Ervin T. Rouse (born September 19, 1917)

[uiwangmike]

A week or so late, but for list # 2:
19: 1917 - Ervin Thomas Rouse (Craven County NC) [died July 8, 1981]
Composer (in 1938) of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJCMFhXz ... re=related
He also co-wrote this much-covered tear-jerker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeSQyTfM ... re=related

http://www.lostmag.com/issue23/fiddler.php
http://www.amazon.com/Fiddlers-Curse-Bl ... 1574242148

[john poole]

He also co-wrote this much-covered tear-jerker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeSQyTfM ... re=related

Fantastic, and not on either of the K.W. compilations that I have. Noted to add Ervin to list #2.
http://www.secondhandsongs.com/work/119982

[john poole]

Ervin Rouse (sometimes aka Erwin Rouse) - born one hundred years ago today

I can't find online anywhere the original 1939 recording of 'Orange Blossom Special' by the Rouse Brothers (Ervin, Gordon, & Jack) for Bluebird Records; but a later 1953 re-recording for DeLuxe Records is available -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cQcuxpEbpw
https://secondhandsongs.com/work/30009/ ... nav-entity
http://www.henrystonemusic.com/ervin-ro ... nry-stone/
http://countrydiscography.blogspot.co.u ... thers.html

The original ‘Sweeter than the Flowers’ by Moon Mullican (1948) - Ervin signed away two-thirds of the composers credit on his song to “Morry Burns” (aka Moon Mullican) and Lois Mann (the wife of King Records’ Syd Nathan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK9tY6t8_lQ

[uiwangmike]

That link doesn't work for me. This one:
https://playback.fm/charts/country/vide ... he-flowers

[john poole]

That link doesn't work for me. This one:
https://playback.fm/charts/country/vide ... he-flowers

Mike, that says 1948 but it seems to me to be a re-recording taken from a Bear Family CD of Moon Mullican's Coral and Decca recordings, and originally I guess on a 1958 LP "Moon Over Mullican"
https://www.bear-family.com/mullican-mo ... coral.html.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOON-MULLICAN ... 2046400626

Whereas this YT posting claims to be from 1958, but it is, I think the 1948 (or late 1947) King Records version -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngv7jHQGgz0
http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/673

But to further confuse matters there was also a 'Sweeter than the Flowers No.2 ....'?
http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/783

[uiwangmike]

So there was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYN6oxzEH4w

http://www.radioyears.com/other/details.cfm?id=591

[john poole]

So there was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYN6oxzEH4w

http://www.radioyears.com/other/details.cfm?id=591

Thanks Mike, never heard of them before - they seem to have had the earlier version of No.2 which Moon Mullican later covered (I guess Boyett who added his or her name to the credits was responsible for the sequel). They possibly specialised in songs of a tragic nature -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7lNz75lPyI