Original release Weekly charts Chart (1973) Michael Hossack – drums, congas, timbales.John Hartman – drums, percussion, vocals.

Patrick Simmons – guitar, ARP synthesizer, vocals.

Tom Johnston – lead guitar, harmonica, ARP synthesizer, vocals.

The staff of Billboard rated it as the Doobie Brothers' sixth-best song, noting how Johnston's and Patrick Simmons' 'punchy guitars' contrast with 'the jammy polyrhythms' in the bass and drums. Ultimate Classic Rock critic Michael Gallucci rated 'Long Train Runnin '' the Doobie Brothers' second-greatest song, especially praising the guitar riff. Johnston performed the lead vocal and the rhythmic guitar strumming that propels the song and also performs the harmonica solo.īillboard described it as 'good-timey, good-harmony AM cooker.' Cash Box praised the Doobies' 'fine harmony and musical prowess.' Teddy, on the other hand, thought it had some.' Templeman convinced Johnston to write words to the song. '.I just considered it a bar song without a lot of merit. 'I didn't want to cut it,' Johnston later confessed. Its working title, according to Johnston, was 'Rosie Pig Moseley' and later 'Osborn'. The tune evolved from an untitled and mostly ad-libbed jam that the Doobies developed onstage years before it was finally recorded. In 1993, the Doobie Brothers' version was remixed and charted again in several countries, including reaching No. It was covered by the Italian band Traks in 1982, and then by the British girl group Bananarama in 1991. It was included on the band's 1973 album The Captain and Me and was released as a single, becoming a hit and peaking at No.

' Long Train Runnin '' (or ' Long Train Running') is a song recorded by The Doobie Brothers and written by band member Tom Johnston.

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