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"Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a 1941 song by Harry Warren (music) and Mack Gordon (words). It was originally recorded as a big-band/swing tune by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra and featured in the 1941 movie ''Sun Valley Serenade''.〔(Chattanooga Choo Choo. Second Hand Songs. )〕 ==Background== The song was an extended production number in the 20th Century Fox film ''Sun Valley Serenade''. The Glenn Miller recording, RCA Bluebird B-11230-B, became the #1 song across the United States on December 7, 1941, and remained as #1 for nine weeks on the ''Billboard Best Sellers'' chart.〔(Song artist 7 - Glenn Miller. )〕 The flip side of the single was "I Know Why (And So Do You)", which was the A side. The song opens up with the band, sounding like a train rolling out of the station, complete with the trumpets and trombones imitating a train whistle ("WHOO WHOO"), before the instrumental portion comes in playing two parts of the main melody. This is followed by the vocal introduction of four lines before the main part of the song is heard. The main song opens with a dialog between a passenger and a shoeshine boy: :"Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?" :"Track 29!" :"Boy, you can give me a shine." After the entire song is sung, the band plays two parts of the main melody as an instrumental, with the instruments impersonating the "WHOO WHOO" of the train as the song ends. The 78-rpm was recorded on May 7, 1941, for RCA Victor's Bluebird label and became the first to be certified a gold disc on February 10, 1942, for 1,200,000 sales. The transcription of this award ceremony can be heard on the first of three volumes of RCA's "Legendary Performer" compilations released by RCA in the 1970s. In the early 1990s a two-channel recording of a portion of the ''Sun Valley Serenade'' soundtrack was discovered, allowing reconstruction of a true-stereo version of the film performance. The song was written by the team of Mack Gordon and Harry Warren while traveling on the Southern Railway's ''Birmingham Special'' train. The song tells the story of traveling from New York City to Chattanooga. The inspiration for the song, however, was a small, wood-burning steam locomotive of the 2-6-0 type which belonged to the Cincinnati Southern Railway, which is now part of the Norfolk Southern Railway system. That train is now a museum artifact. From 1880, most trains bound for America's South passed through the southeastern Tennessee city of Chattanooga, often on to the super-hub of Atlanta. The Chattanooga Choo Choo did not refer to any particular train, though some have incorrectly asserted that it referred to Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway's Dixie Flyer or the Southern Railway's Crescent Limited. The most notable reason why the song isn't about any particular train is because of the line, "nothing could be finer|than to have your ham and eggs in Carolina." The rails, especially the passenger routes of the early 1900s, ran north and south on either the east or west sides of the Appalachians. Any route from Pennsylvania Station to Chattanooga through Carolina would be disjointed at best. The composition was nominated for an Academy Award in 1941 for Best Song from a movie. The song achieved its success that year even though it could not be heard on network radio for much of 1941 due to the ASCAP boycott. In 1996, the 1941 recording of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chattanooga Choo Choo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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