"Train Kept A-Rollin'" (or "The Train Kept A-Rollin'") is a song first recorded by American

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and

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musician

Tiny Bradshaw Myron Carlton "Tiny" Bradshaw (September 23, 1907 – November 26, 1958)
- accessed July 2010 was an American

in 1951. Originally performed in the style of a

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, Bradshaw borrowed lyrics from an earlier song and set them to an upbeat shuffle arrangement that inspired other musicians to perform and record it. Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio made an important contribution in 1956 – they reworked it as a guitar riff-driven song, which features an early use of intentionally distorted guitar in rock music. In 1965,

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popularized the song as an early

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song, due largely to

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's fuzz-toned guitar work. Theirs soon became the most copied arrangement with recordings by a variety of musicians. After guitarist

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joined the group, the Yardbirds recorded an updated version with new lyrics as "Stroll On" for the film '' Blowup'' in 1966. With a highly charged rhythm section and a dual lead guitar attack by Beck and Page, it is seen as a forerunner to

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. When the Yardbirds broke up in 1968, "Train Kept A-Rollin'" was adopted as a concert opener by Page's new band,

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, during its early (and again later) touring years. The song also became an important part of

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's early live repertoire and in 1974, they recorded it for their second album. Their version is actually a two-part song – the first has a slower, groove-oriented arrangement, while the second uses that of the Yardbirds. Aerosmith turned it into a

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standard and a staple of

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radio; it remains one of their most popular tunes. "Train Kept A-Rollin'" has been performed and recorded by numerous other artists.

Original song

Tiny Bradshaw Myron Carlton "Tiny" Bradshaw (September 23, 1907 – November 26, 1958)
- accessed July 2010 was an American

and his band first recorded "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" in 1951. They performed the song as a mid-

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, which uses a boogie-woogie bass line and a shuffle rhythm. The introductory section features scat singing by Bradshaw answered by a chorus. The verses are delivered in a lively vocal style, followed by an instrumental break with a raucous, honking-style tenor saxophone solo by Red Prysock and backed by drummer Philip Paul's heavy backbeat. Bradshaw's lyrics use early jazz hipster references: The lyrics are based on " Cow-Cow Boogie", a 1942 song about a singing cowboy. Bradshaw rewrote lines, such as "a ditty he learned in the city" and "get along, get hip little doggies, and he trucked 'em on down the old fairway", to meet his new scenario. Although the King Records single lists "Bradshaw-Mann" as the songwriters, reissues and subsequent recordings of "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" credit Tiny Bradshaw,

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(a pseudonym of King Records' owner Syd Nathan), and Howard Kay. BMI, the performing rights organization, lists the songwriters/composers as "Myron C. Bradshaw, Sydney Nathan, and Howard Kay". According to music historian Larry Birnbaum, "Mann's name was plainly added to allow Syd Nathan to siphon off a share of the publishing royalties, as label owners routinely did in those days; as for Kay, his identity remains a mystery". The recording session took place on October 6, 1951, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Besides Bradshaw, Prysock, and Paul, the other participants were: Leslie Ayers and Lester Bass on trumpets; Andrew Penn on trombone; Ted "Snooky" Holbert on alto and baritone sax; Rufus Gore on tenor saxes; Jimmy Robinson on piano; and Clarence Mack on bass. King Records issued the song on both ten-inch 78 rpm and seven-inch 45 rpm records in late 1951. ''

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'' magazine reviewed the release and commented using jump parlance: "The singer comes thru with a great vocal on a rockin' novelty, with some solid chorus and ork rchestra a.k.a. swing bandbacking. Tune builds all the way. Platter could catch a lot of change." However, it did not appear on the charts of the nation's most popular R&B songs, such as those compiled by ''Billboard''. Although Bradshaw had five other records that reached the R&B top ten, "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" remains his best-known recording and continues to be popular with Shag dancers (a type of swing dance) on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.

