Sunshine and Sentiment #8930
…Guest commentator Karl Eilers joins host Michael Barone for some repertoire from the lighter side, a genial and general survey of theater organ recordings.
IRVING BERLIN: There's No Business Like Show Business George Wright (San Francisco Fox Theater)
Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern: The Way You Look Tonight. John Kander & Fred Ebb: Why Should I Wake Up Dan Bellomy (Robert Trousdale Studio in Santa Ana, California)
Harry Ruby & Rube Bloom: Give Me the Simple Life. Adrian Ross & Lao Silesu: A Little Love, A Little Kiss Ashley Miller (Hollywood studio installation)
COLE PORTER: Just One of Those Things. Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt: Love Song from Celebration John Seng (George Cardinal Mundelein Auditorium Theatre Organ, The Seminary of the University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, Il)
Waller, Autrey, Johnson: Yacht Club Swing Dick Hyman (Cincinnati's Emery Theater)
Traditional: Shenandoah Billy Nalle (Century II Center in Wichita)
LESLIE CLAIR: Dance of the Blue Marionettes Sidney Torch (Regal Theater, Marble Arch, London)
Leo Robin & Richard Whiting: Louise Bryan Rodwell (Granada Theater, Tooting, London)
Billy Joel: My Baby Grand. Irving Mills & Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing Jonas Nordwall (Organ Grinder Pizza, Portland)
Harry Breuer: A Bit of Rhythm Rob Calcaterra (Temple Civic Center Auditorium in Rochester, New York)
Edward Kleban & Marvin Hamlisch: One, from A Chorus Line Dwight Thomas (Paramount Music Palace in Indianapolis)
RUBE BLOOM: Spring Fever. Gerald Marks & Seymour Simons: All of Me. Paul Francis Webster & Sammy Fain: Secret Love from the musical film Calamity Jane George Wright (Hollywood Philharmonic Organ)