Wurlitzer 165 / 166 Band Organ - Hall Roach Films- Roll 6846 

The songs are: 1) Good Old Days (Our Gang Theme), 2) Let's Face It, 3) Little Dancing Girl, 4) Streamline Susie

This has to be one of the most beautiful band organ facades I've ever seen.

Great organ. I'll never forget "The Little Rascals".

Probably one of the prettiest organs Ive ever seen on here. The colors are so classy!

I would never get tired of having this in my house.

I really love this band organ, and all of my kids are terrified of it! lol

as a kid the only times i ever heard band organs were at theme parks and carnivals. since then I've always associated them with fun and happy times. just listening to one cheers me up.

Wonderful piece of history!! Thanks for sharing.

WOW! SO neat! I love that it plays the Little Rascals theme!

This is the music of Leroy Shields, a music professor at UCLA and conductor of the NBC Orchestra in LA, hired by Hal Roach Studios as the composer of the “incidental” and background music for Laurel & Hardy and Little Rascals comedies. Intended as one time use production music, much of it did not survive as sheet music. As others have stated here, much of the music was recreated and recorded by the Dutch Saxophone group “Beau Hunks” in the early 1990s on CD Title “On to the Show” (Getting hard to find) All these songs have names and descriptions of the films they were used in. It’s wonderful to hear it on the rolls of the Wurlitzer 165.

The music is very majestic and robust at the same time. It's good.

Sounds fantastic and looks great. You should be very proud...another band organ saved from the ravages of time. I still can't believe that it is all together after staring at a pile pieces for so long.

As well as playing beautiful tunes.They made the outside very aesthetic .Detailed images of mountains and even animals .You’d think someone would be in the room dancing

These band organs operate like magic!

A magnificent specimen of an organ!

Dad and Infavorite show in the afternoon.

Thank you so much for restoring this beautiful work of art!

Oh yes,when I was at Glenn Echo one time-knew the man that ran it-he let me go behind the organ and climb up on its platform while it was playing the "Ben Her Chariot Race" and watched and heard the roof mounted crash cymbal-was so COOL!!!!A company in Baltimore restored their organ.And also let me pick a roll of songs to play!

Thank you for sharing this wonderful machine. I am familiar with the organ at Kennywood that Christina mentioned as I grew up next to the park. Never get tired of it. Have to go to see it every time I go home. Thanks again.

Fantastic restoration . Been around them all my life and this is the best rebuild I've seen .

I love how the organ looks like it is talking to you when the swell shutters open and close.

I can't believe I've never seen one of these before considering I love the music of this period so much what a beautiful instrument

Remember enjoying an organ like this one at Glenn Echo Park,near Wash DC years ago.Would ride the merry go round it played for-then get off the ride and listen to the organ!the 165 is one of my favorite organs!!!!

What a beautiful organ! It sings so proudly and strong I love it!

Amazing work of art and that you restored this! Brilliant!

A smaller 'sister' is on display in a candy store/emporium on the Strand in Galveston. Katy Lou. Can't tell you how... amazing... these machines are, and embarrassingly LOUD they are, but then you realize there were designed to be used in large indoor venues, or outdoors at parks and the like. They really are a wonder and make thinks like cell phones and mp3 players seem soulless by comparison.

what a great sound - i love a band organ in top shape - i like the tour around the organ too - its a keeper - thanks wurlitzer166!

This is great to actually see an unobstructed view and the organ so you can see the parts move. Sounds good too.

what a gorgeous instrument!

Beautiful Wurlitzer #165. It reminds me of the Wurlitzer 165 number #3124 that operated on the Charles I. D. Looff Carousel at Playland at the Beach in San Francisco. Actually that Carousel had the Wurlitzer#165 and 2 Wurlitzer #153’s and an Artizian Style D band organ. Love this type of band organ music. Thank you

THANK YOU for posting this!! I LOVE the sound of a Wurlitzer! There is one at the Carousel in Pittsburgh, PA, in an amusement park called Kennywood. They maintain it beautifully and I always love to hear it play!

There is a CD of this era of music done by a Dutch group called the Beau Hunks. Absolutely marvelous. But I am so glad to have found this performance of the same music. Now the music was arranged and punched in what time frame? I love this!

i was little when we went to california and at a carousel one of these were present at griffin park i rode only once cause i was so fascinated by the wurlitzer

Very sweet tone

Band organs are incredible

Beautiful restoration/rebuild!!! Keep the videos coming.

My grandmother owned a Restaurant in DC. She ordered a Jukebox, and they Delivered on of these!

Music was much better in 1915 than in 2015. If I was a kid back in 1915, I could listen to this for hours.

Like that little lighted registration indicator thing.

I love the "face" of this thing. How has Stephen King not written a book about one of these things that's haunted and kills people yet?

