The Organist Encores

Episode 264 – From Nigel Ogden’s Archive: Jingle Bells

On this week’s show Nigel Ogden takes on a nostalgic sleigh ride with some varied festive tracks! This includes rare recordings of Reginald Dixon, Jackie Brown, Reginald Porter-Brown playing instruments such as the Davenport Stockport, Granada Tooting and Manchester Town Hall.

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Track	Artist	Organ	Record Label	Year
March Of The Toys	Nigel Ogden	Free Trade Hall, Manchester 4/20 Wurlitzer	OS Digital (OS 210)	1994
The Savoy Community Medley (arr. Debroy Somers)	Reginald Dixon	Davenport Theatre, Stockport 3/7 Compton	Nigel Ogden collection	1972
Swingin’ Sleigh Ride/Snow Coach	Nigel Ogden	Granada Studio Tours Manchester 4/14 Wurlitzer	Avid Records (AVC 613)	1997
Sir Christmas	Altrincham Choral Society & Nigel Ogden	Granada Studio Tours Manchester 4/14 Wurlitzer	Avid Records (AVC 613)	1997
Comedians Gallop	Robinson Cleaver	Town Hall Manchester 5m Cavaille-Coll	AK Records (AK 7301)	1975
Sing Song: Jolly Good Company/Lilly Of Laguna/If You Were The Only Girl In The World/Jingle Bells	Reginald Dixon	Davenport Theatre, Stockport 3/7 Compton	Nigel Ogden collection	1972
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas	Jackie Brown	Granada, Tooting London 4/14 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden collection	c1965
‘The Holly & The Mistletoe’ (arr Ronald Hanmer)	Reginald Porter-Brown	Regal/ABC Kingsto 3/12 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden collection	1959

Episode 263 – Clair De Lune

John Leeming’s contribution this month, although not festive, does fit the time of year very well. With darkness setting in well before 5pm and the heating on to make a cosy home, the Moonlight Lullaby is just the right type of thing to accompany the cracking of an open fire or, perhaps a glass of cherry before bed – whatever your situation, the scintillating tones of the Clayhall Compton in the hands of Stanley Wyllie is bound to complete your evening!

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Clair De Lune
Melody Fair
O For The Wings Of A Dove
Roses Of Picardy
Shadow Waltz
Unknown???
How Beautiful Is Night
Down By The River
Unknown???
The Haunted Ballroom
Clair De Lune

Note: The Banging throughout is NOT the Melotone – it is in fact a nearby fireworks display!

All tracks played by Stanley Wyllie on the 3/7 Compton in the St John Vianney Church, Clayhall. Recorded & Edited by John Leeming in October 1995. Thanks to the Cinema Organ Society and John Leeming for giving permission for this to be broadcast! Continuity Announcer: Richard Hills

Episode 262 – Five Years of The Organist Encores

Its our fifth birthday bash on this special edition of The Organist Encores! Damon speaks to James Mclean about how the show started, he also interviews John Leeming and Nigel Ogden who between them present once a month. Finally Damon introduces the show’s new ‘Resident Organist’! Tune in and don’t miss out on our celebratory bash!

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Music played

Track	Artist	Organ	Record Label	Year
Happy Days Are Here Again	Robert Wolfe	Thursford Collection, Fakenham 3/19 Wurlitzer	Wolfe Productions	2006
Somebody Stole My Gal	Reginald Dixon	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer	Decca Record Company (SPA 38)	1969
Over The Rainbow	Simon Gledhill	Free Trade Hall, Manchester 4/20 Wurlitzer	Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust Production (LTOT961)	1996
42nd Street	Vic Hammett	Granada, Tooting London 4/14 Wurlitzer	Audicord (ACD 232)	1980
My Funny Valentine	Jim Riggs	Paramount Oakland CA 4/27 Wurlitzer	RTR Productions Record (RTC103C)	1989
Pink Champagne	Nigel Ogden & John Roadhouse	BBC Playhouse Manchester 3/13 Wurlitzer	NDO Production	1988
Can’t Take That Away From Me	Mark Laflin	Hammond M100	DMC Recording	2018
The Trolley Song	Mark Laflin	Hammond M100	DMC Recording	2018
Happy Days Are Here Again	Mark Laflin	Hammond M100	DMC Recording	2018

Episode 261 – New Releases

On this week’s show Damon takes a looks at some new commercial recordings that hit the headlines in recent months. This includes tracks from the new CD featuring the Royalty Cinema Wurlitzer called ‘Lakeland Serenade’ – which sounds wonderful!

