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Topic: Orange Grove In California - Sol Hoopii |
Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 5 Sep 2001 6:12 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.
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Gerald Ross
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 5 Sep 2001 6:44 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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A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars
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Jody Carver
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KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 5 Sep 2001 8:46 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.... |
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Bill Leff
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Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 6 Sep 2001 6:15 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. |
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Bill Leff
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Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Posted 6 Sep 2001 6:16 am
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| That "G" in the tuning is a G#. My bad. |
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 10 Sep 2001 6:52 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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