[Phono-L] Looking for a 78 record.

[Dennis Back]

You got my curiosity up and I googled.  I found a version of "Riding on the Elevated Railroad" by Frankie Wallace.  There is an excerpt of it here:

http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=36054

It was played on the Dr. Demento radio show of Feb. 1, 2009.

http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo.pl?drd09.0201.html

You can purchase a download of the show for $2.00 here:

http://drdemento.com/online.html?c=e2&s=s

It was a show he did on the subject of trains.

I hope this was of some help to you....and hopefully it's the version you heard back in 1960 on the jukebox.

Dennis 

 
--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Tubanuts at aol.com <Tubanuts at aol.com> wrote:

From: Tubanuts at aol.com <Tubanuts at aol.com>
Subject: [Phono-L] Looking for a 78 record.
To: phono-l at oldcrank.org
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 9:22 PM

In 1960 a friend had restored a Wurlitzer model 1500 and invited me over to 
 see it.
The first record he played intrigued me with its lyrics and catchy  tune.
It was called "Riding on the Elevated Railroad".  I have looked for 50  
years for this tune again and just recently found the lyrics on a Google search 
 locating them on some forum. .........................