TS: lieber & stoller's "kansas city" vs. jeff barry & ellie greenwich's "the train from kansas city"

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the songs, and any recordings thereof you wish to address.

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

I've been listening to "Teh Train..." on the girl group box so I'm gonna go with that. "Kansas City" always seems like it doesn't rock or roll as much as I want it to. When the Beatles do it, after the initial hit of that signature guitar lick, I'm a little bored until they start singing the "Hey Hey Hey Hey" part, which is actually another song, written by Little Richard. I think Richard himself created that arrangement.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

I just love the big, big vocal sound when they sing the title in "The Train From Kansas City." I had forgotten about the Neko Case version, I don't know where I put that album.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I just love the big, big vocal sound when they sing the title in "The Train From Kansas City."

i love when one of the girls sings like a train whistle. i also like the little shuffly bass part the piano plays between verses.

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

the shangri-la's version of "train" is one of my favorite things, so that one.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Kansas City is great, but the single line "I'll be back in the time it takes to break a heart" is worth 99% of other careers, so the Shangri-Las win.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

"there's nothin' i can do."

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

yeah definitely "train from." "kansas city" is a good song by a great songwriting team, but "train from" is a great song by a great songwriting team.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Gotta be "Train From." "KC" has that "it's just a-1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8-9" line that always bugged me for some reason. Seems lazy.

― mike a, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

RIP Ellie Greenwich.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 16:13 (sixteen years ago)

RIP Ellie. I remember a certain former(?) ILXer playing "Goodnight, Goodnight" at the end of the night about 10 years ago and having to ask what it was and track down a copy.

― Alba, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 19:24 (sixteen years ago)

And I'd somehow forgotten she co-wrote Be My Baby, so, for that too, yes.

― Alba, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

she was a part of so many great songs...

RIP.

― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

"be my baby"
"baby i love you"
"chapel of love"
"christmas (baby please come home)"
"(today i met) the boy i'm gonna marry"
"da doo ron ron"
"do wah diddy diddy"
"river deep, mountain high"
"the train from kansas city"

that's a hell of a list of credits.

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 22:04 (sixteen years ago)

Wow, I knew she had her hand in a bunch of great ones, but not that many.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 August 2009 03:12 (sixteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Wonder how many of you can tell me which word in the lyrics to "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey" is always messed up the transcribers.

― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 14:25 (four years ago)

Is it "clown" in the Hey Hey Hey Hey part? I'm not even sure what that word is?

― Josefa, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 15:32 (four years ago)

two years pass...

The drum fills played by the (anonymous?) drummer coming of the bridge in “Train…” is one of the greatest things in music.

― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Monday, 3 July 2023 23:24 (two years ago)

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