TINY BRADSHAW ~ THE TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN ~ 1951

[kingmufoshit]

lots of crappy bands made millions off this guy its 2 bad nobody knows him .. i hate stevie tyler 

[Khultan]

Heaven ♪♪♪♪♪♥♥♥♥♥♪♪♪♪♪

[metafis]

Jump blues, which evolved into rock and roll.

Love it :)

[JosephNScott2]

@metafis "Jump blues, which evolved into rock and roll." Billboard magazine was talking about "rocker"s in '49 and '50 and mentioning "rock and roll" in '50 and '51. All of the earliest rock and roll was like '46-style jump blues except it had the addition of a backbeat -- that includes, for instance, the earliest rock and roll by "white" artists, such as "Kiss My Wrist" by Doc Pomus and "Little Red Hen" by Johnny Otis, and it includes Tiny Bradshaw's rock and roll of '50-'51.

[flyinv1967]

Did Tiny Bradshaw live long enough to hear the Aerosmith version?I doubt it .Lemme go look it up

[metallica757575]

@flyinv1967 no he died in 1958

[TheSydNaTanistS]

THE TRAIN KEPT A ROLLIN ALL NIGHT LONG FROM CINCINNATI

Presented by The Cincinnati USA Music Heritage Foundation

- 60th anniversary of Tiny Bradshaw's original recording on King Records at 1540 Brewster - Starring Philip Paul, original Tiny Bradshaw drummer on Train Kept A Rollin - Introducing The Train Kept A Rollin Guitar Army WHEN: 60th year to the date - Monday, 7/25/11 - 5 p.m. Downtown Cincinnati Fountain Square performance (Starring Philip Paul) - 6 p.m. Reception/Panel Discussion

[tqobw]

@TheSydNaTanistS

any news on that 60th anniversary event?

[pretorious700]

for anyone interested, this song is a euphemism for....well, figure it out. He's not really singing about the train.

[TheMaxiclem]

60 years and always awesome !

[pretorious700]

Still the best version of this great song

[marmarymotherofgod]

@pretorious700 VERSION? What are you on about? this is the original. - rock'n'roll GOLD.

[pretorious700]

@marmarymotherofgod The original is also a version, as in the original version. 

[MusicWriter1965]

Just to add to the list of great covers of this song: In around 1998, it was covered by a great R&B / rockabilly ensemble, Al Hill and the Love Butlers, out of Ann Arbor, Michigan -- with Al carrying the lead melody line on the piano. For the last several yrs, Al has been the music director for Bettye Lavette and now lives in N'ville. His version is on his "Willie Mae" CD.

[marmarymotherofgod]

@MusicWriter1965 COVER? This isn't a goddamn cover. This is where it all started. This is pure gold.

[kngcool]

How many "youngsters" look at these websites? I'm a heavy metal, punk rocker, know Exodus, Savatage, Eddie, Yngvie, etc. and I still worship my roots; have read my Guitar Player magazines and know the ROOTS, MF's, and there's a whole lot of us still out there!

[kngcool]

How many "youngsters" look at these websites? I'm a heavy metal, punk rocker, know Exodus, Savatage, Eddie, Yngvie, etc. and I still my roots; have read my Guitar Player magazines and know the ROOTS, MF's, and there's a whole lot of us still out there!

[babsie0910]

how cool this one is!!

[EbonyBunny1]

Although this song has been covered many times, from Johnny Burnette's 1st cover of the song in 1956 to Chrome Daddies 2004, as far as I know every version is a cover of the Johnny Burnette's version.

[bigknight88]

Tiny Bradshaw's original version is just simply brilliant! The best!

[gododgers258]

@Gyphia I've tried to make a fav list of "Train". I've got about 17 without repeating bands too often. Tiny Brad is the earliest version I can find. Is there one earlier?

[SheaBearden]

man this is awesome!!!!!

[TheEbird67]

One of the true classics in music history !

[TheSunRecords]

Yeah yeah yeeeeah!This train will never stop!!!

[quirkwoods]

I hadn't heard this before today, what a fantastic rhythm, top class players at work!

[aliceborealis]

@Gyphia potted?

