Friday, 17 November 2017

"Choo Choo Bop" (Buffalo Bop 55152)

The railroad is an endless source of musical inspiration in American vernacular music and this is Buffalo Bop's second compilation of rockabilly and rocking country songs on the subject (the first is Buffalo Bop 55012 "Hobo Bob") and is a winner…...It opens with R&B singer Lloyd George's rocking down home blues with harmonica Come On Train and swiftly charges into rocking hillbilly in Clyde Arnold's Black Smoke & Blue Tears and continues on with Phil Bo's bluesy Mr. Train. There are a few big names - Johnny Cash with Hey, Porter and Blue Train, Bill Haley with a version of Chattanooga Choo Choo and Harold Jenkins (aka Conway Twitty) with his great early recording Long Black Train. Norman Sullivan does a great cover of Cash's Folsom Prison Blues, there are a couple of fine unissued Sun cuts from O.C. Holt and Warne Perdie and Larry Harvey and Johnny Six do uncanny imitations of Hank Snow on their cuts. Lots more fine stuff from Ken Patrick, Benny Martin, Eddie Bond, Tommy Faile, Ray Scott and others and the set ends with actual train sounds. Excellent sound and booklet has artist photos and label shots. (Frank Scott, Roots & Rhythm)

trax:
1. Come On Train - Lloyd George 2. Black Smoke And Blue Tears - Clyde Arnold 3. Mr. Train - Phil Bo 4. Night Train - Ken Patrick 5. Denver - Part I - Bob Ayres & The Secret 6. Hobo - Benny Martin 7. Long, Long Train - Bill Mack 8. Here Comes The Train - Eddie Bond 9. Railroad Crossing - Cliff Shepherd 10. Rolling Home - Larry Harvey 11. Big Train - Tommy Faile 12. Hey, Porter - Johnny Cash 13. Folsom Prison - Norman Sullivan 14. Mail Train - Billy Joe Tucker 15. The Train Done Gone - Ray Scott 16. Boxcar Willie - Marty Martin & The Rangers 17. Wreck Of Ol' Number Nine - Gene Parson 18. This Train - O. C. Holt 19. Train Of Memories - Wayne Perdle 20. Blue Train - Johnny Cash 21. Freight Train - Rusty Draper 22. Chattanooga Choo Choo - Bill Haley 23. Honky Tonk Train - Jack Melick & The Gamblers 24. Choo Choo Ch' Boogie - Leon Mcauliff 25. Black Train - Rudy Thacker & The Stringbusters (Vocal Larry Dale) 26. Long Black Train - Harold Jenkins 27. The Tennesseean Rollin' Rollin' Home - Johnny Six 28. Goin' Back To Dixie - Wayne Busby 29. Bye Bye Baby (Movin Down The Line) - Wally Hughes 30. Train Sounds (From Start To Stop) - No Artists 31. Express Train (Start, Run, Stop) - No Artists
…served by Gyro1966...

18 comments:

RYP said...
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Anonymous said...

Thank you for posting! But what about "Skippin' Along" (Bb-CD 55151)? Or maybe you skipped it along intentionally? ))

Anonymous said...

It's a good day when I get to help by creating Vol 2 of the Pacific Northwest Rock & now as a reward I get one of my missing B Bop @320. Thanks to Gyro & RYP

Gyro1966 said...

I have that one - I'll be sure to include it - maybe I accidentally skipped it on the shelf.

Anonymous said...

By the way, unfortunately there are two tracks missing: #30, #31

RYP said...

Here are the two missing trax:
30. Train Sounds (From Start To Stop) - No Artists
31. Express Train (Start, Run, Stop) - No Artists

http://www21.zippyshare.com/v/04ZPhmjb/file.html

des said...

Thank you for another BB vol.

Days of the Broken Arrows said...

Been wanting to hear this one a while -- thanks!

Gyro1966 said...

I omitted these two tracks because they are just train sounds. I can't imagine ever wanting to listen to train sounds.

RYP said...

Among other things, that was the sound of my childhood! : )

rontokyo said...

I may have been asleep at the wheel and missed these prior to the recently posted Candy Doll:

55147 Rockabilly Boogie
55148 Steppin
55149 Rumble Rock

Or maybe they also were skipped? In any event, many thanks for all your efforts!!

rontokyo said...

This may have been posted before, but here's a link to the entire [?] collection, complete with cover pick and track listings for each:
http://www.dee-jay-records.de/Coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=2&page=1

Anonymous said...

I won't play these two tracks in my playlists, but they are part of album concept and should be included in the album folder.

Anonymous said...

@rontokyo these catalogue numbers were skipped in 2001 by Buffalo Bop themselves, and were used ten years later in 2011

rontokyo said...

Thanks. That explains it.

D said...

would you mind a re-up?
thanks

RYP said...

NEW LINK:

"Choo Choo Bop"
gitit! no pw
https://workupload.com/file/DLhNxNJPwXA

D said...

bless your soul, thanks for Choo Choo Bop ;O)