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Band Organ Music In William Wegman Skit
By Andrew Lardieri

If anyone has browsed through my lengthy "mess" of posts, they might
have come across a post discussing some background band organ music
used in a skit for Sesame Street (a telling of the well-known Mother
Goose rhyme "Rub-a-Dub-Dub") produced by artist-filmmaker William
Wegman and his Weimaraner dogs.

Well, folks, all your waiting has paid off in good time because
I finally came across that exact recording.  It's the Wurlitzer 150
band organ version of the "Kaiser Friedrich March" from a Folkways
LP album entitled "Music Of The Carousel".

The album features the sounds of the 33-key Ruth & Sohn band organ
converted to play Wurlitzer 150 rolls at the time (now playing MIDI
discs of various Wurlitzer 150 arrangements) located on the 4-abreast
well-known "Friedsam Memorial" Solomon Stein & Harry Goldstein carousel
in Central Park, New York, New York.

The recording company who produced the album titled the Ruth's speedy
rendition of this march as "Instrumental #4" on this album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tjuHEu7axg&list=OLAK5uy_kVYivMgae2k4B5f3zsqioi55HY9bNiQ9U&index=11&t=0s 

Note: The version of this skit using the Central Park organ's rendition
of "Kaiser Friedrich March" can only be seen on the Sesame Street home
video, "William Wegman's Mother Goose".

When it was broadcast the skit used the Wurlitzer 165 rendition of
"Les Patineurs" from roll 6501 played on a different organ (possibly
a Wurlitzer 157):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGlBXyOCuQs 

Andrew Lardieri
Voorhees, New Jersey


(Message sent Thu 27 Aug 2020, 23:34:18 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  Band, Music, Organ, Skit, Wegman, William

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