[MrMoooGR8]

Tiny goes ‘Boodow!’ and the whole band goes ‘Boodow!’ Then Tiny goes ‘Booday!’ and the whole band goes ‘Booday!’ Except for one guy who still goes ‘Boodow'

[philmart]

@MrMoooGR8 --- ah haha Ur right! Good ear. I guess they couldn't afford to another take! :)

[SuperSlohan]

Yes. A great song is just a GREAT SONG! love this version.

[yungsu100]

I HOPE TYNY OR HIS FAMILY GOT SOME ROYALTIE CHECKS FROM ROCK ACTS

IT WOULD BE A DAMN SHAME IF THEY DIDNT

[roxydog2004]

Now U know what they mean when they say that they where influenced by the blues

[aerosmithfan11]

holy fuck! i thought this song was written by Aerosmith, dang this is too good of a song, only genius's like Aerosmith could have thought it up. it was so well played at the Aerosmith concert i went to a couple months ago in vegas, i cant believe Aerosmith isnt the original artists of this song, oh well this song didnt go anywhere until Aerosmith covered it!

[dothejive]

@aerosmithfan11 Check out Johnny Burnette's version--just brilliant!

[aerosmithfan11]

@dothejive alright i will

[scrabble58]

@aerosmithfan11 Suggest you do a bit more research - this has been covered by at least a dozen bands and in more than one style. As has been previously mentioned, Johnny Burnett recorded a version nearer to what you'd recognise and that's also here on YT. Check out The Yardbirds' version...which was recorded way before Aerosmith recorded their take on it.

[43078]

@aerosmithfan11 actually, the yardbirds inspired aerosmith on alot of there music. just as tiny bradshaw was one of there major influences. waht you will find on alot of your favorate bands, especially ones that are a major influence today were inspired form an older band and or musician. for that mater, it does not matter what version of this song anyone likes. the fact that tiny bradshaw has a song that will live on for ever that every one loves makes him a legend.

[barbequebobmaglinte]

The original version of this tune, long before Johnny Burnette turned this into a rockabilly tune and Aerosmith made it a heavy metal classic.

[jeffthrow6892]

This is just awesome....I see why there are so many covers of this....

[BBAntichrist]

This just proves rock was invented by blacks, not those evil white people!!

[smashboompow1]

@BBAntichrist y with the rasist shit ? y ??

[NeverAloneForever]

@BBAntichrist This song isn't even rock.Tiny is known as the writer of the song. Also, weren't there "evil" white people in this version of the song.

[EugenioNS]

@BBAntichrist am I wrong or you really are racist?

[roxydog2004]

@BBAntichrist I guess this is Y U closed your account

[jackiechampion]

@BBAntichrist You just spoke the truth. I did not know this song was written and performed by an African American artist first, but it seems like every time I research an iconic Rock song it leads to the same place.

[steveknows62]

@jackiechampion

It's a safe bet on any rock classic, even if you don't research it.

[jellyrollbaker]

alot of versions of this song but this is the best!!

alittle bit of rock and alot of roll and a spoon full country and blue grass and you have ROCK AND ROLL!!!

[problem49]

This song has yet to be recorded in a version that didn't either rock or swing. Celine Dion herself couldn't fuck it up. Oh wait, what have I done!

[yardbirdmackay]

This still swings like mad,love it.

[ginger1959able]

this has just been booted /repo in the uk on 45 because of demand the original copy still the best

[RockabillyWilly1]

One of the best boogie pre-rock n roll ever!!!

[Mrmarciniasty]

boogie woogie love.......llllllllllllooooooo­oooooovvvvvvveeeeeeeeee

[funkstagazza]

great so good to hear again.

[camacho3819]

can anyone recommend me some more good songs like this one?

[kpls72]

Go out and find THE BEST OF BIG JOE TURNER. Also look for Jay McShann Paris All Star Blues. It's a live two CD set. Or anything with Jay McShann and a big band. Also if you want it FRANTIC, try a good CD of RED PRYSOCK. He is one of the unknown heroes...a screaming sax man. Hope this helps.

[kpls72]

Oh yeah, btw, just run the names I mentioned in my last post...ON YOUTUBE. You'll get a sample that'll have ya runnin for the used cd bins.

