Love's Train - Con Funk Shun
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Love’s Train, Con Funk Shun’s signature love anthem about loving someone who is with someone else, almost didn’t make it as a song. When interviewed by Tony Wade for the Bay Area newspaper The Daily Republic, song co-writer Michael Cooper revealed how the song was written within the context of two band members chasing the same woman:
Love’s Train spent 48 weeks on the Billboard charts, peaking at #9 in May of 1983
The use of the word "train" in the song always made me laugh because I remember in high school, the entire class sang this song after word got around that one dude's girlfriend got a train ran on her by some dudes at a rival school.
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Produced with Uncredited Vocals by Keith Sweat...
I always wondered if the Dru Hill cover was originally a Keith Sweat cover...
This and Dru Hill's "Share My World", Sweat produced also, sound like they should have been on Keith's 1996 album....
Cold ass song. Bump in my ride from time to time.
"Straight From The Heart" was the cut of cuts back then. Instant panty dropper.
Whenever I would take a girl to the Snooty Fox (Motor Inn)... I'd have this song playing in the cassette deck while we were on the way there. We'd stop and get some Popeye's chicken, with a couple of strawberry sodas (I ain't a complete savage). Then I'd get the room for four hours. And it was on like popcorn...
It's still in rotation.
Whenever I would take a girl to the Snooty Fox (Motor Inn)... I'd have this song playing in the cassette deck while we were on the way there. We'd stop and get some Popeye's chicken, with a couple of strawberry sodas (I ain't a complete savage). Then I'd get the room for four hours. And it was on like popcorn...
It's still in rotation.
Classic song in my slow jams folder
Rotates right through my pandora radio... shit bumps.. reminds me of my world when i was in my roaring 20's!!
Same shit. Lol. Used to fly in from the bay, pick up this chic (squirter), hit the Snooty Fox with a greasy burrito, Pioneer chicken and 2 bottles of Asti Spamonte folanari. Smashing. This song strikes my memory.
Not the Asti Spamonte???
Shit, I can't talk. I would take a couple of bottles of "Pink Champale."
Sometimes, depending on the female I was with, we'd hit the Black book store on Western and Exposition afterwards.
I keep and Old School Ballad folder on the computer and the phone. Gotta stay ready!
But that song holds a special place with me...
Also, we used to cha-cha to "If You Play Your Cards Right" That would lead in to other shit... Yes lawd!
dam i never knew tht ...n i have listened this song a million times ..top 10 fave cover ...
u can def hear him ...
verzuz hipped a lot of people to how talented Keith is ...wrote n produced hits for a lot of cats...