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Special thanks to Gigi Erba for suggesting a pancocojams post on Louis Armstrong's version of "This Train".
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/08/sister-rosetta-tharpe-this-train-is.html for the closely related 2016 pancocojams post entitled "Sister Rosetta Tharpe - "This Train (Is Bound For Glory)" information, video, & lyrics".
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE SONG "THIS TRAIN IS BOUND FOR GLORY"
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Train
"This Train", also known as "This Train Is
Bound for Glory", is a traditional American gospel song first recorded in
1922. Although its origins are unknown, the song was relatively popular during
the 1920s as a religious tune, and it became a gospel hit in the late 1930s for
singer-guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe.[1] After switching from acoustic to
electric guitar, Tharpe released a more secular version of the song in the
early 1950s.
The song's popularity was also due in part to the influence of folklorists John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, who discovered the song while making field recordings in the American South in the early 1930s and included it in folk song anthologies that were published in 1934 and 1960. These anthologies brought the song to the attention of an even broader audience during the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.[2] Another song, called "The Crawdad Song", uses the same melody.
Early history
The earliest known example of "This Train" is a recording
by Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartette from 1922, under the title
"Dis Train".[3] Another one of the earliest recordings of the song is
the version made by Wood's Blind Jubilee Singers in August 1925 under the title
"This Train Is Bound for Glory". Between 1926 and 1931, three other
black religious groups recorded it. During a visit to the Parchman Farm state
penitentiary in Mississippi in 1933, Smithsonian Institution musicologist John
A. Lomax and his son Alan made a field recording of the song by black inmate
Walter McDonald. The next year the song found its way into print for the first
time in the Lomaxes' American Folk Songs and Ballads anthology and was
subsequently included in Alan Lomax's 1960 anthology Folk Songs of North America.[2]
In 1935, the first hillbilly recording of the song was released by Tennessee Ramblers as "Dis Train" in reference to the song's black roots.[2] Then in the late 1930s, after becoming the first black artist to sign with a major label, gospel singer and guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe recorded "This Train" as a hit for Decca. Her later version of the song, released by Decca in the early 1950s, featured Tharpe on electric guitar.
In 1955, the song, with altered lyrics, became a popular
single for blues singer-harmonica player Little Walter Jacobs as "My
Babe". This secular adaptation has since become a rock standard recorded
by many artists, including Dale Hawkins, Bo Diddley, Cliff Richard (three
times), and the Remains.”…
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LYRICS - "THIS TRAIN"
(as sung by Louis Armstrong) *
Choir: Whoohoo! Whoohoooo!! Woo! Hoohoo! Hoohoo! Hoowoohoo!woohoohoohooo!
This Train! All aboard!!
Lord, Lord
Soloist: This train dont carry no gamblers! This train!
Choir: This train!
Soloist: This train dont carry no gamblers! This train!
Choir: This train!
Soloist: This train don’t carry no gamblers, crap shooters and midnight ramblers!
Choir: Lord! Lord!!
Soloist: Lord! Lord!! This train!
Choir: This train!
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