This week John Leeming picks some random section of 78rpm discs
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Music Played
I Go for That | Sidney Torch | Gaumont State, Kilburn, London 4/16 Wurlitzer | Columbia Records (FB2208) | 1939 |
What a Day We’ll Have | Robinson Cleaver (The Organ, the Dance Band and Me) | EMI Studio, London 3/8 Compton | Parlophone Records (F2514) | c1950 |
Mistakes/Charmaine/Dancing with Tears in My Eyes | Reginald Dixon | Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer | Columbia Records (FB3636) | 1952 |
I Used to Be Colour Blind/Change Partners/The Yam | Dudley Beaven | Granada Theatre, Clapham Junction 3/8 Wurlitzer | Decca Records (F6937) | 1938 |
I’m Always Thinkin’ of You Rag | Frank Gordon | Ritz Cinema, Birkenhead 3/8 Christie | Cinema Organ Society (COS2) | c1955 |
Joseph! Joseph!/Cinderella (Stay in My Arms)/Georgia’s Got a Moon | Donald Thorne | Granada Theatre, Willesden, London 3/9 Christie | Decca Records (F6919) | 1938 |
Stairway to the Stars | Arthur Young and Fela Sowande | Novachord and Hammond electronics | Decca Records (F7312) | 1939 |
Manhattan Serenade | Henry Croudson | Paramount Theatre, Manchester 4/20 Wurlitzer | Regal Zonophone Records (MR2342) | 1936 |
The Miller of Dee | Robin Richmond | Hammond electronic | His Master’s Voice Records (BD1144) | 1946 |
It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing/St Louis Blues/Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia | Sidney Torch | Regal Cinema, Edmonton, London 4/15 Christie | Columbia Records (FB1158) | 1935 |
Bonus track: Midnight, the Stars and You | Alex Mendham and His Orchestra | Orchestra | Palomar Records (2111-A) | 2020 |