Vintage 1932 Seaside Sketch: A Day's Outing - Walmsley & Dixon (Restored)

Описание: A Day’s Outing - Regal Zonophone T6255

Organ & Venue Context
This 1932 recording features the original 2-manual, 10-rank Wurlitzer (Opus 2037) installed in the Blackpool Tower Ballroom in 1929. This was the first Wurlitzer organ at the venue, used by Reginald Dixon during the early years of his residency to develop his style before the instrument was replaced by a larger 3/13 model in 1935. On this track, the organ is used not for a solo musical performance but to provide descriptive musical interludes and sound effects to accompany a spoken word narrative.

Track Details
The record consists of a comedic sketch or "scenic descriptive" performance centred on a visit to the seaside at Blackpool.

Musical Accompaniment: Reginald Dixon provides rhythmic bridges and specific sound effects on the Wurlitzer to illustrate the story. This type of collaborative recording is pretty rare as far as theatre organ recordings go, and is the only such example in Reg Dixons catalogue of around 600 sides of 78rpm recordings.

Recording Information
Label: Regal Zonophone

Catalogue: T 6255

Format: 10" shellac, 78 rpm, monophonic

Release Date: December 1932 (UK)

Audio Restoration
Transferred from the original shellac at half-speed for improved frequency capture. Manual click removal and judicious noise reduction applied; re-equalisation used. Presented in a two channel spread for modern listening.

Audio restoration by Ross McNeillie.

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