At the Astoria 1 - Phil Kelsall MBE

Episode 1 of 'At the Astoria' features Phil Kelsall MBE at the console of the 3/18 Compton organ at the Astoria Centre, Barnsley. Phil Kelsall is best known as the resident organist at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom, where he has played the Wurlitzer organ for dancing for over 40 years. We hope you enjoy our first online concert of organ music.

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You can also support us by sponsoring a pipe of the Compton organ at https://astoriacentre.co.uk/pipe​

Programme:
00:00 Intro

02:00 Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer - Hans Carste
03:00 The Good Old Bad Old Days - Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley
04:09 Glad Rag Doll - Dan Dougherty, Milton Ager & Jack Yellen
05:16 It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing) - Duke Ellington & Irving Mills


07:51 Just for a While
10:32 Forgotten Dreams - Leroy Anderson
12:57 Nuns' Chorus - Johann Strauss II


16:04 Blame it on the Bossa Nova - Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
17:36 Meditation - Antonio Carlos Jobim
18:54 Destination Love - Bob Barratt

Sigmund Romberg:
21:10 One Kiss
23:42 Lover, Come Back to Me
25:34 Romance
26:41 One Alone
27:41 The Desert Song
28:45 The Riff Song


30:10 On The Air - Carroll Gibbons, Reg. Connelly and Jimmy Campbell
31:31 A Garden in the Rain - Carroll Gibbons & James Dyrenforth
32:39 East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Brooks Bowman


34:33 Old Pi-anna Rag - Donald Phillips