Name: The Vamp by Edwin Sinclair
Duration: 4 min 11 s
Description: George Wright plays "the Vamp" at the 3/17 San Gabriel Wurlitzer circa 1977. Live concert.

JIM RIGGS- Southbank Polytechnic- November 10, 1996
Jim Riggs in the UK at Edric Hall, Southbank Polytechnic  4/26 Wurlitzer, London (Now at TROXY).
Transfer from TDK high bias position II cassette tape and editing by Matías Bombal, November 26, 2022.
From the collection of Jim Riggs. Recordist not known.
Program:
-Introduction
Paramount On Parade
Stompin' At The Savoy
Emaline
You Go To My Head
The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else
Falling In Love With Love
Spring Is Here
Don't Blame Me
Lullaby Of The Leaves
I N T E R M I S S I O N
-Introduction to second half
Bugle Call Rag
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
You Turned The Tables On Me
--fire alarm (not recorded) empties room at the beginning of a Fred Astaire Medley (not recorded)
Medley of Fred Astaire Hits continued (next 11 selections)
The Continental
A Fine Romance
 Isn't This A Lovely Day (To Be Caught In The Rain?)
Change Partners 
The Way You Look Tonight
The Piccolino
Let's Face The Music And Dance
They Can't Take that Away From Me
Night And Day
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Flying Down To Rio
Rio Rita
Sweet Lorraine
I Remember You
Orientale
Hindustan
Japanese Sandman
-Encore
12th Street Rag

Photo: Edric Hall at Southbank Polytechnic showing the installation of the former TROCADERO Wurlitzer (now at TROXY)

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Jim Riggs - Southbank Polytechnic- November 10, 1996

Sleigh Ride LENT.wav

Private recording of the Wurlitzer organ formerly in the Fox theater San Francisco. The organ is now in the El Capitan Theatre, LA.  

Fox - Lanterman Studio.aifc (AAC Audio)

Lee Sims plays "Mine" via the Ampico B piano roll system. Ampico roll number 209123

Mine Lee Sims

New Year’s Eve at L’Etoile, Hotel Huntington, San Francisco, California.
36 minutes of dance music, broadcast on KALW-FM 91.7, San Francisco
Peter Mintun Trio (John Derning, bass; Jack Bethards, drums) Remote broadcast from L’Etoile Restaurant, December 31, 1984.

New Year Eve 1984

Peter Mintun Trio, L'Etoile, San Francisco, 12/31/84

George Wright plays "the Vamp" at the 3/17 San Gabriel Wurlitzer circa 1977. Live concert.

The Vamp

Intermission at the Alhambra Theatre, Sacramento.
June 1958, Robert-Morton theatre organ.
Aletha Bowman, organist.
May 30, 2017 transfer by Matias Bombal from a cassette tape dub of original reel tape, location of source reel tape unknown.  Cassette from the collection of Dave Moreno.
Selections: "Jalousie 'Tango Tzigane'", "In My Solitude", "At Sundown", Beautiful Ohio" and  "St. Louis Blues" (Variations)

Alhambra Theatre Intermission- Aletha Bowman- June 1958

Stay Wild

I Am a War Machine

MARCH 9, 1970
Stormy Weather
Anything Goes
My Romance
The Trolley Song
Caprice Viennois (Kreisler)
Blues in the Night
Gentle On My Mind
Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?; Danny Boy

APRIL 12, 1971
Easter Parade
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
Lady Picking Mulberries
April Showers
The Continental

George Wright, VOLUME 1,  Rialto Theatre, South Pasadena, CA, March 9, 1970, April 12, 1971

Tom Sheen playing "Love” at the Oriental theatre, Chicago. I think this is from the 1969 ATOE convention.

The Vamp

Edwin Sinclair

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