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Track	Artist	Organ	Record Label	Year
I Like America from Ace Of Clubs	Richard Hills	Embassy Theatre, Fort Wayne IN 4/16 Page		2018
You’ll Never Know/The Shadow Waltz	Mark Herman	Embassy Theatre, Fort Wayne IN 4/16 Page		2018
Polka Dots	Mark Laflin	St. John Vianney Church, Clayhall London 3/7 Compton	Cinema Organ Society	2018
Jolly Jillet	Declan Poole	Royalty Cinema, Bowness-on-Windermere 2/7 Wurlitzer	An FTOP Production	2018
This Is All I Ask	Simon Gledhill	Royalty Cinema, Bowness-on-Windermere 2/7 Wurlitzer	An FTOP Production	2018
The Locomotion	Richard Morgan	Royalty Cinema, Bowness-on-Windermere 2/7 Wurlitzer	An FTOP Production	2018
Blue Moon	Len Rawle	Royalty Cinema, Bowness-on-Windermere 2/7 Wurlitzer	An FTOP Production	2018
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside	Peter Jebson	Royalty Cinema, Bowness-on-Windermere 2/7 Wurlitzer	An FTOP Production	2018

Episode 260 – Another Raid Of The Atic

On this week’s show John Leeming climbs up the ladder to his treasure trove of archive recordings featuring some of the finest artists from yesteryear and instruments many of which are no longer accessible or exist!

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Track	Artist	Organ	Record Label	Year
Somewhere Over the Rainbow	Horace Finch	Empress Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer	Private recording	1958
True Love/In the Still of the Night	Reginald Holland	Odeon, Blackpool 4/13 Conacher	Private recording	1961
Love’s Last Word Is Spoken	Eric Lord	Paramount/Odeon Newcastle 3/19 Wurlitzer	Private recording	1948
Alley Cat	George Blackmore	Ritz Richmond 3/8 Wurlitzer	Cinema Organ Society	1963
Love Walked In	Dudley Savage	Mere Farm, Haughley, Stowmarket 3/8 Compton	Private recording	1990s
Harlem Nocturne	Ena Baga	Gaumont State, Kilburn 4/16 Wurlitzer	Private recording	1964
La Rosita	Florence de Jong	New Gallery Regent Street, London 2/8 Wurlitzer	HMV Records (B3513)	c1930
March: Garrison Theatre	Dudley Beavan	Granada, North Cheam 3c/8 Wurlitzer	Private recording	1940
One Hour with You	Quentin Maclean	Trocadero Elephant and Castle, London 4/21 Wurlitzer	Columbia Records (DB823)	1932
There Will Never Be Another You	Bryan Rodwell	Southbank Polytechnic, London 4/24 Wurlitzer	Private recording	c1968

Episode 259 – Wolfe on Worthing Wurlitzer

It’s star Organist time and this month we are very pleased to welcome that international star entertainer from the Thursford Collection – Robert Wolfe! He is highly regarded as one of the UK’s exponents of the theatre organ and was very much at home at the Worthing Wurlitzer which is where this weeks show comes from!

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Music played

Signature Tune: Happy Days Are Here Again

March: Brass Buttons

Autumn Selection: Autumn Concerto/Autumn Leaves/Lullaby Of The Leaves/It Might As Well Rain until September/September In the Rain/Try To Remember/September Song

West Side Story Selection: Tonight/Maria/I Feel Pretty/One Hand One Heart/Somewhere

Blackpool Favourites: Blackpool Belle/Nobody’s Sweetheart/Boo Hoo/Harbour Lights/Red Sails In the Sunset/The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise/The Sheik Of Araby/Forgotten Dreams/You Can’t Stop Me From Dreaming/I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

All tracks played by Robert Wolfe on the 3/22 Wurlitzer in the Assembly Hall, Worthing. Recorded by Damon Cox using Sontronics STC-1S microphones, recorded with Zoom F8 Recorder and mixed with Adobe Audition. Thanks to Simon & Caroline Field and David Cates for giving permission for this to be broadcast and for being so accommodating! Organ tuned by David Houlgate & Johnathan Adams.

