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Released on Elektra, also Just Like Heaven (The Cure), For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica) and Killer Queen (Queen)
Written by Larry Knechtel, also Picture in Your Mind (Bread) and Nobody Like You (Bread)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
David Gates wrote 50 songs on fono
David Gates’s most frequent co-writer is James Griffin (5 songs together)
David Gates first appears on fono in 1963, 15 years before this song
Larry Knechtel first appears on fono in 1972, 6 years before this song
Credits
All 9 credits
- Written by
- David Gates and Larry Knechtel
- Performed by
- David Gates, Dean Parks, Jim Horn, Larry Knechtel and Michael Botts
- Part of
- Goodbye Girl
- Released on
- Elektra
- Written by
- David Gates and Larry Knechtel
- Performed by
- David Gates, Dean Parks, Jim Horn, Larry Knechtel and Michael Botts
- Part of
- Goodbye Girl
- Released on
- Elektra
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: Larry Knechtel
Same label: Elektra
Same writer: Larry Knechtel
Same label: Elektra
Same label: Elektra
Elsewhere
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1MusicBrainz Took the Last Train was performed by David Gates
Took the Last Train was performed by David Gates
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
2MusicBrainz Took the Last Train was performed by Dean Parks
Took the Last Train was performed by Dean Parks
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
3MusicBrainz Took the Last Train was performed by Jim Horn
Took the Last Train was performed by Jim Horn
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz Took the Last Train was performed by Larry Knechtel
Took the Last Train was performed by Larry Knechtel
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
5MusicBrainz Took the Last Train was performed by Michael Botts
Took the Last Train was performed by Michael Botts
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
6MusicBrainz Took the Last Train was written by David Gates
Took the Last Train was written by David Gates
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
7MusicBrainz Took the Last Train was written by Larry Knechtel
Took the Last Train was written by Larry Knechtel
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
8MusicBrainz Took the Last Train is part of the release Goodbye Girl
Took the Last Train is part of the release Goodbye Girl
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
9MusicBrainz Elektra is the label of the song Took the Last Train
Elektra is the label of the song Took the Last Train
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
10MusicBrainz Took the Last Train was released on 1978
Took the Last Train was released on 1978
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026