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Fun Music Information -> Roy Acuff

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Music Performer Pseudonyms:

Also known as: Claxton Roy Acuff. Submitted by: oldcountry

Music Performer Nicknames:

Known informally as: The King of Country Music. Submitted by: Martha Hankins

New Song Names:

Original Song Name
New Song Name
Submitter Name
"Wall-Bash Cannonball""Wabash Cannonball"Dawn Anwad
"Wabash Cannibal""Wabash Cannonball"Dawn Anwad

Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:

Song & Band Name
Song & Band Name
"Wabash Cannonball," Roy Acuff"Keep This Train A-Rollin'," Doobie Brothers

Remove a Letter From a Song Title:

"Freight Rain Blues" originally "Freight Train Blues"
Dana Thompkins
"Fright Train Blues" originally "Freight Train Blues"
Dana Thompkins
"The Great Speckled Bid" originally "The Great Speckled Bird"
Betty Samson

Add a Letter to a Song Title:

"Freight Train Bluets" originally "Freight Train Blues"
Bluets are a kind of small blue flowers.
Dana Thompkins
"Freight Strain Blues" originally "Freight Train Blues"
Dana Thompkins

Change a Letter:

"Freight Trail Blues" originally "Freight Train Blues"
Dana Thompkins
"Freight Train Glues" originally "Freight Train Blues"
Dana Thompkins
"The Great Spackled Bird" originally "The Great Speckled Bird"
Marcia Zarwetten-Grassi
"The Great Speckled Bard" originally "The Great Speckled Bird"
Marcia Zarwetten-Grassi

Song Parody Lyrics:

Original Song Name
Parody Song Name
Parody Author
"Wabash Cannonball""Oshkosh Overalls"Airfarcewon
"The Wabash Cannonball""The Tampa Cannibals"Michael McVey
"The Wabash Cannonball""No one Picked Like Ol' Les Paul"Airfarcewon
"My Filipino Baby""My Full a' Vino Baby"Airfarcewon
"The Wabash Cannonball""The Human Cannonball"Alvin Rhodes
"The Wabash Cannon Ball""Our Wimpish Canine Bull"Airfarcewon
"Night Train To Memphis""Can't The Right Wing Prevent This"William Tong

Songs for Duets, That Haven't Been Done Yet:

First Band/Song Name
Second Band/Song Name
New Song Name
Submittor
Wabash Cannonball
   Roy Acuff
Cannonball Noodle
   Silver Apples
Wabash Cannonball Noodle
Pepsi's Hartebeest

Band Name Anagrams:

O Cuff Ray Submitted by: Dana Thompkins

Real Places Mentioned in Songs:

"Wabash Cannonball"
The Lyrics:
She came down from Birmingham, one cold December day.
As she rolled into the station, you could hear all the people say,
There's a girl from Tennessee, she's long and she's tall,
She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball.
Why:
Refers to the U.S. state of Tennessee and to Birmingham, Alabama. (Despite the latter's "deep south" location. there CAN be cold December days there.) As noted in another post, the Wabash Cannonball was originally a mythical train, and oh, the convoluted route it fllowed to get to all the places in the song, which also include New York Chicago, St, Louis, and the hills of Minnesota!
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
"Wabash Cannonball"
The Lyrics:
The eastern states are dandy, so the people always say,
From New York to St. Louis and Chicago by the way.
From the hills of Minnesota where rippling waters fall,
No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannon Ball.
Why:
I've read that the Wabash Railroad was once an actual railroad, running from Detroit to Kansas City, and that it named one of its passenger trains "the Wabash Cannonball". But that was actually after this song was well known, so the real train was named for the song rather than the reverse. So the song originated as a song about a fictitious train. Possible origins of the name are a town and a river. The town of Wabash is in north central Indiana. The Wabash River originates in western Ohio, then flows westward across most of Indiana, passing by the town of Wabash. In western Indiana it turns southward, and then forms the southeren part of the border between Indiana and Illinois, before flowing into the Ohio River at the south end of that border. The fancifulness of the original fictitious train is reflected in all the places mentioned in the song, as if the train might go through all of them. It would take quite a contorted route for a single train to get to tall those places. Just the ones mentioned in this verse -- New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, Chicago, Illinois, and the state of Minnesota, are testimony to that. That is amplified by the reference in particular to the hills of Minnesota, as the hilliest part if Minnesota is in its northeast extremity. There are variant versions of this song, and I've found lyrics listed for one vesrion that even refer to California and "icebound Labrador", as if the train went those places too!
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale

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