I'm planning a choral concert with the theme of travel, and thus far have come up with the following songs. To keep it manageable, I'm limiting it to American composers (thus omitting Vaughan Williams' "Songs of Travel," for example).

TRAINS:
Henry Clay Work - Crossing the Grand Sierras
Cary Ratcliffe - Train Songs
Green - Sentimental Journey
Goodman - City of New Orleans
Spiritual - This Train is Bound for Glory
Spiritual - 900 Miles
Truhart - Wabash Cannon Ball
[anyone know of good choral arrangements of these latter three?]

BOATS
Copland - Boatmen's Dance
Foster - Glendy Burk
H.C. Work - When the Evening Star went Down
Henry Russell - Ship on Fire
Sacred Harp - Old Ship of Zion
Folk - Erie Canal [anyone know of a good choral arrangement?]


GENERAL
Toch (Austrian, but became Am. citizen) - Geographical Fugue
Folk - Bound for the Promised Land

Do you have any other suggestions? The songs should be about travel per se, hence railroad songs such as "Nine Pound Hammer," "Casey Jones" and "Wreck of the Old 97" don't really fit. I don't know of any songs about airplanes. The only songs about automobiles I can think of, are popular songs from turn of the (19th) century.

thanks in advance for any help!


Kevin Kelly
Music Library
Hugh Hodgson School of Music
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
kkelly(a)uga.edu
706-542-2712

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Recently I asked the List for suggestions concerning a program of Transportation Songs. As it turned out, many people responded, to whom I am very grateful, and I'm including your ideas below. In order to limit the repetoire, I decided to include songs only by N.Am. composers, and to focus on songs involving specific modes of travel -- thereby excluding many generic songs about travel in general, the open road, etc. If a publisher is not listed, the song is from the Tin Pan Alley rep.

BIKES
The Velocipede
Daisy Bell

PLANES
Come Josephine in my Flying Machine
Come Take a trip in my Air-ship
Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver

AUTOS
Route 66 - Bobby Troup, arr. Kirby Shaw (Hal Leonard)
In my Merry Oldsmobile
He'll have to get out Under

BOATS
Boatmen's Dance - Copland (Boosey)
Glendy Burk - Stephen Foster, arr. Bruce Montgomery (Plymouth Music)
When the Evening Star went Down - H.C. Work
Ship on Fire - Henry Russell
Old Ship of Zion - Sacred Harp
Ocean Roll

TRAINS
Crossing the Grand Sierras - H.C. Work
Train Songs - Cary Ratcliffe
Sentimental Journey - Bud Green
City of New Orleans - Steve Goodman
This Train - arr. Nina Gilbert (Santa Barbara Music)
- arr. Gwyneth Walker (ECS Pub)
Wabash Cannonball - arr. Kirby Shaw (Hal Leonard)
Take the A Train - Strayhorn, arr. Kirby Shaw (Hal Leonard)
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Denver Darling, arr. Kirby Shaw (Hal Leonard)
Train - John Biggs (Consort Press)
Train (no. 1 from "Due West") - Stephne Chatman (ECS Pub)
Rock Island Line - Leadbelly, arr. David Moore (j.davidmoore(a)comcast.net)
On the Twentieth Century -- arr. ?

I'm sure there are many more, but a program can only be so long, right?!

Kevin Kelly
Music Library
Hugh Hodgson School of Music
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
kkelly(a)uga.edu
706-542-2712