Episodes
Start Name Artist Album Year Comments I Wanna Be Like You Chris McPhee Polished Pipes 1994 4-24 Wurlitzer Hybrid, Capri Theatre, Adelaide 2:29 For Now And Always Rob Richards Now Playing - Rob Richards at the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ 4-37 Wurlitzer, El Capitan Theatre, Hollywood, CA 7:07 Variations on It's A Small World (After All) David Reese You're Gonna Hear From Me [Concert Recording CR-0149] 1976 3-17 Wurlitzer, Pipe Organ Pizza, Tustin CA;...
Published 06/08/24
Published 06/08/24
Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Theatres that are being torn down - 1950s TV Piece intro David Brinkley Audio 1963 0:34 Istanbul (Not Constantinople) George Wright At The Fox, Volume One [Banda 9211] 1993 4-36 'Crawford Special' Wurlitzer, Fox Theatre, San Francisco; - rec 1956 to 1959 3:24 Song Of The Wanderer (Where Shall I Go?) George Wright At The Fox, Volume Two [Banda 109453] 1994 4-36 'Crawford Special' Wurlitzer, Fox Theatre, San...
Published 05/06/24
Those Were The Days - 2CD – in aid of Colonel Jack Moelmann Foundation to assist the careers of young organists For US purchasers – Jim Stemke For European purchasers – Steve Ashley Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Wake Up And Live Dave Wickerham Concert: Jammin'@Janckos 2021-04-18 2021 3-23 Wurlitzer, Our Backyard Museum, Jancko Residence, Plantation, FL 3:09 Voices of Spring Justin LaVoie Those Were The Days [DSP 2305] 2019 4-36 Wurlitzer, Fox...
Published 04/24/24
Start Name Artist Album Year Comments The Raiders' March Zach Frame After The Ovens Cool [C-2 Productions CD] 2024 3-30 Wurlitzer-Kimball-Moller hybrid, Organ Piper Music Palace, Greenfield, WI 3:32 To Make You Feel My Love Zach Frame After The Ovens Cool [C-2 Productions CD] 2024 3-30 Wurlitzer-Kimball-Moller hybrid, Organ Piper Music Palace, Greenfield, WI 7:54 The Song Is You Rosa Rio Live From The Senate [OK Rollem 44] 1990 4-34 Wurlitzer, Senate...
Published 04/05/24
Start Name Artist Album Year Comments The Magnificent Seven Bob Ralston Show Stoppers [Spotoma CD] 2007 Yamaha Electone HX-1 and ELX-1 6:14 Would You Like To Take A Walk? Jackie Davis Jumping Hi-Fi Hammond [Jasmine JASCD 472] 1956 Reissued in 2008 9:02 Sabor A Mi (Taste of Me) Leroy Lewis Step To The Rear [Earsa 1006] Hammond, Allen, other sound modules, Wurlitzer percussion and toy counter; recorded at Conley's Motel & Restaurant, US 22,...
Published 03/18/24
Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Coronation Rag Stanley Tudor Cinema Organ Encores Vol 3 [Deroy 844] 1958 4-14 Wurlitzer, Gaumont Theatre, Manchester 3:12 Angela Con Docherty Cinema Organ Encores Vol 7 [Deroy 875] 1964 3-19 Wurlitzer, Paramount/Odeon Theatre, Newcastle-On-Tyne 7:39 Jamaican Rhumba Gerald Shaw Cinema Organ Encores Vol 8 [Deroy ADM 44] 4-36 Christie, Regal Cinema, Marble Arch, London 9:19 When Day Is Done Don...
Published 02/26/24
Start Name Artist Album Year Comments All's Fair In Love And War David Gray ATOS 2019 Rochester Highlights 2019 4-23 Wurlitzer, Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, NY; Concert June 30, 2019 3:25 Beautiful Love Dr. John W. Landon At The Page Pipe Organ [Paramount Organ Society POS 111] 3-7 Page, Paramount Theatre, Anderson, IN 6:31 Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine Dave Wickerham Steppin' Out To The Rialto 1997 4-27 Barton Grande, Rialto Square...
Published 02/12/24
Start Name Artist Album Year Comments So go to him, and say to him; Twenty Love-Sick Maidens; The Soldiers Of Our Queen (Patience); With Cat-Like Tread (The Pirates Of Penzance) Dudley Savage As Prescribed 1975-07-27 1975 3-8 Compton with Melotone, ABC/Royal Cinema, Plymouth 4:24 Poor Butterfly Leonard MacClain Melody Mac at the Console [Ralbar SOLP-6302] 1963 3-31 Kimball, Stanton Theatre, Baltimore, MD; previously Stanley Theatre 8:01 Younger Than...
