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RAMO CAN SAVE the WORLD Ays the Bishop of Chelmsford
RADIO PICTORIAL, May 12,1939. No. 278 rTJLXEMB0URG Registered at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper NORMANDY PARIS : LYONS : EIREANN PROGRAMMES May 14-May 20 EVERY FRIDAY lipt* RAMO CAN SAVE THE WORLD ays The Bishop of Chelmsford Interview with Radio Favourite NORMAN LONG We're the News -Narks" by the ESTERN BROS. LISTENING in the BALKANS All about the ROYAL BROADCASTS B.B.C. JACK HULBERT and PROGRAMME CICELY COURTNEIDGE SEE PAGE 37 GUIDE Photo :Courtesy Goumont British RADIO PICTORIAL May 12, 1939 DON CARLOS RADIO'S Golden Tenor can be heard in a new series of programmes presented by Armour's from Normandy on Wednesdays at 9.15 a.m. and Luxem- bourg, Thursdays, 10.15 a.in. Supporting are Eddie Carroll and his Orchestra, Michael Moore, the impersonator, and such famous guest artistes as Leonard Henry, Hazell and Day, Bennett and Williams, Rudy Starita... 2 May 12, 1939 RADIO PICTORIAL we..-.-e-ere....- No. 278 ...........-.. RADIO PICTORIALviEiktiffretijoi The All -Family Radio Magazine Published by BERNARD JONES PUBLICATIONS, LTD. 37-38 Chancery Lane. W.C.2. HOLborn 6158 MANAGING EDITOR K. P.HUNT ASST. EDITOR JESSIE E. KIRK IN THEY say the only time a IftE,41Rii certain singer ever got an encore was when he was born.He was a twin. Because,sweetheart,allB.B.C. AND now they tell us, though we announcers have tobe perfectlittle don't believeit,that Charlie We ran into a Scottish comedian gentlemen. Kunz has bought a bicycle with a and a strip -tease girl the other day, loud and soft pedal. -
N O V Ember 2006 to January 2007
Our Final Issue OUR FINAL ISSUE INCLUDES: “When I Fall In Love” Organ Arrangement by Gary Burt Profile of Phil Kelsall John Mann: Life is Nothing Without Music Alan Ashtons Organised Keyboards Groov’in (Part Ten) with Alan Ashton November 2006 to January 2007 2006 to January November Issue Th irty-Two 1 Welcome to Issue Thirty-two Contents List for Issue 32: MSS Studios Top Forty Welcome / General Information 2 Our best selling CDs, DVDs & Books from July to Sept. 2006 Compiled from magazine and website sales Alan Ashtons Organised Keyboards 4 Profile of Phil Kelsall 14 1 Lenny Dee Double Dee-Light (2CD) Theatre Organ Echoes 16 2 Reginald Dixon Th e Very Best Of… (2CD) 3 Robert Wolfe Happy Days Are Here Again (DVD) John Mann - Life is Nothing Without Music 17 4 Robert Wolfe Bring Me Sunshine (DVD) Key Expressions for Organ Book Offer 18 5 Phil Kelsall Strictly Dance Organ & Keyboard DVDs 19 6 Franz Lambert 40 Years on Stage (DVD) Groov’in with Alan Ashton (Part Ten) 24 7 Bryan Rodwell Exactly Like Me! MUSIC FEATURE: When I Fall In Love 30 8 Nigel Ogden ’Round Midnight ORGAN1st Catalogue 35 9 Paul Carman Back On Track ORGAN1st New Additions 47 10 VARIOUS ARTISTS Th ose Were Th e Days 11 Nigel Ogden Encore! 12 Klaus Wunderlich Musical (2CD) www.organ.co.uk 13 John Bowdler Music, Music, Music 14 Robert Wolfe Over the Rainbow 15 Reginald Dixon Rhapsody in Blue 16 Douglas Reeve Brighton Brassy 17 G.Blackmore & G.Shaw A Regal Aff air 18 Robert Wolfe Stardust 19 Arnold Loxam Happy Birthday Arnold 20 Phil Kelsall Th e Very Best Of… (2CD) 21 Nigel Ogden From Stage & Screen 22 Mark Shakespeare All Th e World’s a Stage (2CD) 23 David Lobban 45 Wartime Wurlitzer Favourites 24 Klaus Wunderlich Up, Up & Away (2CD) 25 Chris Powell Strictly Ballroom SECTIONS: What’s New?, Electronic, Th eatre, DVDs etc. -
May to July 2005
