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Nigel Ogden presents a programme of popular organ recordings with some entertaining pieces from the organ world.

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Tue 2 Jul 2013 21:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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  • Martin Ellis/Donna Parker/Jonas Nordwall

    The Ghost And Mr Chicken

    Composer: Mizzy Arranger: N/A

    • Triple Play Recordings.
    • NFI.

  • Reginald Dixon

    Chinatown

    Composer: Schwartz/Jerome Arranger: N/A

    • Sterndale Records.
    • STE 3107.

  • Reginald Dixon

    Sweet Sue

    Composer: Young/Harris Arranger: N/A

    • Sterndale.
    • STE 3107.

  • Reginald Dixon

    Somebody Stole My Gal

    Composer: Wood Arranger: N/A

    • Sterndale Records.
    • STE 3107.

  • Phil Kelsall

    Hors D'Oeuvres

    Composer: Comer Arranger: N/A

    • NFI.
    • CDAP 003.

  • Michael Wooldridge

    I Can't Get Started

    Composer: Duke/Gershwin Arranger: N/A

    • Merlin Productions.
    • MP 110.

  • Joey Defrancesco/Frank Vignola/Joe Ascione

    Young At Heart

    Composer: Leigh/Richards Arranger: N/

    • Concord Jazz.
    • CCD 4845 2.

  • Dudley Beaven

    Blue Skies Are Round The Corner

    Composer: Charles/Parker Arranger: N/A

    • This England.
    • 108.

  • Dudley Beaven

    Park Parade

    Composer: Park/Young Arranger: N/A

    • This England.
    • 108.

  • Dudley Beaven

    My Own

    Composer: Adamson/McHugh Arranger: N/A

    • This England.
    • 108.

  • Jonas Nordwall

    Pinball Wizard

    Composer: Townshend Arranger: N/A

    • Organ Grinder Recordings.
    • JN 110 CD.

The Empress Wurlitzer in it's first home, Blackpool's famous Tower Ballroom

The Empress Wurlitzer in it's first home, Blackpool's famous Tower Ballroom

The theatre organ I'm featuring in our Organ Collection during July is one of the UK's most famous instruments which, for most of its working life, lived in the town which has always been something of a magnet for theatre organ enthusiasts, Blackpool. Inside the town's huge Winter Gardens complex is the beautiful Empress Ballroom which is actually larger than the famous Tower Ballroom a few hundred yards away and for 35 years contained a Wurlitzer theatre organ almost identical to the instrument at the Tower. However, the story doesn't begin in the Empress Ballroom because, in fact, that particular Wurlitzer was the first instrument in the Tower Ballroom, installed in 1929 and the one played for around five years by Reginald Dixon after he'd joined the Tower Company at Easter 1930

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  • Tue 2 Jul 2013 21:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2