Name |
Artist |
Album |
Year |
Comments |
The Carioca |
Lyn Larsen, Jack Bethards and His Orchestra |
A Salute To The Swinging Years [Beldale CD] |
2001 |
4-37 Wurlitzer, Plummer Auditorium, Fullerton, CA |
Canadian Sunset |
Rob Richards |
Rob! [OSP CD] |
|
4-46 Wurlitzer, Organ Stop Pizza, Mesa, AZ |
For Me And My Gal |
Unknown |
Pipe Organ and Percussion [Diplomat RFM 64] |
|
|
The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise |
Three Suns |
Midnight for Two [Sony Collectibles COL-CD-2742] |
1957 |
Ray Bohr, Radio City Music Hall Wurlitzer |
Broadway Selection (Part 1) |
Quentin Maclean and The Regal Cinema Orchestra |
Rhapsody in Blue [Sterndale 3-CD] |
1929 |
4-36 Christie, Regal/Odeon Cinema, Marble Arch, London; Regal Cinema Orchestra cond. Emanuel Starkey; voc Leslie Sarony |
If I Could Paint A Memory |
The Organ, The Dance Band and Me |
Let’s Be Buddies [NTOT Kinura NCM 213] |
1942 |
3-9 Compton, EMI Studios, London; Billy Thorburn, piano; H. Robinson Cleaver, organ; Julie Dawn, vocal |
Diga-Diga-Doo |
Unknown |
Pipe Organ and Percussion [Diplomat RFM 64] |
|
|
Tuxedo Junction |
Buddy Cole and All-Star Orchestra |
The Golden Age of the Dance Bands [Alshire LP] |
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3-27 Wurlitzer-Morton, Buddy Cole Studio, North Hollywood (3-17 Wurlitzer Ex United Artists Theatre, Los Angeles & 3-9 Robert Morton from Capitol Theatre, Marshalltown, Iowa) |
Ahhhh, I enjoy those ol’ British cinema orchestras!!
More, more!
I do think that the Larsen/Bethards corroborations are nearly as precise as the Billy Thorburn productions. Somewhere I read that Thorburn’s recording sessions often involved a single performance to cut a track.
Stan – You are correct: many of Thorburn’s recordings were made with a run-through or two and the one take. The musicians were all experienced dance band pros who could sight read an arrangement and produce a top-notch performance immediately. Several sides were, therefore, recorded in one half-day session, and they sold well. What more could a record company want? 🙂