(Compton 4c/10) The Paramount organ was equipped with an early version of the Compton Paramount Theatre, Tottenham Court Rd., London Granada, Tooting Specification of the Tooting organ James Bell It signifies authenticity and wholesomeness. Used to hearing it over the years, and like the grease stains on the packaging of Powdermilk biscuits I have left it unedited as we have all become That have unintentionally been recorded for posterity. Prelude in C# Minor 1938 The shout at the end of the recording is one of the classic "noises off" Made did not offer the same fidelity of sound as contemporary commercial 78 Hear the restoredĪcetate-coated steel discs on which these historic recordings were originally Unintelligible, but I have left it for the sake of completeness. Regrettably, the opening announcement has become almost File size 2.0MB New: Restored version of this 25-minuteīroadcast.
This wasĪlso a live broadcast with audience present. Version(14MB MP3file) 25-Minute broadcast Note that the broadcast overran, and the last itemĪnnounced at the start ("Let the Rest of the World Go By") was omitted. NEW: Restored version of this 15-minute broadcast.Īt present I cannot totally eliminate the distortion resulting from the original Note the applause at the end, and the odd cough. Made during an interlude at the theatre, with audience present, date unknown, Granada Theatre, Tooting (Wurlitzer 4/14) He made two 78 rpm records and one LP at Tooting. Interesting and unusual 3/27 Wurlitzer organs. Born in Canada, he played for the Paramount and Warner circuits in the USA, and was responsible for designing a pair of (Eugene) Stuart Barrie was a brilliant but eccentric organist who came to England's Granada circuit from the USA in the lateġ930s. Study notes will be added also in due course. More 78s will be added to this page in the future, so if your favourite organists are not here already, they Only a few examples are therefore included here.
Many 78s by Reginald Dixon, Reginald Foort, Quentin Maclean and Sydney Torch are readily available in
Organ" (published in 1932) and here for an article by Sydney Gustard from "Cinema Organ Herald" To read more about the recording process click here for an extract from Reginald Foort's book "The Cinema After a while, mobile recording vans were brought into use. The recording studio, where the waxes were cut. Microphone was placed in the theatre, and the sounds were passed through the public telephone system to In the earliest days, the recording equipment was too cumbersome and inflexible to locate in theatres, so a Recordings of theatre organs proliferated through theġ930s, and 78s continued to be issued until about 1960. The Compton organ at the Pavilion, Shepherd's Bush. Reginald Foort at the Wurlitzer organ of the New Gallery Theatre in Regent Street, and Quentin Maclean at These were soon followed by recordings of Theatre, Wimbledon, with Jack Courtnay at the console. The first recordings of British theatre organs were made in 1926, using the Christie organ at the Elite Virtual Radiogram - UK theatre organ recordings Sounds of British Theatre Organists
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