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Artist:The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group
Label:  Oriole
Country:UK
Catalogue:CB 1352
Date:Apr 1957
Format:10"
Collection:  I Own It     I Want It 
Community: 54 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:$10
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$10


TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
AThe Chas McDevitt Skiffle GroupFreight TrainJames, Williams10.0  Rate
BThe Chas McDevitt Skiffle GroupThe Cotton SongTraditional Arr. McDevitt8.0  Rate


Notes

A side featuring Nancy Whiskey

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Comments and Reviews
 
MrPasta SUBS
28th Dec 2024
 Quote from Financial Times article about the song's history from August 2022

"A story such as this inevitably comes freighted with issues of misattribution. By this point, the song was credited, incorrectly, to British songwriters Paul James and Fred Williams — pseudonyms for McDevitt and his manager, Bill Varley. Sheet music credited to James and Williams, published in 1957, shows “Freight Train” branching off on to a new line: it’s an outlaw song in the first person."
 
 
Spinning Shellac 1959
28th Dec 2024
 The true composer who wrote "Freight Train" was Elizabeth Cotten. James and Williams as stated on the label is an error.
 
 
MrPasta SUBS
10th Jan 2024
 
 
 
MrPasta SUBS
10th Jan 2024
 
 
 
tomaszposzwinski
29th Nov 2023
 

 
 
dunk78
9th May 2023
 
 
 
Redpunk SUBS
13th Jul 2019
 Mislabelling is not uncommon and probably makes it less desirable.
 
 
cornishteddyboy
13th Jul 2019
 The 78 I have, the labels are the wrong way round. I suppose it makes it rarer.
 
 
Tomasz Poszwiński
19th Feb 2018
 
 
 
Tomasz Poszwiński
19th Feb 2018
 
 
 
Alan Warby
2nd Jul 2013
 Reached Number 5 in the NME charts, 12 Apr 1957. It was also awarded a Gold Disc.
 

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Linked Releases

New Zealand - Prestige - 1957

USA - Chic - 1957


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