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Topic: Orange Grove In California - Sol Hoopii
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Gerald Ross
Member From: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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posted 05 September 2001 07:12 PM
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This tune has been one of my favorites for the last five years and now I'm finally getting around to figuring it out. I'm arranging it in the key of D in a C13 tuning (CEGACE).Question: Has anyone ever heard a different version of this tune? I've only heard Sol's version. I know it's an Irving Berlin number so someone's probably recorded it. ------------------
Gerald Ross
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Brad Bechtel
Moderator From: San Francisco, CA
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posted 05 September 2001 07:44 PM
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I haven't heard another version of this song, but I did find references to two other versions on 78 rpm: one by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra and one by John Steele. It must be a very old song.I also found the lyrics:
http://www.geocities.com/pfw8015/rags/berlin/orangegroveincalifornia.txt "An Orange Grove In California"
by Irving Berlin
Copyright © 1923 by Irving Berlin VERSE:
I've a long-ing to go, where the or-an-ges grow;
I know a coz-y nest, 'way out west, And I miss it so Cal-i-for-nia my own,
Oh, how lone-ly I've grown, That's why I'm on the run,
To the one I left there all a-lone: CHORUS:
Arm in arm we will rove through a sweet or-ange grove, Far a-way in Cal-i-for-nia.
Like a bird I mean to fly west a-gain, And I'll hold her close to my breast a-gain,
When the blos-soms un-fold, And the green turns to gold,
Some fine day in Cal-i-for-nia,
You'll see a hap-py girl-ie and a hap-py fel-low,
'Mid the fields of yel-low, In an or-ange grove. ------------------
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Jody Carver
Member From: The Knight Of Fender Tweed. Dodger Blue Forever
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posted 05 September 2001 09:46 PM
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Brad in addition to your great steel guitar collection,,,,,you have a "great voice"
what key are you in,,,,sounds like a nice tune,,,,you have a great web site,,,,,take it from a guy who loves non pedal guitars...it is very informative,,,,Thanks for that.... |
Bill Leff
Member From: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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posted 06 September 2001 07:15 AM
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Hi Gerald! Rudi Wairata does an excellent version of this on a tape I purchased recently of his on the Maple label (sorry, forgot the name of the album). I haven't sat down with this particular tune but have with a few of the others on the tape, and from what I'm hearing Rudi uses an E6 tuning (E-C#-B-G-E-(? I put a D here) high to low. I really dig Wairata's playing. Heavily influenced by Hoopii. |
Bill Leff
Member From: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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posted 06 September 2001 07:16 AM
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That "G" in the tuning is a G#. My bad. |
George Keoki Lake
Member From: Edmonton, AB., Canada
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posted 10 September 2001 07:52 PM
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Back in 1985, on Maple MA1015 lp, I included Orange Grove amongst the selections played..rather pathetic, I must add. Anyway, the producer, (the late) Tom Shilstra tried to locate who the composer was. I told him it was Irving Berlin. He wrote to the Irving Berlin estate and they had no knowledge of him ever composing that song! I have the sheet music to prove it was composed by Irving Berlin. You might find this pathetic rendition at your local flee market. | |
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