The Orange Blossom
Special
"Say Man, When You Going Back To
Florida ?"
Going Back To Florida
Johnny
Cash's Orange Blossom Special
LP Columbia CS-9109 1965
Is No Longer Available New
On The Original Recording, who Speaks The
Line "Hey Man, When you Going Back To Forida ?" " Orange Blossom
Special" And Speaks The Captain On "The Legend Of John Henry" None Of The
Liner Notes that I have Read, Never have Indentified This Person
Pop Staples Is The Mystery Man's Voice !!!
Note:
"Johnny Cash". I recorded
“Orange Blossom Special” in the mid 60’s and in those days everybody
that recorded it claimed the arrangement because no one knew who wrote it.
But Mother Maybelle Carter was at the session, and I asked her, do you
know who really wrote “Orange Blossom special”? She said, Sure I Do.
Ervin Rouse and his brother Gordon. And I said. Last time I heard, they
were in Florida. It was the only clue I had. I called a disc jockey down
there named Cracker Jim Brooker, and I asked Cracker Jim, Did you ever
hear of Ervin Rouse? And he said, Aw, I know Ervin. He lives with the
Seminoles out in the swamp buggies for a living. I said, You got any idea
how I can talk to him?
And he said, Sure. I’ll
announce it on the air Evrin call me and I’ll give you Johnny Cash’s
number. It wasn’t an hour till Ervin Rouse called me from some little
settlement in the swamps. I said, Ervin, I happen to be coming to Miami on
tour. Would you come to my show and do “Orange Blossom Special” with
me? He and Gordon came in the clothes they worked in. I brought Evrin up
to play the fiddle, and he absolutely killed them. At the end of the song,
they were applauding and he literally got down on his knees. He was such a
sweet humble man. Gordon’s still living. I still see him every time
I’m down there.
Riding That
Train
1939
When the Rouse Brothers
Earl, Ervin and Gordon recorded “Orange Blossom Special” June 16, 1939
surly they never dreamed they were cutting a classic. But “Orange
Blossom Special” named for a passenger train, would become one of the
most played fiddle tunes of all time. Ervin, a fiddler himself, wrote the
song, which he originally titled “South Florida Blues” In time, The
re-titled “Orange Blossom Special” with its famed fiddle intro that
simulated the whine of a train, was recorded by Johnny Cash, the Great
instrumentalist Charlie McCoy, Charlie Daniels and others.
Words
To The Orange Blossom Special
Look Yonder Coming, Coming Down That
Railroad Tarck
Look Yonder Coming, Coming Down That Railroad Tarck
it's The Orange Blossom Special. Bring My Baby Back
Well, I'm Going Down To Florida, And Get
Some Sand In My Shoes
Or Maybe California, And Get Some Sand In My Shoes.
I'll Ride The Orange Blossom Special, And Lose These
New York Blues
"Say Man, When You Going Back To
Florida ?"
Going Back To Forida
Don't Know, Don't Reckon I Ever Will
"Ani't You Worried About getting Your Nourishment In
New
York?"
I Don't Care If I Do-Die-DoDie-Do.....
Hey Talk About A-rambling, She's The
Fastest Train
On The Line.
Hey Talk About A-rambling, She's The Fastest Train
On The Line.
It's The Orange Blossom Special, Rolling Down The
Seaboard Line
Florida's State Flower
This Is A Popular Choice Even If It Is Not
A Beautiful Flower
Links To Words of Other Songs
Home Of The
Blues
Big River
I walk The
Line
I
Still Miss Someone
(
Ghost ) Riders In The Sky
Hank
And Joe And Me
All Over
Again
What I Care
Revised: September 02, 2007 |
