Tag Archives: Train

Feb13

Love Is In Da Blog 2024 – Take the A Train

Posted on by
Standard

Love Is In Da Blog 2024 – Take the A Train

❤️

Day 13 Love Is In Da Blog Prompt

Today, Jim Adams is guest hosting this challenge until Bee returns. Thanks, Jim!

***

Every February there is a month long music challenge called “Love Is In Da Blog” It is hosted by Bee, at the above link. Check it out and join in! It’s fun.

The challenge is to find love songs, since February has Valentine’s Day. There are daily prompts we can use if we want to. This year we are to be featuring songs from black artists in honor of Black History Month.

❤️

***

13.2.2024 Find A Jazz Love Song By A Black musician

***

This is the Wiki article about this song. It has a very storied evolution which is interesting. It involves copyright problems they ran into, and how it was resolved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_the_%22A%22_Train

This song became Duke Ellington’s signature song, though it’s been recorded by others later on. This video shows the musicians in a train car playing their instruments, then the lady (I’m assuming a train employee) comes through and sings the song while dancing with the guys. They are promoting train travel.

Who knows if this is a love song, but it’s a peppy one and I like it. 🙂

***

“Take the A Train”, a jazz standard, was in this movie, “Reveille with Beverly”, in 1943. It was written by Billy Strayhorn for Duke Ellington and his orchestra, in 1939. Betty Roche is shown in the  movie singing this song.

***

***

Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2024 BS

Jan28

Hey Porter – Song Lyric Sunday – Jobs

Posted on by
Standard

Hey Porter – Song Lyric Sunday – Jobs

 

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is img_0257.jpg

Thanks to Jim Adams for hosting this musical challenge each week.

To join in today’s challenge, and also see other entries just click this link below:

This Job I Got

***

Today’s SLS we are to find songs about jobs people have. There sure are a lot to choose from and I looked around a bit, and went with this one. I like it and have heard it a lot, as we have a CD of his songs.

From a wiki article of what a Porter’s job consisted of on a train.

A porter was expected to greet passengers, carry baggage, make up the sleeping berths, serve food and drinks brought from the dining car, shine shoes, and keep the cars tidy. He needed to be available night and day to wait on the passengers.

***

Johnny Cash did mention that the song is about someone who has been away for quite awhile, and is finally getting to come home, and as he’s getting closer, he keeps talking to the Porter.

“Hey Porter” by Johnny Cash, was released as a single in 1955. It was written by Johnny Cash, and is on the Sun Records label.

***

Hey, Porter
Hey Porter
Would you tell me the time?
How much longer will it be
‘Til we cross that Mason Dixon Line?
At daylight would you tell that engineer to slow it down
Or better still, just stop the train
‘Cause I want to look around

Hey, Porter
Hey, Porter
What time did you say?
How much longer will it be
‘Til I can see the light of day?
When we hit Dixie will you tell that engineer to ring his bell
And ask everybody that ain’t asleep to stand right up and yell

Hey, Porter
Hey, Porter
It’s getting light outside
This old train is puffin’ smoke and I have to strain my eyes
But ask that engineer if he will blow his whistle please
‘Cause I smell frost on cotton leaves
And I feel that Southern breeze

Hey, Porter
Hey, Porter
Please get my bags for me
I need nobody to tell me now that we’re in Tennessee
Go tell that engineer to make that lonesome whistle scream
We’re not so far from home so take it easy on the steam

Hey, Porter
Hey, Porter
Please open up the door
When they stop this train I’m gonna get off first
‘Cause I can’t wait no more
Tell that engineer I say,
Thanks a lot and I didn’t mind the fare
I’m gonna set my feet on Southern soil
And breathe that Southern air

 

***

Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2024 BS

Jan4

Just Jot It January 2024 # 1 – Train

Posted on by
Standard

Just Jot It January # 1 – Train 

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 1st, 2024

***

Once again we start the new year off with this fun challenge from Linda G. Hill. Thanks so much for bringig it back! 🙂

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 1st 2024, is “train.” Use it as a noun or a verb, use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

***

Train is the word for today. I first have to ‘train’ my fingers to type 2024! It’s automatic to type 2023 after a year of doing it. I’m sure by the end of this new year I’ll have trained my fingers to do it easily!

Now, for actual trains. How can I not mention Sheldon, of “The Big Bang Theory” TV show. He is obsessed with trains.

I’ve been on a train a few times, though we don’t have any passenger trains here where I live. I think they used to. I remember a field trip at school when we as a class got on a train here and went to the next little town a few miles away, then just came back. whoop de de  – haha.

Then we rode the train while we lived in Japan. Also the subway which was very new to us!

I remember most riding the train in Germany. The train stop ? was not far from our apartment, so I’d walk over there and take the train in to Nuremberg. By myself! Fun! We also had traveled on the train from Frankfurt to Furth/Nuremberg.

There is an old steam train engine here at a museum. We’ve been on it a few times, just to look inside. It’s huge! Here’s a photo of a friend of ours beside that museum one. There’s a railroad crossing sign, too.

IMG_3284

***

***

“Train Train”, by Blackfoot, is on their studio album, “Strikes”, released in 1979. It was written by Shorty Medlocke, and is on the Atco label. The song “Train, Train“, written by Rickey’s grandfather, “Shorty” Medlocke, became their first success and best known song.

***

***

 

***

Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2024 BS

Jul17

House # 17

Posted on by
Standard

House # 17

***

This is the next house we moved to. It was in Sinton, in south Texas. It is 16 miles from Corpus Christie TX and the Gulf of Mexico and the beaches.

Basically this house was a trailer house, but permanently settled. It had two bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room, and a laundry room. It was okay, and I guess we lived there at least a year.

The Mr. had been assigned to running the Army Reserve Center there.

The second photo shows the back of the house (the first one I googled the address).

We had a huge banana tree in the back yard, and also a peach tree. That was so fun picking bananas from the tree each morning to have with our cereal. One time the Mr. brought in a bunch and a long green snake fell out into the kitchen floor. Well, me and the girls screamed and ran! haha 🙂

We’d also see roadrunners in the back yard, and the railroad tracks were pretty close behind our house, too. The girls would wave to the engineer and conductor when it passed by.

And … there were hobos! Hobos would jump off the train and come to the back door to ask for food. I’d make them a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and they’d be very grateful and be on their way.

I also had my first encounter with fire ants! They were everywhere, and man can they bite! You had to be careful of where you were standing, because they’d swarm up your feet and legs and latch on. Very painful!

We also had to get ready for a hurricane that was possibly going to come to Corpus Christi. Being so close to the coast even we had to prepare. We were lucky though, as it veered another direction and didn’t hit us. I think it came ashore more toward Houston that time.

Oh, another thing … we had some furniture with us this time. We had the same big old couch, a coffee table, and a rocking chair that used to belong to my mom & dad. We had a nice refrigerator, and beds for everyone. Yay! The only thing we didn’t have was a stove, but though one came with this rent house, it didn’t work at all. The landlord kept saying he’d get us another one, but it took forever, like right before we moved again, we finally got a working one.

So, I had to cook everything in the microwave. It worked out pretty good though. We did have an electric popcorn popper  – a stir crazy – that had a heated place, so I’d fry eggs on there, or make pancakes on it. So weird, but it worked.

First photo is the front of the house (I googled to find it, as I didn’t have a photo)

Second photo I took of the back of the house showing the big banana tree that was taller than the house. There came a freak freeze in the winter and it destroyed the banana tree. So sad.

***

Next up we get government housing again in Beeville TX (still in south Texas)

***

Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2021 BS