Tunes are "Fate (It Was Fate When I First Met You)" and "Ivy (Cling To Me)" ... The beautiful, fully restored 1905 Dentzel menagerie carousel at Ontario Beach Park, Rochester, New York (its original location), with its 1987 Stinson 165 band organ which now plays MIDI disks of Wurlitzer 165 rolls. All the organ's registers were playing the day I recorded this (the trombone, trumpet and forte registers are almost always shut off on the side panel). These two tunes, both from 1922, are the first two on another unusual but nice roll, 6616: "Fate (It Was Fate When I First Met You)" (Byron Gay) and, at 1:56, "Ivy (Cling To Me)" (Johnson & Jones). For a close-up view of this organ, see the video "Stinson 165 Band Organ - Ontario Beach Park" by louisrichards.
7 авг 2009
