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Mr. Conductor
« on: May 29, 2008, 04:37:50 AM »
My real first introduction to a Beatle was when I was a kid and watched Ringo on "Shining Time Station" here in America, or "Thomas The Tank Engine" in England. I might be repeating a thread, but anyone else first introduced to Ringo this way?
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Re: Mr. Conductor
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2008, 09:20:01 AM »
No. But what's with the thread title?
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Re: Mr. Conductor
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2008, 07:20:45 PM »
He played a railroad conductor on the show.
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Re: Mr. Conductor
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2008, 09:40:54 PM »
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My real first introduction to a Beatle was when I was a kid and watched Ringo on "Shining Time Station" here in America, or "Thomas The Tank Engine" in England. I might be repeating a thread, but anyone else first introduced to Ringo this way?

I watched Shining Time Station when I was young too. The weird thing is that I was already into the Beatles and have seen pictures of Ringo on my dad's album covers.....but I never noticed that he was Mr. Conductor. then one day my dad was in the living room reading the newspaper while I was watching it and he heard his Ringo talking. he looked up from his paper and said "you know that's Ringo from the Beatles, right?"

my response? "No dad, that's Mr. Conductor." haha, gimme a break, I was like 7 years old at the time.
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Re: Mr. Conductor
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2008, 03:50:06 AM »
Hee, cute story, ShesCominDownFastYesSheIs.

You remind me of when I was young, and my parents wanted to see this movie because there was a certain actor in it. "But doesn't it spoil it," I asked, "if you realize this is a whole other guy and he's just pretending?"
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Re: Mr. Conductor
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2008, 07:50:08 PM »
He had a great voice for that part!
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Re: Mr. Conductor
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2008, 11:03:51 PM »


You gotta love Ringo......


(i think his expression says it all)
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Re: Mr. Conductor
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2008, 12:10:16 AM »
It says
"Thomas was a feisty little engine"
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Re: Mr. Conductor
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2008, 07:16:23 PM »
man I LOVED that show when I was little!  I didn't really realize that it was Ringo until about 7 years back when I "re-discovered" the Beatles and was looking at some of my dad's albums.  And at that it was originally played by George Carlin (I'm pretty sure...)  I found a couple of clips on YouTube.
Original Mr Conductor:
<a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpYcMBYWck" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpYcMBYWck</a>
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<a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBYKATLYlM&amp;feature=related" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBYKATLYlM&amp;feature=related</a>
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Re: Mr. Conductor
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2008, 03:28:29 PM »
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Re: Mr. Conductor
« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2008, 09:17:37 AM »
Oh wow, I remember watching "Shining Time Station" when I was a bit younger.  The thing is, I was already a Beatles fan by the time I first saw it, but I wasn't really aware that he acted in the show.  I didn't pay a lot of attention to the episodes until I noticed that the conductor's voice sounded an awful lot like Ringo's!  I think I spent days agonizing and wondering if it was really him or not.   ;D
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