I first heard Seatrain in early 1970 when I was listening to WKBW AM-1520 Buffalo, NY at night when I lived in Newark,DE. Seatrain was a rock group then, I was 16 then. Their version of one of my favorite songs about train-The Orange Blossom Special is good.
RED RAIL Nanuet NY early 70'sy owner Joe Santos [R.I.P Joe] knew how pick em and SEATRAIN was one of them, listening to the band, shots and beers, it just didn't get any better !!!
Art Napoli You are correct. A gorgeous Sunday on Belmont Plateau. And if you can recall it was the FIRST EARTH DAY CELEBRATION. Huge crowd great music and joints being passed around all day. A concert l remember often & always with fond memories. These guys were indescribable. Just playing for the sheer joy of entertaining the crowd & love of music.
I was there too! The first time I ever heard anything like this! I was completely blown away by Richard Greene and the band. It inspired me to become a professional musician and fiddle player. I even played on Bill Monroe's Bluegrass festivals in the late 70's. I've never heard anyone surpass this recording of OBS. I still play Richard's arrangement at live performances to this day.
Back in '71 these guys had a top 40 single called " 13 Questions" that I loved..bought the album , their second and thought this version of Orange Blossom really kicked some hillbilly bootie..still do !!
I've listened to every cover of this song I've ever come across & imo this version has never been surpassed. Seatrain was a one of a kind band & George Martin made this album a one of a kind masterpiece.
I saw them play this of 45 minutes without a break at Penn State in the 1970's at Rec Hall. The place was packed. Everyone left their seat and formed a train. The place was wild and I will never ever forget it. I love to listen a few times per year and will never get enough of this version of Orange Blossom Special. This one is the best. I can still feel the excitement!
I saw them during my first year in college in West Hartford, Ct. This was 1971! They were the best! I'm so sorry they broke up. Everyone went crazy!! As a violin player, I really appreciated them!
I saw Seatrain at the University of Maryland -- they were the wonderful opening act for Janis Joplin. The audience was impatient to see Janis. She did not like the fact that the audience did not appreciate Seatrain. She was drinking and cut her concert short, but she was amazing while she lasted.
There's a short clip on YT of Roy Clark showing what a master musician he was, and playing the fool of course, but when he plays Orange Blossom Special you can see that Richard Greene must have seen that on TV back in the day and gone, "Yep, I'm gonna play it just like Roy Clark." Seatrain were awesome.
I was just 15 when I discovered this brilliant and truly unique band of boys that rocked my music world. The hauntingly mesmerizing melodies with the flawless and intricate arrangements, were all driven by an instrument that didn`t come over with the British Invasion. Tight harmonies with progressive tempos made Seatrain an instant favorite to those who were fortunate enough to get their hands on this piece of vinyl . God bless older sibling . OBS by seatrain stands out as one of the best versions of one of the most recorded songs in music. Truly a masterpiece. And if you can listen to this tune without tapping your foot, hand or getting the urge to get up and bop, then . . . . . . . . . . . .
I played the grooves right off my vinyl LP of this album back in the 70s and this was my favorite track on it. I've heard hundreds of great recordings and live performances of OBS and this one's still my favorite by far. Brought tears listening to it again after many years. Thanks so much for posting it.
Recently found a box of old records on the curb in the trash. This was one of the records. Made a commitment to listen to every single song at least one full time. This is one of them... i think im in for a hell of a musical journey...
Tom: The reason this is one of the most popular clips on your channel is that this is hands down the best version of this song ever recorded and this song has been recorded thousands of times. Seatrain (with Peter Rowan fronting) was one of the most underrated bands of the day. Saw them in Spring of '71 at their heighth. They were simply awesome.
@@cyruschadrezzar9873 Not bad, but not one of those fiddlers can hold a candle to Richard Greene. Bill Monroe said Richard was the best fiddler he ever worked with. Bill worked with all the best.
Saw Seatrain at Fillmore West as the warmup for a Van Morrison concert 1970. Seatrain was actually a tad better than Van Morrison, I thought.Van Morrison was in a strange place. He was abusive to fans. I had heard he did that, sometimes. Moody. Seatrain's album with this song had just come out. Richard Greene came through Houston in the late 70's with a jazz band. He played a "Sweet Georgia Brown" that was the same quality or better than this OBS performance. Made te hair stand up on the back of my neck. He never recorded that one, though. I found an email for him about 10 years ago searching the web. We traded a few emails. He was playing bluegrass at the time. That was a trip down memory lane.
