OK...LaughKat --- you have the night shift and now you to work tonight....Here is another try-

Long Steel Rail – The Railroad in American Folksong, Norm Cohen, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1981, p.453-458.

Have patience this WILL connect into "Orange Blossom" but, the yodel part…. (which was stumbled upon) ties in slightly, to the other thread currently posted, so here are some excerpts….(have we considered adopting an APA or MLA style for references – or do we continue – catch as catch-can ….to make it folksy?)

"As for Rodger's distinctive yodel, he was not the first country singer to yodel on record, that honor fell to Riley Puckett three years before Rodgers made his first recording. But Rodger's melding of the twelve-bar blues format with the yodeling chorus was probably original – at least, original on record (Jimmie Rodgers, "Brakeman's Blues" recorded Feb. 14, 1928 (Victor master 41738); released on Victor 21291; reissued on RCA Victor LPM 2112; Jimmie the Kid. An almost identical stanza appears in Sam McGee, "Railroad Blues," Champion S16804, Decca 5348; reissued on County 511: A Collection of Mountain Blues. And to Ralph Peer, the astute talent scout, publisher, and manager who "found" Rodgers and helped build him up, goes the credit for originating the term blue yodel as he had earlier first applied the terms hillbilly and race to the phonograph business."

p. 454 "….In their now-classic bluegrass instrumental, "Orange Blossom Special" the Rouse Brothers change this couplet:

Look-a-yonder comin', comin' down the railroad track,
Look-a yonder comin', a comin' down the rail road track;
It's the Orange Blossom Special, it's a-bringin' my baby back."

p. 455 "Rouse Brothers, "Orange Blossom Special," recorded June 16, 1939 (RCA Victor master BS-037358), in New York City; released on RCA Bluebird B-8218; reissued on RCA Victor LPV-532; The Railraod in Folksong. For an account of how this piece was composed, based on the recollections of fiddler Chubby Wise, who was present at the time, see Ivan M. Tribe, "Chubby Wise: One of the Original Bluegrass Fiddlers," Bluegrass Unlimited, 11 (Feb., 1977), 10-12. Wise recalled that he and Ervin Rouse put together the instrumental part of the composition one evening after seeing the Seaboard Air Line's new streamliner, the Orange Blossom Special, Later, Ervin and his brother Jack added lyrics and copyrighted the song."

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