...I interviewed Chubby in 1993 and he told me that he and Ervin Rouse had written OBS in Jacksonvil

Just caught the last 15 minutes of a program on OVATV about Irvin Rouse and how he came about to write possibly the most famous fiddle tune of all time The Orange Blossom Special. Seems the man was mentally ill in his later life...sad. There is also a killer version of OBS by Vassar, Rice, Flux, Bush, Rowan, Fleck, Sutton etc at the end of the program. Hope to catch it again in its entirety soon.
If you'd like to read about Ervin Rouse, Chubby myrtle beach oceanfront hotels Wise, and how Orange Blossom Special was written myrtle beach oceanfront hotels and performed, there's a good book, Orange Blossom Boys, by Randy Noles (Centerstream Publishing, PO Box 17878, Anaheim Hills CA 92807, published 2002). I have the Rouse Brothers original 1930's recording on a reissue LP; Ervin was an excellent and inventive fiddler -- and we all know how great Chubby Wise was.
Rouse, before his death in 1981 at age 64, had prolonged battles myrtle beach oceanfront hotels with alcoholism, kidney and liver failure, and mental illness; always eccentric, his erratic behavior accelerated in his later years, and he was under public guardianship when he died. Royalties from Orange Blossom Special kept him from poverty, and Noles notes he had $150K in various bank accounts at the time of his death. Orange Blossom Boys also spends a good deal of time on Wise's career; myrtle beach oceanfront hotels he claimed co-authorship of the tune, but Noles doubts the claim.
Our bass players father worked with Ervin Rouse for years, myrtle beach oceanfront hotels Gene Christian...he has the inside scoop on all that. Very interesting stories. BTW if you browse around on Genes videos, he talks about Authorship of the song.
I interviewed Chubby in 1993 and he told me that he and Ervin Rouse had written OBS in Jacksonville, Florida in 1939. As I recall he said they had gone down to see the famous Orange Blossom Special train arrive. Then they went back to their hotel room and decided to create a fiddle tune with train sounds, and wrote OBS in a couple hours. I'm not sure why Noles doubts Chubby's myrtle beach oceanfront hotels co-authorship, but I did hear Chubby tell me directly that he helped write it.
...I interviewed Chubby in 1993 and he told me that he and Ervin Rouse had written OBS in Jacksonville, Florida myrtle beach oceanfront hotels in 1939. As I recall he said they had gone down to see the famous Orange Blossom Special myrtle beach oceanfront hotels train arrive. Then they went back to their hotel room and decided to create a fiddle tune with train sounds, and wrote OBS in a couple hours. I'm not sure why Noles doubts Chubby's co-authorship, but I did hear Chubby tell me directly that he helped write it.
...interviewed Chubby in 1993 and he told me that he and Ervin Rouse had written OBS in Jacksonville, myrtle beach oceanfront hotels Florida in 1939. As I recall myrtle beach oceanfront hotels he said they had gone down to see the famous Orange Blossom Special myrtle beach oceanfront hotels train arrive. Then they went back to their hotel room and decided myrtle beach oceanfront hotels to create a fiddle tune with train sounds, and wrote OBS in a couple hours. I'm not sure why Noles doubts Chubby's co-authorship, but I did hear Chubby tell me directly that he helped write it...
Noles publishes in Orange Blossom Boys a facsimile copy of the original lead sheet for Orange Blossom Special, as submitted by Gordon Rouse [Ervin's brother, another member myrtle beach oceanfront hotels of the Rouse Brothers, which sometimes also included Earl Rouse] to the Library myrtle beach oceanfront hotels of Congress myrtle beach oceanfront hotels copyright office. The sheet is clearly receipt-stamped Oct. 23, 1938, which predates the train's exhibition tour stop in Jacksonville FL, the event Wise describes. As Noles says, the stamped date damag[es] Chubby's claims myrtle beach oceanfront hotels of co-authorship. The published sheet music also is labeled Copyright 1938, Words Music by Ervin T. Rouse. Rouse and Wise played together, and no doubt played OBS together around myrtle beach oceanfront hotels this time, but the lead sheet is definitely the melody as we play it now, and unless the date stamp's inaccurate, it seems that Wise's description myrtle beach oceanfront hotels of co-writing the song in 1939 can't be supported by currently available evidence.
As to the lyrics -- well, read Noles' book, because he goes into a lot of detail regarding the tune's origins, and how it got its lyrics. There may have been a prior tune called South Florida myrtle beach oceanfront hotels Blues, that both Rouse and Wise knew and played, that was rewritten and given lyrics myrtle beach oceanfront hotels by Gordon and Ervin Rouse, and their manager Lloyd Smith, on an automobile ride from Hialeah to Kissimmee, after the train stopped there in November 1938. The lead sheet that Gordon Rouse sent to the Library of Congress has no lyrics, and supposedly the tune wasn't published with lyrics until 1947, though the Rouse Brothers myrtle beach oceanfront hotels sang them on their June 1939 recording.
Not to change the subject myrtle beach oceanfront hotels but there is an old Stanley Bros song called, God Gave You To Me , it only has one verse so I wrote a second verse and when I play it I tell everyone that I co wrote it with Ralph Stanley...I never did get my verse copyrighted though...
Could be, I guess, but Wise consistently told of co-writing the tune in a hotel room with Ervin Rouse, after visiting the Orange Blossom Special train in Jacksonville in 1939. That was his story, myrtle beach oceanfront hotels and he pretty much stuck to it. There's a lot of oral history around the writing of OBS, probably partially due to Ervin Rouse's somewhat myrtle beach oceanfront hotels weird and disorganized life. A Texas fiddler named Leon Pappy Selph also claimed to have written it, for no apparent reason. Wise usually said that he refused to take royalties from his alleged myrtle beach oceanfront hotels co-authorship, out of a desire to help out Ervin Rouse, who never achieved Wise's musical success (fiddler in the first bluegrass band incarnation of the Blue Grass Boys, a long tenure with Hank Snow, lots of recordings on Stoneway Records out of TX). Noles' contention is that Wise wasn't entitled to royalties, based on the evidence.