who wrote the old folk song freight train?
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Freight Train (folk song) Freight Train (folk song) This article is about the song by Elizabeth Cotten. For the Nitro song, see Freight Train (Nitro song). Freight Train is an American folk song written by Elizabeth Cotten in the early 20th century, and popularized during the American folk revival and British skiffle period of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Old Crow Medicine Show Release Video for âSweet Amarillo,â Newest (Sort Of) Bob Dylan Cover “Wagon Wheel” was originally written and recorded by Dylan under the title “Rock Me Mama.” Old Crow Medicine Show recorded a new version of the song in 2004, with new verses written around Dylan’s original chorus; then Darius Rucker recorded a version and took it to the top of the country charts.
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- A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash Songfacts. 1  This was written by the multitalented Shel Silverstein, who later wrote several hits for Dr. Hook, including Sylvia's Mother and Cover Of The Rolling Stone.. 2  This is about a boy who grows up angry at his father not only for leaving his family, but for naming him Sue.
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Plain Brown Wrapper Plain Brown Wrapper. Plain Brown Wrapper is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Gary Morris. It was released in February 1987 as the second single and title track from the album Plain Brown Wrapper. The song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
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Ray Stevens: Live! Stevens wrote the lyrics and voiced the characters, and in 1969 Gitarzan became his first Top Ten pop hit in seven years. His follow-up, a version of the Coasters' Along Came Jones, reached the Top 30. Stevens also recorded Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down, a song by a young up-and-comer named Kris Kristofferson.
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All Along the Watchtower All Along the Watchtower  is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding, and it has been included on most of Dylan's subsequent greatest hits compilations.
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- Truckin%27 by Grateful Dead Songfacts. 1  The '60s was a time for traveling and discovering your place in the world. 2  Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir are the credited writers on this track along with their lyricist Robert Hunter.
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They Call the Wind Maria They Call the Wind Maria. They Call the Wind Maria is an American popular song with lyrics written by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe for their 1951 Broadway musical, Paint Your Wagon, which is set in the California Gold Rush. Rufus Smith originally sang the song on Broadway, and Joseph Leader was the original singer in London's West End.
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- Carry On Wayward Son. Carry On Wayward Son is a 1976 progressive rock song by Kansas on their 1976 album Leftoverture. It has been used in the last episode of each season, in the The Road So Far segment, apart from Season 1, in which it appeared in the penultimate episode, Salvation.
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- To help you, here is a list of ten of the most clever and witty songs of all time. This song is a Johnny Cash classic, even though it was written by Shel Silverstein. “A Boy Named Sue” is the tale of a man whose father named him Sue before taking off and leaving the family.
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The Monkees (Davy Jones) - The Last Train To Clarksville 45 rpm! Hart got the idea for the lyrics when he turned on the radio and heard the end of The Beatles  Paperback Writer .. He thought Paul McCartney was singing Take the last train, and decided to use the line when he found out McCartney was actually singing Paperback Writer..
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Who wrote the song Wagon Wheel? Making the world better, one answer at a time. Bob Dylan wrote the song to begin with but never finished it. I was an outtake for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. OLD CROW received credit for finishing the lyrics.
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Highwayman AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann. These old friends have appeared together in various combinations, but never as effectively as on the epic title song here, written by Jimmy Webb. And the rest of the record, including Guy Clark's Desperados Waiting for a Train and Woody Guthrie's Deportee, lives up to the leadoff hit. Highwayman.
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- Old Man by Neil Young Songfacts. 1  Young wrote this about the caretaker of the ranch he bought in 1970. The song compares a young man's life to an old man's and shows that the old man was once like this young man. 2  James Taylor is credited with playing guitar-banjo on this song.
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Train Movies & Railroad Films on DVD & Blu-ray It was, in fact, written in 1875 by one Thomas Paine Westendorf, an American of German descent, for his wife, Jenny. The song was written as a response to (and thus in a similar style as) the song Barney, Take Me Home Again, a popular song of the era.
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"Take the ""A"" Train" Take the 'A' Train was composed in 1939, after Ellington offered Strayhorn a job in his organization and gave him money to travel from Pittsburgh to New York City.
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- Who is the original singer of the song 500 Miles?  The song 500 Miles (aka Railroaders' Lament) is a folk song  that found fame a second time around during the folk revival of the  1960s. The modern version is credite…d to Hedy West with possible  co-writers being Curly Williams and John Phillips.
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All Along the Watchtower All Along the Watchtower is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding, and it has been included on most of Dylan's subsequent greatest hits compilations.
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How Bob Dylan Co-Wrote Darius Rucker's 'Wagon Wheel,' 40 Years Ago This time around, Dylan has a piece of the song from the get-go. Darius Rucker Making 'True Believers' With Country Music. Forty years ago, Dylan couldn't possibly have imagined he was working on a future hit song. His career had reached a low point after the commercial failures of 1970's Self Portrait and New Morning.
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- Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains were a nihilist drug punk band from southern Vermont. They didn't hop freight trains.... They did like to drink forties by the train tracks where the police wouldn't bother them.
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Boxcar Willie Eventually he realized that music was what he wanted to do with his life, and in 1976 he took a discharge from the Air Force. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and adopted the moniker Boxcar Willie based on a song he'd written in the mid-1960s. As Boxcar Willie, Martin took on the persona of an affable hobo, traveling the railways, singing a song. His costume consisted of scuffed shoes, a worn-out hat, patched overalls, and a scruffy beard. Over the years he had perfected his talent of being able to mimic the sound of a train whistle.
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Wagon Train The first season theme Wagon Train was written by Henri René and Bob Russell, and lyrics were not used. The theme was conducted by Revue musical director Stanley Wilson. In the second season, a new more modern sounding theme was introduced.
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- Ken had a wonderful voice, a true voice. He was just like a pitch pipe. (Bob Nolan) Old Trail from a cassette of chiefly Bob Nolan songs that Ken Curtis put together for P-Nuts, Bob's widow. Old Trail was written by Glenn Spencer. Ken Curtis (Curtis Wain Gates) was born to Daniel and Nellie Gates on July 2, 1916, on a homestead in southeastern Colorado.
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- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Whipping Post is a song by The Allman Brothers Band. Written by Gregg Allman, the five-minute studio version first appeared on their 1969 debut album The Allman Brothers Band.
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- Related Tags. Wichita Lineman is a popular song written by Jimmy Webb in 1968, first recorded by Glen Campbell and widely covered by other artists. Campbell's version, which appeared on his 1968 album of the same name, reached #3 on the U.S. pop chart, remaining in the Top 100 for 15 weeks.