I owned this Seatrain album back in the year 1970 when i was 18 years old! I purchased it from Columbia Record Club at some point as part the contract obligation for receiving 10 free vinyl albums plus a small Columbia House record player to play them on! I purchased many wonderful albums for about 2 years.
I was fortunate to catch Seatrain in '71, at a little club in Georgetown called the Cellar Door. It was Kulberg, Baskin, Roberts, Amantuick (sp?), Rowan and the best fiddle player I've ever heard. Richard Greene was crazy fast, red socks, hush puppies, that big afro, and when he started workin that wah-wah pedal on OBS the place went wild. I was lost as lost could be, but the biblical background to some of their stuff spoke to me, and I kept both albums (Marblehead Messenger) in close and regular rotation. When I gave my life to Jesus in '97, I revisited their music, along with some tunes by folks like Daniel Moore and David Rea, and still seek out bands from the '70s that had shades of Christian doctrine to some if their stuff. And now I've come to realize the best singers and the best musicians are Christians. Try David Phelps or Stephen Hill or Bart Mallard or Anthony Burger. Many others. So...know Jesus, and you'll know peace.
I stayed on Richard Greene's sailboat in Sausalito Marina, Sausalito,California, when they were in England recording this at Abbey Road Studios in London, recording this.Produced by the late, great, Sir George Martin.
Had the pleasure of seeing Seatrain around Fall 1972 was going to UF, invited down to Clearwater, Fla. by a friend attending Florida Presbyterian College, (Now Eckerd College). They must have been flush then, they brought Seatrain down from NY to play for maybe 600 students. It was so great,swaying palms, cool breezes, mellow, laid back crowd, a little piece of heaven. Saw Peter Rowan a few years later as lead singer songwriter for New Riders of the Purple Sage. He now appears (still going!) with guitar legend Tony Rice and two lovely ladies, check out the vids on RUclips (the hobo song, midnight moonlight, old sante fe,) just fabulous, forty years later!!! Unbelievable!
God bless you,Tom Snyder for this post. I had Seatrain's 8-track and it got me through the deserts of the southwest as a traveling worker. I am enjoying listening to it right now for the first time in 35 years.
I don't know how many times I heard this traveling home from a gig in Minnesota on Clyde Clifford's "Beaker Street". This is my fave version of this tune, by far!
This band was formed a couple of years after Richard Greene left Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. He spent a short while in Jim Kweskin's Jug Band before helping to form Seatrain. This later incarnation of the band also included former Bluegrass Boy Peter Rowan (the guy wearing just Daisy Dukes and a hat on the cover of this album).
I heard it for the first time tonight on SiriusXM's Deep Tracks channel, which is one of the better reasons for having SiriusXM. Never heard of the song or band before but I'm glad I did, going to pick this up on CD real soon!
The BEST damn version of Orange Blossom Special ever recorded, IMHO. Of course, it’s nowhere to be found on Apple Music…. come on Apple get it together..Hire someone with some knowledge to pick music! Seatrain has always reminded me of California…circa 1970 , the Bay Area..
*Seatrain - Orange Blossom Special* This is my second-most popular video on my RUclips channel... and I have no idea why. I thought it was so obscure, that no one would bother to listen. _I guess I was wrong!_ See y'all tomorrow ;)
Seatrain was a find while I was quite young and impressionable in Monterey in the early 70s. We had an "underground" station (what FM was often referred to back then). Anyway, this was one of my favorite versions of the OB Special and still is. Thanks.
+Tom Snyder: Been looking for this for years. They played "warm up" for Allman Bros back in Marietta Ohio in '71 and brought the house down. Best concert ever- four bucks!!!
