Episode 483 – From Nigel Ogden’s Archive: Blackpool Birthday

On this week’s show Nigel Ogden celebrates what would have been (in a few days time) Reginald Dixons 118th birthday.

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Music Played

Cherokee Reginald DixonTower Ballroom Blackpool

3/14 Wurlitzer
Columbia Records (SCX 3379)1961
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside/Canadian Capers/Temptation Rag/Darktown Strutters BallReginald DixonAbbey Road EMI Studios

3/9 Compton
Nigel Ogden Archive1942
AutomneReginald DixonGrands Theatre Llandudno

5/27 Möller
Empress1943
Jealous/Fascination/Trolley SngReginald DixonTower Ballroom Blackpool

3/14 Wurlitzer
Nigel Ogden Archive1963
Let the Great Big World Keep Turning/SwaneeReginald DixonJubilee Theatre Blackpool

Hammond Organ
Nigel Ogden Archive1963
Happy Days Are Here Again/Song Of The DawnReginald DixonRoyal Albert Hall, London

4m 147 Speaking Stops ‘Father’ Henry Willis
Nigel Ogden Archive1962
At Sundown/Peg O’ My HeartReginald DixonTower Ballroom Blackpool

3/14 Wurlitzer
Readers Digest (617-ES-1)1968
Calling All WorkersReginald DixonBBC Playhouse Manchester

3/13 Wurlitzer
Nigel Ogden Archive1975
Tiger RagReginald DixonTower Ballroom Blackpool

3/14 Wurlitzer
Columbia Records (SCX 1587)1964