Bill Haley & His Comets released a cover of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" as a 45 single on Essex Records in 1954.
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Carmen Miranda recorded a cover on July 25, 1942, and sang it in the movie Springtime in the Rockies.Cab Calloway and His Orchestra recorded a cover version of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for Conqueror Records in 1941.The song has been recorded by numerous artists, including Taco, Beegie Adair, the Andrews Sisters, Ray Anthony, Asleep at the Wheel, BBC Big Band, George Benson, John Bunch, Caravelli, Regina Carter, Ray Charles, Harry Connick Jr., Ray Conniff, John Denver, Ernie Fields, Stéphane Grappelli and Marc Fosset, John Hammond Jr., the Harmonizing Four, Harmony Grass, Ted Heath, Betty Johnson, Susannah McCorkle, Ray McKinley, Big Miller, the Muppets, Richard Perlmutter, Oscar Peterson, Spike Robinson, Harry Roy, Jan Savitt, Hank Snow, Teddy Stauffer, Dave Taylor, Claude Thornhill, the Tornados, Vox and Guy Van Duser. They passed through western Virginia directly to East Tennessee. "Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer than to have your ham 'n' eggs in Carolina", but none of these three trains passed through the Carolinas."You leave the Pennsylvania station 'bout a quarter to four", but The Birmingham Special departed at 12:30 p.m.At the time, the facility only had 21 tracks. The train is described as departing from Track 29 in Pennsylvania Station.The Southern Railway operated these trains in cooperation with the Norfolk and Western Railway and the Pennsylvania Railroad.ĭetails in the song do not align with The Birmingham Special, however, which suggests that the writers took some artistic license. The Tennessean continued to Memphis while the Pelican continued to New Orleans via Birmingham. This was one of three trains operating from New York City via Chattanooga. The song was written by the team of Mack Gordon and Harry Warren, allegedly while traveling on the Southern Railway's Birmingham Special train. Terminal Station in Chattanooga, now known as the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel In 1996, the 1941 recording of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The song achieved its success that year even though it could not be heard on network radio for much of 1941 due to the ASCAP boycott.
The composition was nominated for an Academy Award in 1941 for Best Song from a movie.
In the early 1990s a two-channel recording of a portion of the Sun Valley Serenade soundtrack was discovered, allowing reconstruction of a true- stereo version of the film performance. The transcription of this award ceremony can be heard on the first of three volumes of RCA's "Legendary Performer" compilations released by RCA in the 1970s. The 78-rpm was recorded on May 7, 1941, for RCA Victor's Bluebird label and became the first to be certified a gold disc on February 10, 1942, for 1,200,000 sales. After the entire song is sung, the band plays two parts of the main melody as an instrumental, with the instruments imitating the "WHOO WHOO" of the train as the song ends. He mentions a woman he knew from an earlier time in his life, who will be waiting for him at the station and with whom he plans to settle down for good. The singer describes the train's route, originating from Pennsylvania Station in New York and running through Baltimore to North Carolina before reaching Terminal Station in Chattanooga. "Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?" "Yes, yes, Track 29!" "Boy, you can give me a shine." "Can you afford to board the Chattanooga Choo Choo?" "I've got my fare, and just a trifle to spare."
The main song opens with a dialog between a passenger and a shoeshine boy: This is followed by the vocal introduction of four lines before the main part of the song is heard. The song opens up with the band, sounding like a train rolling out of the station, complete with the trumpets and trombones imitating a train whistle, before the instrumental portion comes in playing two parts of the main melody. The flip side of the single was " I Know Why (And So Do You)", which was the A side. 1 for nine weeks on the Billboard Best Sellers chart. 1 song across the United States on December 7, 1941, and remained at No. The Glenn Miller recording, RCA Bluebird B-11230-B, became the No. The song was an extended production number in the 20th Century Fox film Sun Valley Serenade. It was the first song to receive a gold record, presented by RCA Victor in 1942, for sales of 1.2 million copies. It was originally recorded as a big band/ swing tune by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra and featured in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade. " Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and composed by Harry Warren. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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