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2018 INDEX of ARTICLES Published in the TIBIA, the BOMBARDE
1955 - 2018 INDEX of ARTICLES published in THE TIBIA, THE BOMBARDE, and THEATRE ORGAN [2019 Edition] by Jack Moelmann 1955-2018 INDEX OF ACTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE TIBIA, THE BOMBARDE, and THEATRE ORGAN by Jack Moelmann This is an index of major items which appeared in THE TIBIA, 1955-1958; THE BOMBARDE, 1964- 1966; and THEATRE ORGAN, 1959-2018. No attempt has been made to list the many smaller items such as Chapter News/Notes, Concert News, Nuggets, etc. In addition, other items routinely published are also not included, e.g., committees, Directors/Staff/Editors, classified ads, advertisements, the President’s Message, Letters to the Editor/Members’ Forum, meeting notices, advertising rates, items from the ATOS International News newsletter, some items from the Pipes and Personalities section, election announcements, Annual Membership Meeting announcements, Special Services/ATOS Marketplace items available, scholarship and competition program announcements, and other items of that nature. Since THEATRE ORGAN is issued bi-monthly, issues are identified by the first month of their issue. Abbreviations used in this index include: C=Classical; CA=Audio Cassette Tape; CD=Compact Disc; E=Electronic Instrument; P=Pipe Organ; M=Mechanical Instrument; VC=Video Cassette Tape; Spr=Spring Issue; Win=Winter Issue; Sum=Summer Issue; Supp=Supplemental publication. Corrections/comments/additions should be sent to Jack Moelmann; 1015 Matthew Drive, O’Fallon, Illinois 62269; Phone: (618) 632-8455; Fax: (618) 632-8456; E-mail: [email protected] Copyright - none TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. ATOS ARCHIVE & LIBRARY and SPECIAL/MEMBER SERVICES ............................................... 3 2. ATOS CHAPTER OPERATIONS .................................................................................................... 3 3. ATOS COMMITTEE REPORTS and NOTES ................................................................................ -
For the Records
GOLD DUST: 1/28 JEAN WEINER over Atlantic City's Network; RICHARD LEIBERT, New 9/35 England's REGINALD DIXON over WPG; JOHANNA GROSS, Cincinnati's York 's WEAF; GORDON JOHNSON, GSB, GSD, GSI; FRANCIS J. CRONIN WLW; F. ARTHUR HENKEL, Nashville's Buffalo's WBEN; JESSE CRAWFORD, over WORC, Worchester, on the Yankee WSM ... 11/29 GEORGE LATCH, Loew's New York's WJZ; EDDIE DUNSTEDTER Network; CARL COLEMAN, WGR in Rochester ... 1/30 EDWARD C. MAY, teams with Ransom Sherman on St. Buffalo. Rochester's WHEC ... 12/34 WILLIAM Louis' KMOX "Laugh Clinic"; SQUIRE That should do it for this time. MEEDER, New York's WJZ; RAY BERRY, HASKIN, Rochester 's WHAM; STAN Solong,sourdoughs! Rochester's WHAM; LEW WHITE, NBC LEIGH MALOTTE, New York 's WJZ ... Jason & the Old Prospector world would be better off if we could get SWEET AND more recordings from this artist. The LOVELY. Gerry selections are; "I'm Beginning to See the Gregorius at the 3/18 Light," "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Wurlitzer in Uncle Square," "Satin Doll," "The Nearness Milt's Pipe Organ of You," the immortal George Gerswin; Pizza Co. restaur "S' Wonderful," "Strike Up the Band," ant. Available from "Our Love is Here to Stay," "I Got Rhy Terry Robson, P.O. thm," "They Can't Take That Away From Box 06796, Port Me," "A Foggy Day," "The Man I Love," land, OR 97206. "Rhapsody in Blue." High bias Cr0 2 dolby ca~tte only. $9.00 The instrument is another excellent postpaid. Overseas $10.00 postpaid in example of what's happening in England. -
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26 Litchfield Street London WC2H 9TZ Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 20 7240 1628 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7240 7260 26 Litchfield Street London WC2H 9TZ Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 20 7240 1628 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7240 7260 MILITARY MUSIC Catalogue Genre Catalogue Title Dealer Price Synopsis Number (ex VAT) Bandleader DVD Military Band BDVD 1981 THE BIGGEST BAND SPECTACULAR IN THE WORLD Vol. 1 £10.88 The Military Musical Pageant, Wembley Stadium 1981 Bandleader DVD Military Band BDVD 1984 BEAT RETREAT £10.88 The Massed Bands of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Bandleader