Reginald Dixon – Page 2 – The Organist Encores

Episode 498 – When The Red, Red Robin

On this week’s show John Leeming rememberers the great Robin Richmond.

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Music Played

Blaze Away	Robin Richmond	London South Bank University 4/25 Wurlitzer	Private recording (John Leeming)	c1990
The Lady Is a Tramp	Robin Richmond	Trocadero, Elephant and Castle 4/21 Wurlitzer	Private recording (Robin Richmond/BBC)	1946
Take Me to Your Heart Again	The Organ Grinder’s Swing	Hammond combo	Private recording (Robin Richmond/BBC)	c1945
Sugar	Robin Richmond	Hammond + piano	Private recording (Robin Richmond/BBC)	1959
Maybe You’ll Be There	Robin Richmond	Marston Green Hospital 3/10 Compton	Private Recording (COS Archive)	1974
I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams	Robin Richmond Trio	Hammond combo	Private Recording (Bill Ravenall/BBC)	1961
Spooky Takes A Holiday	Robin Richmond	BBC Theatre Organ, Manchester 3/13 Wurlitzer	Private Recording (COS Archive/BBC)	1973
When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin’ Along	Reginald Dixon	BBC Theatre Organ, Manchester 3/13 Wurlitzer	Private Recording (Robin Richmond/BBC)	1973
She’s Funny That Way	Robin Richmond	Granada,Tooting 4c/14 Wurlitzer	Private Recording (Robin Richmond/BBC)

Episode 493 – Christmas Time Is Here

Its Christmas all the way this week as Damon features festive sounds, past and present

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Music Played

We Need A Little Christmas	Ron Rhode	Reiny Delzer Residence Bismarck, North Dakota (ND) 4/27 Wurlitzer	Roxy Productions (RP-106-CD)	1993
Brazilian Sleigh Bells	Tony Fenelon	Free Trade Hall, Manchester 4/20 Wurlitzer	TOEnc Archive (N.O)	1981
Christmas Fantasy (arr. L Anderson)	Gerald Shaw	Odeon Leicester Square, Londo 5c/17 Compton	TOEnc Archive (N.O)	1971
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	George Wright	George Wright Studio Organ, Leslie Factory, Pasadena CA 3/27 Wurlitzer	Dot Records (DLP 25479)	1962
Toyland	Robinson Cleaver	Granada, Tooting London 4/14 Wurlitzer	Brusnwick Ltd (LA 8688)
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer	Reginald Dixon	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Readers Digest (2-769-0-1)	1968
The Snow Waltz	Arnold Loxam	Rufforth 3/9 Compton	Barrie Davenport (DAV036)	1993
Jingle Bell Rock/Rockin Around The Christmas Tree	Robert Wolfe	Thursford Collection, Fakenham 3/19 Wurlitzer	Wolfe Productions (WPCD 06)	2002

Episode 490 – Dancing In The Dark

This week Damon features the famous Wurlitzer in the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

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Music Played

Mr Sandman/S’posin/No More	Reginald Dixon	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	(Rex Recordings) REXX 332	2009
Tango Taquin	Ernest Broadbent	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Columbia/EMI Records (SCX 6410)	1970
Fleetwood Fisherwoman	Arnold Loxam	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Grosvenor Records (CDGRS 1240)	1991
I Kiss You Hand, Madame/I Wish You Love	Robin Richmond	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Grosvenor Records (KGRS 1273)	1994
Money/Money Is The Root Of All Evil/We’re In The Money	Robert Wolfe	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Grosvenor Records (CDGRS 1238)	1990
Dancing In The Dark	Simon Gledhill	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	OS Digital (OS 205)	1994
Moonlight In Vermont	Nigel Ogden	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Grasmere Records (GRCD135)	2011
Yes My Darling Daughter/There’ll Be A Hot Time/It Don’t Mean A Thing	Phil Kelsall	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Grasmere Records (GRCD87)	1998

Episode 483 – From Nigel Ogden’s Archive: Blackpool Birthday

On this week’s show Nigel Ogden celebrates what would have been (in a few days time) Reginald Dixons 118th birthday.

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Music Played

Cherokee	Reginald Dixon	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Columbia Records (SCX 3379)	1961
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside/Canadian Capers/Temptation Rag/Darktown Strutters Ball	Reginald Dixon	Abbey Road EMI Studios 3/9 Compton	Nigel Ogden Archive	1942
Automne	Reginald Dixon	Grands Theatre Llandudno 5/27 Möller	Empress	1943
Jealous/Fascination/Trolley Sng	Reginald Dixon	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden Archive	1963
Let the Great Big World Keep Turning/Swanee	Reginald Dixon	Jubilee Theatre Blackpool Hammond Organ	Nigel Ogden Archive	1963
Happy Days Are Here Again/Song Of The Dawn	Reginald Dixon	Royal Albert Hall, London 4m 147 Speaking Stops ‘Father’ Henry Willis	Nigel Ogden Archive	1962
At Sundown/Peg O’ My Heart	Reginald Dixon	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Readers Digest (617-ES-1)	1968
Calling All Workers	Reginald Dixon	BBC Playhouse Manchester 3/13 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden Archive	1975
Tiger Rag	Reginald Dixon	Tower Ballroom Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Columbia Records (SCX 1587)	1964

Episode 480 – Famous Names

On this week’s show John Leeming focuses on famous theatre organ names of the past.