I totally agree, John McHugh! I'm afraid that you, and I, and the others will be the last persons to appreciate this era of music. But that's OK. Times changes. I'm just glad I/you were there to hear it. _Cheers!_
I saw this band as warm ~up group for someone else, but I thought this band was awesome!! Never understood why they weren't more popular!? I love all their music, quite telented!!🍊🍊
I did listen to this tune in Boston around 1980 when I got a Sea Train album by mistake well fortunately I did, since this tune is one of my all time favor I still have the record but this audio it is much better.....so glad that I have found this piece again...I live in Caracas and I have spreaded all around music lovers and Violin players to see if they get to do a live version of this wonderful theme
About 15 years ago I listened to our local radio station every weekend Q107 Psychedelic Sunday it got loads of airplay. I told my Bro about it and he got me a copy for my birthday. Doug Kershaw did a good rendition too, but this is my fave!
Charlie Daniels eat your hat......Best version ever! OBS! Me and the boys used to listen to this drinkin Shlitz ridin around in my van. Never thought I'd hear it again.
Brad, too funny! I lived in the San Fran bay area back when Sea Train was peaking, and had a van I lived in for a couple of years,(on and off). I'd grab my gf and a couple of buddies and head for the beach with Sea Train in the 8 track and fistfulls of Schlitz Malt Liquor! Yeee-haa! A six pack was $1.42 a lot of bang for your buck! (of course we never drank and drove, and all had seat belts on!)
I was a young hippy that had the opportunity to see Seatrain in Toronto during the Festival Express Concert tour which was a tour across Canada's major cities...They played during the afternoon on a hot sunny day but they got every lazy hippy off of their asses when they did this song...Richard Greene...excellent as were the rest of the band...The you tube videos don't do justice to the concert...
I like train songs and have ridden her partner The Silver Meteor from Miami to Savannah and back many times. The Silver Streak and the Silver Meteor still run to this day. The Orange Blossum Special was retired in 1959,I believe. I like Charlie Daniel's version and Johnny Cash version, but this sounds most like a train to me.
This song was written by Ervin Rouse and Chubby Wise on the night of November 8, 1938. Earlier that day they had gone to the Jacksonville Terminal to see the brand-new diesel locomotives the Seaboard Air Line had bought for their new streamlined train, the "Silver Meteor" on display to the public. The "Meteor" would not be inaugurated until the next year, so when the display tour was over, the engines would be used on the 1938-39 "Orange Blosson Special", a winter season train. The diesels were bright in "citrus" colors, yellow, green, and orange, with running gear painted silver, and the name "Orange Blosson Special" painted on the sides. It certainly impressed Rouse and Wise!
First heard Greene do this with Bill Monroe on a tape made by my hs girlfriend’s older brother at U of Wisconsin probably in 1964. I know he still has the recording. Hope he posts it. Monroe was adamant about Greene’s “ownership” of OBS.
I remember this version from the Seatrain album when it was first released and loved it. Thanks for sharing it. It's still my favorite of any version I've heard, and there are some great ones of this classic.
Saw Seatrain live back in the day in Toronto, might have been the Peace Train Festival or what some call Festival Express...anyway I was there and these guys blew everybody away...
I was just answering a friends post about old albums, and thought I'd take a chance to see if this was on RUclips yet. Thanks for posting it!!! You put a little bounce in this 67 year old body tonight. LOL
Ten Years After was the only band I ever walked out on. Legends in their own minds. Seatrain, on the other hand, could flat-out play. I played this for two classical violinists (university profs) who were parents of a friend, they were totally blown away. Then "Song of Job" killed them. A wah-wah peddle on a fiddle? Wow.
Small world. I was at that concert at the Convention Center in I think July or 1972. I managed a boardwalk boutique that summer in North Wildwood and was often at concerts that summer. I saw Mountain, Black Sabbath, and Black Oak Arkansas at the Convention Center but that was in July 1971, when I worked in Atlantic City.
TeeKay, Ten Years After played atmy university's home coming in fall 1969 along wiith the original Fleetwood Mac line up. That was a pretty good concert but it was a much smaller venue than Wildwood.
My favorite version of this fiddle tune-classic (hey, I like Bluegrass, but I'm not a purist), and for my money, one of the two cuts (the other is "The Song of Job") that salvages this disappointing follow-up to their first LP, with different personnel, on another label, Polydor, I think. Richard Greene's a genius, and all props to the drummer, Larry Atamanuik, whom I produced once, and who brought all the professionalism and excitement to that session that you're hearing here. (Confidential to all Martha's Vineyard residents reading this: Larry was a sideman... You might be surprised at whose session it was...)