[rockincarbonara]

Juist check out all other Links on the right side here.. ;-)

[problem49]

@camacho3819 I just favorited "Rock H-Bomb Rock" by H-Bomb Ferguson. Highly recommended for the title alone, but both song and singer are total killers.

[camacho3819]

NOW this is MUSIC !!!

[RockabillyWilly1]

Please never NEVER LISTEN TO yardbirds or other shitversions from the 60s!!!! (Promise?)

[rockincarbonara]

allright, Promise..! *gg* :-)

[poobahband]

So good to hear the original version! I like all the versions of this song,I have heard.This one is magical.Thanks for this!

[degree7]

It's funny how Blues and Jazz are so closely related, like I'm not a musician or anything, but I hear a bit of both genres in this song.

And it's fcking awesome.

[degree7]

And did I mention Aerosmith suck?

[wolfhunt123]

They are extremely close.. All music is extremely close.. The biggest difference that changes in music over history is note patterns and tone quality... It's really cool, how such small changes can make something sound so different.

[PDXorcist]

Wow, so crazy how the rocker's changed this track. A great song is just a great song. Good ol Tiny Bradshaw.

[steve89z]

bot do day!

[steve89z]

hell yeah!

[kirkbzzz123]

The Gories do the best version of this.

[Lungomolto]

maybe the Motorhead are a little better, very similar to Tiny's style I daresay...

[ElfFarmRaffle]

There's a two-CD set of Tiny's body of work, and it's got a lot more gems like this. He be smokin...!

[PopeFlores]

Never heard the original before, this is great!

[problem49]

Yowsah yowsah yowsah! Hot stuff indeed!

[PopeFlores]

I never heard this version before! This is great!

[historygeek101]

it's funny how this song went from smooth Jazz to a hard rock song by Aerosmith

[AAAAAAAAbsolutely101]

it was covered by many artists before aerosmith

[billyfalconer]

This isn't what most people call smooth jazz. Jump blues maybe.

[Scyllax]

by way of Johnny Burnette, The Yardbirds, and Led Zeppelin

[Kilmarley]

"Train Kept A-Rollin" is a song written by Tiny Bradshaw, Howard Kay, and Lois Mann. Bradshaw first recorded the song in 1951- his best known recording. After a rock and roll version of the song was recorded and released by Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio in 1956, numerous other such versions have been recorded since. (Wiki)

[Scyllax]

I once had a version by Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer. The LP was destroyed in a fire.

[RockabillyWilly1]

One of the best so far - real hit!!!!

[PennyAtMSU]

Thanks for posting this, Joans20thC! I love the Yardbirds' cover of this and I've always been curious about what the original sounded like.

[EdwardBlues]

the true roots of rock n roll,...From Johnny Bunett to Yardbirds to Aerosmith to Guns 'n Roses....Nodody after all them rock out this song so bad...

[toysintheattic93]

the original version is soo dull

[ZergRushJohnny]

"Boo-dow! Boo-dow!

Boo-day! Boo-day(-dow)!"

I love that ONE guy who messes it up. It makes the song that much better, that much more real.

[nintendofreak64Lucas]

It's hilarous

[SpacevoidNavigator]

This is brilliant.For a long time the only version I knew of this tune was Aerosmith's,then I discovered Johnny Burnette's which was wild but I love this one.

[hootnhowel]

This is a great post. Man I listened 20 times. Thanks for posting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tiny makes you want to dance.

[kurtzbob]

Tiny Bradbury's original is the best...love Johnny Burnette's rockabilly cover...but fora cover version that comes pays tribute to the original, check out The Gashouse Gorillas...it's damn good.

[advokris]

Johnny Burnette got from Tiny Bradshaw. The Yardbirds got it from Johnny Burnette his Rock N Roll Trio. Aerosmith got it from the Yardbirds. The last three arraigements sound most like the Rock N Roll Trio vesion with Johnny Burnette.

[mangeldeth]

Wow, this is amazing.

[rokarolla]

Working backwards from Led Zeppelin, I arrive here.

This is supposedly the original  version.

[gibsongold1970]

i guess some people like this version

and rock out to it,which is very cool,but

the AMPED up versions do the song

justice.especially heavy guitar.

