Talk:Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers song)

Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers song) has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: September 22, 2020. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers song) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 November 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the recording of "Waiting for a Train" introduced Jimmie Rodgers's trademark train whistle?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Waiting for a Train (Jimmie Rodgers song).

Wikipedia

Country music Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Country music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles related to country music on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Country musicWikipedia:WikiProject Country musicTemplate:WikiProject Country musicCountry music articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Songs

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Songs, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of songs on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SongsWikipedia:WikiProject SongsTemplate:WikiProject Songssong articles

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:04, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

1929 advertising for the release of "Waiting for a Train"

... that Jimmie Rodgers' song "Waiting for a Train" had to be again dubbed and re-released due that the sound of the double bass damaged the grooves of the original record? Sullivan, Steve; Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings; volume 1; page 446
- ALT1:... that Jimmie Rodgers' recording "Waiting for a Train" became his second best-selling song after its release? Porterfield, Nolan; Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler; page 162
- ALT2:... that the recording of "Waiting for a Train" introduced Jimmie Rodgers' trademark train whistle? Porterfield, Nolan; Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler; page 163

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Red, White and Blue (ship)

Improved to Good Article status by GDuwen (talk). Self-nominated at 18:38, 23 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Review underway. Promoted to GA status on 9/22. Article is long enough, well written, and is very solidly referenced. Some of the sourcing is to off-line book sources which are accepted in good faith. The first hook is awkwardly phrased. The alt 1 and alt 2 hooks look fine. The image is from Commons with a public domain licensing tag. However, the nominator needs to fulfill the QPQ requirement before this can be promoted. Cbl62 (talk) 19:35, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, GDuwen, your work on the Jimmie Rodgers oeuvre is appreciated. His influence on American music is profound. Cbl62 (talk) 19:45, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Cbl62: Thanks, I'm glad to be able to expand that kind of articles. As for the hook, the one about the train whistle should be OK. About the QPQ, I already reviewed the DYK Template:Did you know nominations/Red, White and Blue (ship). No idea if a bot is supposed to update that or what, but anyway maybe it is just waiting.GDuwenTell me! 20:09, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That alt 1 and alt 2 hooks are fine. I tend to agree with the nominator that alt 2 is best.Cbl62 (talk) 22:19, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Add a link to Blue yodel?

Hi GDuwen, thanks for this article. I think a link to Blue yodel is warranted but not sure where. Maybe even a See also? JennyOz (talk) 04:13, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@JennyOz: Well, there was really no part of the article discussing the series of songs as a group. So I decided not to link it. I name number one and four, but I already got something in mind to link it anyway in a near future.--GDuwenHoller! 21:36, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article might note that the tune is the same as "The Sidewalks of New York" without the chorus. I have no source for that, but someone can find it... Wastrel Way (talk) 13:29, 27 July 2021 (UTC) Eric[reply]

Boz Scaggs

Boz Scaggs also covered Waiting For a Train. I believe it was his first album. No mention of it here. Lhammer610 (talk) 14:45, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Lhammer610: There were also other covers also mentioned on that section of the article, but they were removed during the Good Article review due to Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs#Cover versions/multiple renditions. Mentions of the covers are made when either the version of an artist charted or when it happens to be notable enough for some other reason than "it was included in such album". Many articles need a cleanup regarding that.--GDuwenHoller! 18:37, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]