Saw Seatrain perform this live about 45 years ago in the auditorium of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. I was blown away by it. It is the very best version of Orange Blossom Special I have ever heard. Too bad I cannot figure out how to download it to iTunes on my computer. Anybody got any ideas?
You should hear the 2 sets I have of them playing The Troubador in West Hollywood in june of 1971... But growing up seeing him play year after did spoil me a bit. Thank you so much for posting this.
Years ago I had an 8 track tape of this album that I think was left in the car by the previous owner... I was searching around for it and couldn't remember the name of the band.. and here it is! Eve though my tastes at the time were ELP and YES I really liked this. Thanks for sharing it!
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Lots of people can play. Some are great. Then there is this!
violin solo by Richard Greene blows me away every time!
If this don't get you up off your seat nothing ever will.... Remarkable jam still kickin it in 2023....Thanks Seatrain.
I love this version. It’s not on Apple Music, and it’s great to find it here.
Fiddler Richard Greene has a smoothness and ease of bowing that, after all these years, I'm still trying to emulate.
This is the best and only version you’ll ever need.
Thank you for posting this, Mr. Snyder! ❤❤❤❤❤
I first heard this when I was 16 and I am 65 now and still love it
Me too, Ann -- Cheers!
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Best version ever. Superb!
Over 45 years later, I still get chills. Kickin'!
Richard Greene is a violin Icon.
I first heard Seatrain in early 1970 when I was listening to WKBW AM-1520 Buffalo, NY at night when I lived in Newark,DE. Seatrain was a rock group then, I was 16 then. Their version of one of my favorite songs about train-The Orange Blossom Special is good.
RED RAIL Nanuet NY early 70'sy owner Joe Santos [R.I.P Joe] knew how pick em and SEATRAIN was one of them, listening to the band, shots and beers, it just didn't get any better !!!
I was at Belmont Plateau Phila Pa 1971 concert also, it was a great day Sunday If I remember.
Me too - in May or so -
Art Napoli You are correct. A gorgeous Sunday on Belmont Plateau. And if you can recall it was the FIRST EARTH DAY CELEBRATION. Huge crowd great music and joints being passed around all day. A concert l remember often & always with fond memories. These guys were indescribable. Just playing for the sheer joy of entertaining the crowd & love of music.
I was there too! The first time I ever heard anything like this! I was completely blown away by Richard Greene and the band. It inspired me to become a professional musician and fiddle player. I even played on Bill Monroe's Bluegrass festivals in the late 70's.
I've never heard anyone surpass this recording of OBS. I still play Richard's arrangement at live performances to this day.
Back in '71 these guys had a top 40 single called " 13 Questions" that I loved..bought the album , their second and thought this version of Orange Blossom really kicked some hillbilly bootie..still do !!
I've listened to every cover of this song I've ever come across & imo this version has never been surpassed. Seatrain was a one of a kind band & George Martin made this album a one of a kind masterpiece.
I totally agree! This is amazing!
this has been my idea of how to play Orange Blossom special since this album was released. Richard Greene is amazing.
Greene later played fiddle for Loggins and Messina.
...and prior to that with Jim Kweskin's Jug Band.
I saw them play this of 45 minutes without a break at Penn State in the 1970's at Rec Hall. The place was packed. Everyone left their seat and formed a train. The place was wild and I will never ever forget it. I love to listen a few times per year and will never get enough of this version of Orange Blossom Special. This one is the best. I can still feel the excitement!
Can you feel how jealous reading this has made me? Hmm? Can you feel it?
Wow, what a great memory!! I was just a young girl back then, so I have always been jealous of missing out on live music like this.
Only band I ever saw at Rec Hall was Renaissance. It was a great show but yours blows it away!
Lucky enough to see Joplin. Seatrain, whom I never heard of, opened for her and I was hooked.
Divine Orange Blossom Special. We had the very best of it.
I saw them during my first year in college in West Hartford, Ct. This was 1971! They were the best! I'm so sorry they broke up. Everyone went crazy!! As a violin player, I really appreciated them!
I saw Seatrain at the University of Maryland -- they were the wonderful opening act for Janis Joplin. The audience was impatient to see Janis. She did not like the fact that the audience did not appreciate Seatrain. She was drinking and cut her concert short, but she was amazing while she lasted.