DVD Military Band BDVD 1987 SOUNDS OF SCOTLAND £10.88 Massed Bands, Pipes and Drums Bandleader DVD Military Band BDVD 1988 HORSE GUARDS PARADE £10.88 Massed Bands of the Light Division Bandleader DVD Military Band BDVD 1990 THE BIGGEST BAND SPECTACULAR IN THE WORLD Vol. 2 £10.88 The Military Musical Pageants, Wembley Stadium 1975/77 Bandleader DVD Military Band BDVD 1994 THE QUEEN’S GUARDS ON PARADE £10.88 The Massed Bands of The Household Division Bandleader DVD Military Band BDVD 1995 MARCHING TOGETHER £10.88 Massed Bands of the British Army, Luton Pageant 1993 Bandleader DVD Military Band BDVD 1996 THE MILITARY MUSIC CLASSIC COLLECTION Vol.1 £10.88 The Bands of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines - Compilation Bandleader DVD Military Band BDVD 1997 THE MILITARY MUSIC CLASSIC COLLECTION Vol.2 £10.88 The Bands of The British Army - Compilation Bandleader DVD Military Band BDVD 1998 THE MILITARY MUSIC CLASSIC COLLECTION Vol.3 £10.88 The Bands of the Royal Air Force - Compilation Bandleader DVD Military Band BDVD 2026 THE VERY BEST OF THE ROYAL TOURNAMENTS £10.88 Massed Bands 26 Litchfield Street London WC2H 9TZ Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 20 7240 1628 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7240 7260 ORGAN MUSIC Catalogue Genre Catalogue Title Dealer Price Synopsis Number (ex VAT) OSDVD Organ OSDVD101 CLAUDIA HIRSCHFELD AT CARNGLAZE SLATE CAVERNS, ST NEOT, CORNWALL £10.88 Playing the Wersi Louvre organ. -
ORGAN Now Comesto You With
The magnificent sound of the WURLITZERORGAN now comesto you with Total Tone® The Wurlitzer 4030R The Wurlitzer 4502 More than 50 styles and finishes ... for amateur or professional, for home or church, for schoolor club~ The Wurlitzer 4300 Deluxe Now, many Wurlitzer Organsare available with the theatl'icalsound of Spectra-Tone®and Reverb, the fascinating effects of the Slide, the scintillating The Wurlitzer 4700 sounds of Ssh-Boom.® WuRLffzER The Wurlitzer 4500 means Music to millions® pianos • organs • electronic pianos The Wurlitzer 4075 DeKalb, Illinois 60115 •·:, -;tll.t•-~~~ :: THE COVER PHOTO The installation of the 3/10 Wurlitzer from the Ohio Theatre in Lima, in Downers Grove North High School required nearly 5,000 man hours of work by the Chicago Area Chapter. The instru ment was donated to the school by the Glen Journal of the American Theatre Organ Society Alden Corporation. Story begins on page 5. Volume 12, Number 6 In This Issue December, 1970 FEATURES ATOS National Membership is $8.00 per cal 5 A Theatre Organ Comes to Downers Grove endar year, which includes a subscription to THEATRE ORGAN, the official publication of 8 Final Curtain - New Haven Paramount ....... Ben M. Hall the American Theatre Organ Society. Single 9 Building for the Future John Muri copies : $1 .25. Make check or money order 9 New Sound Technique payable to ATOS, and ma il to P. 0 . Box 90, New Haven, Connecticut 06501 . 11 ConnValChap Scholarship Winners 11 Wurlitzer List Nears Completion ALL MATERIAL FOR PUBLICATION EXCEPT ADVERTISING SHOULD BE 12 Randy at the Organ . ...... ........... .... ... ....... ... .... ...... ................ ... ............. .. ... Elmer Fubb SENT TO ATOS PUBLICATIONS 16 Dennis James Thrills 3800 P. -
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 -
Hall of Fame
HALL OF FAME Lowell C. Ayars Francis "Gus" Farney Ambrose Larsen Edna S. Sellers Donald H. Baker Frederick Feibel Ann Leaf Preston H. Sellers, Jr. Stuart Barrie Mildred M. Fitzpatrick Richard W. Leibert Gerald Shaw Dessa Byrd Reginald Foort Leonard MacClain Raymond G. Shelley Paul Carson Paul H. Forster Quentin Maclean Arsene Siegel Gaylord B. Carter Dean L. Fossler Roderick H. "Sandy" Macpherson Milton Slosser Milton Charles John Gart Albert Hay Malotte Kathleen 0. Stokes Edwin L. "Buddy" Cole Betty Gould Dr. Melchiore Mauro-Cottone Firmin Swinnen Bernie Cowham Thomas Grierson Alfred M. Melgard Sidney Torch Helen A. Crawford Arthur Gutow F. Donald Miller Emil Velazco Jesse J. Crawford John F. Hammond Charles Sharpe Minor Deszo Von D'Antalffy Francis H. Cronin Elwell "Eddie" Hanson John T. Muri G. Oliver Wallace William R. Dalton W. "Tiny" James Henry B. Murtagh Jack Ward Lloyd G. del Castillo Henri A. Keates Dr. Milton Page Edward J. Weaver Reginald Dixon Frederick Kinsley Henry Francis Parks Lew White Edward J. Dunstedter Sigmund Krumgold Dr. C. A. J. Parmentier Jean Wiener Lee 0. Erwin, Jr. Edith Lang Alexander D. Richardson George Wright Theatre Organist of the Year New Members - Hall of Fame REX KOURY W. "Tiny" James is one of the founders of ATOS Our "Theatre Organist of the Year" was born in London, (then called ATOE), and was its third president. England, but moved with his family to Cranford, New Jersey, Although he was officially an auditor for Alameda where he attended school. In 1926 he began playing a theatre County, California, he played the organ professionally pipe organ in the Cranford Theatre. -