Johnny Burnette rendition

In 1956, Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio reworked Bradshaw's song using a

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arrangement. The Trio's version features guitar lines in what many historians consider to be the first recorded example of intentionally distorted guitar in rock music, although

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guitarists, such as Willie Johnson and

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, had recorded with the same effect years earlier. The Trio's guitarist, Paul Burlison, explained that he noticed the sound after accidentally dropping his amplifier, which dislodged a power tube and later, "whenever I wanted to get that sound, I'd just reach back and loosen that tube". He utilized this effect with the song's main instrumental feature, a three-note minor key guitar line repeated throughout. Burlison recounted how he came up with the signature guitar riff: The day after recording "The Train Kept A-Rollin', the trio recorded a version of

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's " Honey Hush", which features a more extensive use of the riff. Coral Records released both songs on a single in September 1956. Later, authors Vince Gordon and Peter DijkemaIt argue that the guitar sound on "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" could be created with distortion commonly achievable with a highly- overdriven early 1950s guitar amplifier. They point out that in the recording, the higher treble strings sound relatively clean, with the low E string having the most distortion; with a tube malfunction, all strings would be distorted more or less to an equal degree. The authors add that this difference in sound could be achieved with the pole piece for the low E string raised higher than the rest, thereby allowing it to overload the amplifier more than the treble strings. They also argue that Nashville session guitarist Grady Martin provided the guitar parts for the Trio's recording; they base this on stylistic and technical qualities, since, at the time, Martin was a more accomplished player than Burlison, and these qualities are apparent in his work on other recordings.

The Yardbirds versions

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recording plucked the old Rock & Roll Trio number from obscurity and turned it into a classic among classics". The Yardbirds' lead guitarist Jeff Beck, who is a fan of early rockabilly, said that he introduced the song to the group: "They just heard me play the riff, and they loved it and made up their version of it". Giorgio Gomelsky, the group' first producer, states that

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's use of blues harp to imitate train sounds during his 1963 UK tour with the Yardbirds also inspired the band's adaptation of the song. The song opens with Beck using volume swells on an overdriven guitar to simulate a train whistle and the band launches into the song with rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja, bassist

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, and Beck following the riff from the Rock and Roll Trio's song. Two combined takes of

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's vocal, with some differences in the lyrics, come in after twelve bars. Following the vocal section, the rhythm changes to a shuffle and a 12-bar harmonica and guitar bridge sets the stage for Beck's first solo. After returning to the original rhythm for another double-tracked vocal section, a brief "rave up"-style section precedes Beck's second solo. A rave up is used to describe a middle instrumental section of a song, when the beat shifts into double-time and the instrumental

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gradually builds to a climax. It was part of the Yardbirds' signature sound and "represent some of the earliest psychedelic blues-rock, antedating

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and

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", according to Birnbaum. Beck's second guitar solo, which extends for two 12-bar sections, features an early use of a fuzz-tone

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effects pedal. Birnbaum describes his work as "incendiary" and "riveting, relatively complex solos". The Yardbirds' rendition became the new standard that subsequent musicians would follow. The song was recorded by Sam Phillips at his Phillips Recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 12, 1965, with further recording by

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at Columbia Recording Studio in New York City on September 21 and 22, 1965. "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" was included on studio side of the Yardbirds' second American album '' Having a Rave Up'', which was issued on November 15, 1965. The song, along with another American studio recording, " I'm a Man", was not released in the UK until the mid-1970s, well after the group had disbanded. The song was a staple of the band's concerts and they recorded several live versions with Beck, which appear on albums such as '' BBC Sessions'' (1991) and '' Glimpses 1963–1968'' (2011). In June 1966, bassist Samwell-Smith left the Yardbirds to become a record producer. His initial replacement, well-known studio guitarist

, soon switched to guitar with second guitarist Dreja taking over on bass. With both Beck and Page on board, the Yardbirds had one of the first dual lead guitar teams in popular rock. Movie director

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saw the group's September 23, 1966, performance at the

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in London and, being impressed with their version of the song, requested that they perform "Train Kept A-Rollin'" for his upcoming film, '' Blowup''. Less than two weeks later, the group entered the Sound Techniques studios in London, where they recorded on October 3–5, 1966. Unable to secure the movie performance rights from the song's publisher, singer Keith Relf wrote new lyrics, renamed it "Stroll On", and included credits to the five band members. The Yardbirds also introduced an updated arrangement to go with the new lyrics. Led Zeppelin biographer Keith Shadwick describes the new version as "brutal, menacing, and teetering on all-out violence", which foreshadows heavy-metal. It opens with a new drum part by

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and harmonized guitar

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, before Beck's train whistle simulation. Unlike their earlier song, Relf's vocal is not double tracked nor does he play harmonica and the rhythm remains on the riff throughout the song. The guitar work, with both Beck and Page contributing lead-guitar parts, has been called "revolutionary", from the opening "wall of feedback", the use of "jarringly dissonant chords", and the "twining guitar duet" by Birnbaum. During October 12–14, the Yardbirds were filmed lip syncing the song for ''Blowup''. Their scene was staged on a set at

