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Episode 481 – Emotional Dreamscapes

On this week’s show we hand the spot back to our newest guest presenter; Robert Hope-Jones. He’s focusing on music to that tugs at his emotions.

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Music Played

One Morning in May	Hector Olivera	Fox Theatre, Atlanta 4/42 Moller	Vantage (VCD-6306)	1994
NBC Broadcast – The Dinner Concert	Jessie Crawford	Paramount Studio, Times Sq, NY 4/21 Wurlitzer	Private Recording	1939
Happiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe	Johnny Seng	Richard Loderhouse Studio NY 4/34 Wurlitzer	United Artists Records (UAS 5056)	1959
Once in a While	Dan Bellamy	Southbank Polytechnic, London 4/24 Wurlitzer	Private Recording (John Leeming)	2003
This Time the Dream’s on Me	Pierre Fracalanza	4/50 Paramount virtual theatre pipe organ	Private Recording (Pierre Fracalanza)	2013
Swing Low Sweet Chariot	Bill Floyd	Paramount Theatre, New York 4/36 Wurlitzer	Cook (1150)	1957
This is All I Ask	Simon Gledhill	Century II Wichita 4/38 Wurlitzer	Wichita Theatre Organ, Inc (WTOS438)	2009
American Nocturne	Gordon Kibbee	United Artist Theatre, LA 3/17 Wurlitzer	Private Recording (Buddy Cole)	1940
Dreamsville	Jim Riggs	Paramount Theatre, Oakland 4/26 Wurlitzer	Melody Masters, Inc (MLM 107)

Episode 478 – From Nigel Ogden’s Archive: It’s Unusual – Mostly!

On this week’s show Nigel Ogden is back in his archive with some slightly more unusual items!

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Music Played

It’s De-Lovley	Simon Gledhill	Civic Auditorium, Pasadena CA 5/28 Möller	Nigel Ogden Archive	1996
‘Jig’ Fuge	Virgil Fox	Paramount New York, NY 4/36 Wurlitzer	Nigel Ogden Archive	1956
Bideford Quay	Armsbee Bancroft	Cecil Theatre, Hull 3/15 Marshall Sykes	Audicord (AC225)	1993
Rhythm Medley	Horace Finch	Empress Ballroom, Blackpool 3/13 Wurlitzer	Pipe Organ Presentation
Archangel	Gerald Shaw/The Walker Brothers	Odeon Leicester Square F5c/17 Compton	Spectrum	1966
Toccata – Widor V	Gerald Shaw	Regal Marble Arch 4/37 Christie	MSS Studios (MSSCD06)	1968

Episode 475 – Indiana

This week Damon features instruments past and present in the state of Indiana

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Music Played

Up, Up And Away	Simon Gledhill	Warren Performing Arts Center, Indianapolis IN 3/18 Barton	Simon Gledhill & CIC-ATOS Inc	2001
Mean To Me/Yellow Bird	Buddy Nolan	Embassy Theatre, Fort Wayne IN 4/15 Page	Concert Recording (CR-0007)	1965
The Continental	Hector Olivera	Embassy Theatre, Fort Wayne IN 4/15 Page	Engle Associates Recording (EAR-10313)
Nanette	Jelani Eddington	Manual High School, Indianapolis IN 3/26 Wurlitzer	Circle Productions/CIC-ATOS	1992
I Won’t Dance	Clark Wilson	Hedback Community Theatre, Indianapolis 2/11 Page/Wurlitzer	ATOS	2014
Change Partners	Dwight Thomas	Paramount Music Palace, Indianapolis IN 4/42 Wurlitzer	Newport Classic (NCD60078)	1990
I Had The Craziest Dream	Ken Double	Paramount Theatre, Anderson, IN 3/12 Page	Paramount Heritage Foundation	2001
Stomping At The Savoy	Mark Herman	Embassy Theatre, Fort Wayne IN 4/16 Page	Embassy Theatre Foundation Inc	2018

Episode 472 – From two Continents

On this week’s show John Leeming focuses on organs in the US and continental Europe!

