Train Ride to Hollywood

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Train Ride to Hollywood
📅 Released	1975
🎙️ Recorded	1975
Studio	The Village Recorder, Los Angeles Nova Sound Studios, London Decca Tollington Park Studios, London
⏳ Length	31:34
🏷️ Label	London
🤑 Producer	Mike Vernon
Bloodstone chronology
Riddle of the Sphinx (1974) Train Ride to Hollywood (1975) Do You Wanna Do a Thing (1976)

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Train Ride to Hollywood is the sixth album by the soul group Bloodstone, released in 1975. It was the soundtrack album for the motion picture of the same name, which starred the group.

For the Train Ride to Hollywood movie, the members of Bloodstone wrote six songs and also incorporated cover versions of well-known pop standards, drawing from early rock and roll, traditional pop, and Motown. Cover versions of five such songs were included.

Reception

On behalf of the Los Angeles Free Press, Todd Everett wrote that the songs on the soundtrack LP were "all impeccably performed by one of the most intelligent, tasteful, and musical R&B groups to be found." Everett went on to say that this LP was not really "a 'soul album,' though elements of that music (including a funny tribute to James Brown) are included."

Dave Marsh, writing for AllMusic, noted that although the album "didn't make the charts, [...] it's nevertheless one of the best soul-funk-rock fusions of its era."

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"As Time Goes By"	Herman Hupfeld	2:33
2.	"Yakety Yak"	Leiber and Stoller	1:48
3.	"Train Ride"	Charles McCormick, Charles Love, Willis Draffen, Jr., Harry Williams	4:22
4.	"What Do I Have To Do?"	Love	2:22
5.	"Hurray For Romance"	McCormick	2:24
6.	"Rock 'n' Roll Choo-Choo"	McCormick, Love, Williams, Draffen	2:46

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Go To Sleep"	Draffen	3:01
2.	"Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)"	Dan Russo, Ernie Erdman, Gus Kahn, Ted Fiorito	2:54
3.	"I'm in Shape"	Williams	2:13
4.	"Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream)"	Carl Feaster, Claude Feaster, Floyd McRae, James Keyes, William Edwards	2:10
5.	"Money (That's What I Want)"	Berry Gordy, Janie Bradford	5:40

Personnel

• Willis Draffen - vocals, guitar
• Charles Love- vocals, guitar
• Charles McCormick - vocals, bass
• Harry Williams - vocals, percussion

Additional musicians

• Ernest Draffen - piano (side one, track one)
• Jim Douglas – banjo
• Jeff Perkins – bass trombone
• Johnny Barnes – clarinet
• Harvey Weston – double bass
• Pip Williams – guitar, orchestral arrangements
• Martin Fry – sousaphone
• Pete Wingfield – piano, clavinet
• Howie Casey – tenor saxophone
• Plas Johnson – tenor saxophone (side one, track two)
• Malcolm Duncan – tenor saxophone (side two, track three)
• Roger Nobes, Steve Ferrone – drums
• Tony Carr – percussion (congas, bongos, maracas)
• Lennox Laington – percussion (congas, maracas)
• Dick Parry – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Maurice Pert – timbales, timpani, cowbell, claves
• Billy Graham, Dave Sharman, Reg Brooks, Roy Williams - trombones
• Alex Welsh, Jimmy Wilson, John Huckridge, Martin Drover, Mike Davies - trumpets
• John Sheppard - violin
• Tristan Fry - xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel

Production

• Mike Vernon - producer
• Kevin Fuller, Richard Dodd, Rick Heenan - engineers
• Bob Ludwig - mastering

External links

• Bloodstone-Train-Ride-To-Hollywood at Discogs

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