There's a short clip on YT of Roy Clark showing what a master musician he was, and playing the fool of course, but when he plays Orange Blossom Special you can see that Richard Greene must have seen that on TV back in the day and gone, "Yep, I'm gonna play it just like Roy Clark." Seatrain were awesome.
Seatrain = the best GodDamn band from the early seventies that there was...Love this band...
Agreed 100%. I'm from Boston and was happy they were around. We covered a few of their sings. I LOVED THIS BAND!
The only comparable (relatively unknown band) was Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys and they didn't have Richard Greene on fiddle.
they got it and they knew it!!!!!!
@@jeffgaumond4250 Wow I have to look that one up!
I had this on 8track. Driving around town and on the beach. Best of times!!!
The Orange Blossom Express was Henry Flagler’s favorite train. In 1912, He road it to Key West to complete his dream of building the overseas highway.
I was just 15 when I discovered this brilliant and truly unique band of boys that rocked my music world. The hauntingly mesmerizing melodies with the flawless and intricate arrangements, were all driven by an instrument that didn`t come over with the British Invasion. Tight harmonies with progressive tempos made Seatrain an instant favorite to those who were fortunate enough to get their hands on this piece of vinyl . God bless older sibling . OBS by seatrain stands out as one of the best versions of one of the most recorded songs in music. Truly a masterpiece. And if you can listen to this tune without tapping your foot, hand or getting the urge to get up and bop, then . . . . . . . . . . . .
Yes sir, I was 15 myself and truly enlightened by the very best version of OBJ Thanks Seatrain.
Me, too.
I played the grooves right off my vinyl LP of this album back in the 70s and this was my favorite track on it. I've heard hundreds of great recordings and live performances of OBS and this one's still my favorite by far. Brought tears listening to it again after many years. Thanks so much for posting it.
So did I. Couldn't ever get enough of it.
I agree 100%. I judge all those who play the song aganst this version.
I experienced Seatrain live at the Whisky-a-Gogo in 1972 - blew my head open!
Have seen a lot of great shows at the Whiskey. The good old days.
I learned to play the fiddle because of this version of OBS! Richard Greene is incredible!!!!
Recently found a box of old records on the curb in the trash. This was one of the records. Made a commitment to listen to every single song at least one full time. This is one of them... i think im in for a hell of a musical journey...
This is the best ever version of this song. I saw them many times live and it was a blast to be there. Good Times.
Tom: The reason this is one of the most popular clips on your channel is that this is hands down the best version of this song ever recorded and this song has been recorded thousands of times. Seatrain (with Peter Rowan fronting) was one of the most underrated bands of the day. Saw them in Spring of '71 at their heighth. They were simply awesome.
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Agree!
@@cyruschadrezzar9873 Not bad, but not one of those fiddlers can hold a candle to Richard Greene. Bill Monroe said Richard was the best fiddler he ever worked with. Bill worked with all the best.
Saw Seatrain at Fillmore West as the warmup for a Van Morrison concert 1970. Seatrain was actually a tad better than Van Morrison, I thought.Van Morrison was in a strange place. He was abusive to fans. I had heard he did that, sometimes. Moody. Seatrain's album with this song had just come out.
Richard Greene came through Houston in the late 70's with a jazz band. He played a "Sweet Georgia Brown" that was the same quality or better than this OBS performance. Made te hair stand up on the back of my neck. He never recorded that one, though. I found an email for him about 10 years ago searching the web. We traded a few emails. He was playing bluegrass at the time. That was a trip down memory lane.
Check out Southern Raised version, if you please.
I owned this Seatrain album back in the year 1970 when i was 18 years old! I purchased it from Columbia Record Club at some point as part the contract obligation for receiving 10 free vinyl albums plus a small Columbia House record player to play them on! I purchased many wonderful albums for about 2 years.
Seatrain also does one of the coolest covers of Lowell Georges "Willin'"
I got this album when it came out at the age of 12. Not a bad track on it!
That train is running for the coast as fast as it can!
