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Orange Blossom Special, 1965
Ervin T. Rouse, 1938
A bluegrass fiddle tune given the John R. Cash treatment and turned into a country train standard. Who doesn't love a song about trains? I love Cash's harmonica playing and his vocal train noises, and the spoken word dialogue. "I don't care if I do, die, do, die, do, die, do, die." (Sidebar: This dialogue would be evoked, or parodied, 26 years later by the Violent Femmes in their song "Hey Nonny Nonny," which also later borrows from "Sympathy For the Devil." Those imps!) And jarring as it is, I even dig the yakkety sax horn break by Boots Randolph. This song was deservedly a big hit and apparently Cash, ever generous with his celebrity, helped bring the writer, Ervin Rouse, to the public eye.
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