Johnny Cash - "Orange Blossom Special" video free download


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The fiddle tune "Orange Blossom Special", about the passenger train of the same name, was written by Ervin T. Rouse (1917-1981) in 1938. The original recording was created by Ervin and Gordon Rouse in 1939. It is considered the best known fiddle tune of the twentieth century and is often called simply The Special. It has been referred to as "the fiddle player's national anthem".

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 song as a fiddle tune. It has been called the best known fiddle tune of the twentieth century. The tune was first recorded by Ervin and his brother Gordon one year later in New York. Bill Monroe recorded Rouse and Wise's tune in 1942 (with Art Wooten on fiddle) and popularized the tune. Johnny Cash named his 1965 album after the song. The song was also recorded by Bill Ramsey and Don Paulin.

The Orange Blossom Special was a deluxe passenger train operated primarily by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad between New York City and Miami in the United States.

The train was handled by the Pennsylvania Railroad from New York City to Washington, D.C., the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad from Washington to Richmond, and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad from Richmond via Raleigh, Columbia, Savannah and Jacksonville to Miami. A section went to Tampa and St. Petersburg, as a winter season only service.

Inaugurated on November 21, 1925, the service was the brainchild of SAL president S. Davies Warfield, who wanted to capitalize on the booming development that was taking place in Florida at the time. Warfield believed that Florida was a land of opportunity, and with the addition of fast, luxurious train travel, he could lure influential (not to mention wealthy) business leaders to the Sunshine State.

Comments

8 years ago

Coparroch o

HA!!!!!....I had this same VHS, the whistle at the beginning was the Pt-47 #112 ... When i was a kid, the daylight scene coming (2:26), with the lights and specially with the orginial sound and whistle in the VHS was something REALLY scary, than impressed me forever...the narrator: "The egine of the Daylight, with its 400 hundred tons of weight..."

8 years ago

Stuart Safford

I saw the train coming!

8 years ago

codeeast1224

Well, I don't care if I do-die-do-die-do-die-do-die."

8 years ago

Patrick Galleguillos

Too bad the train isn't American!!!

8 years ago

Nick Wummer

Its a great song jus wish u wouldve used American trains for the video instead of European trains

8 years ago

smokeythehobo

Great song by Johnny Cash!! Love that harmonica!!

9 years ago

Leon Barbee

I've always loved the old steam engines and Johnny Cash has always been one of my favorite singers. Thanks for sharing this, along with those pictures.

9 years ago

Soo Line

I have a plate from the Special.

9 years ago

Wyatt Collins

I always knew the Flatt and Scruggs version, which is instrumental. I wonder, did Johnny Cash make up these lyrics or did Flatt and Scruggs just leave them out? If anyone knows I would like to find out.

9 years ago

Canmore Music Videos

Brilliant

9 years ago

fritshits65

KILLER footage!!!

9 years ago

Mark Wounded Arrow Nipp

I LOVE THE HARMOINICA!!!! DAMN TURN IT UP!!!

9 years ago

Noth Ankyou

Harmonica that sounds like a train! I was born in 71 and remember this from my dad's old folding record player - amazingly rich sound from a single speaker.

9 years ago

Grant Tnarg

californee

9 years ago

jpsholland

I am raised with this music together with Merle Haggerd, Box Car Willy and Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs. Not bad for a Dutch boy aint it?

9 years ago

MrKeyboardDK

~THE MAN IN BLACK...~

9 years ago

MisterMisterFun

don't mess with my speeds

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