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. -
•Ex P8PI Roosevelt Chest Which Came with the Can Result
leatherless Wicks chest. The rest will tives attract the notice of the daily or play from a Smith chest and the weekly press, or a magazine, only good •ex P8PI Roosevelt chest which came with the can result. erstwhile 5-rank Smith . It's the last two that Lee and Laurel are re leathering in their Granada Hills, Calif. workshop. Sorry about the misteak. ~ Organs continue to move, usually over long distances. Wurlitzer opus 2128 somehow managed to find its way from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas to Seattle, Wash., where the Balaban 3 is getting a face lifting while a home for it is being sought, perhaps in Spoktzne or Tacoma. A 2/6 Wurlitzer tagged along with the Shirey family when they Conducted by Stu Green quit the Chicago area for San Fran cisco. Charlie Evan's former WLW Readers are encouraged to submit "Moon River" Wurlitzer has somehow interesting sidelights on the organ managed a trip to Sacramento , Calif A late arrival waits for her still later date at hobby (exclusive of chapter news (at least its new owner, Lawrence the Orange theatre. - (Stufoto) items) material they believe will be of Weid, lives there) after several years general interest about local organ Two big events marked the lives of activities and installations and the sojourn in the Evans home in Dallas. ATOSers Bob Carson and Helen Dell people who work at the hobby. We In fact, Dallas is a hotbed of T.O. recently. The rehabilition of the know "there's VOX POPS in them movement. Gordon Wright has rescued there chapters" and it only requires Orange Theatre 2/8 Wicks organ an 8 cent postcard to get it to VOX Texas' last remaining in-theatre organ, the long silent style 235 Wurlitzer (about 60 miles from Los Angeles) by POPS Editor, Box 3564,Granada Hills, Bob, Dick Stoney and a crew of ATOS California 91344. -
Pasadena Civic Auditorium
IilSASIIuGincOEBUAciiUlHlB Brilliant Debut Old Moller In - story on Page 7 Review -Page 5 PUBLISHEO^^SbMONTHLY Volume 18 WHEtEWIl DtUKS JlRl PliTEO MO MUJID. THt COKSOLf IS Number 4 m-n a sa?^ .'ii, B' r7pf»£;-4r^"^v i- '} ^ 1 ^ - : •§ '■ ■•"•? ' ■-- •• ;. ' • •< ^'• .. vy: ■ i'yByy'y'-yy.y. : ■■■ I . ~ . 5 '' ^ k', W' •£• . "'£5' - StX 'ii^' ''td^ r.-y ,V7/,<r Pages 2 – 4 omitted I_J ,LJ It is no secret that in its London quarters the Foort/BBC Moller organ was something less than an exciting instrument to hear. The dullness of the organ caused many listeners to tune out programs broadcast from Jubilee Chapel, although those who were permitted to be in the studio when the organ was being played have noted that its quality of tone was decidedly better than when hearing it over the airwaves. Whether this factor was enough to cause the BBC to sell the organ, or if the price offered by Dutch interests brought about its departure from England is not known. But the organ was sold and moved to a church in Holland, ostensibly for broadcasting over Radio Hilversum, Then, as the story goes, the two theatre organists who could play the instru ment died and the broadcasts apparently ended. Again, it is not re corded if the organ was played for church services, although it would seem likely that it was. There is little doubt that it was specifically what the church wanted, and when San Diegan Preston M. Fleet made an offer for it, very short time elapsed until it was on the high seas bound for America and the Moller factory at Hagerstown, Maryland. -