I was fortunate to catch Seatrain in '71, at a little club in Georgetown called the Cellar Door. It was Kulberg, Baskin, Roberts, Amantuick (sp?), Rowan and the best fiddle player I've ever heard. Richard Greene was crazy fast, red socks, hush puppies, that big afro, and when he started workin that wah-wah pedal on OBS the place went wild. I was lost as lost could be, but the biblical background to some of their stuff spoke to me, and I kept both albums (Marblehead Messenger) in close and regular rotation. When I gave my life to Jesus in '97, I revisited their music, along with some tunes by folks like Daniel Moore and David Rea, and still seek out bands from the '70s that had shades of Christian doctrine to some if their stuff. And now I've come to realize the best singers and the best musicians are Christians. Try David Phelps or Stephen Hill or Bart
Mallard or Anthony Burger. Many others. So...know Jesus, and you'll know peace.
I stayed on Richard Greene's sailboat in Sausalito Marina, Sausalito,California, when they were in England recording this at Abbey Road Studios in London, recording this.Produced by the late, great, Sir George Martin.
Like some long-gone lonesome Sea Train. Damn!
Positively the best !!
Classic. I miss this band so much.
Actually, the whole "Seatrain" album kicks total ass...
Had the pleasure of seeing Seatrain around Fall 1972 was going to UF, invited down to Clearwater, Fla. by a friend attending Florida Presbyterian College, (Now Eckerd College). They must have been flush then, they brought Seatrain down from NY to play for maybe 600 students. It was so great,swaying palms, cool breezes, mellow, laid back crowd, a little piece of heaven. Saw Peter Rowan a few years later as lead singer songwriter for New Riders of the Purple Sage. He now appears (still going!) with guitar legend Tony Rice and two lovely ladies, check out the vids on RUclips (the hobo song, midnight moonlight, old sante fe,) just fabulous, forty years later!!! Unbelievable!
God bless you,Tom Snyder for this post. I had Seatrain's 8-track and it got me through the deserts of the southwest as a traveling worker. I am enjoying listening to it right now for the first time in 35 years.
Hey, Gerard Ripley! Sounds like you and I are from the same era (8-Track ;) -- Those were the days!
Have been working on "Willin" on my six string. What a great song.
Great song for driving
@@gerardripley3462 "Willin", I like their version the best. Written by the infamous and immortal Lowell George of Little Feat.
Best version of this clastic rendition that I have ever; ever heard! I know the song was written long ago; but still the best rendition out there!!!!
SEATRAIN, doin the OB special, absolutely none better........................
yeah its not a bad version..
What a song. Great to see so many enjoying this version.
I don't know how many times I heard this traveling home from a gig in Minnesota on Clyde Clifford's "Beaker Street". This is my fave version of this tune, by far!
Best version BY FAR !!.... Awesome Band. Peter Rowan is a great singer and always will be. Incredible Violin playing on this.
I grew up with Seatrain!
Used to follow these guys around the country once I first heard them. Some amazing times in Berkley CA and LA at their gigs.
I use to "spin" this song as a D.J. in clubs!! People went NUTS!!! Best version EVER!! 70's bass for sure!!
This band was formed a couple of years after Richard Greene left Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. He spent a short while in Jim Kweskin's Jug Band before helping to form Seatrain. This later incarnation of the band also included former Bluegrass Boy Peter Rowan (the guy wearing just Daisy Dukes and a hat on the cover of this album).
This is a long last classic song that I doubt I'd ever hear again let alone on the radio!!! Thanks for posting.
Yes, this is the best performance of this music I ever heard.
I heard it for the first time tonight on SiriusXM's Deep Tracks channel, which is one of the better reasons for having SiriusXM. Never heard of the song or band before but I'm glad I did, going to pick this up on CD real soon!
Did you ever manage to find it on CD?
The BEST damn version of Orange Blossom Special ever recorded, IMHO. Of course, it’s nowhere to be found on Apple Music…. come on Apple get it together..Hire someone with some knowledge to pick music! Seatrain has always reminded me of California…circa 1970 , the Bay Area..
Seatrain, a very underated band....and a great version of this...thanks for sharing!
*Seatrain - Orange Blossom Special*
This is my second-most popular video on my RUclips channel... and I have no idea why. I thought it was so obscure, that no one would bother to listen.
_I guess I was wrong!_
See y'all tomorrow ;)
Seatrain was a find while I was quite young and impressionable in Monterey in the early 70s. We had an "underground" station (what FM was often referred to back then). Anyway, this was one of my favorite versions of the OB Special and still is. Thanks.
