On this week’s show John Leeming focuses on famous theatre organ names of the past.
Music Played
| I Do Like to Be beside the Seaside | Reginald Dixon | Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer | Private recording (John Leeming archive/BBC) | 1963 |
| September in the Rain/I Saw a Ship a-Sailing By/The Love Bug Will Bite You | Reginald Dixon | Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer | Sterndale Records (STE3101) | 2001 |
| Our Love Affair/Now I Lay Me Down to Dream/All Over the Place | Reginald Foort | Foort Touring Organ 5/27 Möller | Piping Hot Recording Company (PH2006) | 2000 |
| It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow/ Who’s Taking You Home Tonight?/Somewhere Over the Rainbow | Sandy Macpherson | BBC St George’s Hall 4/25 Compton | EMI World Records (SH385) | 1980 |
| Wedding of the Rose; To a Wild Rose/Rose in the Bud/Love’s Garden of Roses/Only a Rose/Roses from the South | Quentin Maclean | Trocadero, Elephant and Castle 4/21 Wurlitzer | Sterndale Records (STE1001) | 1991 |
| Looking Around Corners for You | Sidney Torch | Regal, Kingston-upon-Thames 3/12 Wurlitzer | Sterndale Records (STE1005) | 1996 |
| Two Sleepy People | Joseph Seal | Regal, Kingston-upon Thames 3/12 Wurlitzer | Private recording (COS Archive/BBC) | 1961 |
| That Lovely Weekend | Dudley Savage | ABC, Plymouth 3/8 Compton | Perfect Partners Records (PP001CD) | 2008 |
| Goodnight My Love | Robin Richmond | Granada, Welling 3c/8 Wurlitzer | Private recording (COS Archive/Geoff Day) | 1974 |
| I Do Like to Be beside the Seaside | Reginald Dixon | Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer | Sterndale Records (STE3100) | 2001 |