Sweet Georgia Brown

A long time ago I gave up on trying to make an arrangement of "Sweet Georgia Brown" because it never sounded right. Tonight I realized that I had scanned the pages in incorrect order.  Maybe now I can finally work out something that sounds good,

Let's put out the lights

I just got the vintage sheet music for " Let's put out the lights", a Rudy Vallee song recorded by Sidney Torch in the 30s.  it is a nice bouncy number.  It is really great how the availability of vintage sheet music has increased at places like Amazon.  Don't let the old songs disappear!
An interesting note... It originally was recorded as "Let's put out out the lights and go to bed " but to be performed on the Fleischmann's Yeast Hour, it was changed to " Let's put out the lights and go to sleep.", the less racy version.

Movies were movies

I found a fun new song by listening to a CD by Sean Anderson fron Australia oN the Plummer organ.  It was from a medley songs from Mack & Mabel.  The song is "movies were movies."         n.

Turkish Towel

After well over a week, I finally finished my organ arrangement of "Turkish Towel" by the way, this is not the "Turkish Towel Rag".  The piece I worked on is the one recorded by several organists. I had a complete small instrumental combo arrangement to work from (strings, saxes, clarinets, trombones, trumpets, piano and more.. There was no piano/conductor score.  It took a while doing the transposing and ediiting to get it to a place where I liked it.  I am proud of it.

Strony's piston settings

After Walt Strony's concert at the Middletown Paramount, I wanted to get up there quickly to practice  on the organ so I could compare my piston settings to his.  I didn't have to make too many changes to my settings.  But the minor tweaks made such an improvement on my sound.  Now I just have to make some similar tweaks on the pistons that I use on the LL324 at Bristol Glen.

Strange dream

I had te strangest dream! I dreamt the my mom and I broke into Radio City Music hall so she could hear me play the organ.  We wandered all over the huge theatre and so no one. It took a while to turn on the organ but I was surprised how well I did playing it.  Strange dream.  I think I had the dream because the other day when I went to practice on he Middletown Paramount, I said to myself that I wish my mom was still around to hear me play it.

Strony at Middletown

I heard Walt Strony perform on the Middletown, NY Paramount's 3/12 Wurlitzer.  It was wonderful watching a master of registration play an organ of which I am very familiar.  I practice on it at least once a month.  I know which memory he used for his setup.  There a couple of sounds he created, I was not sure how he made them on that organ.  I hope he had a piston set for those few specific sounds.

It is such a pleasure watching someone who has total control of an instrument.

Fred