Wabash Cannonball (album)

Wabash Cannonball
Compilation album by Various
Released 1977
Genre Folk
Label National Geographic Society
Producer Randolph Hilman - Associate Producer

Wabash Cannonball is an LP record album produced in 1977 by the National Geographic Society.[1] The album was part of a series of sound recordings called "An American adventure" which also included "Barbershop Days" (1977), "Song of the Cumberland Gap in the days of Daniel Boone" (1977), "Westward Ho!" (1977), and "In the good old summertime" (1979).

The music on Wabash Cannonball is principally American folk songs and popular music about railroads and trains.

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Gandy Dancers' Medley (Lining Calls/Orange Blossom Special/She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain)"
  2. "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"
  3. "John Henry"
  4. "Nine Hundred Miles"
  5. "Wandering"
    • Roger Bissell - String Quartet Arrangement
  6. "Big Rock Candy Mountain"

Side Two

  1. "Wabash Cannonball" (J. A. Roff)
  2. "Casey Jones" (T. Lawrence Seibert)
    • Eddie Newton - Music
  3. "Rock Island Line"
  4. "Careless Love"
  5. "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Mack Gordon)
  6. "City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman)

Personnel

Note: Due to the various artists employed in the making of this album and the shift of artists between instruments and vocals, the credits for each track have been listed individually instead of providing a single summary.

"Lining Calls"

"Orange Blossom Special"

"Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"

"John Henry"

"Nine Hundred Miles"

"Wandering"

"Big Rock Candy Mountain"

"Wabash Cannonball"

"Casey Jones"

"Rock Island Line"

"Careless Love"

"Chattanooga Choo Choo"

"City of New Orleans"

References

  1. ↑ "Wabash Cannonball". National Geographic Society. 1977. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
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