Episode 258 – From Nigel Ogden’s Archive: Whirling the Empress

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

TrackArtistOrganRecord LabelYear
Crazy PeopleReginald 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 DixonEmpress Ballroom, Blackpool

3/13 Wurlitzer
Nigel Ogden collection1957
On The Prom, Prom, Promenade

Selection – Thistleland  
Horace FinchEmpress Ballroom, Blackpool

3/13 Wurlitzer
Nigel Ogden collection1958
Music From CarmenErnest BroadbentEmpress Ballroom, Blackpool

3/13 Wurlitzer
Nigel Ogden collection1969
For You/Turkish RondoErnest BroadbentBBC Playhouse Manchester
3/13 Wurlitzer
Nigel Ogden collection1970
Beside The Seaside/All My Lovin’ Reginald DixonBBC Playhouse Manchester

3/13 Wurlitzer
Nigel Ogden collection1970
TangerineNigel Ogden & John RoadhouseBBC Playhouse Manchester

3/13 Wurlitzer
Nigel Ogden collection1982
Jealousy Nigel OgdenEmpress Ballroom, Blackpool

3/13 (New) Wurlitzer
Private Recording (Made by Ross McNeillie)2018

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