carrick Posted December 8, 2023 Author Share Posted December 8, 2023 Back to 1936 for this Reg Dixon side recorded on the relatively new Tower Ballroom 3/13 Wurlitzer - "Laughing Irish Eyes"; "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" and "On the Beach at Bali Bali" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hebridean Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 I thought this was really lovely, thank you very much for posting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted December 10, 2023 Author Share Posted December 10, 2023 On 09/12/2023 at 16:24, Hebridean said: I thought this was really lovely, thank you very much for posting it. Thank you, makes it all the more worthwhile getting a little feedback after putting in a few hours of work on each record side. Always good to know people are listening and enjoying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted December 15, 2023 Author Share Posted December 15, 2023 Continuing on from side one of Dixon Hits No.8 here is side two featuring Reg Dixon at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom's 3/13 Wurlitzer playing "At the Cafe Continental", "Empty Saddles" and "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted December 22, 2023 Author Share Posted December 22, 2023 A side of Disney music from Reg Dixon at the Tower Ballroom Wurlitzer with this selection from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs released in August 1938. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted December 23, 2023 Author Share Posted December 23, 2023 A little extra upload for today, here is Reg in a throwback to his days playing for church services with this selection of Christmas carols. I could imagine he might do something like this at the Tower for a live audience, you can almost hear the 5000+ strong choir of holiday makers singing along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hebridean Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 Very nice, thank you for posting - a little insight (or in-sound) into accompanimental history! Slower than today (or rather, slower than I play them!) Interesting to hear the 'swoop' in the verse of Adeste fideles, obviously the swoop has quite a pedigree of its own! I'd hesitate to change dynamic so much in hymns as Mr Dixon did, but perhaps that was much more the norm then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted December 27, 2023 Author Share Posted December 27, 2023 Following up from the last upload, here is the second side of Reg Dixons selection of Christmas Carols. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 Apologies for being a little late in posting. This is the follow up to side one of Reg Dixon's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" selection from August 1938. The last posting of this year, so I'll take the opporchancity to wish you all a very happy new year, lang may yer lum reek! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted January 6 Author Share Posted January 6 Very first upload of the new year (Happy New Year to you!) is a little gentle to start off with:- "Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day"; "Love Thy Neighbour" and "Ole Faithful" recorded by Reg Dixon on the Blackpool Tower Ballrooms 2/10 Wurlitzer and released in December 1934. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 The Carioca, Love in Bloom and Over My Shoulder are all part of this record (released in December 1934) made by Reg Dixon on the 2/10 Wurlitzer of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 This week's Reg Dixon upload from the Tower Ballroom Blackpool - I Hate Myself, Isle of Capri and My Song for You, played on the 2/10 Wurlitzer that was installed in 1929. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hebridean Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Very cheerful, thank you - especially the first piece, despite its title! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted January 20 Author Share Posted January 20 5 hours ago, Hebridean said: Very cheerful, thank you - especially the first piece, despite its title! Bit of a dismal title really, but it reminds me of the Dixieland jazz stomps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 "With My Eyes Wide Open"; "May I?" and "I Never Had a Chance" - Reginald Dixon at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom's 2/10 Wurlitzer in this Regal Zonophone release from December 1934. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 Three catchy tunes from the 30s. "Oh! Ma-Ma," "I Love to Whistle," and "You're an Education" all played in the signature Dixon fashion with cymbal taps, spicy registrations and toe tapping rhythm. This is Side B of Dixon Hits No.22, recorded on the Tower Ballroom Wurlitzer and released way back in August 1938. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted February 9 Author Share Posted February 9 Reg Dixon with another recording from the Blackpool Tower Ballrooms 2/10 Wurlitzer. This time we have "A Broken Rosary," "The Old Spinning Wheel," and "In the Valley of the Moon" (with Vocals). This side was released in August 1933. How much the style and sound has changed in those 91 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 We're off to Vienna this week as Reg Dixon takes us through the music of Franz Lehar on the 2/10 Wurlitzer of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool on this release from November 1933. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted March 2 Author Share Posted March 2 We're still in Vienna and music from Franz Lehar played by Reg Dixon at the 2/10 Wurlitzer of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 Three jazz classics from Reg Dixon at the 2/10 Wurlitzer of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool. "Chinatown, my Chinatown", "Sweet Sue" and his first recording of "Somebody Stole my Gal"- Stomping stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 Well, it has gone relatively quiet on here this past week. Has everyone gone on holiday? Here's side two of Reg Dixons "Classics of Jazz" record played on the 1929 205sp Wurlitzer of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool. My Blue Heaven, Sweet Sue and Some of These Days all played in typical Dixon fashion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_L Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 3 hours ago, carrick said: Well, it has gone relatively quiet on here this past week. Has everyone gone on holiday? Perhaps everyone is practising for Easter!!! I know I am!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Butler Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 On 16/03/2024 at 17:24, S_L said: Perhaps everyone is practising for Easter!!! I know I am!!! The church where I will be playing on Easter Day in rural France, always have a group playing traditional instruments to play the "voluntaries" at Easter. I just get to accompany the usual (often liturgically-incorrect) drivel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_L Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 1 hour ago, Andrew Butler said: The church where I will be playing on Easter Day in rural France, always have a group playing traditional instruments to play the "voluntaries" at Easter. I just get to accompany the usual (often liturgically-incorrect) drivel. I can sympathise with that. I also play in rural France although, I suspect, in a slightly different circumstance than you!! Why is it that, in the UK, we are required to stick with the prescribed texts of the Common and yet, in France they seem to be able to sing paraphrases of the text. And, yes, some of the music is awful! I'm lucky in that i play, on a monthly basis, at a large monastery Mass begins with a procession around the cloister so no music from the organ at the beginning. That is followed by the Latin Plainsong for the day accompanied by organ. After that the Mass continues in French but with the Common, one week in the vernacular, the other week being Latin Plainsong. I'm playing on Easter day when we have a mixture of French and Latin Plainsong (with the long Plainsong Alleluia - Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus preceding the Gospel) And I get to play a Sortie at the end following the Priest singing "Allez dans la paix du Christ Alleluia" we sing, loudly, with organ, "Nous rendons grace a Dieu, Alleluia, Alleluia" Happy Easter, Andrew - when it comes!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrick Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 This record was in a rather poor condition, but it still copied in. Music from Lizst, Bizet, Mendelssohn, Rossini and Chopin on this first side of "Classica" recorded by Reg Dixon at the 1929 Wurlitzer 205sp of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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