THIS ISSUE INCLUDES: “Thou Swell” Organ Arrangement by Tony Back A Tribute to Jimmy Smith 1928-2005 Profile of Virgil Fox (with new CDs and DVDs) Profile of Arnold Loxam Groov’in with Alan Ashton (Part Four) May to July 2005 Alan Ashtons “Organised Keyboards” CD FEATURES: New Book Hector Olivera: I Have Dreamed Jon Smith: Some Enchanted Evening Jelani Eddington: Musical Fireworks & Perpetual Motion Issue Twenty-Six 1 Welcome to Issue Twenty-Six It’s been a slow time with organ releases lately, but there are some great CDs MSS Studios Top Forty in this issue including new titles from Jelani Eddington, Brett Wales, Hector Olivera, Our best selling CDs & DVDs from January to March 2005 Jon Smith & George Wright to name but a few. (Compiled from magazine and website sales) As there are only a handful of electronic and theatre organ 1 Phil Kelsall Blackpool Tower… (All 3 CDs) releases, we have included some ‘mainstream’ double classical organ sets (at great prices) as well the Complete 2 Chris Powell In Concert (DVD) Organ Player series of books. We also have a profile with 3 Keith Beckingham Ritz Beckingham some CDs and DVDs from the legendary Virgil Fox. The DVDs have been imported from the USA, but we have them 4 Klaus Wunderlich Recollections (2CD) at the same price as UK DVDs (and what’s more, they all 5 Chris Stanbury Portrait come with a free CD!). 6 (Derek Austin) Hammond - Monsters of Rock 7 Phil Kelsall 25th Anniversary / Tower (DVD) Contents List for Issue 26: 8 Ian King Snowdonia Photo & Music (DVD) Welcome / General Information -
VOX Lancastria Journal of the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust
# VOX Lancastria Journal of The Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust Winter 2019 - 2020 1 Vox Lancastria VOX Lancastria Edition 48 Journal of the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust Registered Charity 261487 Patron Vacant Contents Trustees Editorial 3 Walter Baker Chairman Ron Whalley C.Eng. F.I.E.T. MRISE. Secretary Unwanted Christmas Surprise 3 David Alldred Vic Matthews Chairman’s Message 4 Gary Trinder M.I.E.T. Charles Brown MAO Visit 5 Frank Thornton John Loud (Co-opted) 2019 AGM Minutes 6 Honorary President Interest in Denmark 8 Frank Read Organists - Gaumont, Manchester 10 Honorary Vice Presidents LTOT’s Historic Collection 13 Joyce Alldred L.L.C.M. Nigel Ogden The BBC Theatre Organ 15 Len Rawle MBE Eric Halsall C.Eng. MIET. T.O. Tech Page 18 Membership Secretary (interim) Heritage Centre Diary 23 John Loud Scott Brothers Duo Concert Back Editor - Vox Lancastria 4 Green Meadows Drive, Marple. SK6 6QE Past Chairmen Les Barlee 1968-1973 Frank D. Read 1973-1996 Don Hyde 1996-2010 Web Site Secretary’s address www.ltot.org.uk 94 Wellington Road, Bollington Cheshire - SK10 5HT E-Mail Addresses [email protected] Chairman [email protected] Secretary [email protected] Membership [email protected] L.T.O.T. Theatre Organ Heritage Centre Treasurer Address HC Manager [email protected] 2a Alexandra Road, Peel Green, Eccles. HC Group Bookings M30 7HJ. [email protected] 0161– 317- 9469 Cover Photo Vox Editor David Alldred [email protected] Heritage Centre 3/11 Compton Vox Compiled by D. Alldred 2 Vox Lancastria Editorial An Unwanted Christmas David Alldred Surprise Sunday the 1st December 2019, saw the As we welcome in the New Year we find Trust receive an unwanted Christmas ourselves at the end of a hectic 3 years of surprise, that on moving the Wurlitzer at installing the enlarged Ex. -
From Trocadero to Troxy: a Tradition Returns Transcript
