Bryan Rodwell – Page 4 – The Organist Encores

Episode 391 – A Perfect Party

If Damon was left to arrange the music for an end of year party, this is what you might expect to hear! Enjoy the celebrations with this extended hour long show!

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Music Played

Thunder And Lightning Polka	Ernest Broadbent	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Columbia/EMI Records (SCX 6410)	1970
I Cover The Waterfront (Version 1)	Bryan Rodwell	Paramount/Odeon Leeds 3/19 Wurlitzer	Musiqua	2015
Let’s Face The Music And Dance	George Wright	George Wright Studio Organ, Leslie Factory, Pasadena CA 3/27 Wurlitzer	Essential Records (ERS-01W)	1971
I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do)	Dan Bellomy	Paramount Brooklyn NY 4/26 Wurlitzer	Cambria Master Recordings (CD-1108)	1997
Bi Mir Bist Du Schoen	Chris McPhee	Orion Centre, Sydney 3/17 Wurlitzer	Chris McPhee (CMCD002)	1995
Moonlight Serenade	Walt Strony	Capri Theatre, Adelaide 4/29 Wurlitzer	Walter Strony Productions	1996
String Of Pearls	Lew Williams	Organ Stop Pizza, Pheonix AZ 4/29 Wurlitzer	Organ Stop Pizza (OSP 106)	1979
Old Cape Cod	Bill Vlasak	Paramount Music Palace, Indianapolis IN 4/42 Wurlitzer	WJV Productions,Inc (WJVCD-107)	1996
Memory	Lyn Larsen	Nethercutt Collection, San Sylmar, Los Angeles CA 4/36 Wurlitzer	Musical Contrasts Inc (MCI-108)
Can This Be Love	Jim Riggs	Granada Theatre, Kansas City KS 3/21 Barton	RTR Productions (RTC105CD)	1991
Anaconda Samba	Len Rawle	Concerthall and Auditorium, Middelburg 3/11 Compton	NOF Production	2006
If Love Were All	Simon Gledhill	John Dickinson High School, Wilmington DE 3/66 Kimball	DTOS & Simon Gledhill (DTOS366P)	1996
Brazil	Richard Hills	Dolby House, Holbeach 3/19 Compton	Cinema Organ Society (COS 127)	2000
In The Still Of The Night/Easy To Love/Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye	Robert Wolfe	Thursford Collection, Fakenham 3/19 Wurlitzer	Wolfe Productions (WPCD 17)	2011
Jive: Nagasaki/Sweet Georgia Brown	Phil Kelsall	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Grasmere Records (GRALP 18)	1987

Episode 388 – Music for a Winter Evening

On this weeks show John Leeming has chose music for a winter evening – perfect to put your feet up and stoke the fire. The music is all easy on the ear from Ballads to the Bossa Nova.

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Music Played

You Are Too Beautiful	Dan Bellomy	Uncle Milt’s Pipe Organ Pizza Vancouver WA 3/18 Wurlitzer	Milt K Recordings (UM102CD)	c1988
Rain Shadows/Autumn Too Soon	David Lowe	Town Hall Clydebank 3/8 Wurlitzer	Chow Productions (COCD101)	2002
I’ll See You In My Dreams	Ken Double	Long Center, Lafayette, IN 3/21 Wurlitzer	Long Center TOS	1996
Trees	Dudley Beaven	Granada, North Cheam 3/8 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1940
My Funny Valentine	Jim Riggs	Paramount Oakland CA 4/27 Wurlitzer	RTR Productions (RTC103C)	1989
I Concentrate On You	Lyn Larsen	Sanfilippo Music Salon, Barrington Hills IL 5/80 Wurlitzer	Musical Contrasts Inc (MCI-208)	1995
When You Wish Upon A Star	Rob Richards	El Capitan, Hollywood, CA 4/36 Wurlitzer	Hollywood Philharmonic Recordings (HPR200301)	2003
Polka Dots And Moonbeams	Bryan Rodwell	Odeon Leicester Square, London 5c/17 Compton	Private Recording	c1974

Episode 386 – Up Beat

On this weeks show John Leeming is in a rhythmical mood, so get your dancing shoes! Artists include Robert Wolfe, Bryan Rodwell, Billy Nalle, Tom Hazleton and more!