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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

Episode 477 – Thursford @ 90

This week Damon celebrates 90 years of the Thusrford Wurlitzer which started life in the Paramount/Odeon Leeds

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Music Played

Have You Met Miss Jones?	Bryan Rodwell	Paramount/Odeon Leeds 3/19 Wurlitzer	Musiqua	2015
Rhumbalina	Charles Smitton	Paramount/Odeon Leeds 3/19 Wurlitzer	Private Recording (E.R Hart Collection)	1958
They Say It’s Wonderful/I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm	Hubert Selby	Paramount/Odeon Leeds 3/19 Wurlitzer	Private Recording (E.R Hart Collection)	1965
Happy Days Medley	Arnold Loxam	Thursford Collection, Fakenham 3/19 Wurlitzer	Thursford Enterprises (TE 01)	1977
The Way You Look Tonight/Fools Rush In/It’s All Right With Me	Reginald Dixon	Thursford Collection, Fakenham 3/19 Wurlitzer	EMI Records (NTS 205)	1980
Dream/I Can Dream, Can’t I?	Robert Wolfe	Thursford Collection, Fakenham 3/19 Wurlitzer	Thursford Enterprises (TE 11)	1983
Waiting For The Robert E Lee/Carolina In The Morning/Toot, Toot, Tootsie!/I’m Sitting On Top Of The World	Robert Wolfe	Thursford Collection, Fakenham 3/19 Wurlitzer	Wolfe Productions (WPCD 05)	2002

Episode 474 – From Nigel Ogden’s Archive: Variety Pack

On this week’s show Nigel Ogden is back in his archive with a pack of variety for you to enjoy!

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Music Played

A Walk In The Black Forest	Bryan Rodwell	Radio Studio, Hilversum, Holland 5/27 Möller	Nigel Ogden Archive	1966
Light Classics Medley	George Blackmore	BBC Theatre Organ No.2, Hoxton, London 5/27 Möller	Nigel Ogden Archive	1963
Opus One	Nigel Ogden	Town Hall Manchester 5/64ss Cavaille-Coll	Nigel Ogden Archive	1982
Onedin Line/Sabre Dance	Reginald Dixon	Gaumont Manchester 4/14 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden Archive	1974
Singin’ In The Rain	Stanley Tudor	Gaumont Manchester 4/14 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden Archive	1974
Powder Your Face With Sunshine	David Shepherd	Gaumont Manchester 4/14 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden Archive	1974
Petite Fleur/Limehouse Blues	Nigel Ogden	Empress Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer/Compton	Nigel Ogden Archive	2020
Tiger Rag	Lyn Larsen	Opera House, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden Archive	1977

Episode 473 – Dixon plays the Odeon

On this weeks show we take you back to the 24th February 1970 and to the Odeon Manchester with some edited highlights from a live concert featuring Reginald Dixon.

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Music Played

More Broadcast Favourites: Samum/La Golondrina/Cuckoo Waltz/Harry Lime Theme/Teddy Bears Picnic/Charmaine/Darktown Strutters Ball/Come Back To Sorrento/South American Joe/Bells Across The Meadow/Casatschok/Play Gypsy/Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Tuneful Twenties: When You’re Smiling/She’s Funny That Way/Me And My Shadow/???/Lullaby Of Broadway/Who’s Sorry Now/South Of The Boarder/Yes Sir Thats My Baby/Carolina Moon/Somebody Stole My Gal

The Storm

Blackpool Memories: Toot Toot Tootsie/California Here I Come/Anniversary Waltz/Beer Barrel Polka/Beer Barrel Polka/We’ll Meet Again/I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

All tracks played on the 4/20 Wurlitzer in the Odeon Manchester in concert on 24th February 1970. Thanks to Reginald Dixons family for allowing this to be made available. Original recording from the Tom Herd Collection. Recording re-mixed with Adobe Audition.

Episode 465 – Best Of British

Damon features the best of British to help celebrate the Platinum Jubilee weekend!

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Music Played

March – Lime Grove	Nigel Ogden	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	OS Digital (OS254)	2003
Nights Of Gladness	Joseph Seal	Regal/ABC Kingston 3/12 Wurlitzer	Golden House – PYE Records (GH 609)	1975
Run Rabbit Run/(We’re Gonna) Hang Out the Washing On The Siegfried Line/Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye	Reginald Dixon	Granada Kingston, London 3c/10 Wurlitzer	Grasmere Recordings (GRCD 106)	2001
Cheeky Chappie	Richard Hills	Guildhall Southampton 4/50 Compton (Dual Console)	Silver Street Music (SSM0037)	2012
Valse Romantique	Simon Gledhill	Dolby House, Holbeach 4/21 Compton	Private Recording	2021
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square/When They Sound The Last All Clear/There’ll Always Be An England	Phil Kelsall	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Grasmere Records (GRCD132)	2011
Land Of Hope And Glory	Robert Wolfe	Thursford Collection, Fakenham 3/19 Wurlitzer	Thursford Enterprises Ltd (TECD 04)	1991

Episode 464 – Elizabethan Serenade

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.

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Music Played

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