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Music Played

Jeepers Creepers	Simon Gledhill	Collége Claparéde, Geneva 3/8 Wurlitzer	AAOCCC Geneva	2017
It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane	Buddy Nolan	Embassy, Fort Wayne, IN 3/15 Page	Concert Recording (CR0071)	c1970
Crazy	John Mann	NDR Studio, Hamburg 3/21 Welte	Private Recording (John Mann)	2002
Who?	Kay McAbee	Robert Wheeler Residence, Lockport IL 3/15 Wicks	Concert Recording (CR0079)	c1970
Swing Again	Klaus Wunderlich	Hammond organ	Bell Records (BLR89117)	2010
Mr Anthony’s Boogie	Florian Hutter	Skalleblle Centret, Denmark Wersi Atlantis	Florian Hutter Recordings	2017
So Rare	Dick Schrum	Carl Greer Inn, Sacramento, CA 4/16 Robert Morton	Concert Recording (CR0119)	c1971
Blue Twilight	John Giacchi	Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, IL 4/27 Barton	JATOE Recordings	2001
Bel Ami/Taking a Chance on Love	Dudley Savage	Compton House, Brey-on-Rhein 3/7 Compton	Dudley Savage Recordings (KINO1)	1995
Dancing Tambourine	Lyn Larsen	Sanfillipo Residence, Barrington Hills, IL 5/80 Wurlitzer	Hopeful Heart Recordings (HHP203)	2001

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

Episode 452 – Meet the Ladies

As its international women’s day next Tuesday, Damon celebrates some of the ladies of song on this week’s show!

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Music Played

Lulu’s Back In Town	Mark Herman	Alabama Theatre, Birmingham AL 4/29 Wurlitzer	Alabama Chapter ATOS (ALA-1783-09)	2009
Clare	Buddy Cole	Buddy Cole Studio, Hollywood CA 3/27 Wurlitzer-Morton	Doric Recording (DO 1421)	1980
The Girl From Ipanema	Simon Gledhill	Burtey Fen Collection 2/9 Wurlitzer	Burtey Fen Collection (BFC003)	2004
Ruby	George Wright	George Wright Studio Organ, Leslie Factory, Pasadena CA 3/27 Wurlitzer	Westlake Productions/BANDA CD (BA-520042)	2004
Girl Talk	John Seng	St. Mary of the Lake Seminary Mundelein IL 4/23 Howell-Wurlitzer	Hot Pipes (HO3001)	2017
Nancy (With The Laughing Face)	Michael Wooldridge	New Victoria Centre, Howden-le-Wear 3/19 Wurlitzer	Merlin Productions	2012
Nicola	George Blackmore	Gaumont State, Kilburn 4/16 Wurlitzer	Private Recording (H.R Hart Collection)	1963
Laura	Joseph Seal	Regal/ABC Kingston 3/12 Wurlitzer	PYE Records (NSPL 18261)	1968
Louise	Bryan Rodwell	Granada, Tooting London 4/14 Wurlitzer	Ventures In Sound (VIS-B3)

Episode 449 – From Nigel Ogden’s Archive: Compton Contrast

Nigel Ogden is back in his archive with the sounds of two Comptons with two very contrasting organists playing them!

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Music Played

Title	Artist	Organ	Info.	Year
“Showboat” Selection	Michael Maine	Town Hall, Portslade 3/18 Compton	Nigel Ogden Archive	1990
a) Rodeo March b) Till There Was You c) The Merry Widow Waltz d) Tiger Rag	Simon Gledhill	Wyton House, Huntingdon 4/15 Compton	Nigel Ogden Archive	1992

Episode 439 – On The Street Where You Live

On this week’s show Damon takes us on a tour of roads, avenues, streets and more!

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Music Played

On Fifth Avenue	Lyn Larsen	Sanfilippo Music Salon, Barrington Hills IL 5/80 Wurlitzer	Musical Contrasts Inc (MCI-212)	2002
On The Street Where You Live	Ashley Miller	Paramount New York, NY 4/36 Wurlitzer	Command Records (RS 881 SD)	1964
42nd Street	Vic Hammett	Granada, Tooting London 4/14 Wurlitzer	Audicord (ACD 232)	1980
Streets Of London	Robert Wolfe	Southbank Polytechnic, London 4/24 Wurlitzer	COS Tapes (COS 112)	1988
In A Cafe On The Road To Calais	Jim Riggs	Granada Theatre, Kansas City KS 3/21 Barton	RTR Productions (RTC105CD)	1991
In A Country Lane	Simon Gledhill	Warren Performing Arts Center, Indianapolis IN 3/18 Barton	Simon Gledhill & CIC-ATOS Inc	2001
Slaughter On Tenth Avenue	Neil Jensen	John Dickinson High School, Wilmington DE 3/25 Kimball	Engle Associates Recording (EAR-10495)

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