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certs is the delightful Regal at Henley-on Thames, the rowing mecca. Here the cinema was built in 1937 without an organ, but a 3/7 CClllNllE~'11lA(OllR~<GrAN NJIE,\\VS Compton was installed only a few years ago. It came from the Ritz Cinema Tunbridge Wells in Kent. A supermarket chain wants to llFllR~(0~\11[llB~llR~lllllf Alll N enlarge their store and now the battle is on to save the Regal. Several big names of showbiz like Robert Morley who live in Henley want to by see the cinema and organ survive. ~ Pr~ Two of the lesser known names for your Ian collection of builders of theatre organs are Spurden-Rutt, builders of the Rutt Unit Or Dalgliesh gan, and Ingram of Scotland. To my knowl edge, Robert Spurden-Rutt built only three actual unit-type organs, the Palace Cinema Slough in Buckinghamshire, the Super Cin ema Oxford and the Regal Cinema Highams 1985 will go down in history for the passing Smith, editor of the C.O.S. Journal. Now Park in North London. The last gem got of the most famous of all theatre organists, there is to be a Reginald Dixon Memorial buried and forgotten under the Bingo callers Reginald Dixon. No other organist received Fund and people are talking of erecting a sta rostrum when the cinema went over to Bingo. such press coverage and TV and radio trib tue and coming up with other ideas. As one A Scottish friend of mine, Charles Davidson, utes. The top daily papers, the Times and Dai can imagine, EMI, Mr. -
BANDLEADER RECORDINGS OS DIGITAL CATALOGUE Archived Titles
BANDLEADER RECORDINGS OS DIGITAL CATALOGUE Archived Titles OS 201 THE ENTERTAINING ORGANIST Nigel Ogden at The Wurlitzer Manchester Free Trade Hall At the Console : Bal Masque : Miss Melanie : Sweet and Lovely : In the News : It's a Raggy Waltz : BING CROSBY HITS- Please, May I, June in January, Love is Just Around the Corner, Love in Bloom, Thanks : Body and Soul : Penguin's Playtime : Latin Love Potion : Can Can Polka : Londonderry Air : El Adorno : The Waltzing Cat : Tango Havana : World Traveller March : Baby Ballerina : Life Is Nothing Without Music : Spanish Harlem : Faust Ballet Music : March of the Bowmen TOTAL CD PLAYING TIME : 76.21 OS 208 CD STRICT TEMPO WURLITZER Nicholas Martin at the Wurlitzer, Turner's Musical Merry Go Round, Northampton. WALTZ- True Love, Deep In My Heart, If (They Made Me a King) : WALTZ- Girl of My Dreams, Together, Under the Linden Tree : SAUNTER- Only a Rose, If I Had You, You Brought a New Kind of Love To Me : SAUNTER- Garden In the Rain, There I've Said It Again, Heartaches : QUICKSTEP- When I take My Sugar To Tea, Little Girl, A Gal In Calico, Lady be Good : QUICKSTEP- Broadway Melody, Make Believe, In the Pink, Sweet Georgia Brown : OLD TIME WALTZ- Love Is My Reason, A Kiss in the Dark, One Kiss, The Flower Song : OLD TIME WALTZ- Vienna City of My Dreams, Waltzing in the Clouds, Mistakes, When Your Wedding Ring Was New : BLUES/FOXTROT- Too Young, By the Fireside, Try a Little Tenderness, Georgia on My Mind : BLUES/FOXTROT- Orange Coloured Sky, Only You, My Silent Love : TWO STEP The Charlatan : -
Late Model Theatre Organ Discovered in Holland
sive collection of theatre organ records (also featuring American cinema organ ists Bill Floyd , George Wright, etc .) as well as practically all records made by Reginald Dixon on the Wurlitzer organ in the Ballroom/Blackpool. Before the war , there were about 30 cinema-organs operating , all over the country (particularly in the Western and Southern part of Holland) , but after World War II , only 6 organs were left. LATE The other 24 organs were dismantled and replaced by electronic installations or sold to local organ builders . MODEL The actual position of "live " organs is as follows: THEATRE 1) AMSTERDAM, Tuschinski, 4/14 Wurlitzer 2 ) AMSTERDAM, City Theatre, 4/17 Standaart ORGAN 3) A VRO Broadcasting, HILVERSUM, 4/22 Compton 4) VARA Broadcasting, HIL VER- DISCOVERED IN HOLLAND S UM, 3/13 Standaart 5) NRU Broadcasting, HILVER- by MR . T . A. TIEMERSMA SUM, 5/27 Moller (ex BBC organ) Mr . Tiemersma is regularly featured on the 4' 74 Wurlitzer at the Tuschinski Theatre . These six organs are in perfect condition A late model theatre pipe organ was re The pipe orga n was then forgotten. For and are regularly tuned (mostl y every cently discovered in Leeuwarden , Hol tun ately Mr. T.A. Tiemersma succeeded week). land. This organ was constructed in 1952 in purch asing this jewel in early 1966. In Radio Hilversum is regularly present by the famous Dutch organ builders , April the orga n was removed from the ing theatre-organ programs (2-4 times a Messrs. C.A. Standaart & Company of nightclub and installed in his home .