Episode 480 – Famous Names

On this week’s show John Leeming focuses on famous theatre organ names of the past.

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Music Played

I Do Like to Be beside the SeasideReginald DixonTower Ballroom, Blackpool

3/14 Wurlitzer
Private recording (John Leeming archive/BBC)1963
September in the Rain/I Saw a Ship a-Sailing By/The Love Bug Will Bite YouReginald DixonTower Ballroom, Blackpool

3/13 Wurlitzer
Sterndale Records (STE3101)2001
Our Love Affair/Now I Lay Me Down to Dream/All Over the PlaceReginald FoortFoort Touring Organ

5/27 Möller
Piping Hot Recording Company (PH2006)2000
It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow/ Who’s Taking You Home Tonight?/Somewhere Over the RainbowSandy MacphersonBBC St George’s Hall

4/25 Compton
EMI World Records (SH385)1980
Wedding of the Rose; To a Wild Rose/Rose in the Bud/Love’s Garden of Roses/Only a Rose/Roses from the SouthQuentin MacleanTrocadero, Elephant and Castle

4/21 Wurlitzer
Sterndale Records (STE1001)1991
Looking Around Corners for YouSidney TorchRegal, Kingston-upon-Thames

3/12 Wurlitzer
Sterndale Records (STE1005)1996
Two Sleepy PeopleJoseph SealRegal, Kingston-upon Thames

3/12 Wurlitzer
Private recording (COS Archive/BBC)1961
That Lovely WeekendDudley SavageABC, Plymouth

3/8 Compton
Perfect Partners Records (PP001CD)2008
Goodnight My LoveRobin RichmondGranada, Welling

3c/8 Wurlitzer
Private recording (COS Archive/Geoff Day)1974
I Do Like to Be beside the SeasideReginald DixonTower Ballroom, Blackpool

3/13 Wurlitzer
Sterndale Records (STE3100)2001