Published 01/20/24
Year-end Roundup Start Name Artist Album Year Comments I Wan'na Be Like You; Midnight In Moscow; Mack The Knife Doreen Chadwick Presenting Doreen Chadwick [Audicord ACD 228] 1994 3-13 Compton-Christie, Town Hall, Ossett, Yorkshire 3:59 Blue Orchids Al Bollington Serenades In Blue [Decca DL 74423] 1964 Unknown 33 rank pipe organ, Conn Serenade and NovaChord 7:58 Puttin' On The Ritz Walt Strony Test Recordings 1994 5-80 Wurlitzer, Sanfilippo...
Published 12/27/23
Christmas 2023 Tom Hazleton: From Bach To Runway - US enquiries & purchases Tom Hazleton: From Bach To Runway - European details & purchases Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Tom Hazleton From Bach to Runway [DSP 2001] 1996 4-27 Robert Morton, Music Hall, Kansas City; ex Loew's Midland (1927), Kansas City 4/20 2:39 The Little Bells Tom Hazleton From Bach to Runway [DSP 2001] 1985 3-14 Wurlitzer,...
Published 12/13/23
Hot Pipes Podcast 321 - Len Rawle Tribute 1938 - 2023 Charles Jenkins - Stories of London (Comprehensive history of Len Rawle's career) Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Let The Heartaches Begin Len Rawle Shimmering Splendour [EMI SCX 6314] 1969 4-20 Wurlitzer, Tonawanda, Len & Judith Rawle Residence, Chorleywood, Herts 2:58 Falling In Love Again Len Rawle The Sounds Of Tonawanda [Concert Recording CR-0082-T] 1970 4-24 Wurlitzer Opus 1968,...
Published 12/02/23
Reginald Dixon Un-reissued (on his '119th birthday', albeit belated) With thanks to Ross McNeillie for sharing his transfers and to Peter Ashman for his Dixon shellac discography. Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Wherever You Are Reginald Dixon Sterno 1033 (from Wayne Ivany) 1932 2-10 Wurlitzer, Tower Ballroom, Blackpool 3:30 Blackpool Song Mixture - No 6 Part 1: Night And Day; I'll Take An Option On You; You're An Old Smoothie Reginald...
Published 11/15/23
Halloween and More Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Little Shop Of Horrors: Mean Green Mother From Outer Space Trio con Brio In The Key Of Three 2007 3-26 Robert Morton, Residence Paul Van Der Molen; console ex-Lowe's Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, New York; plus Allen Q311 Theatre and Q205 classical 4:25 This Is Halloween Nick Renkosik Zach Frame Concert: Sanfilippo Halloween 2020-10-30 2020 5-85 Wurlitzer, Grand Salon, Sanfilippo Residence, Barrington,...
Published 10/27/23
A Fiesta of the Animal Kingdom Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Run, Rabbit, Run Chris McPhee Celebrate 2007 4-29 Hybrid, Capri Theatre, Goodwood, Adelaide, South Australia 2:49 The March Hare Robert Wolfe Dizzy Fingers [Thursford TE14] 1986 3-19 Wurlitzer, Thursford Collection, Norfolk, England; ex Paramount/Odeon Leeds 5:45 The Whistler And His Dog Dennis James In London [DJP 105] 4-20 Wurlitzer, Tonawanda, Len & Judith Rawle...
Published 10/12/23
In Concert! ATOS Marketplace for 2023 Highlights CDs Start Name Artist Album Year Comments 0:00 Way Down Yonder In New Orleans George Wright Live At The Rialto [Banda 109759-2] 1971 2-10 Wurlitzer, Rialto Theatre, South Pasadena 1:56 Easy To Love Ed Gress Concert: Metropolitan Theatre, Boston 1958 1958 4-26 Wurlitzer, Metropolitan Theatre, Boston, MA 4:46 The Runaway Rocking Horse Simon Gledhill ATOS 2023 Chicago 2023 4-26 Barton hybrid,...
Published 09/26/23
Celebrating a Blue Moon Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Blue Moon John Duffy Duffy At The Organ [London HA-U2012] 1957 3-10 Wurlitzer-Gottfried, CBS-KNX Studios, Columbia Square, Hollywood, CA; ex-Legion (Capitol) Theatre, Walla Walla, WA 2:48 Lazy Moon from Goldilocks Jelani Eddington Blue Tango [RJE CD] 2006 5-80 Wurlitzer, Sanfilippo Victorian Music Palace 4:39 Moondance Donna Parker The Lady Elsinore 2007 3-26 Wurlitzer, Elsinore...
