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Age Of Mirrors Orange Blossom Special Ervin Rouse
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Available on bandcamp: • https://bobbryden.bandcamp.com/album/... • Spotify: • https://open.spotify.com/album/5HVjV2... • Apple Music: • / mirage • and Deezer: • https://www.deezer.com/us/album/70464592 • From '' Mirage '' • Label: A Major Record Label – MRL-8001 • Format: Vinyl, LP, Album • Country: Canada • Released: 1985 • Tracklist • A1 Wave About Her • A2 Juliet's Dancing • A3 Everything Looks The Same • A4 The Day The Earth Stands Still • A5 Breathless • B1 She Says Hello • B2 Talk Of The Crowd • B3 Civilian Of Discipline • B4 Simple Gift Of Love • B5 Orange Blossom Special • Bob Bryden (AKA Simon De Beaupre) - Vocals, Lyrics • Michael Allen Guild - Synthesizers, Electronic Drums • Neli Bishop - Synthesizers • Notes by Bob Bryden on bandcamp: • As Benzene Jag began to wind down as a band, drummer Dave Jones (AKA Michael Allen Guild), his long-time buddy Neil Bishop began to experiment with recording some of their electro-pop pieces. I came aboard and wrote concepts, lyrics and vocal melodies on top of their compositions. The result was the first Age of Mirrors album, 'Mirage', which was released at the end of August, 1985 and received considerable attention locally. Alternative radio station CFNY played tracks quite regularly and one track was even adopted as a theme for one of their regular radio programs. For fun, we decided to present ourselves mysteriously as some 'big hair' band - possibly from Europe, so we gave ourselves pseudonyms. I was Simon De Beaupre and Dave was Michael Allen Guild. Another reason for this was that we wanted to distance ourselves from past releases so as not to be pigeonholed. • © 1985 Bob Bryden • © 2014 Rdeg • ℗ 1985 A Major Record Label • ------------------------ • 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 . • Importance • By the 1950s, it had become a perennial favorite at bluegrass festivals, popular for its rousing energy. For a long time no fiddle player would be hired for a bluegrass band unless he could play it. • For many years, Orange Blossom Special has been not only a train imitation piece, but also a vehicle to exhibit the fiddler's pyrotechnic virtuosity. • Performed at breakneck tempos and with imitative embellishments that evoke train wheels and whistles, OBS is guaranteed to bring the blood of all but the most jaded listeners to a quick, rolling boil. • — Norm Cohen, author, Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong • Authorship • Other musicians, including Robert Russell Chubby Wise, have claimed authorship of the song. • As Chubby tells the story, one night, after he and fellow musician Ervin made their usual rounds, they decided to visit the Jacksonville Terminal in Florida and see what the fuss over the Orange Blossom Special train was all about . . • . . even though it was about three in the morning we went right into the Terminal and got on board and toured that train, and it was just about the most luxurious thing I had ever seen. • Ervin was impressed, too. And when we got done lookin' er over he said, 'Let's write a song about it.' So we went over to my place . . and that night she was born. • Sitting on the side of my bed. We wrote the melody in less than an hour, and called it Orange Blossom Special. • Later Ervin and his brother put some words to it. • Rouse copyrighted the song in 1938 and recorded it in 1939. • Bill Monroe, regarded by many as the father of bluegrass music, recorded the song (with Art Wooten on fiddle) and made it a hit. • Since then countless versions nave been recorded, among them Chubby's own, as an instrumental in a 1969 album, Chubby Wise and His Fiddle. • And that version, said Chubby, is the way it was written and the way it's supposed to be played. • Notable • Johnny Cash named his 1965 album after the song. • While bluegrass performers tend to play it as strictly an instrumental, Cash sang the lyrics, and replaced the fiddle parts with two harmonicas. • A version by Doug Kershaw peaked at no.9 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada in 1970. • It was the official theme song (1949-1977) for the Texas Cowgirls basketball team who barnstormed playing men's basketball rules against male opponents. Decked out with boleros, western hats, holsters and pistols over their basketball uniforms, the team entered the courts to the tune, dropping an article of western fashion with each fancy layup. • #electronicmusic • #electro
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