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pax41 Thanks:) I must have had a little time on my hands that day [too...you'll see lol]. Last year...no 2 years ago now, I rescued an all-vacuum tube 1958' Conn Classic-815 organ which has a remarkably rich full sound for theater organ playing, as well as classical. Conn's first theater organs were the vacuum tube 640 and 645 deluxe ( 32 pedals is deluxe instead of 25 on the 640) which were both in horseshoe cabinets like the all transistor 66' Wurlitzer. These Conn tube theater organs were produced in from 63'-66'. For posterity's sake it's nice to have the tubes-versus-transistors from two great organ manufactures right in that 63'-66' period, but there is one organ that is considered the holy grail of electronic theater organs, and it arrived in 1961'! Three years before Wurlitzer's 1964' 4500 straight cabinet theater organ, and two years before Conn's first theater organ. This being the 1961 Gulbransen Rialto-K all-transistor electronic theater organ. Considering the big splash that the all-transistor Rialto K made in 1961 it might have some wondering why Conn didn't begin making solid state ( all transistor) theater organ in 63' instead of staying with vacuum tubes. Wurlitzer seemed to have caught on though, by switching to transistors in 64'. And this was just two years after introducing fully tube organs ( Wurlitzers were electrostatic reed until 61') in 62'-63'. That was an amazing feat that probably only Wurlitzer could handle. Wurlitzer mastered making vacuum tube based jukeboxes years earlier so most of the tooling and engineering staff was already there for the tube organs. It's my guess that they co-designed the transistor line-to-be for 64' even while they made those tube organs for those two years. It probably threw Conn for a loop though. Conn unveiled their first theater organ in 63' as an all-tube organ, and then bam! Wurlitzer puts out a fully solid state beast of a theater organ. I think Wurlitzer decided they would never be burned again after that Hammond situation with them dropping the great Hammond B3 on top of the very organ Wurlitzer redesigned to compete with Hammond just one year earlier. Ultimately, when it comes to the Vacuum tube theater organ versus the transistor theater organ, it's a matter of taste. I really love the theater organ abilities of my 58' Conn Classic. In fact before the 63' Conn theater organ introduction, this is what players used for playing theater organ on. For some comparisons here is a list of videos to listen to: ( sorry, too tired to post links, but will give accurate names to search) FOR A CONN 1957'-58' VACUUM TUBE CLASSIC-810 PLAYED AS A THEATER ORGAN listen to: GEORGE WRIGHT PLAYS THE CONN ELECTRONIC ORGAN FOR A CONN 1963' 640 ALL VACUUM TUBE THEATER ORGAN (their 1st theater model) listen to:DON BAKER CURTAIN TIME FOR A CONN 1966' 645 ALL VACUUM TUBE THEATER ORGAN (their 2nd theater model, a 32 pedal [640 has 25] 645 "THEATRE DELUXE" model) listen to: DON BAKER RISE N' SHINE , and another album- DON BAKER PLAYS ORIGINAL THEMES TO MOTION PICTURES FOR ANOTHER RECORD OF A 57'-58' CONN 810-CLASSIC listen to: [and don't let the title fool you, it's really a Conn 810 with the add-on key-percussion unit 58443 ,which is how the harp and piano effects are created] ORGAN MOODS JOHN WINTERS AT THE MIGHTY WURLITZER ORGAN FOR A WURLITZER 4500 all transistor organ of 64', and Wurlitzer's first theater organ, but disguised in a straight cabinet until the 4520 horseshoe cabinet model arrived in 66', but w/ identical insides and controls of the 64' 4500, listen to: JOHN LA DUCA WURLITZER 4500/4520/4300 [incedentally, the 4300 was the spinet version of the 4500, identical internally and controls same (rocker tabs instead of paddle switches), just less keys and pedals.] FOR A 1966 WURLITZER 4520 all transistor, horseshoe cabinet ( the first since the Wurlitzer theater pipe organs in the 1930's) played live by DICK SMITH ( one of Jesse Crawford's last and youngest students) listen to: WURLITZER 4520 DICK SMITH - INDIAN LOVE SONG [this was a video I'd downloaded before the person who had many of Dicks videos. KZfaq acct was suspended for showing to many episodes of Are You Being Served. Just glad to have downloaded one video, I hope that some day the other videos of his playing get posted again.]

Iceland Rink in Paramount California has a WurliTzer. Frank Zamboni liked theatre organ. Yes, THAT Zamboni !

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Its Called 'Thats A Plenty' and quite a few people I believe have recorded it over the years. Its a wartime hit I believe! hope that helps :D

'That's A Plenty' is a jazz number from 1914, composed by bandleader Lew Pollack and recorded countless times by most of the British and American big bands since.

That's a Plenty.

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