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PLCProf posted:

On a semi-related tangent, those of us of a certain age range undoubtedly remember the original Captain Kangaroo theme song. That song was called "Puffin' Billy" and was written in 1934 by Edward White; inspired by a steam locomotive called Puffin' Billy that he saw on a trip to the Isle of Wight. If you listen to the song all the way through there is a bit of a locomotive motif to it, but I never made the connection until fairly recently.

1934 isn't classical, admittedly.

But doesn't the music stop when you set down your keys?  

hobby-go-lucky posted:
PLCProf posted:

On a semi-related tangent, those of us of a certain age range undoubtedly remember the original Captain Kangaroo theme song. That song was called "Puffin' Billy" and was written in 1934 by Edward White; inspired by a steam locomotive called Puffin' Billy that he saw on a trip to the Isle of Wight. If you listen to the song all the way through there is a bit of a locomotive motif to it, but I never made the connection until fairly recently.

1934 isn't classical, admittedly.

But doesn't the music stop when you set down your keys?  

Leave "it" in; "the key".

A head of stem & the right flags on the beams make it easy tune deal with   

  

There was a feature in Tom McComas' video VHS magazine Toy Train Revue number 12 (circa 1994) just to show trains running for about 15 minutes to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker suite, and George Gershwin's An American in Paris. Here's a little snippet that made it into the I Love Toy Trains series. Props to Joe Stachler for the editing of the clips.

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Mikado 4501 posted:

There was a feature in Tom McComas' video VHS magazine Toy Train Revue number 12 (circa 1994) just to show trains running for about 15 minutes to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker suite, and George Gershwin's An American in Paris. Here's a little snippet that made it into the I Love Toy Trains series. Props to Joe Stachler for the editing of the clips.

I absolutely loved it! Thank you so much, Thomas, for sharing it with us.

Arnold

Here’s another train video I made today with very passionate and majestic music.

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor (beginning of First Movement):

I believe this music was performed and popularized in the late 1950s by the great American pianist, Van  Cliburn. My older sister had a record of Van Cliburn playing this music.

Arnold

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Mikado 4501 posted:

There was a feature in Tom McComas' video VHS magazine Toy Train Revue number 12 (circa 1994) just to show trains running for about 15 minutes to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenberg Concerto No. 3, Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker suite, and George Gershwin's An American in Paris. Here's a little snippet that made it into the I Love Toy Trains series. Props to Joe Stachler for the editing of the clips.

Bravo! Bravo!!  Excellent timing of the clips and music.

(Great thread. Who would have thought?)

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