Thank you for sharing this! I love all kinds of pipe organs, but especially I love theatre pipe organs and band pipe organs. :-)

Goosebumps

Glenn Thomas, you're my hero!

Glenn this is great! The organ has that true "jolly" sound. You cannot help but smile listening to it! tld

I think the reconstruction job you done is amazing . I've been around them all my life and seen them taken and not been able to put together again . Again nice job.

Watched this on the 10th year since this video was uploaded. (19/02/2020) Happy 10th year on RU-vid, Wurlitzer #4591!

We visited Bayernhof Museum in Pittsburgh today and got to hear many of these wonderful instruments. If you ever are in the area, check it out!

Wow!

Ahhhh the little rascals

Excellent. Appreciate you posting this.

Great Band Organ!

@Thunkful2 The Duplex system these organs have is two tracker bars that offer continuous play,when the first roll rewinds the second one plays so doing away with an operator and pauses in the music!,the 166 has brass and wooden trumpets,the 165 just wooden ones

Over the top cool!

Reminds me old days riding on Coney Island Carousel 😀

Sounds glorious!

I'm in love.

❤️

Beautiful music, great sound and a very attractive organ without human figures all over it.

magical

Love L&H and their Music. Would like to hear a real clear recording of this roll. Note: Playing with audio settings makes this sound even better.

you can put next to the kiddy carousel

These songs sound better through the band organ than they were originally.

Nice Carousel Organ.

little rascals!

I wish I get to see this organ

I knew it! That’s a very high tech fair ground organ or dance organ Not necessarily a theatre organ

Originally known as Our Gang same film and actors just renamed ' Little Rascals'.

@briguyri1977 Its a role system, but has lights to show what registers are in use

sound like band that is hard on the liquor :D

@RWBHere In the RadioTapesdotdom address, I had to insert spaces to get it to post. So to use this addy, one must copy the address, then paste it somewhere, then remove the spaces, then copy it again (without spaces) and paste it in the URL box. So remove all spaces (as for example between the . and the com)

My only problem with having it in the house is when it turns itself on at night

Unless that's a concrete house with impact windows I'm sure you can hear that clear down the block!

Oops the last comment was 7 years ago I guess I'm a little late or a little early

scary!

3:38 My favorite part.

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@SuperPowerStudios NJ

If it has brass 166 horns in it, that makes it a 165 & 1/2!

Very nice looking new facade! It needs tuning and voicing, and it seems to be starving for pressure on heavy passages, but still a great sound!

How do swell shutters work on something like this, since most things on an organ or player piano are either 100% on, or 100% off? Do they actually have multiple triggers for 25%, 50%, 75%, etc?

@Wurlitzer157 Trust me it was in perfect tune

With that large wheel on the back is it possible to drive this organ by hand?

@er10b Looks like a situation monitor (i.e; a stack of idiot lights) that tells the operator how the machine is doing. You aren't going to be pulling it away from the wall unless you absolutely have to, and the lights help out in that department.

it sounds like the little rascals theme lol!

Hal Roach, not Hall Roach, but who is counting? Great instrument and roll. Not the usual Wurlitzer ooom pah roll!

This music theme sounds like "The Little Rascals" 1994 Film

whats the first song it plays called?

@RWBHere Thank you so very much for telling me the name of that March, which is my favorite march, the name of which I have wanted to know for so long! I surely would be grateful if you made ur version available. You mean it doesn't sound like a Pipe Organ such as is played in Churches by human fingers? Of course it is impossible to really wound like a Pipe Organ from a couple of audio speakers, since the 3D effect of Pipes requires one to sit near them.

Freaking AWESOME! How long did it take to reassemble? Where did yo find it? It sounds like the sound of summer.

time for a good tuning

what are the price ranges for these type of things? i saw one in Germany that was a bit smaller a guy pulled around in a cart. I thought it was the neatest thing.

Hal Roach..............not Hall Roach!

In the area of 18,000 and up for one in good condition,

There is a truly wonderful band organ march at vandornsclockshop. com I don't know what happened to the former recording (which did not have the cyphers that you now hear) Does anyone know the name of that march?

The url for the Dog March I posted below for your benefit. However, RU-vid's link fighter inserted a space in the middle of the word Theme, which has to be removed to get the address to work. Sneaky RU-vid. radiotapes. com / user / WCCO%20Radio%20-%20Cannon%20Theme%20Instrumental. mp3 So remove all spaces, whether ones I inserted or one's that RU-vid's computer inserted

What's the name of the last song it played in this video?

How is the first song called?

@asaprental It'd cost less to try and build your own!

Love this so much. I want to own one my self. How much did you pay for it

Thats a spectacular organ!!! Where is this?