Music To Drive By played on the Royalty Wurlitzer by Ian Midgley

From the album George Wright Plays Richard Rodgers

George Wright Ten Cents A Dance

There's A Small Hotel

Mimi

George plays "Embracable You" as only George could or would play it. Recorded on the Pasadena Studio organ

Embraceable You

3/26 Wurlitzer Organ, George Wright Studio, Pasadena, CA.  Recorded 1965. Dot DLP 25612.

I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise - George Wright, organ

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

Wabash Blues
Lotus Land
RUDOLF FRIML MEDLEY:  Donkey Serenade; Sympathy Waltz; Just a Bit of Sympathy (not by Friml); Giannina Mia
Serenade to a Wealthy Widow
Liza
Spanish Eyes
 Musetta's Waltz
Wave (Jobim)
Alley Cat
 Bridge Over Troubled Water

George Wright, VOLUME 2, Rialto Theatre, South Pasadena, CA, April 12, 1971

Test recording from 1946. Robinson Cleaver tries out the newly-installed BBC Theatre Organ, in the Jubilee Chapel, London. This 5/27 Möller theatre organ started life as Reginald Foort's touring organ, which was sold to the BBC after the BBC Compton was destroyed in a wartime air raid. The instrument is now in the Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Robinson Cleaver at the BBC Theatre Organ #2

Part of a broadcast of Gerald Shaw playing the Christie organ in the Regal/Odeon, Marble Arch, London, on 29th November 1954. Apologies for the poor audio quality. The original acetate disc was in very poor shape. I've done my best at noise-reduction, but the result is less than perfect! I have left in all the gaps in the performance. One very long gap was, I imagine, intended for the BBC announcer, whose voice is not heard on this recording.

Gerald Shaw at the Regal/Odeon, Marble Arch, London

Bryan Rodwell plays the Odeon (former Paramount) Leeds 3/19 Wurlitzer organ in about 1967. This is the organ which is now in the Thursford Collection in Norfolk. Chatting about the Leeds organ with me one day, Bryan observed, "That were an organ wi' class, young John."

Aye, it were that.

Music To Drive By played on the Royalty Wurlitzer by Ian Midgley

Ian Midgley

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