Sidney Torch – Page 2 – The Organist Encores

Episode 505 – All Original

This week Damon spotlights some of the lesser heard original installations.

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Music Played

Collection Of Can Cans	Andrew Fenner	Odeon Hammersmith 4/15 Compton	Concert Recording (CR 0059)	1969
Cheek To Cheek	Michael Wooldridge	Granada Harrow 3c/8 Wurlitzer	TOEnc Archive (N.O)	1982
Cheekie Chappie	Simon Gledhill	Dreamland Cinema, Margate 4/19 Compton-Noterman	TOEnc Archive (N.O)	1993
Belle Of The Ball	Gerald Shaw	Odeon Leicester Square, London 5c/17 Compton	Musiqua	2015
Love For Sale	Len Rawle	Town Hall Watford 3/16 Compton	TOEnc Archive (N.O)	1994
Teddy Bears’ Rave-Up	Nigel Ogden	Plaza Cinema, Stockport 3/11 Compton	COS Tapes (COS119)	1988
Body And Soul	Lyn Larsen	Opera House, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer	TOEnc Archive (Tom Herd)	1977
Hot Pipes Part 1 – The Toy Trumpet/I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You/The Snake Charmer	Sidney Torch	Gaumont State, Kilburn 4/16 Wurlitzer	Piping Hot (PH2007)	2013

Episode 500 – Show 500!

This week Damon is joined by James Mclean as they read your requests to celebrate the 500th edition of the show.

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Music Played

Smiling Through/The Boyfriend Selection	Dudley Savage	Royal/ABC Plymouth 3/8 Compton	TOEnc Archive (N.O)
March: Holyrood	Robert Wolfe	Thursford Collection, Fakenham 3/19 Wurlitzer	Grasmere Records (GRCD 79	1996
Yesterdays	Ashley Miller	Radio City Music Hall, New York City NY 4/58 Wurlitzer	CSP (CL 945)	1957
Cherokee	Bryan Rodwell	Hammond Organ	TOEnc Archive (JL)	1974
This Is My Song/I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight/I Left My Heart In San Francisco/Jeepers Creepers	Reginald Dixon	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	TOEnc Archive (DMC)	1967
Gold And Silver Waltz	Phil Kelsall	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Grasmere Records (GRCD80)	1996
Stardust	Sidney Torch	Gaumont State, Kilburn 4/16 Wurlitzer	Decca Record Company (SPA 195)	1972
The Girl From Ipanema/Choo Choo Samba	David Lowe	Regal/Scala Rotherham 3/9 Conacher	TOEnc Archive (N.O)	1983
On Green Dolphin Street	Bert van den Brink	Muziekcentrum van de Omroep, Hilversum, Holland 4/20 Standaart-Compton	Private Recording	2020
Night And Day	George Wright	Chicago Theatre, Chicago IL 4/29 Wurlitzer	BANDA CD (61949)	1991
‘Rosalie’ Selection: Rosalie/In The Still Of The Night/Who knows?	Henry Croudson	Paramount/Odeon Manchester 4/20 Wurlitzer	Regal Zonophone (MR 2840)	1938
Jealousy	Douglas Reeve	Dome Brighton 4/40 Hill Norman and Beard ‘Christie’	Cinema Organ Society (COS126)	2001
Rain On The Roof	Richard Hills	Southbank Polytechnic, London 4/24 Wurlitzer	Cinema Organ Society (COS S01)	2005
Wedding Of The Painted Doll	Nicholas Martin	Turners Musical Merry-Go-Round 3/19 Wurlitzer	Turners Entertainments Ltd (TMM18CD)	1997
Blue Moon	Len Rawle	Marine Arcade, Douglas, Isle Of Man 2/10 Wurlitzer	TOEnc Recording	2019
Sales Talk	Stanley Tudor	Gaumont Manchester 4/14 Wurlitzer	TOEnc Archive (N.O)	1960

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 463 – Animal

This week Damon takes you on a musical trip to the zoo!

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Music Played

Samba: The Parrot	Ernest Broadbent	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	One-UP/EMI (OU 2171)	1977
Suite From The Carnival Of The Animals – The Elephant	David Harris & Jelani Eddington	Little River Studio, Miller, Whichita 3/19 Wurlitzer	RJE Productions	2005
The Elephant’s Tango	Douglas Reeve	Gaumont Manchester 4/14 Wurlitzer	Acorn Records (CF 255)	1974
Little Red Monkey	John Mann	Tony Manning Residence, Farnborough 3/7 Christie	Grosvenor Records (GRS1114)	1981
Monkey On A String	Walt Strony	Auditorium Theatre, Rochester NY 4/22 Wurlitzer	ATOS 2019	2019
Penguin’s Playtime	Nigel Ogden	Free Trade Hall, Manchester 4/20 Wurlitzer	OS Digital (OS201)	1993
Famingo	Jim Roseveare	Wiltern Theatre Los Angeles CA 4/37 Kimball	Cambria Master Recordings (CD1040)	1996
Alligator Crawl	Robinson Cleaver	Granada, Tooting London 4/14 Wurlitzer	Musique Records	2015
At The Panda’s Party	Sidney Torch	Gaumont State, Kilburn 4/16 Wurlitzer	Piping Hot (PH2007)	2013
Tiger Rag	Reginald Dixon	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Starline (EMI Records)(MRS5056)	1971

Episode 462 – From Nigel Ogden’s Archive: In Conversation

On this week’s show Nigel Ogden is back in his archive where the focus is on conversation and music!

