Years ago, I acquire three 10inch paper thin radio transcriptions marked WAAT. I learned this was the radio station emanating from the historic Loews Jersey Theatre (where my daughter Heather was married). If you go downstairs there today you can see the now empty large radio studio room, and the big window where the control room was . This transcription for a shoe company seems to date from 1933 and features Erno Rapee's Orchestra and a singer named Irene Collins.

WAAT Dub  Who Walks In

4/21 Wurlitzer, NY Paramount Studio

Forgotten Melody (signature tune)
Hearts Are Never Blue in Blue Kalua
Change Partners and Dance
Love Doesn't Grow on Trees
Bambina
No Wonder I'm in Love
Summer Souvenirs
Forgotten Melody (reprise)

Jesse Crawford, organ  --  NBC Radio Broadcast, September 13, 1938

4/20 Wurlitzer Organ, Paramount Theatre, Manchester, UK

Henry Croudson, organ  --  A Motor Ride

George Wright - Paramount Theatre, New York

4/26 Wurlitzer, former Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, NY

Billy Nalle --  Live in Concert, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, July 1970, Part 2

4/36 Wurlitzer, Fox Theatre, San Francisco, CA

12th Street Rag
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Pine Top Boogie
MERRY WIDOW SELECTION:  Girls Girls Girls; Vilia; Merry Widow Waltz
Ain’t We Got Fun?
Happy Birthday
The Burning of Rome
Give Me a Moment, Please
St. Louis Blues
Autumn Leaves; September Song; Chloe
FINALE:  Hello, Frisco, Hello; I Left My Heart in San Francisco; San Francisco

George Wright  --   Farewell to the Fox, February 9, 1963, Part 2

Rhapsody on theme of Paganini by Rachmaninoff - Tom Hazelton at Chicago Stadium - Voxes and Strings!

Jesse Crawford, organ:  Lonely Hour

Ann Leaf Broadcast, 1934 - CBS Radio, NY Paramount Studio

Another of my mint Slatz Randall Orchestra Brunswick 78s: LET'S DON'T AND SAY WE DID.

05 Let's Don't And Say We Did

Quentin Maclean, organ; J. Frank Willis, announcing.

Recorded at the First Church of Christ Scientist, Toronto.  Casavant organ.  

End of the fugue is incomplete.

1957 broadcast, CBC radio.

Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue - J. S. Bach (Quentin Maclean, organist)

4/21 Wurlitzer organ, Trocadero Cinema, Elephant and Castle, London, England.  Columbia DB 909, recorded August 18, 1932.  Audio restoration by Alan Bunting.

Anchor's Weighed
Three Fishers Went Sailing
The Storm (Hullah)
Asleep in the Deep
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
Fingal's Cave (Mendelssohn)
The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
Eternal Father
The Storm, Finale


A Storm Fantasia - Quentin Maclean, organ

Quentin Maclean plays the 3/13 Legge organ at CBC Studios, J. Frank Willis reads poetry.  No date.

This program was broadcast over Trans-Canada Network on Tuesday evenings at 11:30 PM.

Quentin Maclean, organ; J. Frank Willis, reader:  "Nocturne" Broadcast, CBC Radio, Organ and Poetry

Helen Crawford plays Butterflies in the Rain in 1936, probably using the 4/21 Wurlitzer at the Paramouint Studio NYC.  This is part of the soundtrack of a file in which she and Jesse play conjoined 30-manual skeleton consoles, probably the pair built for the Crawfords and despatched from the Wurlitzer factory on 29 December 1933 and 6 January 1934 to be hitched up to existing organ installations at which the touring Crawfords were to play duets.  Hence it cannot be stated with certainty that the 4/21 studio organ was heard in the film.

Crawford,Helen - Butterflies In The Rain 1936

The Troubadours (Nat Shilkret)
New York, 22 December 1927

I like the beat of this tune, typical as the Shilkret's arrangements !!

SHILKRET BANDS (Filtrés) 040619

THE WHIP (22.12.1927)

Nick Renkosik playing George Gershwin's "Love is Here to Stay" on John Cornue's 2/16 Barton/Hybrid theatre organ.

George Wright -- Farewell to the Fox, February 9, 1963, Part 2

Lew Williams 1

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