"Remember Pearl Harbor" (Reid & Kaye) played by the Wurlitzer 180 band organ in the Bovey collection at the Nevada City Music Hall in Montana. This organ (#4182) came equipped with a keyboard (!) and swell shutters, and may never have had a proper façade. It was shipped in June, 1929, to St. Mary's Church in Amsterdam, New York. In November of that same year, according to Wurlitzer's records, it went to Bell's Rink, Ft. Wayne, Indiana. By 1936 it had been converted to Caliola rolls.
This tune is from the circa 1964 LP record "Sounds of Music: Organs and Orchestrions from Historic Virginia City and Nevada City, Montana." (On the record the tune is mis-labeled as "For The Flag, For The Home.") The liner notes state that the organ came from Rockaway Beach, New York. I uploaded this tune because I think it's a somewhat better representation of the organ than the "Loudest in Montana" video.
19 май 2011
