This week Damon has two contrasts from the archive.
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| a) Tritsch Tratsch Polka b) Haunted Ballroom c) Scintillating Stars d) Little Serenade | John Howlett | BBC Theatre Organ No.2, Hoxton, London 5/27 Möller | TOEnc Archive | |
| a) Festival Day b) Babbling c) Telstar d) Dancing Years Selection | Reginald Porter-Brown | BBC Theatre Organ No.2, Hoxton, London 5/27 Möller | TOEnc Archive | 1963 |
This week John Leeming takes us back to January 1955.
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| Leicester Square Looks Round | John Howlett | Granada Theatre, Tooting 4/14 Wurlitzer | Private recording | 1965 |
| Dance of the Blue Marionettes | Sidney Torch | Regal Theatre, Marble Arch 4/36 Wurlitzer | Sterndale Records (STE 1002) | 1993 |
| Wee McGregor Highland Patrol | Nigel Ogden | Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer | Grasmere Records (GRCD 129) | 1997 |
| Dancing Tambourine | George Wright | Pasadena Studio 3/27 Wurlitzer | Banda Records (BA 70170299) | 1999 |
| Roaming Around | Bryan Rodwell | Granada Theatre, Clapham Junction 3/8 Wurlitzer | Private recording | 1955 |
| Goofus | Jim Riggs | Dolby House, Holbeach 4/22 Compton-plus | Private recording | 2004 |
| Too Late Now | Dudley Savage | ABC Cinema, Plymouth 3/8 Compton | Perfect Partners Records (PP001 CD) | 2008 |
| Guiding Star/They Were Doing the Mambo/Wait for Me, Darling | Stanley Wyllie | Ritz Cinema, Belfast 4/10 Compton | Private Recording | 1954 |
| Happy Days are Here Again | Jack Helyer | BBC Studio, Hoxton, London 5/27 Möller | Private Recording | 1957 |
On this week’s show John Leeming has been looking through the Radio Times in March and April 1952 to see what people were listening to in theatre organ broadcasts at the time of the Queen’s accession to the throne.
| Legend of the Glass Mountain | Robinson Cleaver | Granada, Tooting 4/14 Wurlitzer | President Records (PLCD544) | 1996 |
| On a Spring Note | David Gray | Sanfilippo Foundation Collection 5/80 Wurlitzer | David Gray Records (DG0001) | 2018 |
| September in the Rain | Robert Wolfe | Orion Centre, Campsie 3/17 Wurlitzer | Music Digital (CD6021) | 1996 |
| September in the Rain | Reginald Dixon | Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer | Sterndale Records (STE3101) | 2001 |
| Montmartre | David Shepherd | Odeon, Leicester Square, London 5/17 Compton | John Leeming collection (BBC) | 1981 |
| Leicester Square Looks Round | John Howlett | Odeon, Leicester Square, London 5/17 Compton | John Howlett collection (BBC) | 1965 |
| Looking Around | Simon Gledhill & Richard Hills | David Shepherd Residence, Holbeach 4/22 Compton-plus | John Leeming YouTube | 2014 |
| Belle of the Ball | Stanley Wyllie | Granada, Walthamstow 3/12 Christie | John Leeming collection | 1986 |
| Dance of the Three Old Maids | John Mann | South Bank University 4/24 Wurlitzer | Odin Music (ODC012) | c1989 |
| Dance of an Ostracised Imp | Reginald Dixon | Empress Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer | Damon Cox Records (DMCD03) | 2016 |
| Memories of You | Eric Lord | Odeon, Manchester 4/20 Wurlitzer | LTOT Records (LTOT9510) | 1995 |
On this week’s show John Leeming rememberers some of the lesser heard organists of days gone by.
| Hard-Hearted Hannah | Dick Smith | Loew’s Theatre, Richmond, VA 3/13 Wurlitzer | Concert Recording (CR-0013) | c1970 |
| I Believe in Miracles | John Stewart | Gaumont State, Kilburn 4/16 Wurlitzer | Amberlee Records (AML 306) | 1974 |
| Dusk | Harold Ramsay | Granada Theatre, Kingston 3/10 Wurlitzer | COS Archive (BBC) | 1973 |
| I Want to Be Happy | Rick Shindell | State Theatre, Toledo, OH 3/14 Marr and Colton | Concert Recording (CR-0114) | 1973 |
| I Cover the Waterfront | Joe Marsh | Town Hall, Ossett 3/13 Compton-Chrsitie | Crescendo Records (HLW 500) | 1977 |
| Evening in Capri | John Howlett | Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square 5/17 Compton | COS Archive (BBC) | c1957 |
| Lullaby of Birdland | Leonard MacClain | Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA 3/17 Wurlitzer | Epic Records (BN 555) | c1960 |
| Midnight in Mayfair | Reginald Liversidge | Gaumont Theatre, Manchester 4/14 Wurlitzer | Acorn Records (CF 215) | c1971 |
| Moonlight Serenade | Geoff Stephenson | Kitchen Bros Showroom, Diss 3/19 Wurlitzer | Acorn Records (CF 229) | c1973 |
| I’m Happy When I’m Hiking/Trombones to the Fore | Jack Helyer | BBC Theatre Organ 5/27 Möller | John Leeming collection (BBC) | 1957 |