+Michael Ivers : I was at Ft. Ord in basic training 1972. Saw their 8 track and bought it. Was one of my favorites.
+Tom Snyder: Been looking for this for years. They played "warm up" for Allman Bros back in Marietta Ohio in '71 and brought the house down. Best concert ever- four bucks!!!
+Tom Snyder Classic!!!
I totally agree, John McHugh!
I'm afraid that you, and I, and the others will be the last persons to appreciate this era of music. But that's OK. Times changes. I'm just glad I/you were there to hear it.
_Cheers!_
Awww...man... this is tooo good !!!!
Absolutely the best version of this song EVER! I bought this album when it came out and now I have a back up copy. Love Sea Train.
I saw this band as warm ~up group for someone else, but I thought this band was awesome!! Never understood why they weren't more popular!? I love all their music, quite telented!!🍊🍊
have this on vinyl somewhere in my house! go waaaay back to 1973!!!!
I did listen to this tune in Boston around 1980 when I got a Sea Train album by mistake well fortunately I did, since this tune is one of my all time favor I still have the record but this audio it is much better.....so glad that I have found this piece again...I live in Caracas and I have spreaded all around music lovers and Violin players to see if they get to do a live version of this wonderful theme
About 15 years ago I listened to our local radio station every weekend Q107 Psychedelic Sunday it got loads of airplay. I told my Bro about it and he got me a copy for my birthday. Doug Kershaw did a good rendition too, but this is my fave!
I saw them when they performed at Alfred U in the 70s and hung out with the keyboard player after the show.
Always loved the train
Virtuotic (is that a 'word'?) violin/fiddle playing! Really inspirational and moving!
This band was definitely ahead of its time!
Charlie Daniels eat your hat......Best version ever! OBS! Me and the boys used to listen to this drinkin Shlitz ridin around in my van. Never thought I'd hear it again.
Schlitz? Are you an East Coaster by chance?
My buddy Bradley & I used to ride around in his VW van smoking & listening to Seatrain back in the early 70's. Schlitz was our beer of choice also.
Schlitz! no less. I used to like Stroh's and Black Label. Gave it up.
Brad, too funny! I lived in the San Fran bay area back when Sea Train was peaking, and had a van I lived in for a couple of years,(on and off). I'd grab my gf and a couple of buddies and head for the beach with Sea Train in the 8 track and fistfulls of Schlitz Malt Liquor! Yeee-haa! A six pack was $1.42 a lot of bang for your buck! (of course we never drank and drove, and all had seat belts on!)
I was born to this song...........thanks mom and dad!
There's Doug Kershaw.
And there's Seatrain.
That's all you need to know.
Seatrain,It's A Beautiful Day and Flying Burrito Bros. with Gram Parsons. Owings Mills Md and Wildwood New Jersey unforgettable.
45 years ago I heard this song and fell head over heels for it, never thought I would hear Seatrains version again, Thanks
I was a young hippy that had the opportunity to see Seatrain in Toronto during the Festival Express Concert tour which was a tour across Canada's major cities...They played during the afternoon on a hot sunny day but they got every lazy hippy off of their asses when they did this song...Richard Greene...excellent as were the rest of the band...The you tube videos don't do justice to the concert...
Rick Pitz: Your story is my story too--ya old hippy! ;)
+Rick Sanchez was that the concert with Lee Michaels ,Sundance , Sh-Na-Na , Edgar Winter and The Band ? If so , I was there too.
play it all the freaking time up in my shop on the turntable....best version ever!!
I like train songs and have ridden her partner The Silver Meteor from Miami to Savannah and back many times. The Silver Streak and the Silver Meteor still run to this day. The Orange Blossum Special was retired in 1959,I believe. I like Charlie Daniel's version and Johnny Cash version, but this sounds most like a train to me.
the whole album rocks...it's all as good as this...
+Kevin Thurston of course, not only are the artists fantastic, but the late George Martin produced it.
explains a lot...
One of the very best! Bone chilling.
This song was written by Ervin Rouse and Chubby Wise on the night of November 8, 1938. Earlier that day they had gone to the Jacksonville Terminal to see the brand-new diesel locomotives the Seaboard Air Line had bought for their new streamlined train, the "Silver Meteor" on display to the public. The "Meteor" would not be inaugurated until the next year, so when the display tour was over, the engines would be used on the 1938-39 "Orange Blosson Special", a winter season train. The diesels were bright in "citrus" colors, yellow, green, and orange, with running gear painted silver, and the name "Orange Blosson Special" painted on the sides. It certainly impressed Rouse and Wise!
