rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (04/18/85)
[] Warning! Warning! Having sent this Query on net.music, net.music.classical, and net.audio without any answer, I MUST next send it out on (blush) NET.GENERAL !! Why? BECAUSE I WANT TO KNOW?! BECAUSE I <NEED> TO KNOW! Because it's my RIGHT to KNOW ! And MY RIGHTS are more important than ANYONES! I KNOW that somewhere on this net, someone knows the answer to my question. I BELIEVE the net can answer the question. It ALWAYS has before, even if the answer was wrong !! Puleeze don't make me do it!! Puleeze don't make me run this query on net.general ANSWER SOONEST!!!!!!! [] What ever became of "Fabulous" Eddie Osborne, the organ player with the special technique that wow'd the audiophiles about 30 years ago with his aaa-ooo-gaaa horn and mighty Wurlitzer rendition of Merry Oldsmobile, Bicycle Built for Two, McNamara's Band, etc. on Replica Records. Last I heard, Replica had built a special recording studio around two Wurlitzers hooked together in Des Plaines, Illinois. That must have been more than 25 years ago. He was a relatively young guy. Would only be 67 today. I am aware of only two discs of his, both by Replica Records and only one recorded in the super organ studio. Both Mono, both still great sound. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg
prg@mgweed.UUCP (Phil Gunsul) (04/19/85)
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Well Dick, I was kinda' going to wait till you posted your request
to the proper news group (net.general {hahhaha}) but decided that
my response to your request would probably get lost in the deluge
of hate mail!
I called a friend of mine that retired from AT&T CP (my home)
who is a member of an organization that restores pipe organs
etc. and who has the largest selection of organ records I
have ever seen. He was quite familiar with the studio owned
by Replica, or should I say used to be owned by Replica --
it has since been destroyed (read: went bankrupt) and the organs parted out.
He informed me he has several recording that he thought had
been made in that studio by other organist (Len Melgard for
one {the organist for the Chicago Stadium}). But back to
your request for info on Osborne "Fabulous Eddie". He said
that he had made some other recording but that they were done
on an electronic organ and were rather poor. He will be calling
me back in a few days and said he would dig through his collection
to see what else he could find.
And remember NEVER EVER post anything to net.general!!!
Phil Gunsul -- AT&T CP -- Montgomery Works -- (312) 859-4485 Cornet 392-4485
(Near Des Plaines!)