This is unforgivably offline but I've already responded to an earlier and more specific version of this post.
Did you know there was a Reg Dixon (albeit he went the full monty with Reginald) whom the British newspapers tagged as "legendary". That he was known in a wider sense as Reginald Dixon, Blackpool, a coastal resort town now very much down on its uppers and which, I venture to say, you've never visited. That he was awarded the MBE. And that any reference to him would only proceed a dozen words without inclusion of "the mighty Wurlitzer".
Yes he played that highly objectionable instrument (an electric organ) in the Tower Ballroom at the aforementioned Blackpool and was never off BBC radio during the post-war years. A host of his imitators worked in cinemas throughout Britain when, during a break in the proceedings, they would rise up from the depths on their elevatable Wurlitzers, and give highly mannered accounts of popular tunes, often to the groans of the audience waiting impatiently for a Margaret Lockwood movie.
I disliked the Wurlitzer because it had the fatal capacity for making all tunes sound the same.
No I hadn't heard of the Wurlitzer Reginald Dixon but as it's a fairly common Anglo-Saxon name, I'm sure there must be others, with or without cinema organs. There was a TV Dixon of Dock Green but I don't think he was a Reg. My Reg was a Brit, born in Argentina of Brit parents. Long residence in Canada gave him Canadian citizenship as well. Eventually I acquired Brit citizenship too, through being married to one of you.
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This is unforgivably offline but I've already responded to an earlier and more specific version of this post.
Did you know there was a Reg Dixon (albeit he went the full monty with Reginald) whom the British newspapers tagged as "legendary". That he was known in a wider sense as Reginald Dixon, Blackpool, a coastal resort town now very much down on its uppers and which, I venture to say, you've never visited. That he was awarded the MBE. And that any reference to him would only proceed a dozen words without inclusion of "the mighty Wurlitzer".
Yes he played that highly objectionable instrument (an electric organ) in the Tower Ballroom at the aforementioned Blackpool and was never off BBC radio during the post-war years. A host of his imitators worked in cinemas throughout Britain when, during a break in the proceedings, they would rise up from the depths on their elevatable Wurlitzers, and give highly mannered accounts of popular tunes, often to the groans of the audience waiting impatiently for a Margaret Lockwood movie.
I disliked the Wurlitzer because it had the fatal capacity for making all tunes sound the same.
Sorry about that.
No I hadn't heard of the Wurlitzer Reginald Dixon but as it's a fairly common Anglo-Saxon name, I'm sure there must be others, with or without cinema organs. There was a TV Dixon of Dock Green but I don't think he was a Reg. My Reg was a Brit, born in Argentina of Brit parents. Long residence in Canada gave him Canadian citizenship as well. Eventually I acquired Brit citizenship too, through being married to one of you.
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