Wonder Morton 4/32 Audio Demos

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Audio Demo Tracks:

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Written by Harold Arlen for the 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz - played for us by Iain McGlinchey. This was sung by actress Judy Garland in her starring role as Dorothy Gale. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and became Garland's signature song. In March 2017, "Over the Rainbow" was entered in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as music that is "culturally, historically, or artistically significant". The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) ranked it number one on their Songs of the Century list. The American Film Institute named it best movie song on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Reverb added (Contrabombarde)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Dry, as it is straight from Hauptwerk (Dropbox)

YouTube Video - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Hauptwerk MIDI - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Pirates of Penzance Overture

Gerard Anderson's arrangement of Arthur Sullivans’s Pirates of Penzance Overture, played by Gerard Anderson. The Pirates of Penzance (or: The Slave of Duty) is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences and critics. Its London debut was on 3 April 1880, at the Opera Comique, where it ran for 363 performances, having already been playing successfully for more than three months in New York. If you're a Gilbert and Sullivan fan then this piece is an absolute must listen too!

Pirates of Penzance Overture - Reverb added (Contrabombarde)

YouTube Video - Pirates of Penzance Overture

Ruby

The 1952 theme song for the film Ruby Gentry starring Jennifer Jones, written by Mitchell Parish and Heinz Roemheld - played for us by Pierre Fracalanza. There were six chartered versions of the song in 1953. It has subsequently become a jazz and pop standard, both as an instrumental and with lyrics by Mitchell Parish, recorded by such artists as Ray Charles and Neil Diamond.

Ruby - Reverb added (Contrabombarde)

The Big Country

From Jerome Moross' best-known film score for the 1958 movie The Big Country, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score - played for us by Stephen Ades. According to Moross, he composed the main title after recalling a walk he took in the flatlands around Albuquerque, New Mexico, during a visit in October 1936, shortly before he moved to Hollywood (to hear the movie score see YouTube: The Big Country).

The Big Country - Reverb added (Contrabombarde)

At the Dance (Summer Days Suite)

An Orchestral piece from the pen of Britain's finest writer of light music, Eric Coates (1886 - 1957) - played for us by Iain McGlinchey. This wonderful concert waltz comes from one of his earlier works, the 1919 Summer Days Suite and displays all of the hope and joy of a country just emerging from the first World War. Here the organ shows a little of why they were called Unit Orchestras and this virtual Robert Morton sample set does it so well.

At the Dance (Summer Days Suite) (Contrabombarde)

YouTube Video - At the Dance (Summer Days Suite)

I Got It Bad, And That Ain't Good

A pop and jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster published in 1941- played for us by Iain McGlinchey.

I Got It Bad, And That's No Good - Reverb added (Contrebombarde)

I Got It Bad, And That's No Good - Dry, as it is straight from Hauptwerk (Dropbox)

YouTube Video - I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

Hauptwerk MIDI - I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

Lullaby of Broadway

This track opens with the motif from the title song of 42nd Street - played for us by Stephen Ades. 42nd Street is an American musical, with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer, and music by Harry Warren. The show is a jukebox musical of sorts, in that, in addition to songs from the 1933 film 42nd Street, it includes songs that Dubin and Warren wrote for many other films at around the same time. The 1980 Broadway production, produced by David Merrick, directed by Gower Champion and orchestrated by Philip J. Lang, won the Tony Award for Best Musical and became a long-running hit. The show was produced in London in 1984 (winning the Olivier Award for Best Musical) and its 2001 Broadway revival won the Tony for Best Revival.

Lullaby of Broadway - Reverb added (Contrabombarde)

So In Love

Written by Cole Porter, from his musical Kiss Me, Kate (opening on Broadway in 1948) - played for us by Pierre Fracalanza. Based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. It was sung in the show by Patricia Morison, reprised by Alfred Drake and further popularized by Patti Page in 1949. The song has been recorded by many other significant female singers, including Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald.

So In Love - Reverb added (Contrabombarde)

I Know That You Know

The 1926 Tin Pan Alley tune by Vincent Yeomans as a curtain raiser - played for us by Iain McGlinchey.

I Know That You Know - Reverb added (Contrebombarde)

I Know That You Know - Dry, as it is straight from Hauptwerk (Dropbox)

YouTube Video - I Know That You Know

Hauptwerk MIDI - I Know That You Know

When It's Sleepy Time Down South

The 1931 jazz song written by Clarence Muse, Leon René and Otis René - played for us by Iain McGlinchey. It was sung in the movie Safe in Hell by Nina Mae McKinney, and became the signature song of Louis Armstrong, who recorded it almost a hundred times during his career. The song is now considered a jazz standard.

Sleepy Time Down South - Reverb added (Contrabombarde)

Sleepy Time Down South - Dry, as it is straight from Hauptwerk (Dropbox)

YouTube Video - Sleepy Time Down South

Hauptwerk MIDI - Sleepy Time Down South

Says My Heart

by Frank Loesser and Burton Lane, written in 1938 - played for us by Iain McGlinchey. First recording and first release by Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra (April 6, 1938), also made famous by Billie Holiday.

Says My Heart - Reverb added (Contrabombarde)

Says My Heart - Dry, as it is straight from Hauptwerk (Dropbox)

YouTube Video - Says My Heart

To order this organ, go to the Wonder Morton sample sets order page.