Night Train

[Dave Monroe]

Of course he didn't compose it, but he sure did OWN
it.  Having spun hours of JB et al. vinyl last night
...  

--- andrew walser <andrew.walser at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>       First, of course, all credit and respect to
> James Brown.
>         Second, "Night Train" is not his
> composition, but Jimmy Forrest, Oscar Washington,
> and Lewis Simpkin's.  (Most sources credit the riff
> itself to Duke Ellington -- "Happy-Go-Lucky Local,"
> I believe.)
>         By the time Brown released his definitive
> rendition, in 1962, "Night Train" had become a
> standard -- which means that Pynchon may have had
> dozens of other versions in mind, particularly since
> the composition of the passage in V. may predate
> 1962.
>         RIP anyway, JB.  And merry Christmas to all,
> whatever that may mean to you.  (To me it means,
> mostly, French silk pie.)

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