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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: Railroad songs
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 15:28:19 EST
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    For those who don't know, Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo-Choo
    was the recipient of the first "Gold Record" award ever.

The first award, yes, but the first record to sell a million copies was
recorded much earlier by Nick Larocca's Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
I think it was the 1918 cut of Tiger Rag, but I could be wrong there.

My current favorite train song is Choo Choo Ch'boogie, recorded by
Bill Haley and his Comets.