Kingston Trio - M.T.A. (Original Stereo)
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Uploaded by Nocaro on Aug 28, 2010
"M.T.A." was composed in 1948 by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes and was originally known as "Charlie On The M.T.A.". The song recounts the story of a man named Charlie who gets trapped on the Boston subway system known then as the M.T.A. (Massachusetts Transit Authority). The tune fit the Kingston Trio's style perfectly and they took it all the way to #13 in June of 1959. Today the M.T.A. is known as the MBTA and its electronic-card fare system is known as the "CharlieCard" in tribute to this recording.
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AFter 48 years, what have we learned? Charlie never returned, and we're still getting tax increases!
1 year ago 17
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Why didn't Charlie's wife just hand Charlie a nichol, along with a sandwhich, through that opened window as the train went rumbling by?
1 year ago 13
All Comments (33)
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@MrHypnofan Which was precisely my point!
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@Horsemarine100 "Nickel" is our five cent coin; "Nichol" is a somewhat common surname.
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@isuckaman LOL! I wondered the exact same thing as a child!
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Malcolm In The Middle brought me here!! :)))
2 months ago 2
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The Gentlemen Callers did it better.
2 months ago 4
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@Horsemarine100 no, it's not the English spelling! hahaha but I agree, why didn't she just give him a nickel??
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thumbs up if malcolm in the middle brought you here
3 months ago 3
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@isuckaman Wondered that myself, way back in 1960, when the song first reached across the Atlantic. A classic memory! Is that an American spelling of "nickel"?
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@isuckaman I guess the conductor wouldn't allow it? lol
btw It's "Nickel"
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Why is there images of the NYC subway? The song is about the predecessor to the MBTA in Boston.
TheBeerNerd 9 months ago
@TheBeerNerd LOL, because I couldn't find enough images of a Boston subway...sorry 'bout that.
Nocaro 9 months ago 2