Chattanooga Choo Choo

Album: In the Mood (1941)
Charted: 1
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Harry Warren, Mack Gordon
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 8

  • Jwc from ChattanoogaWhere did you get this info? I'm trying to track(29) down the original source. "The ... train that inspired this song was a wood-burning steam locomotive ...that traveled from Cincinnati to Chattanooga - it was a newspaper reporter who dubbed it the "Chattanooga Choo Choo." That train ran on Mar. 8, 1880. The newspapers of both cities for Mar. 5-9 cover the event, but I did not see any Choo Choo reference.
  • Glenn Miller from Not Woke...awake!Hey Kevin Brown! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OdVYnnp0Uw
  • Kevin Brown from Seattle, WashingtonWhy is a song with a racist second verse so celebrated?
  • Joyce from ManassasHow many movies had the song Chattanooga Choo Choo sung in them?
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 6th 1968, Harpers Bizarre performed "Chattanooga Choo Choo" on the premiere episode of the ABC-TV program 'Happening '68'...
    The week before it was at #76 on the Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart and that was also its last week on the chart; it had entered the Top 100 on November 12th, 1967 at position #98, and on Dec. 10th, 1967 it peaked at #45 {for 2 weeks} and spent 7 weeks on the Top 100...
    {See other posts below}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 24th 1978, Tuxedo Junction performed "Chattanooga Choo Choo" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Two months earlier on April 16th, 1978 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #93; and on June 25th, 1978 it peaked at #32 (for 2 weeks) and spent 17 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #18 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 10th 1954, the movie "The Glenn Miller Story" starring James Stewart and June Allyson had its U.S.A. premier in New York City...
    "Chattanooga Choo Choo" was one of Glenn Miller's songs that was featured in the movie...
    The film received three Academy Award nominations; 'Best Screenplay', 'Best Musical Score, and won for 'Best Sound Recording'...
    On March 7th, 1954 the movie's soundtrack album peaked at #1 (for 10 weeks) on Billboard's Top Albums chart; the album that knocked it out of the top spot was 'Glenn Miller Plays Selections from The Glenn Miller Story' by Glenn Miller (it was #1 for 3 weeks).
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 14th 1962, "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by Floyd Cramer entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on ?? it peaked at #36 (for weeks) and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100...
    three other covered version have charted on the Top 100; Ernie Fields (#54 in 1960), Harpers Bizarre (#45 in 1967), and Tuxedo Junction (#32 in 1978)...
    And on December 31st, 1967 the Harper Bizarre's version peaked at #1 (for 2 weeks) on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    The B-side of Mr. Floyd's version, "Let's Go", also charted, it reached #90 on the Top 100...
    R.I.P. Mr. Cramer (1933 - 1997) and Mr. Fields (1904 - 1997).
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