[wrighteh]

Colin James did a great version of this, kept the original jazz n swing just made it a bit faster. On his 1993 album Colin James & The Little Big Band. Check it out if you like this =D

[brendan12303]

that was my first ever album i owned! still have it ahaa. Great album!

[steve89z]

i always like the original the best

[nickthecomedian]

omg my favorite song is this. i can't believe this son is so old i though it was song was by aerosmith but i was wrong.

[vanou812halen]

iunno bout u all but i think its cool how aerosmith took this song and turned it into a real heavy rockin song..even heavier than the yardbirds version..all three kcik ass tho

[ElfFarmRaffle]

No, Johnny Burnette and the Rockets did the rocking, YEARS before Aerosmith ORr the Yardbirds. Nonetheless, the original rocks in its own unique, Tiny, way...

[Kirke182]

Aerosmith's "original" interpretation was stolen note-for-note and beat-for-beat from the Yardbirds' version.

[maxkansascity]

No, it wasn't...

Anyway... this original version rooocks!

[Kirke182]

Yeah, it was. All an objective listener has to do is listen to the Yardbird's version and it obvious. Notice that applies ro objective listeners.

[maxkansascity]

Well... I still think it wasn't stolen "note-for-note and beat-for-beat". Aero was (obviously) influenced by the Yardbirds, but their version has it own feel, you know what I mean? That was the true rock version, the 70's "Train".

[Kirke182]

Certainly Aerosmith added in a more modern rock lead guitar and all that. We would expect that much. But the overall format and chord progression was stolen from the Yardbirds if you listen to the studiio version particularly. The Yardbirds' interpretation was original, Aerosmith's was not--it was just a rehashing of the Yardbirds' interpretation.

[punkrocker1208]

wow ur fucking stupid. aerosmiths version starts off in half time on the drums then goes into a double time feel. so... not beat for beat then. ur obviously not a musician tho so i'll forgive ur stupid comment. dipshit.

[Kirke182]

punkrocker,

There is a version by the Yardbirds that has starts slow and then has the drum beat and then goes fast and Aerosmith stole that version. Don't you think you should know what you're talking about instead of only viweing the Youtbue live versions before you make an ass of yourself?

[punkrocker1208]

wrong again ass. wow ur dumb. the yardbirds version has one drum beat the entire song, in all their versions of the song. tell me the version that ur newbie ass is thinking of and i'll tell u why ur wrong. you have proven time and time again in ur comments ur not a musician so trust me fag.

[mopable]

aerosmith totally fucked up this song

[Kirke182]

I'm somewhat inclinded to agree. I don't think their version was particularly original in its interpretation. It doesn't stack up to the Yardbirds and it certainly doesn't stack up to this version or Johnny Burnette's. The fact that adoloscents as punkrocker1208 are unaware of where Aerosmith got their version only proves how out of touch America's youth is even with the music of their own country.

[mopable]

that is absolutely right i like aerosmith, but to tell the truth in my opinion they have always been overated

[Lagomort]

How the hell is the yardbirds version better than Aerosmith's? The Yardbirds version sounds like a bunch of 13 year ol' kids in their first garage band, while Aerosmith's version sounds like streamlined jet effin' plane.

A monkey can play the Yardbirds version, while only someone with damn fine chops can play the Aerosmith version.

[Kirke182]

Back under a new nick after getting your ass shredded the fist time, punkrocker? (Go ahead and deny it) Look, I don't care if you like the Yardbirds' version or not as long as you know where Aerosmith took theirs from.

[Lagomort]

Kirke,,,

OK, for one, you are a moron, as all you needed to do was check my channel to see I am not the person you think I am you paranoid piece of dweeb toast. I am not a punkrocker and have never gone by that particular Nom de plume.

Next, I know Aerosmith took their version from the Yardbird's version. They just did a far better job when they did so.

[Kirke182]

See? What did I say? You'd deny you are puckrocker. Never mind that you talk exactly like him--the same sophomoric insults and refusal to believe that anyone but Aerosmith did this song better. And puckrocker already changed his story to the one you are touting now after he first tried to say Aerosmith's version was nothing like the Yardbirds. Keep trying though, I need the laughs.

[Lagomort]

Dear dipshit Kirke...

