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"Stop That Train" is a 1965 ska song by Jamaican band The Spanishtonians (also known as the Spanish Town Skabeats), that has been covered and sampled by numerous artists. Its most famous cover was its first, a 1967 cover by Keith & Tex .
"Stop That Train", a 1991 single by Vanilla Ice that samples the Keith & Tex version "Stop That Train", a 1970 song by Peter Tosh , recorded with the Wailers on The Best of the Wailers (1971) and Catch a Fire (1973), and by Tosh again on Mama Africa (1983)
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
Clint Eastwood & General Saint were a reggae deejay duo of the early 1980s, consisting of Clint Eastwood (born Robert Anthony Brammer) [1] and General Saint (born Winston Hislop).
"The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore" is a ballad written and released by Jean Ritchie in 1965. Though Jean Ritchie typically eschewed controversial topics, the subject of impoverishing coal miners was touchy enough for the musician that she originally released "L&N" [ 1 ] in 1965 under her maternal grandfather's name, Than Hall.
FILE - Simona Halep, of Romania, returns a shot to Daria Snigur, of Ukraine, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Aug. 29, 2022, in New York.
Retail reading. The final monthly retail sales report before the start of the holiday shopping season is set for release on Thursday. Economists estimate retail sales increased 0.3% over the prior ...
"Casey Jones" is about a railroad engineer who is on the verge of a train wreck due to his train going too fast, a sleeping switch man, and another train being on the same track and headed for him. Jones is described as being "high on cocaine " (the song even makes a double entendre of advising Jones to "watch his speed").