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designed to resemble the Ricky-Tick, a popular London club and, at Antonioni's direction, Beck smashes his guitar, in the manner of

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. The song as performed in the film is edited (doubled) to increase its length for the story line. "Stroll On" was later included on the ''Blow-Up''

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(1967) and appears on the Yardbirds compilation albums ''Train Kept A-Rollin'/The Yardbirds Story'' (1993) and '' Ultimate!'' (2001). After Jeff Beck's departure in late 1966, the Yardbirds continued to regularly perform "The Train Kept A-Rollin'". The original lyrics were used, but the "Stroll On" arrangement was followed with Jimmy Page playing all the guitar parts. Live performances with Page were later released on '' Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page'' (1971), ''Last Rave-Up in L.A.'' (1979), ''Glimpses 1963–1968'' (2011), and '' Yardbirds '68'' (2017).

Led Zeppelin performances

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rehearsed together for the first time in 1968, the first song they played was "Train Kept A-Rollin'". In ''

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'', biographer Mick Wall quotes Page: The song was included in their early performances as "the New Yardbirds" and was featured as their opening number in Led Zeppelin's 1968 and 1969 tours, and was included on several bootleg albums. In an interview, early

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video host J. J. Jackson, who pointed out that he does not characterize Led Zeppelin's music as heavy metal, described a bootleg recording from their first American tour, "if this were the only recording somebody ever heard of them, it doesn't get much more 'heavy metal' sounding than this, does it?" They later revived it for their final tour " Over Europe" in 1980. Though a studio version was never recorded by Led Zeppelin, as a solo artist Page recorded, during his '' Outrider'' sessions in 1988, a version similar to the Led Zeppelin 1980 version.

Aerosmith version

In 1974, Aerosmith brought "Train Kept A-Rollin'" into the hard-rock mainstream.

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, Joe Perry, and Tom Hamilton had performed the song prior to joining Aerosmith. Perry recalled, "'Train Kept A-Rollin'' was the only song we had in common when we first got together. Steven's band had played 'Train' and Tom and I played it in our band ... It's a blues song, if you follow its roots all the way back ... I always thought if I could just play one song, it would be that one because of what it does to me". Perry's band began performing the song regularly after he had been moved by the performance of "Stroll On" in ''Blowup''; Tyler recalled his band opened for the Yardbirds in 1966: The song was an early feature of Aerosmith's concerts and a frequent show closer, including for their first gig in 1970. They wanted to record a live version of the song, but producer Jack Douglas persuaded them to record a studio version, which actually consisted of two different versions of the song. The first part was slower, "more groove-oriented", while the second was a spirited rocker. To give the second part more of a live sound, Douglas overdubbed crowd noise from The Concert for Bangladesh, the 1971 benefit organized by

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and Dick Wagner, who worked with

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and

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, were brought in to record the guitar parts. According to Hunter, "We agner and Iwanted to keep the solos equal so we'd sit down ... and go through the material so it was totally even ... We didn't want it to look like there was a rhythm guitar player and a lead guitar player, because that's what we both did". Hunter later elaborated: In 1974, "Train Kept A-Rollin'" was included on Aerosmith's second album ''

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''. A 3:15 edited version of the song without the added audience noises was released as a single, but it did not appear on the record charts. The song continues to be a highlight of the group's shows and the album version has become a staple of

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and

radio. It has become so identified with Aerosmith, that when Jeff Beck (whose 1965 and 1966 recordings with the Yardbirds inspired Tyler and Perry) occasionally performs it, he often hears comments like "Hey, I like your angle on the Aerosmith tune". The song is featured on three Aerosmith live compilations: ''

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'' (1978), '' Classics Live'' (1986), and '' Rockin' the Joint'' (2005). On the ''Rockin' the Joint'' version, Perry and Brad Whitford can be heard doing a little bit of "

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" towards the end. Additionally, the band is known to play two different versions of the song, the regular version of the song, as well as a slowed-down version often called "Slow Train" in the setlists. On at least two occasions, Tyler and Perry have performed the song with other artists; in 1992 with

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and in 1995 with Page and Plant. In 2002, the whole band performed the song live with the Japanese hard rock duo

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. It also appears in the music video game ''

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'', and the master track appears in '' Guitar Hero: Aerosmith'' as the final encore in the game. In 2012, Aerosmith performed the song with

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, which is included as an extra track on the ''

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'' DVD.

Recognition and legacy

The Johnny Burnette Rock and Roll Trio rendition of "Train Kept A-Rollin'" is included in the

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's exhibit of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll". Birnbaum sums up the various influences and versions:

Notes

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