I just checked, and it appears Punkrocker joined in 2008, while I joined in 2006, 2 years before. Do you really think I pre-created a totally different persona just so I would be able to irritate you by disagreeing with your opinions over the Yardbirds? Are you really this delusional?

[Kirke182]

Haha! You're very funny , punky, what else ya got?

[Lagomort]

OK, I just checked out Punkrocker's posts.

For "You," "you're," and "your," he seems to use web abbreviations like, "u" and "ur" and so on.

I have several years of posts on youtube,,,try and find me doing the above abbreviations even once...

In short, you ain't quite as bright as you perceive yourself to be you delusional spaz...

[Kirke182]

Punky, you're going to point out all the differences you worked in between your two nicks because you know no one else will bother and you don't want it to go to waste. What other differences are there, punky?

[Lagomort]

Kirke,,,

So let me get this, if I deny being punkrocker, that proves I must be punkrocker? If I show consistent differences between punkerocker and I, this is also evidence that we are one and the same?

The above also comes to you because you think it is rare that a person would think the Aerosmith version of TKR is better than the Yardbird version, even though the Aerosmith version was far, FAR, more popular?

I recommend heavy dosages of depakote stat..

[Kirke182]

You can deny anything you want, punky, but there's no mistaking the identical style--picking a fight, swearing so you think you sound older and tougher than you are, fanatical about Aerosmith. I mean, Punky, am I to assume all Aerosmith fans are complete assholes or just you?

[Lagomort]

Obviously there is a problem with "mistaking" it, as I am not your pal "Punky." Also, you may assume anything you want, which is obvious by your previous posts

Next, Wagner and Hunter did a far better job of playing TKR than did the Yardbirds. A child can play the Yardbird's version..

[Kirke182]

That's what makes the Yardbirds' version so great, punky. Kids can play it and that means every garage band in the world will play it which will immortalize it. You know, like "Gloria" by Them or "Same Old Song and Dance" by you know who. My old band played both of those. And we did "Train" too.

[Lagomort]

Yes Kirke, I even pretended to make up a girl persona several years ago just for the day I would get to pretend to be several people here to irritate you about the Yardbirds, you Thorazine Popsicle eatin' wingnut.

And so what if you did SOSD and TKR in a band? I have too. It doesn't mean you did the songs well, or that the songs were better or worse than something by the Yardbirds. Any other total non-sequiturs?

[Kirke182]

We did the Aerosmith songs exactly like Aerosmith. You couldn't tell the difference. The point is, the Yardbirds' version brought the song down to garage band level which enabled every kid in America to play it and so it has lived on. You don't think high school kids are going to do Tiny Bradshaw's version, do you?

[Lagomort]

The Yardbirds did not bring it down to "garage band level." Johnny Burnette did this with his, "Rock "n" Roll Trio."

It is very likely that it was the Burnette version the guys from the Yardbirds were familiar with, and not the original. Though it would not be hard to imagine that Jeff Beck knew of Tiny's original, the guitar jam version of the song was certainly inspired by Burnette's Rockabilly version..

[Kirke182]

It MIGHT have been garage band fare in England--might have. Certainly not in America. By the 60s, Americans had lost faith in themselves with their own music. All the American rockers left and went to England. We had to hear it from the Brits before we would play it. Hence, Aerosmith does the Yardbirds' version rather than Burnette's and it's still that way. I've never heard even modern rockabilly bands do Burnette's version--which is strange. If not for the Brits, it would be lost.

[Lagomort]

I am not disagreeing with that. I am saying this is the progression:

Tiny's original....

Then the Rockabilly version.

Rockabilly version goes to England,...numerous British kids Jam on it.

Yardbirds members use it as a Jam tune, and it becomes popular as such

Anglicized-Blues-Rock/abilly-S­kiffle, music enters back into the US where a larger white audience is starting to get reintroduced to to second hand American music.

Aerosmith uses the Yardbirds version, with Wagner/Hunter on guitar

[Kirke182]

Okay. I'll buy that. 50s music is making a minor comeback in America and I'm hoping that we will pick up where we left off but I doubt it. I keep hearing stupid comments like Michael Jackson brought "black music" to a white audience and all I can do is shake my head. I guess Tiny contributed nothing.

[Lagomort]

Well get this,..I will be playing Robert Johnson songs on my guitar and black kids will go by and say under their breath, "That's white boy music."