From Trocadero to Troxy: A tradition returns Transcript Date: Thursday, 9 June 2011 - 6:00PM Location: Barnard's Inn Hall 9 June 2011 From Trocadero to Troxy: A tradition returns John Abson and Richard HILLS FRCO Introduction (John Abson) The Hyams family Our story starts with three brothers - Phil, Sid and Mick Hyams. The eldest, Phil, started in the trade by working as a teenager in the new Popular cinema in the Commercial Road, Stepney. The new Popular was partly financed by the brothers' father, Hyam Hyams, a Russian immigrant and nephew of the founders of the well-known London chain of Grodzinski's bakeries. Phil was joined by his brother Sid and built up a small circuit that included the Canterbury in Westminster Bridge Road. In 1927 the Hyams converted a vast tram shed into their first super cinema: the 2,700 seat Broadway at Stratford, east London. This was also the Hyams first contact with the Wurlitzer pipe organ; the Broadway was equipped with one of this country’s early examples and the experience no doubt inspired what today would be called ‘brand loyalty’, as this story tells. Thanks to a versatile and gifted architect, George Coles, the Broadway auditorium looked palatial and Coles went on to design all the cinemas the Hyams initiated. Coles was credited with the designs for over 80 cinemas, including many for Oscar Deutsch’s Odeon chain. In 1928, the Hyams sold their circuit to the newly formed Gaumont British combine, then started afresh as H&G Kinemas in partnership with Major A.J. -
Organ1st: Issue Nine February to April 2001 1 Welcomewelcome Toto Issueissue Ninenine
Organ CD’s from Around the Globe Including “Key Expressions for Organ” books £1.50 www.organ.co.uk ORGAN1st: Issue Nine February to April 2001 1 WelcomeWelcome ToTo IssueIssue NineNine Welcome to issue nine of our There is a feature on the year 1977 Also included in this issue is a new newsletter and our first of 2001. We by Ivor Manual which will interest video from Rick Wakeman and also hope you all had a great Christmas many of our readers. Can you the DVD version. If you don’t have and New Year. remember what you were doing in a DVD player yet, then this could the Queen’s Silver Jubilee year? be the disc that makes you go out This issue contains three profiles; and buy one! Howard Beaumont, Margaret We have a new video in this issue Mason (with details of her new from Dr. Arnold Loxam which Alan I am afraid that due to the costs book and CD) and Simon Gledhill Ashton fully reviews on page 29. It involved in producing this (with details of three new additions is the 6th video from OS Video and publication, we have had to to our catalogue, including his great is of the same high quality as all increase the UK price from £4.00 new “Songs in my Heart” CD). their other videos in the series. to £5.00 per year (and increase all foreign subscriptions by £1.00 per We have a very nice seven page There are some great new CD’s in year). -
Broadcast List – HOT PIPES HALF HOUR 055 Page 1 Seq Artist Name Duration/Year Show Date Num Album Comments
Broadcast List – HOT PIPES HALF HOUR 055 Page 1 Seq Artist Name Duration/Year Show Date Num Album Comments 1 Jelani Eddington Good News 00:02:28 6-09-12 055 Symphonic Art 3/31 Wurlitzer+, Saunders Residence 2011 2 Barry Baker I Was A Fool 00:04:14 6-09-12 055 A Barry Baker Concert 4/36 Wurlitzer, Ronald Wehmeier Residence, Cincinnati, OH 1999 3 Lyn Larsen Manana 00:01:55 6-09-12 055 Good News Organ Stop Pizza, Mesa AZ - Wurlitzer 4/78 2000 4 Howard Beaumont Little Serenade 00:03:34 6-09-12 055 Ossett Town Hall Concert 3-13 Compton-Christie, Ossett Town Hall, West Yorkshire 2009 5 Reginald Dixon Love Makes The World Go Round; 00:02:52 6-09-12 055 At The Blackpool Tower Change Partners [Flapper CD] 1938 6 Bille Nalle I Write The Songs 00:05:20 6-09-12 055 The WTO Billy Project, Volume In concert May 27, 1978; Century II 1 Center Wurlitzer, Wichita, KS (ex NY 1978 Paramount) 7 Bryan Rodwell At The Jazz Band Ball 00:03:04 6-09-12 055 Organ Magic [ATOTC 3/8 Compton A175 4/2/33, Capitol Cassette 1] Cinema, Aberdeen 1989 8 Chris McPhee Aquarium 00:02:25 6-09-12 055 Celebrate 4/29 