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Music Played

There’s No Business Like Show Business	Tom Hazleton	Civic Auditorium, Pasadena CA 5/28 Möller	Arkay Records (AR 1076)	1983
Rock Around the Clock/ Opus One/In the Mood	Robert Wolfe	Orion Centre, Sydney 3/17 Wurlitzer	Delta Music (CD 6021)	1996
They Were Doing the Mambo	Stanley Wyllie	Ritz Belfast 4c/10 Compton	Private Recording	1954
Mr Sandman	Vic Hammett	Cap’ns Galley Pizza Parlour, Redwood City CA 4/18 Wurlitzer	Doric Records (DO 1401)	c1972
I Want to Be Happy	William Davies	Granada Kingston, London 3c/10 Wurlitzer	EMI MFP Records (50118)	1974
Hot Dog	David Gray	Sanfilippo Music Salon, Barrington Hills IL 5/80 Wurlitzer	David Gray (dg 0001)	2018
The Alley Cat	Lenny Dee	Hammond & drummer	Brunswick Records (STA 8578)	1964
Cochita	Don French	Oriental Theatre, Portland OR 3/13 Wurlitzer	Concert Recording (CR O009)	c1960’s
Keep Your Sunny Side Up	Harry Farmer & Rhythm Ensemble	Hammond & Combo	Decca Records (DFE 6219)	c1950
Marie	Billy Nalle & Ray Mosca (drums)	Paramount New York, NY 4/36 Wurlitzer	RCA Victor (LPM-1521)	1957
Cherokee	Bryan Rodwell	Assembly Hall, Walthamstow Hammond Concorde	Private Recording	1975

Episode 383 – From Nigel Ogden’s Archive: Distant Airwaves

On this weeks show Nigel Ogden back with music from the airwaves, or at-least they were in the distant past! Gems on this show include contributions from George Blackmore, Reginald Dixon, Harold Nash, Charles Smart and more!

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Music Played

Title	Artist	Organ	Info.	Year
El Cicada	Stanley Wyllie	Ritz Belfast 4c/10 Compton	Nigel Ogden Archive	1958
Calcutta	George Blackmore	Empire Leicester Square, London 4/20 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden Archive	1960
You Were Meant For Me/Manhattan/You Can’t Stop Me From Dreaming	Reginald Dixon	BBC Playhouse Manchester 3/13 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden Archive	1975
Ballet Selection: Can Can (Rossini)/Waltz From ‘Coppelia’/Finale From ‘Dance Of The Hours’	Ernest Braodbent	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden Archive	1975
Popgun Patrol	Bryan Rodwell	Gaumont Coventry 3c/9 Compton	Nigel Ogden Archive	1960
Dizzy Fingers	Charles Smart	BBC Theatre Organ No.2, Hoxton, London 5/27 Möller	Nigel Ogden Archive	1958
Let Yourself Go/???	Harold Smart	BBC Theatre Organ No.2, Hoxton, London 5/27 Möller	Nigel Ogden Archive	1965
The Wing Commander	Harold Nash	BBC Theatre Organ No.2, Hoxton, London 5/27 Möller	Nigel Ogden Archive	1956

Episode 376 – The End Of Times

On this weeks show John Leeming is back in his archive, with tracks taken from the last 18 months of traditional theatre organ broadcasts before they ceased for good in June 1968.

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Music Played

Old Father Thames	Reginald Porter-Brown	Guildhall Southampton 4/50 Compton (Dual Console)	Private Recording	1967
Call Me/Anything Goes	Charles Smitton	Paramount/Odeon Manchester 4/20 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1967
I’ve Got The World On A String	Bryan Rodwell	Paramount/Odeon Leeds 3/19 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1967
Hora Staccata	Ena Baga	Granada, Tooting London 4/14 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1967
A Pretty GirL Is Like A Melody	Vic Hammett	Town Hall Buckingha 3/10 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1967
Sunshine Tango	Bobby Pagan	Ritz Richmond 3/8 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1968
Blackberry Pie	William Davies	Granada, Tooting London 4/14 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1968
Valse Mignonette	Keith Beckingham	Granada, Harrow, London 3c/8 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1968
Jazz Favourites: a) Sweet Sue, Just You b) Some Of These Days c) Whispering d) I Can’t Give You Anything But Love e) Nobody’s Sweetheart f) Honeysuckle Rose g) Singin’ In The Rain	Stanley Tudor	Gaumont Manchester 4/14 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1968
Jazz Pizzicato	Robinson Cleaver	Granada, Tooting London 4/14 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1968
Bonnie and Clyde	Robert Leys	Capitol Cinema, Abderdeen 3/8 Compton	Private Recording	1968
I Remember You	Nick Olsen	Paramount/Odeon Leeds 3/19 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1968

Most of the recordings are from tapes donated by the estates of Bill Ravenall and ‘JK’ via Geoff Day.

Episode 251 – Rodwell at the Ritz

On this week’s show we turn back the clocks to 1966 and to the small yet powerful 2/4 Compton in the Ritz Hereford. Bryan Rodwell was at one time resident organist at the Ritz. Sit back and enjoy the sounds of the Jazz master getting some unbelievable sounds from just 4 ranks of pipes and a Melotone! (Photo © Wayne Ivany)

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Music played

You Made Me Love You

Irish Washerwoman

Babbling

Parade Of The Sunbeams

Gershwin Selection: Rhapsody In Blue/Strike Up The Band/Our Love Is Here To Stay/The Man I Love/Fascinating Rhythm/Embraceable You/A Foggy Day/Liza/Someone To Watch Over Me/Rhapsody In Blue

Moonlight In Vermont

Sweet Georgia Brown

You Made Me Love You

Concert took place on the 24th April 1966. Thanks to Trevor Bolshaw for loaning me the tape and allowing me to broadcast it