Nigel Ogden

On this week’s show Nigel Ogden takes a trip to the seaside a features the Empress Ballroom Wurlitzer. With lot’s of archive material of Horace Finch, Reginald Dixon and Ernest Broadbent, there also an opportunity to hear Nigel at the new Empress organ which was installed a few years ago!

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Music played

Track	Artist	Organ	Record Label	Year
Crazy People	Reginald Dixon	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 2/10 Wurlitzer	Sterndale Records (STE 3106)	2002
You Are My Lucky Star/Sing As We Go/Beside The Seaside	Reginald Dixon	Empress Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden collection	1957
On The Prom, Prom, Promenade Selection – Thistleland	Horace Finch	Empress Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden collection	1958
Music From Carmen	Ernest Broadbent	Empress Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden collection	1969
For You/Turkish Rondo	Ernest Broadbent	BBC Playhouse Manchester 3/13 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden collection	1970
Beside The Seaside/All My Lovin’	Reginald Dixon	BBC Playhouse Manchester 3/13 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden collection	1970
Tangerine	Nigel Ogden & John Roadhouse	BBC Playhouse Manchester 3/13 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden collection	1982
Jealousy	Nigel Ogden	Empress Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 (New) Wurlitzer	Private Recording (Made by Ross McNeillie)	2018

On this week’s show Nigel Ogden is back with more gems from his archive. This time he feature many examples of cross over artists – this is to say organist who are equally at home on both Theatre & Classical organs and a spot of piano also.

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Music played

Track	Artist	Organ	Record Label	Year
Trumpet Voluntary	Michael Maine	Dome Brighton 4/40 Hill Norman and Beard ‘Christie’	Regent Recordings (RRM 101)	1989
La Bounette/Trio Sonata No.1 (Excerpt)	Joanna Fraser	ex. Servicemen’s Club, Stotfold 3/10 Christie	Nigel Ogden collection	1981
Dainty Miss	Adrian Lucas	City Hall, Hull 4m Compton	Nigel Ogden collection	1985
Automne	Nigel Ogden	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	OS Digital (OS 230)	1997
Toccata In D Minor	Gerald Shaw	Odeon Leicester Square, London 5c/17 Compton	Nigel Ogden collection	1964
Black Key Study	Gerald Shaw	Piano	Nigel Ogden collection	1965
Fantasie Impromptu	Ernest Broadbent	Piano	Acorn (CF 240)	1973
Widor Toccatta (Excerpt)/ Valencia	Gerald Shaw	BBC Theatre Organ, Hoxton London 5/27 Möller	Nigel Ogden collection	1962
Carillon	George Blackmore	Guildhall Southampton 4/50 Compton (Dual Console)	Studio Republic – A Music Hall Production (RLP5006)	1964

On this week’s show we give a big and warm welcome to new presenter Nigel Ogden. Nigel will be joining us once a month with a delve into his own extensive archive. We are delighted that Nigel can be back at a microphone delighting audiences as he has done for the last 38 years. Long may it continue!

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Music played

Track	Artist	Organ	Record Label	Year
Portrait Of A Toy Soldier	Nigel Ogden	BBC Broadcasting House, London 4/35 Compton	Nigel Ogden collection	1999
Organ Demonstration	Reginald Foort	St. Georges Hall, London (BBC Theatre Organ No.1) 4/24 Compton	Nigel Ogden collection	1936
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love /Broadway Melody/Broadway Rhythm	Sandy Macpherson	St. Georges Hall, London (BBC Theatre Organ No.1) 4/24 Compton	AZCD (214)	2011
Marche Militaire	Sandy Macpherson	Grand Theatre, Llandudno 5/27 Möller	Nigel Ogden collection	1943
Alpen Ruhe Waltz/Al Jolson Selection	Sandy Macpherson	Odeon Leicester Square, London 5c/17 Compton	Nigel Ogden collection	1963
You And The Night And The Music	Nigel Ogden	Civic Auditorium, Pasadena CA 5/28 Möller	Nigel Ogden collection	1996
I’m Gonna Live Till I Die/Ol’ Mac Donald/Come Blow Your Horn	Robin Richmond	BBC Playhouse Manchester 3/13 Wurlitzer	Windmill Records (WMD 262)	1975
Intrada	Nigel Ogden	BBC Maida Vale Studios 4/14 Compton	Nigel Ogden collection	1992