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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]
James Last (German pronunciation: [tʃeɪms last], [dʃeɪms lɑːst]; born Hans Last; 17 April 1929 – 9 June 2015) [1] was a German composer and big band leader of the James Last Orchestra.
James V. "Jimmy" Henley (September 2, 1963 – March 22, 2020) was an American banjo player who played bluegrass music.He won several banjo contests as a young boy. As a young boy he met country music star Roy Clark at the New Mexico State Fair and Clark invited him to perform on National television.
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.
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 ...
Douglas James Kershaw (born January 24, 1936 [1] [2]) is an American fiddle player, singer, and songwriter from Louisiana.Active since 1948, he began his career as part of the duo Rusty and Doug, along with his brother, Rusty Kershaw.
Trick fiddling is employed, often built upon cross bowing technique such as used in Orange Blossom Special or Beaumont Rag. Bowing by fiddle players is quite different in that they may intentionally grip the frog in a cruder manner and typically choke up on the bow.
Fiddle, "Csárdás" & "Orange Blossom Special" 2nd runner-up Preliminary Talent Award Utah: Gina Larsen Provo 21 Popular Vocal, "Greatest Love of All" Vermont: Erica Van Der Linde Old Bennington 21 Classical Piano, "Waldesrauschen" Non-finalist Talent Award Virginia: Kimberly Johnson Coeburn 19 Vocal & Piano, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Washington