Sold Date: June 18, 2016
Start Date: June 8, 2016
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JOB LOT OF APPROX 500 78rpm GRAMOPHONE RECORDS OF REGINALD DIXON PLAYING THE ORGAN AT THE BLACKPOOL TOWER

It might be hard for today’s internet savvy, Facebook obsessed, One Direction followers to understand, but Blackpool was once home to a superstar who was loved the world over. His name is , and during his 50 year career he was up there with the recording greats, Victor Silvester and Bing Crosby. 

The ornately decorated Tower Ballroom with its Mighty Wurlitzer (3m/14r) organ is one of Blackpools famous landmarks and the organ is still played for dancing almost continuously in the season and at other times for concerts and various functions. The organ is known throughout the world from these recordings and from the radio broadcasts of Reginald Dixon who adopted a particularly bouncy style of playing which often used a registration consisting predominantly of deeply tremulated tibias. This became known as the "Blackpool Sound". Dixon was resident organist at the tower from 1930 until he retired in 1970, the only breaks being when he served in the RAF in World War II and in 1957 when fire destroyed the ballroom.

Reginald's BBC radio broadcasts from the venue in the 1930s went out as often as five times a week.  So, it was no wonder the public voted him most popular organist in a national newspaper poll, where he won more than double the votes of his nearest rival.

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