Web Version This Issue Includes: Profiles of Simon Smith & Paul Moran “A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody” Organ Arrangement by Tony Back Alan Ashton’s “Organised Keyboards” A Full Understanding of Chords by Gary Burt (Part Four) Tony Pegler’s Jazz CD Reviews “Time Was” by Ivor Manual (Part Nine) May to July 2003 Issue Eighteen 1 Contents List for Issue 18 Welcome / General Information ................................................ 2 Organised Keyboards by Alan Ashton .................................... 4 Organ Videos ........................................................................... 11 Profile of Simon Smith ............................................................ 14 Welcome to issue eighteen and I hope we have a few items Tony Pegler’s Jazz CD Reviews ............................................. 16 to interest you this issue: We have a five page arrangement “Time Was” by Ivor Manual (Part 9) ....................................... 18 of “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” by Tony Back which we A Full Understanding of Chords by Gary Burt (Part 4) ........ 20 hope you will enjoy as well as profiles of British Hammond More Music Books for Organ ................................................. 22 player Paul Moran and electronic organists Simon Smith. Special Offer On Selected CDs .............................................. 23 There is the fourth part of Gary Burt’s “A Full Understanding Profile of Paul Moran ............................................................... 24 of Chords”. He starts a new section of how to alter chords MUSIC FEATURE: A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody ................. 25 from issue nineteen. ORGAN1st Catalogue .............................................................. 32 ORGAN1st New Additions ...................................................... 48 “Time Was” re-appears this issue after an issue’s absence (due to the shortage of space) and we have a selection of CDs reviewed by Alan Ashton and two CDs reviewed by MSS Studios Top Forty Tony Pegler. Here are our best selling CDs & Videos from January to Happy reading. Eighteen March 2003 (Compiled from magazine and website sales) 1 Ethel Smith ..................... First Lady of the Hammond (2CD) Are You About To Expire? 2 Klaus Wunderlich ............ Evergreens 1 3 Nigel Ogden .................... Entertains at Stockport… (Video) Your subscription period is printed on your 4 Klaus Wunderlich ............ Evergreens 2 5 Carol Williams ................. Hey! Wurlitzer address labels and receipts. Please check 6 Claudia Hirschfeld ........... Milestones them to 7 Claudia Hirschfeld ........... At Carnglaze Caverns (Video) make sure Your address label shows your 8 Brett Wales ..................... Renaissance you do not subscription period. 9 Nicholas Martin ............... Turners Revisited (Video) First Class Issues 3-18 10 John Giacchi ................... Xanadu 2 miss any 11 Robert Wolfe ................... Unforgettable Joe Bloggs issues. 12 Robert Bartha ................. Emporio 92 High Street 13 Ady Zehnpfennig ............. Organized 14 Simon Smith ................... 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