Looking for Kids version of "Kalamazoo to TImbuktu" - 19 years !! looking HELP PLEASE

[sgail]

I am looking for a children's song put out in the mid 1960's that was a take off fromt eh song Kalamazoo to Timbuktu....it started out with vocal lyrics.." Theres' a train in the station at kalamazoo, and it soon will be leaving on track number two..just hear those whistle blow..all aboard let's go..this train is bound from Kalamazoo, rith to Timbuktu.....( then it would call off the stops like a real conductor...perioa, hymalaning, tenugy, tyro and TIMBUKTU.....then the chours started tootaly oooo,..ooo.ooo good bye...Kalamazoo .oo..oo.oo good bye..mister engineer, besure the track is clear ..we'll roll in out of here from Kalamazoo to TImbuktu...in timbuktu the sky is blue and the sun shines over head, but in kalamazoo, the sky is gray and the trees are green and red..its great to be in Timbuktu, but lets get back to Kalamazoo....We'll gonna turn the train around...Kalamazoo we're homeward bound..oh me oh my..watchty eh towns fly bye..we'll going all the way down the track from Kalamazoo.......to timbuktu......and BACK..I have got to find the album or the label ....it also had dozens of other tunes like..Donw by the stations, Casey Jones, to work upon the railway, get on board little children, ,,now that I think about it it must have been a of a series of albums on a 5-7 album set...and this record was aboutn railroads..anyway I have got to find that song..Mitch Miller did it with a grojup of female singers I think called the Cherilles sisters...PLEASE SOMEON HLEP ITS BEEN over 10 YEARS and I am really frustrated

[supakev]

Why not contact these people, or other record stores in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Flipside Records
309 North Burdick - Kalamazoo, MI 49007

I found this address here

http://www.recordcollectorsguild.org/record_stores/michigan.html

[autoharper]

The album you recall, Golden Record Library (12 volumes) A Musical Heritage for Young America, Volume 8, America On The Move (Railroad Songs) is for sale for $2 on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com...84665512&sr=1-1-fkmr1

Discographical info is posted here:

http://www.discogs.co...erica/release/2185530

No information about the performers is available.

-Adam Miller
Folksinging.org Media URL: http://www.amazon.com/America-Move-Treasury-Songs-Travel/dp/B001DT2TVK/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1284665512&sr=1-1-fkmr1
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[autoharper]

I grew up with these recordings: The Golden Record Library (USA) A Musical Heritage for Young America. It was a 12 volume set. You recall volume 8, America On The Move (Railroad Songs). These were issued in the late 1950's. Today, you can buy volume 8 from Amazon.com (US) for $2.00:

http://www.amazon.com...84665512&sr=1-1-fkmr1

The complete discographical information (sadly no identification of the singers) is here:

http://www.discogs.co...erica/release/2185530

-Adam Miller
Folksinging.org

[Hoory]

19 years? I've been seeking this over 25 as my mom lives abroad and has had a few Golden Records, including this, with her since 1950s.
Here you are, found it a quarter hour ago.
Enjoy!
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/wilderworld/episodes/2008-09-25T01_13_30-07_00