Published 09/15/23
Christie Unit Organs Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Primero Douglas Reeve Broadcast: The Dome, Brighton 1966-08-10 1966 4-50 Hill, Norman and Beard, The Dome, Brighton 2:45 I Wish You Love Ken Stroud Playing The Christie Organ [CL CLC 8624] 1963 3-9 Christie, Stotfold Social Club, formerly Regent Theatre (1963), Stotfold. Previously in the Carlton Cinema, Liverpool (1932) as a 3-8 6:36 Little Red Monkey John Mann The Christie Sound...
Published 08/28/23
Tribute to Jack Rhine, 1946-2023 Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Muskrat Ramble Ann Leaf Concert Echoes [Pipe Organ Presentations POP125] 1963 2-10 Wurlitzer, Los Angeles Theatre 2:27 Stormy Weather Tom Helms Bertha And A Dozen Friends 1988 4-22 Wurlitzer, Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, AL; Publix #1, designed by Crawford, expanded to 4-29 6:52 Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree George Blackmore Goodbye To The Mighty Wurlitzer Of The...
Published 08/06/23
Chicago Goodies NOTE: FOR PURCHASERS OUTSIDE EUROPE For From Bach to Broadway CDs, you will need to contact Jim Stemke For Those Were The Days CDs, please contact Patrick Ryan for details and/or orders For The Lost Kay McAbee Tapes on the Wheeler 3/16 Wicks CD, contact details for Judy Wheeler Matarelli will also be advised shortly Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Big Band Songs Tom Hazleton From Bach to Runway [DSP 2001] 1985 3-14 Wurlitzer, Riverside...
Published 07/23/23
A Strictly British Affair Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Up With The Curtain John Mann Wurlitzer Tour [OS Digital OS 231] 1997 4-14 Wurlitzer, Granada Studios Tour, Manchester; ex-Gaumont, Manchester 3:42 I Can Give You The Starlight Vic Hammett A Buckingham Special (Concert Recording R-O006-T) 1966 3-10 Wurlitzer, Town Hall, Buckingham; mainly ex-Metropole, Victoria, plus Regent, Stamford Hill and Gaumont, Watford 8:22 The Old Pi-anna...
Published 06/19/23
Restaurants Revisited Start Name Artist Album Year Comments That's A Plenty Dave Quinlan Concert: Rudy's Supper Club, Vallejo 1972-06-25 1972 2-6 Wurlitzer, Rudy's Supper Club, Vallejo, CA; Originaly El Campanile Theatre, Antioch, CA; recorded by Tim Kirkpatrick 1972-06-25 4:34 Baby Elephant Walk Don Croom On With The Show [Upbeat Records KM 4474] 3-23 Wurlitzer, Pizza And Pipes, Fresno, CA with ARP 2600 Synthesizer; formerly Shea's Hippodrome, Buffalo,...
Published 05/20/23
Organs of Los Angeles #2 Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Tambourin Chinois Ramona Gerhard Sutton Request Time For Ramona [Dean Brown DBP-181] 3-34 Welte Hybrid, Joe Koons' Motor Cycle Showroom, Long Beach, CA 6:00 I'll Remember April Bill Thomson A Quiet Evening With The Mighty Wurlitzer [Pacifica P-2001] 1956 2-10 Wurlitzer, Armin H "Bud" Wittenberg, Jr. Residence, Beverly Hills, CA; ex-Manchester Theatre, Los Angeles, augmented with parts from...
Published 04/29/23
Organs of Los Angeles #1 Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Sweet City Woman Candi Carley Sweet City Woman [Minx KM 7067] 3-15 Wurlitzer, Civic Auditorium, San Gabriel, CA 3:37 Charmaine Gaylord Carter Sparkling Organ Moods RCA Box 1967 4-36 Wurlitzer, Simonton Residence, Los Angeles, CA 6:48 Dance Of The Comedians Jonas Nordwall Bits, Bytes & Pipes Vol. 2 [JN-110CD] 4-47 Wurlitzer, Organ Grinder, Portland, OR 12:42 The...
Published 04/16/23
Music of the 1950s, A to M Start Name Artist Album Year Comments At the Hop Bill Vlasak The Paramount Music Palace Proudly Presents [LP] 4-42 Wurlitzer, Paramount Music Palace, Indianapolis, IN 2:40 Answer Me, My Love Christian Cartwright Tuned Up 2! [Pipes In The Peaks CD] 2007 3-15 Compton-Wurlitzer, Pipes in the Peaks, Ashbourne, Derbyshire 6:32 Be My Love Simon Gledhill Carousel [Musical Contrasts MCI-210] 1997 5-80 Wurlitzer, Sanfilippo...
Published 03/25/23