGINAL
RAILROAD SONG-JIM CROCE
2. You’d been to the station to meet every train, and you came home without Lili Marlene
1970 ORIGINAL
FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT-LEONARD COHEN
3. And all the trains that go through the tollgate, why, they gotta pay the man some money
1955 UK ARTIST
ROCK ISLAND LINE-LONNIE DONEGAN
4. Well you can’t say yes and you can’t say no, Just be right there when the whistle blows
1972 ORIGINAL
ALL DOWN THE LINE-THE ROLLING STONES
5. I caught a train, I met a dame: She was a hepster, and a real gone dame
1956 US CLASSIC VERSION
THE TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN'-THE JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO
BONUS ROUND
1.The artist who wrote/recorded song 2 has had books published,eg The Spice-Box of Earth, Flowers for
Hitler, The Favorite Game & Let us Compare Mythologies-which of these is odd one out and why?
THE FAVORITE GAME IS THE ODD ONE-A LEONARD COHEN NOVEL-THE OTHER THREE ARE VOLUMES OF HIS POETRY
2.Which guitar virtuoso recorded song 5 with 3 different group names-and what were the group names?
JIMMY PAGE, WITH THE YARDBIRDS, THEN THE NEW YARDBIRDS, THEN WITH THE SCOTTY McKAY QUINTET; AS IT SEEMS LIKELIEST THAT JIMMY PAGE SENT A TAPE OF HIS PLAYING FOR McKAY TO SPLICE INTO HIS 45, IT'S THEREFORE A MOOT POINT AS TO WHETHER JIMMY ACTUALLY RECORDED IT WITH HIM, BUT HE DID SEND THE TAPE VOLUNTARILY.
DAY TEN
1. Watch them run down to Platform 1, and the 8:30 train to
1967 ORIGINAL UK #2
MATTHEW AND SON-CAT STEVENS
2. Goodbye pretty mama, Lord, get yourself a money man
You take that midnight train to Memphis
1979 ORIGINAL
TRAIN TRAIN-BLACKFOOT
3. Don’t the brakeman look good, Mama, flagging down the Double E
1965 ORIGINAL
IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH, IT TAKES A TRAIN TO CRY-BOB DYLAN
4. Tell me how many coaches long,
Tell me when did the whistle blow
1990 ORIGINAL:B-SIDE
THE TRAIN SONG-NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
5. I don’t know what train he’s on, won’t you tell me where he’s gone?
1957 UK ACT
FREIGHT TRAIN-THE CHAS McDEVITT SKIFFLE GROUP FEATURING NANCY WHISKEY
BONUS ROUND
1.Which other two songs also written by artist 1 in 1967 were hits later that year for which two other acts?
HERE COMES MY BABY FOR THE TREMELOES AND THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST FOR PP ARNOLD
2.Of what single was song 4 the B-side?
THE SHIP SONG
Thanks for all the entries & I'll have the winners up (fairly) shortly.