Hybrid, Capri Theatre, Goodwood, Adelaide, South Australia 2007 Broadcast List – HOT PIPES HALF HOUR 055 Page 2 Seq Artist Name Duration/Year Show Date Num Album Comments 9 George Wright By the Beautiful Sea 00:01:54 6-09-12 055 Volume 3 - The Genius of George Wright 1958 10 Vic Hammett Where Flamingoes Fly 00:04:19 6-09-12 055 The Very Thought Of You 4-19 Compton Noterman, Dreamland [Crystal Stereo LP] Cinema, Margate; (8 Compton 11 Noterman) Installed 1935 11 Scott Foppiano Betty Boop Theme 00:01:42 6-09-12 055 Renaissance 4/27 Robert Morton - Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara; ex 1929 1996 Loew's Jersey Theatre, Jersey City (4/23) 12 John Giacchi Theme from Blue Hills 00:04:36 6-09-12 055 Journey Into Melody 4/29 Hybrid, Capri Theatre, Goodwood, SA 2000 13 Johnny Seng La Danza 00:01:55 6-09-12 055 Johnny [Concert Recording 4/19 Wurlitzer, St. -
1988 Cos Theatre Organ Workshop
This year's Workshop was the third to David Redfern, Peter Holt and Martin be organized by the COS, and the unani Harris, at the Quentin Maclean-designed mous opinion is that it was the best yet! 4/16 Wurlitzer. It was an event which Run by COS Musical Advisor John Norris fitted in very well with the aims of the and publicity man David Lowe, it at COS Workshop. tracted some 60 people, aged between After Clayhall came a chance to sam The 10 and 70. A number of young organists ple some classical organ music at the attended, with the very welcome support historic Southwark Cathedral, alongside of their parents who , in some cases, London Bridge. The four-manual Lewis 1988 cos were able to come along, too! organ, installed in the Cathedral in 1897 The event centered around the soci and recently restored to its original con ety's very own magnificent 4/23, South dition, was in the capable hands of a Bank Wurlitzer organ. This instrument good friend of the COS, Harry Bramma, Theatre started life in the famous 3,500-seat the cathedral's Director of Music. Mr. Trocadero Cinema, Elephant and Castle, Bramma demonstrated the organ, gave in south London. It was installed in 1930 a short recital, and then - much to Organ and made famous by the legendary everyone's delight - declared open Quentin Maclean . Alas, the cinema console! closed in 1963 and was demolished to Then came another musical change make way for a far less attractive office (no one can complain about lack of vari Workshop block, but fortunately the COS was able ety at a COS event!). -
Issue 25 PDF.Indd
THIS ISSUE INCLUDES: “My Funny Valentine” Organ Arrangement by Tony Back 25 Years of Organ Festivals (Part Two) - by Cled Griffin Groov’in with Alan Ashton (Part Three) Profile of Simon Gledhill Alan Ashtons “Organised Keyboards” The New Roland Atelier Organs CD FEATURES: February to April 2005 February to George Wright: Let George Do It… Again! Wurlitzer Fanfare Claudia Hirschfeld: The Wonder of Music Keith Beckingham: Ritz Beckingham! Issue Twenty-Five (PDF) 1 Welcome to Issue Twenty-Five Welcome to our first magazine of 2005 which contains plenty of new MSS Studios Top Forty additions… from four CDs recorded on the Dickinson Our best selling CDs & DVDs from October to December 2004 Kimball organ in the USA to new electronic organ CDs (Compiled from magazine and website sales) from Chris Stanbury, Claudia Hirschfeld & Nicholas Martin. 1 Klaus Wunderlich Recollections (2CD) There is a profile of Simon Gledhill featuring two new 2 Chris Powell In Concert (DVD) additions to our catalogue; “Kavalkade” and “Up, Up & Away”. 3 Robert Wolfe (Offer) Spread A Little Happiness 4 Robert Wolfe (Offer) Hear My Song (Now Deleted) We have five new CDs by Arnold Loxam on theatre organ, plus one on Hammond and another on his 5 Phil Kelsall Blackpool Favourites Set (3CD) cherished Challen Piano. 6 VARIOUS Wurlitzer Fanfare There is also a great arrangement of “My Funny 7 Phil Kelsall 25th Anniversary / Tower (DVD) Valentine” by Tony Back, which is nicely planned in 8 Robert Wolfe (Offer) Everything’s in Rhythm time for Valentines Day. 9 VARIOUS Home for -
