Sleeve Notes: Harry Stoneham has been a regular session musician for many years. One of Britain’s finest organists, he has backed many of the top hit parade singers, but seldom taken the limelight himself. Recently, however, Harry has been receiving … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Following the tremendous success of his first album, ‘HI-FLYING HAMMOND’, Keith Beckingham once again demonstrates the mastery of the Hammond Organ which has carried him round the world, playing before literally hundreds of thousands of people in Hammond … Continued
Sleeve Notes: HAMMOND ORGANS TODAY presents the superb combination of the incomparable sound of the Hammond organ and today’s finest exponents on the instrument. The artists playing on this album are KEITH BECKINGHAM, the acknowledged master of the easy listening … Continued
Sleeve Notes: SMASH HITS OF TODAY FOR YOUR DANCING OR LISTENING PLEASURE JACK IN THE BOX • MY SWEET LORD • LA BAMBA • ROSE GARDEN • THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN • MY WAY • BLUES FOR THE … Continued
Sleeve notes: Of all the hundreds of musical instruments in use today, the Hammond Organ must spring to mind as being perhaps the most versatile, and certainly one of the most popular. Originally invented by Laurens Hammond in the mid-thirties, … Continued
Harry Stoneham probably gained most fame from his theme tune for the UK’s chat show legend Michael Parkinson. Every week his theme opened the show but few ever got to hear the full version. You can now hear it below … Continued
What do you think is the most popular instrument in popular music? The good people at Deacon Records think it’s the Hammond! Sleeve Notes: The most popular instrument in popular music the top hit titles of recent months! A superb … Continued
Sleeve Notes: The ‘New Pop Organ Sound’ – what is that? With all due modesty: technically it is the most ingenious and musically the most fascinating production, which has been made to date with the electronic organ and it was … Continued
Sleeve notes: Such was the enthusiasm with which Ena Baga’s first Hallmark album (CHM601) has been received that further albums were inevitable. This is the first of these albums. Ena, one of four musical sisters, was giving public performances as … Continued
Label: Decca NX 277 1968 1960s Covers