Wabash Cannonball (album)


Wabash Cannonball is an LP record album produced in 1977 by the National Geographic Society. The album was part of a series of sound recordings called "An American adventure" which also included "Barbershop Days", "Song of the Cumberland Gap in the days of Daniel Boone", "Westward Ho!", and "In the good old summertime".
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 "
  2. *Orange Blossom Special: Ervin T. Rouse
  3. "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"
  4. "John Henry"
  5. "Nine Hundred Miles"
  6. "Wandering"
  7. *Roger Bissell - String Quartet Arrangement
  8. "Big Rock Candy Mountain"

    Side Two

  9. "Wabash Cannonball"
  10. "Casey Jones"
  11. *Eddie Newton - Music
  12. "Rock Island Line"
  13. "Careless Love"
  14. "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
  15. *Harry Warren - Music
  16. "City of New Orleans"

    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"