OU Libraries Published Journals
the finished instrument. I do not question that for the larger .~. Wurlitzers used for solo presentation, broadcasting and recording, the Hope Jones action was essential. I am con SAVE ~~ ~ vinced for instance, that only a Hope ....... Jones Wurlitzer would have met the THE requirements of Ernest Broadbent, Nliill;J.E Reginald Dixon, Horace Finch and "BIG MO" Watson Holmes at the Blackpool Ball TTT-a;rTTT rooms. Your sincerely Letters to the Editor concerning all Tom Burgess A concert to be played aspects of the theatre organ hobby Lancashire, England are encouraged. Send them to the by Bob Van Camp and editor concerned. Unless it's stated cameo artists will be clearly on the letter "not for pub· Dear Sir, presented at the Fox The lication," the editors feel free to A most unusual happening is the atre, Atlanta, September reproduce it, in whole or part. reason for my writing to you. A Mr. 1st at 10:00 A.M. This program is being Address: P.O. Box 1314 Kenneth Smith of Livingston, N.J., Salinas, Calif. 93901 an organ builder who served his ap sponsored by the South prenticeship with me and now continues eastern, Piedmont, Poto to service what he helped manufacture mac Valley, and Albama chapters of ATOS to call Dear Sir, in the Beach Organ Co. Factory in Ne attention to the public May I say how greatly I have wark, N.J., mailed me a copy of your of the urgent need to enjoyed the series of articles "Homage Dec. 1973 THEATRE ORGAN. As attempt to save the Fox to Robert Hope-Jones" in recent you know in this issue you published and the "Big Mo." issues. -
September-October 2020
Volume 31, Nos. 9 – 10 • Sept. - Oct. 2020 www.pstos.org • www.facebook.com/pstos Looking forward to seeing you InIn 2021!2021! Justin Stahl Brett Valliant The CCA 3/25 Kimball-Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ Clark Wilson Simon Gledhill Meanwhile…stay safe, stay healthy! Memo: Thumbnails are .87” wide PUGET SOUND PIPELINE • SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2020 PRESIDENT’S Links to a variety of theatre organ videos Vol. 31, Nos. 9-10, Sept. – Oct. 2020 Message Wanamaker Grand Court organist Peter Published by Greetings PSTOS Members Richard Conte plays the Midmer-Losh organ at Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society and Friends Boardwalk Hall . The clip is 28:26 long. https:// 10002 Aurora Ave N, Suite 36 #516 tinyurl.com/yx9jcgss Seattle, WA 98133-9329 Thanks to all of Ken Double in concert at the Atlanta Fox. This you who shared Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society is a clip is 1:01:42 long. https://tinyurl.com/yyrgp- 501(c)(3) non-profit organization furthering your stories of kov coping with the appreciation, restoration, and use of the John Lauter posted this on Facebook: “Here’s historic Theatre Pipe Organs of the 1920s, the COVID-19 a track featuring my late friend Dan Bellomy, through education. shelter-in-place playing what was the greatest theatre organ orders. I’m on the face of the earth, the Castro Wurlitzer. OFFICERS sure there are The best playing the best. Beautifully cap- President–Bob Zat, [email protected] elements of tured by Dick Clay.” The audio clip is 8:39 long. Past Pres.–Jamie Snell, [email protected] each story we https://tinyurl.com/yyoh4o64 Vice President–Russ Evans, [email protected] can all relate to. -
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