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"Orange Blossom Special" is a fiddle tune about the luxury passenger train of the same name. The song was written by Ervin T. Rouse (1917–1981) in 1938 and was first recorded by Rouse and his brother Gordon in 1939. Often called simply "The Special" or "OBS", the song is commonly referred to as "the fiddle player's national anthem". [1] [2]
Arrival of the Orange Blossom Special, December 1938 in Plant City, Florida. It happened during the maiden run of the new streamlined train at the Jacksonville Seaboard Railroad Station that Ervin T. Rouse and Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise saw this train. Rouse and Wise wrote the Orange Blossom Special song as a fiddle tune. The tune was first ...
Orange Blossom Special may refer to: Orange Blossom Special (train) , a passenger train operated by the Seaboard Air Line Railway from 1925 to 1953 "Orange Blossom Special" (song) , a 1938 song written by Ervin T. Rouse
Songs with lyrics; Canonical Tunes. Orange Blossom Special Also known as "OBS", Orange Blossom Special exploits the capacity of fiddle or violin to imitate various ...
Ervin Thomas Rouse (September 19, 1917 – July 8, 1981) was an American fiddler and songwriter, largely known for his widely recorded "Orange Blossom Special" (1938).He also wrote the 1940s Moon Mullican hit "Sweeter Than The Flowers", which has also become a bluegrass standard.
They toured Europe, and one of their early records, "Orange Blossom Special", became their first big international hit, making the Top 30 in the UK Singles Chart in 1962 on the Oriole label, [4] and reaching No. 1 in Australia.
The fifth song on that album, widely regarded as her magnum opus, is “All Too Well.” But even looking at the albums before Red , the pattern was already there.
The song "Orange Blossom Special" later became a regular part of Cash's concerts, with Cash performing both harmonica parts himself, usually with a dual-harmonica technique. During a performance included on his At Folsom Prison live album, Cash jokes that the song requires him to "change harmonicas faster than kiss[ing] a duck".