I'm a Train

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox song | name = I'm a Train | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = [[Albert Hammond]] | album = [[Albert Hammond (album)|Albert Hammond]] | B-side = Brand New Day | released = 16 March 1974 | format = | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = [[Pop rock]], [[soft rock]] | length = {{Duration|m=3|s=16}} | label = [[Columbia Records|Mums Records]] 2150 | writer = [[Albert Hammond]], [[Mike Hazlewood]] | producer = Albert Hammond, [[Roy Halee]] | prev_title = Half a Million Miles from Home | prev_year = 1973 | next_title = I Don't Wanna Die in an Air Disaster | next_year = 1974 }}

"'''I'm a Train'''" is a song written by [[Albert Hammond]] and [[Mike Hazlewood]] and performed by Hammond. It was first recorded in French, in 1967, by Les Troubadours as "La chaîne". The first English version was recorded in 1968 by a UK group called Colors of Love, which included singer [[Elaine Paige]].

==Albert Hammond recording== Hammond's own version, released in 1974, was the first one to chart. The song reached #15 on the [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Adult Contemporary chart]] and #31 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] in 1974.<ref>[http://www.musicvf.com/song.php?id=1628 Albert Hammond, "I'm a Train" chart positions] Retrieved 18 April 2013</ref> It also made number 2 in the then West Germany, where it stayed in the Top 20 for 14 weeks.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~topsi/deu1974/deu_1974t.html |title=Infinity Charts - German Top 20 |access-date=20 December 2021 |archive-date=20 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220000943/http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~topsi/deu1974/deu_1974t.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> It also reached the Top 3 in Switzerland, the Top 10 in the Netherlands, Norway and the Flemish part of Belgium, and reached number 22 in the French-speaking part of Belgium.<ref>[http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Albert+Hammond&titel=I%27m+A+Train&cat=s Swedish Charts website]</ref> The song appeared on Hammond's 1974 album, ''[[Albert Hammond (album)|Albert Hammond]]''.<ref>[http://www.musicvf.com/album.php?artist=Albert+Hammond&album=Albert+Hammond Albert Hammond, ''Albert Hammond''] Retrieved 18 April 2013</ref> The song was produced by him and [[Roy Halee]]<ref>[http://www.45cat.com/record/smum2150 Albert Hammond, "I'm a Train"] Retrieved 18 April 2013</ref> and also was featured, along with filmed footage of trains traveling, on ''[[Captain Kangaroo]]''.

==Charts== {|class="wikitable sortable" !Chart (1974) !Peak<br/>position |- | Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=132}}</ref> |align="center"|85 |- |New Zealand ([[New Zealand Listener|Listener]]) <ref>https://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=search%20listener&qsongid=4094#n_view_location search Listener</ref> |align="center"|7 |- | US ''Billboard'' [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Easy Listening]] |align="center"|15 |- | US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] |align="center"|31 |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:I'm a Train}} [[Category:1974 songs]] [[Category:1974 singles]] [[Category:Songs written by Albert Hammond]] [[Category:Songs written by Mike Hazlewood]] [[Category:Albert Hammond songs]] [[Category:Elaine Paige songs]] [[Category:Columbia Records singles]]