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Music Played

Pack Up Your Troubles/Thunder And Lightening Polka	Douglas Reeve	Dome Brighton 4/40 Hill Norman and Beard ‘Christie’	Concert Recording (CR-0020)	1967
Phantom Brigade	Doreen Chadwick	Gaumont Manchester 4/14 Wurlitzer	Audicord (ACD216)	1990
Sylvia	Eddie Ruhier	Hammond X5	Eddie Ruhier Recordings
Variations On B.B.C.	William Davies	Trocadero Elephant and Castle, London 4/21 Wurlitzer	BBC Records (REC 349)	1979
Our Love Affair	Sidney Torch	Opera House, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer	Sterndale Records (STE 1005)	1996
Boo Hoo	Reginald Dioxn	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer	Sterndale Records (STE 3100)	2013
The Wedding Of The Painted Doll	Reginald Dioxn	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Columbia Records (SCX 1587)	1964

Episode 460 – Hi-Speed Organ

On this week’s show John Leeming turns back the clock to the world of 78rpm records with this nostalgic show.

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Music Played

A Great Big Bunch of You//Pagan Moon/Too Many Tears	Sidney Torch	Loew’Regal, Marble Arch 4/36 Christie	Columbia Records (DB819)	1932
Just Humming Along	Quentin Maclean	Trocadero, Elephant and Castle 4/21 Wurlitzer	Columbia Records (DB821)	1932
ABC March	Reginald Foort	BBC Theatre Organ #1 4/23 Compton	HMV Records (BD424)	1937
Can’t We Talk It Over?/Now That You’ve Gone	Harold Ramsay	Granada, Tooting 4/12 Wurlitzer	Decca Records (F2951)	1932
Moonlight Dance	Ena Baga	New Gallery Cinema, London 2/8 Wurlitzer	HMV Records (B3385)	1930
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic	Donald Thorne	Granada, Clapham Junction 3/8 Wurlitzer	Decca Records (F6848)	1938
Fairy on the Clock	Charles and Harold Smart	EMI Studio 3/8 Compton + Hammond	Parlophone Records (R3505)	1952
Twelfth Street Rag	The New Organolians	Hammond	Columbia Records (FB2850)	1943
Tiger Rag	Bobby Pagan	EMI Studio 3/8 Compton	HMV Records (BD775)	1939

Episode 434 – Melotone Magic

On this week’s show John Leeming has an all Compton show – specifically featuring Comptons with a Melotone Unit.

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Music Played

Happy Days Are Here Again	Unknown	Unknown	Theatre Projects Sound Library	c1960
Love Walked In	Ron Curtis	Grays State Theatre 3/6 Compton	Dene Records (DKA9242)	1992
Wave	David Shepherd	The Plough, Great Munden 3/11 Compton	Tonawanda Sound (TWS1001)	1974
We’re in the Money/I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song	Gerald Shaw	Odeon Leicester Square, London 5/17 Compton	COS Archives (BBC)	1966
In the Still of the Night	Sidney Torch	EMI Studio No 1, London 3/8 Compton	Columbia Records (FB1932)	1938
Harlem Nocturne	Simon Gledhill	St John Vianney, Clayhall 3/6 Compton	Private recording (JL)	2007
Once in a While	Al Bollington	Paramount, Tottenham Ct Rd 4/10 Compton	Pavilion Records (PAST CD 7052)	1994
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	Trevor Willetts	Lyric, Wellingborough 2/5 Compton	Emporio Records (EMPRCD560)	1995
I’ll Be Around/Ça C’est Paris	Stanley Wyllie	Ritz, Belfast 4/10 Compton	COS Tapes (COS122)	1995
Moonlight Becomes You	Dudley Savage	ABC, Plymouth 3/8 Compton	Perfect Partners (PP001CD)	2008

Episode 402 – Jeepers Creepers

The music of Harry Warren is the sole feature on this show – he wrote some of the finest music in Hollywood and will forever be associated with master choreographer Busby Berkeley.

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Music Played

’42nd Street’ Medley	Lyn Larsen	Shea’s Buffalo Theatre, Buffalo, New York 4/28 Wurlitzer	Musical Contrasts (MCI-110)	1993
September In The Rain	Buddy Cole	Buddy Cole Studio, Hollywood CA 3/27 Wurlitzer-Morton	Warner Bros. Records (WS 1557)	1964
Jeepers Creepers	Arnold Loxam	Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3/14 Wurlitzer	Grosvenor Records	1991
You’ll Never Know	George Wright	George Wright Studio Organ, Leslie Factory, Pasadena CA 3/27 Wurlitzer	Essential Records (ERS-01W)	1971
Remember Me?	Sidney Torch	Gaumont State, Kilburn 4/16 Wurlitzer	Piping Hot (PH2007)	2001
I Know Why	Simon Gledhill	Oriental Theatre, Milwaukee WI 4/39 Kimbal	Simon Gledhill & Kimbal Theatre Organ Society (KTOS339)	2000
Chattanooga Choo Choo	Len Rawle	Tonawanda, Chorleywood 4/24 Wurlitzer	Tonawanda Sound (TWS 1000)	1972