The disconnect is astounding..

I admit I like some of the Ol' Jackson Five from the 70s, but Jacko is "black music," like Johnny Winter is tan...

[Kirke182]

I remember when Ram Jam released "Black Betty" and the NAACP accused them of racism because they didn't know it was a song by Leadbelly. A couple of years ago I was playing "Spike Driver's Blues" by John Hurt at an open mic and a long hair whiteboy was the only one who knew the song. God knows none of the black patrons did. Apparently, their memories go back no further than 1970.

[Lagomort]

Know what is weird? Ram Jam's Back Betty came on the radio in Canada while I was on a dig up there. I was certain, like here in the US, all the kids under 25 would have no idea what song it was and who it was by. I asked in a smug way, "OK, what song is this, and who is it by," and they looked at me like I was insane,,,and said, 'Um, it Black Betty by Ram Jam."

It turns out, due to their law for a mandatory percentage of Canadian music, their change over to hip hop didn't really occur like here

[Kirke182]

Black Betty still has a lot of young fans. My nephew is in his early 20s and loves Simon & Garfunkel. I saw a 16-year-old kid the other day wearing a Beatles t-shirt. Nirvana has gotten a lot of kids interested in Leadbelly. There's hope. But black kids really need to pick it up. Not knowing anything but rap is getting goddamn ridiculous. I mean, really, enough is enough. And they think Kanye West can sing. But they don't know is Spyder Turner is. wtf"?

[Lagomort]

It matters where you come from. Classic rock is very popular nowadays (relatively speaking), but not in all areas. Where I am from, Hip-hop and Rap, as well as Top 40, is about all you hear. Black Betty is almost never heard, even on oldies-Classic Rock stations (Oldies as in 60's-70's).

What is worse is, even when they play Classic rock, they always play the same damn crap, as they seem terrified to play something a little off the beaten path.

Oh, and only PBS/College radio plays the blues

[Kirke182]

We have a good PBS station and a really good AM oldies station who play a lot of really different oldies instead the same old moldies. White kids seem to be finding their way back to the good old stuff maybe because there's so little new stuff that's any good. Black kids, though, I don't know. Don't mean to overgeneralize but something has to change when going back before Jacko is unfamiliar territory. They think he was THE pioneer, I mean, come on, folks!

[raizonicatube]

I am watching this over the shoulder of my boyfriend as he is laughing at some guy named Kirk who is accusing him of being someone else. You really think he is someone else? Is there anything that your tiny brain will accept as evidence to the contrary?

You're a joke.

[Kirke182]

Now he's pretending he has a girlfriend. You're very entertaining, punky.

[z71cr]

got to disagree with ya there bud... they didnt get the name of Americas greatest rock n roll band for nothin, so go listen to some Journey or Styx maybe there more ur speed. Aersomith Rocks!

[mopable]

hey man they are overated but that is just  my opinion i do not listen to journey and i can handle styx once in a blue moon, you see i like all music except country and disco so if you think aerosmith are america's greatest rock and roll band i have no problem with that i just happen to disagree

[jmhendrix101]

hmmm.

i do like Aerosmith.

i woudlnt say theyre the "greatest" though

[falconium]

Roots of Rock! Awesome.

[problem49]

1953, actually, according to Billbord records. Great song, mastered by Johnny Burnette and The Rock n Roll Trio.

[Erkele]

What is good? This is good!

[jf29bmd]

There is an Canadian artist who plays a wonderful hommage to Tiny and this version. Colin James' version is wonderfully in the same style as this version is. Rock on Tiny!!!

[soiled]

It's amazing that 50 years later bands are still rockin this thing out.... shows you how timeless good music can be.

[oramikleepunk]

I agree with you...they are giving honor to tiny Bradshaw without knowing it.

[dothejive]

I love this song, and I also like the RNR version by Johnny Burnette

[Joans20thCentury]

So do i, thanks for your comment .

[Erkele]

Johnny is, also, Fantastic.

[CuyahogaMustang]

Wow , I have never heard this before , What

a treat from 1951 .

I have been looking for this , But never could find it untill now .

And we all know that this song is not a

about a train :-D

[venusflytrap614]

Wait...

WHAT?!