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Casey Jones Sung by Billy Murray & Chorus

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Uploaded by on Oct 6, 2006

A 108 year old music video about an American legend from the Thomas A. Edison Music Video Co. Mike Loughlin, Producer

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  • Billy Murray is the most important recorded vocalist from the early records. Many first-time motion picture viewers supposedly dove for safety when they saw the opening scene of the approaching locomotive.

  • But he didn't write the song. It was first written by Jones' friend Wallace Saunders, then punched up on the vaudeville circuit.

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  • This film must have shocked many racists is the South, showing a black woman sitting on a train seat next to a white woman!

  • why does it sound so... dead? i heard a different one i think from Victor and it sounds much better

  • hmm.. a train came up and i was expecting the grateful deads version...

  • @Fretkillr (Y)

  • i hate modern music like this

  • The unidentified "orchestra" on the record label sure sounds like the Edison Quartet, the foursome in which Murray sang lead from 1909 to 1925 (known on their Victor recordings as the American Quartet).

  • I'd kiss her! That pretty girl at approx. 1:20. Oh, to be able to go way back then! I think only Nikola Tesla had an unfinished time machine. No one else.

  • Glad you mentioned this though. "Jainie" did request everyone to stop singing that verse implying he cheated on her that upset her and her family deeply... However, I think its good this video with the verse include is shown as it is really a part of history...

  • It was the Vaudeville Singers that added that Verse T. Lawrence Siebert and that other guy... Wallace Saunders Exact version was lost to history... But even Saunders song was a take off from the song Jimmy Jones.

  • Touche.

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