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

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

Episode 257 – From West to East

On this week’s show Damon is very much in an oriental mood as he has just returned from Hong Kong. So this week’s show is filled with the sounds of the orient plus a section of soundtrack from a new film out featuring a newly installed Wurlitzer! **NEW CD from the Royalty Wurlitzer – Tracks to be featured on Damon’s next show**

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Music played

Track	Artist	Organ	Record Label	Year
Come Fly With Me	Simon Gledhill	Alabama Theatre, Birmingham AL 4/29 Wurlitzer	Alabama Chapter ATOS (ALA-1783-09)	2009
Rickshaw Ride	Donald MacKenzie	Odeon Leicester Square, London 5c/17 Compton	Musiqua (201801)	2018
One Fine Day	John Giacchi	Sanfilippo Music Salon, Barrington Hills IL 5/80 Wurlitzer	Modern Mood Music (MMM 003)	2001
Cherry	David Gray	Dennis Unk Residence, Erie PA 3/21 Wurlitzer	Dennis Unks Productions	2017
Japanese Sunset	George Wright	Richard Vaughn Studio Organ, Hollywood CA 5/21 Wurlitzer	Hi-Fi Records (R-717)	1972
When East Meets West Part 1:Chinatown, Chinatown/Japanese Sandman/Limehouse Blues	Sidney Torch	Regal Edmonton 4/15 Christie	Sterndale Records (STE 1001R)	1991
The Mighty Wurlitzer	Mark Herman & Orchestra	Nathan Barr Studio, Tarzana, Los Angeles CA 3/19 Wurlitzer	Back Lot Music	2018

Episode 256 – Random Numbers

On this week’s show John Leeming pulls out a handful of random LP’s and selects tracks from them! A real variety of sounds from the past including contributions from Clark Wilson, Hector Olivera, David Shepherd and many more!

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Track	Artist	Organ	Record Label	Year
Goofy Dame	Stanley Tudor	Gaumont Theatre, Manchester 4/14 Wurlitzer	Deroy Records (885)	c1973
I Hadn’t Anyone till You	Dick Schrum	Bill Blunk Studio, Portland, OR 5/24 Marr & Colton	Concert Recording (CRO008)	1966
You,/Who?	Clark Wilson	Wheaton Fox Studio, Illinois 3/16 Robert Morton	Wheaton Fox Productions (WFP-1001)	1983
Laura	David Shepherd	Rex Cinema, Stratford, London 2/7 Wurlitzer	Deroy Records (1324)	1975
Comedians’ Gallop	Brian Sharp	Sandford Holiday Park, Poole 3/15 Christie	Grosvenor Records (GRS.115)	1985
Always	Billy Nalle	Strand Theatre, Plattsburgh, NY 3/20 Wurlitzer	Readers’ Digest (RDS 6854)	1979
I’ll Never, Never Fall in Love Again	Robinson Cleaver, The Organ, The Dance Band and Me	EMI Studio No.1, St John’s Wood 3/8 Compton	EMI Records (SH 504)	1986
Cry Me a River	Hector Olivera	Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, NY 4/22 Wurlitzer	RTOS Inc (EAR-10240)	1974
Jeepers Creepers	Sidney Torch	Gaumont State Theatre, Kilburn 4/16 Wurlitzer	Doric Records (DO(S) 1211)	c1970

Episode 255 – Beckingham back at Granada

It’s Tywyn time tonight and who better to show off the Wurlitzer than the ‘Wonder Boy Organist’ Keith Beckingham who was at the age of 14 taking the organ up on the lift and playing interludes to large cinema audiences! Well years later the Wurlitzer is still with us, now in the delightful Neuadd Pendre, Tywyn and Keith is reunited with the the mighty as he presents a show full of memories!

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Music played

Signature Tune: Happy Days Are Here Again

Granada

Signature Tune: You, Wonderful You

Tonight/This Is A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening/You And The Night And The Music/The Way You Look Tonight

Matt Monro & Edmund Hockridge Selection: Portrait Of My Love/From Russia With Love/Hey There/If I Loved You

Hammond: Who’s Sorry Now/Whispering/Hello Dolly/Almost Like Being In Love

The Heather On The Hill

El Bimbo/We’ll Meet Again/Signature Tune: You, Wonderful You

All tracks played by Keith Beckingham on the 3c/9 Wurlitzer in the Neuadd Pendre, Tywyn. Recorded by Damon Cox using Sontronics STC-1S microphones, recorded with Zoom F8 Recorder and mixed with Adobe Audition. Thanks to John Smallwood and all the gang who look after the Wurlitzer for giving permission for this to be broadcast and for being so accommodating! Organ tuned by David Lowe.