Saw Seatrain in Los Angeles in the 60s. Cat Stevens was the billed performer but SeaTrain blew my mind.
First heard Greene do this with Bill Monroe on a tape made by my hs girlfriend’s older brother at U of Wisconsin probably in 1964. I know he still has the recording. Hope he posts it. Monroe was adamant about Greene’s “ownership” of OBS.
I remember this version from the Seatrain album when it was first released and loved it. Thanks for sharing it. It's still my favorite of any version I've heard, and there are some great ones of this classic.
Heard this on a college radio station in Atlanta back in the 70's. Never forgot it. Never heard it again until now. Wow!
Saw Seatrain live back in the day in Toronto, might have been the Peace Train Festival or what some call Festival Express...anyway I was there and these guys blew everybody away...
No Wonder I never forgot this song. Just Awesome.
I was just answering a friends post about old albums, and thought I'd take a chance to see if this was on RUclips yet. Thanks for posting it!!! You put a little bounce in this 67 year old body tonight. LOL
mumseybeach 67 here too saw this group with "It's a beautiful day"
amazing concert back in the day
Wow bro,would have loved to see that one!! Where were they? White Bird is a MASTERPIECE!! REAL musicians,they never got the press that they deserved!!
I love this tune, lots of good versions out there, but this one is far and away my favorite!
Richard Greene is amazing.
NA , A GOD.
Saw them in New Jersey (Wildwood) summer of 1972 believe they were opening band before Ten Years After and yes they played OBS and blew us away.
Ten Years After was the only band I ever walked out on. Legends in their own minds. Seatrain, on the other hand, could flat-out play. I played this for two classical violinists (university profs) who were parents of a friend, they were totally blown away. Then "Song of Job" killed them. A wah-wah peddle on a fiddle? Wow.
Small world. I was at that concert at the Convention Center in I think July or 1972. I managed a boardwalk boutique that summer in North Wildwood and was often at concerts that summer. I saw Mountain, Black Sabbath, and Black Oak Arkansas at the Convention Center but that was in July 1971, when I worked in Atlantic City.
wildwood convention center wow I saw procall harem there around that time
TeeKay, Ten Years After played atmy university's home coming in fall 1969 along wiith the original Fleetwood Mac line up. That was a pretty good concert but it was a much smaller venue than Wildwood.
Saw them at the Kennedy Center in '72.
My favorite version of this fiddle tune-classic (hey, I like Bluegrass, but I'm not a purist), and for my money, one of the two cuts (the other is "The Song of Job") that salvages this disappointing follow-up to their first LP, with different personnel, on another label, Polydor, I think.
Richard Greene's a genius, and all props to the drummer, Larry Atamanuik, whom I produced once, and who brought all the professionalism and excitement to that session that you're hearing here.
(Confidential to all Martha's Vineyard residents reading this:
Larry was a sideman...
You might be surprised at whose session it was...)
What a great group and GREAT SONG!
Incredible group
Saw Seatrain perform this live about 45 years ago in the auditorium of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. I was blown away by it. It is the very best version of Orange Blossom Special I have ever heard. Too bad I cannot figure out how to download it to iTunes on my computer. Anybody got any ideas?
I was there! It was amazing. I also cannot find a way to download it from iTunes
You should hear the 2 sets I have of them playing The Troubador in West Hollywood in june of 1971... But growing up seeing him play year after did spoil me a bit. Thank you so much for posting this.
This is the gold standard!
Years ago I had an 8 track tape of this album that I think was left in the car by the previous owner... I was searching around for it and couldn't remember the name of the band.. and here it is! Eve though my tastes at the time were ELP and YES I really liked this. Thanks for sharing it!
Greene was wonderful; harmony on three strings.
Not long after I saw Greene, I saw Kershaw who demolished the strings trying to show that was music
I live in Florida, and this is the official Florida State Song.
My fiddle teacher played this,.. Note-for-Note!! INCREDIBLE!!!!
Bass on this is superior as well.
Damo! Best ever!