Notable Versions
- Johnny Cash named his 1965 album after the song. While bluegrass performers tend to play it as strictly an instrumental, Cash sang the lyrics, and replaced the fiddle parts with two harmonicas and a saxophone.
- The Moody Brothers' Grammy nominated country instrumental "The Great Train Song Medley" featured their father Dwight Moody playing fiddle on "Orange Blossom Special".
- A version by Doug Kershaw peaked at #9 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada in 1970.
- Noted session artist Tim Watson is famous for performing the song with his band, Black Creek, in imitation of a semi-trailer truck rather than a locomotive.
- The song was covered by Swedish instrumental rock band The Spotnicks in 1961 and released on their first album, The Spotnicks in London – Out-a-Space!. In 1962 the Spotnicks recording entered the British Top 30.
- Charlie Daniels' 1974 Platinum album Fire On The Mountain. contains a live performance recorded at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on October 4, 1974.
- E.L.O' also covered the song in their early shows.
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