Recorded at the Castro Theatre on November 4, 2013.

Tiptoe Through The Tulips Improv - Mark Herman

Mark Herman plays selections with lyrics by Johnny Mercer on the 1928 4/34 Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ installed at the Senate Theater in Detroit, Michigan. Recorded live on June 12, 2022.

Johnny Mercer Medley at the Senate Theatre, Detroit

Medley - John Ferguson at the Hammond & Piano

With A Song In My Heart - John Ferguson at the Hammond & Piano

Misirlou - John Ferguson at the Hammond & Piano

Meditation - John Ferguson at the Hammond & Piano

When Sunny Gets Blue - John Ferguson at the Hammond & Piano

Domino

Daughter of famous 20s-era organists Preston & Edna Sellers, BARBARA SELLERS (1930-2014) performs her arrangement of Leroy Anderson's "Belle of the Ball," from an album by the same name. It was recorded at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago and features a custom Allen Organ built in the 1980s.

Belle of the Ball

Belle of the Ball - Barbara Sellers

Swamp Fire

So in Love

In the Still of the Night

A Foggy Day

From the album "Echoes of the Basilica." Recorded on the Allen Organ at Mission Delores Basilica in San Francisco, California.

Echoes Of The Basilica

In A Monastery Garden

Flute Tune

Pavanne

Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

Communion

Psalm 19

Gaylord Carter Plays Hammond Organ 1940s-1950s

Mystery Tune - Gaylord Carter at the Hammond Organ

Tiger Rag - Gaylord Carter at the Hammond Organ

Everett Nourse on a Rodgers 36-E and Frank Denke on a Model O Steinway. These two fine musicians played and lived in the San Francisco area and should have recorded more -- this is fun stuff! If you find any other recordings of them, let me know!

Who - Frank Denke & Everett Nourse, Piano & Organ

Manhattan - Frank Denke & Everett Nourse, Piano & Organ

Limehouse Blues - Frank Denke & Everett Nourse, Piano & Organ

Lulu's Back in Town - Frank Denke & Everett Nourse, Piano & Organ

La Rosita - Frank Denke & Everett Nourse, Piano & Organ

Valencia - Frank Denke & Everett Nourse, Piano & Organ

Sweet Georgia Brown - Frank Denke & Everett Nourse, Piano & Organ

John Ferguson plays "You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea" by Richard Rodgers on the then 5/22 Wurlitzer in the William P. Brown residence, Phoenix, AZ, sometime in the mid-1970s.

John Ferguson - You Have Cast Your Shadow On The Sea

National Emblem March (Mystery organ/organist)

Track 2 (Mystery organ/organist)

Martha Lake was one of those special organists who could play "in-between" the notes. In reality, it was Dick Schrum in comic drag. He was a fine musician, and it took one to be able to play quite so badly... All in good fun!

Mark Herman

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