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A slave since birth, Harriet Tubman escapes slavery for the first time from a plantation in Poplar Neck, Caroline County, Maryland, USA. She will be recaptured but will escape again making use of a secret network known as The Underground Railroad or The Freedom Train, which helped slaves escape to the Northern states. Harriet Tubman would make over 19 trips back South to help others escape and her 1987 biography was titled Freedom Train. The hope and succour
provided by the Underground Railway will inspire the musical Freedom Train, and numerous songs, including The Ballad Of The Underground Railroad, by Charles L. Blockson, best-known in a version peformed by the actor Danny Glover. The metaphor of the Freedom Train will also be widely adapted and adopted during in the civil rights stuggle of the 1960s, in such songs as People Get Ready [1965] by Curtis Mayfield And The
Impressions and Freedom Train [1969] by James Carr. There is also a compilation LP, Steal Away : Songs of
the Underground Railroad by Kim and Reggie Harris.
The American Quartet records Night Trip To Buffalo for Victor Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Reverend J.M. Gates records a sermon, Death's Black Train Is Coming, accompanied by female singers, for Columbia Records in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Baker record The Newmarket Wreck for Vocalion Records in Bristol, Tennessee, USA, based on a horrific real-life train crash which took place on the Southern Railroad in 1904.
Pioneering country-blues guitarist Sylvester Weaver records Devil Blues, Railroad Porter Blues, Polecat Blues and Rockpile Blues for Okeh Records in New York City, USA.
Bukka White records The Panama Limited and New 'Frisco Train for Victor Records in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Andy Parker And The Plainsmen record Sierra Sue, Steamboat Bill, Empty Saddles, Wabash Cannonball, Twilight On The Trail and other tracks for Capitol Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Mary DeLoatch records The Lord's Gospel Train, It's Safe To Trust Him, Rumors Of War, Life Was A Burden, Shine Like A Rainbow and Listen To The Gossip for Savoy Records in New York City, USA.
The Maddox Brothers And Rose record I'd Rather Die Young [Than Grow Old Without You], These Wasted Years, The Nightingale Song and I'm A Little Red Caboose [On The Choo Choo Train Of Love] for Columbia Records in the USA.
The Gil Melle Quintet record Life Begins At Midnight, Night Train To Wildwood and other tracks for Blue Note Records at Van Gelder Studios, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA.
Ricky Nelson sings Glory Train in an episode of US tv series The Adventures of Ozzie And Harriet.
Little Jimmy Dickens records Night Train To Memphis, The Violet And A Rose and Out Behind The Barn in Bradley Film And Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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Maphis And Rose
Lee Maphis record Lonesome Train Boogie, There'll Come A Time, Speak To Me Little Darlin' and Picture On The Wall at Capitol
Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, California, USA.
Johnny Cash records Peace In The Valley, Waiting For A Train and Casey Jones for Columbia Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Mississippi John Hurt records 39 songs including new versions of Trouble I've Had It All My Days, Talking Casey Jones and Pera-Lee in The Coolidge Auditorium at The Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.
After four consecutive Top 5 singles, Mule Train by Frank Ifield enters the UK chart where it will peak at a disappointing No22.
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Roger Miller records King Of The Road for Smash Records, in their Quonset Hut studio in Music Row, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Roger Miller enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with King Of The Road, which will peak at No4.
Country music guitarist and singer/songwriter Elton Britt records Heart Of A Clown, Bluebird Yodel, New Freight Train Blues, The Singing Hills and other tracks in Bell Sound Studios, 237 West 54th Street,New York City, USA.
In Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA, Jan Berry of Jan And Dean breaks his leg when a train hits a camera car on the fourth day of filming the movie Easy Come, Easy Go. Seventeen crew members are injured, and the movie is cancelled.
UK soul/r'n'b band Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers record Waitin' At The Station at Abbey Road, London, England, UK.
Roy Orbison records The Loner, This Is My Land, A New Star, Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart and other tracks in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Railroad Record Club in the USA releases a set of three 12" discs, lasting for two hours at 33 1/3rpm, as Special Pressing number 4. The discs record the complete run of interurban train No. 108 from Chicago, Illinois, to South Bend, Indiana.
The Graham Bond Organisation play at Klook's Kleek, Railway Hotel, Hampstead, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Band record In A Station in the USA. It will appear on their debut album, Music From Big Pink.
The highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, is Choo Choo Train by The Box Tops entering at No65.
Kaleidoscope and Sea Train play the first of six nights at The Ash Grove, Los Angeles, California, USA.Gene Harris And The Three Sounds record Put On Train and You Got To Play The Game for Blue Note Records at United Artists Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA. The rhythm track of Put On Train will 'inspire' the rhythm track of What Comes Around (1989) by The Beastie Boys.
The second Stiff Records UK package tour 'Be Stiff '78', begins its 2-week run, featuring Wreckless Eric, Jona Lewie, Rachel Sweet, Lene Lovich and Mickey Jupp. The 33-date tour is undertaken by specially chartered train, setting off from Olympia Station in London, England, UK, Europe, for the first gig of the tour in Bristol.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the tenth of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the eleventh of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the last of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the last of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, California, USA.
Steve Taylor of The Face magazine shares a compartment with Joe Strummer and his girlfriend Gaby Salter. on a boat train to Paris, France, Europe.
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David Bowie's schizophrenic half-brother, Terry Burnes, kills himself aged 47 by lying down on the railway lines at Coulsdon South station, London, England, UK, Europe. He is killed instantly by a passing train. Bowie refers to his half-brother in the line "a crack in the sky and a hand pointing down at me" in his song Oh, You Pretty Things.
The Mighty Lemon Drops play at Peacocks, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Railway Children.
Downtown Train, a Rod Stewart cover version of a Tom Waits’ song, peaks at No10 in the UK singles chart.
Regina Belle and Timmy Gatling appear on tv series Soul Train in Los Angeles, California, USA.
While Mary Chapin Carpenter is driving in her car on the first anniversary of 9/11, she hears one of the first responders tell a story on her car radio about how he felt that he and his co-responders hed somehow helped set free the spirits of people trapped in Ground Zero when the planes crashed. He also felt that some of those spirits had travelled with him to Grand Central Station, and caught their usual trains home. She is so moved by the story that she is inspired to write the song Grand Central Station.
It is reported that The Electric Ballroom, in Camden Town, London, England, UK, scheduled for demolition to make way for expansion of the local underground railway, has been spared following a public inquiry in which Bob Geldof, Nick Cave and other rockers spoke out for the venue.
Blur play their first comeback gig at the East Anglian Railway Museum, Colchester, UK. The venue was chosen because it was also the site of their first public performance in 1988.
A lawsuit filed in Chatham County State Court, Georgia, USA, by the parents of 27-year-old Sarah Jones, names Allman Brothers Band guitarist Gregg Allman and the producers of the movie Midnight Rider as being responsible for the death of their daughter, who was hit by a train on the first day of filming.
On his Purpose World Tour Justin Bieber plays at The Sleep Train Arena, Sacramento, California, USA.1849 |
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