Homer and Jethro, a country music comedy team, recorded a parody of this song that included the lines "Throw mama from the train, but quick, but quick.".The title, as printed on the sheet music - Mama From the Train (A Kiss, A Kiss) - and the first line of the refrain - "Throw Mama from the train a kiss, a kiss" - inspired two parodies: In Australia the song afforded Page a #31 hit. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #12 on the Best Seller chart, at #17 on the Juke Box chart, at #12 on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #11. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on November 3, 1956. This recording was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70971.
The best-known version was recorded by Patti Page. The song is about memories of a now-deceased mother, whose Pennsylvania Dutch-influenced English leads to quaint phrasings. " Mama From the Train", also known as " Mama From the Train (A Kiss, A Kiss)", is a popular song written by Irving Gordon and published in 1956. JSTOR ( October 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Mama from the Train" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. M Train is a meditation on endings and on beginnings: a poetic tour de force by one of the most brilliant, multi-platform artists at work today.This article does not cite any sources. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories, including of her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss.
We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud and Mishima.
M Train is a journey through seventeen “stations.” It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Train Knopf Canada – October 6th, 2015įrom the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey into the mind of this legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has visited and worked in around the world.
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