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A FEW WORDS OF THANKS

The sound you hear on this CD is a unique result of the intersection of the organ, the room and several special people. I was hearing this Wurlitzer before I was born and I am honored to have the opportunity to offer this collection of music to you. This has always been a fine sounding theatre organ and the absence of seating transformed the room into a cathedral-like acoustic -- like the sound bloomed! I was delighted to have several close friends with me that warm August weekend in 2003. They offered advice, Krispy Kreme donuts, patience, occasional page-turning, encouragement and love. Thank you all... David Peckham


























Price: $20.00 postpaid. Checks should be made payable to: David Peckham

David Peckham
838 Veteran Hill Road
Horseheads, NY 14845-7262




For information, to hear samples, and to order Jonathan's CD, "Clang Clang Clang” please click on the album cover.

Copied from Jonathan Ortloff's website with permission 4/6/2010. See Jon's website www.jonathanortloff.com

© 2010 Jonathan Ortloff

Audio files are Copyright (P) 2010 by Jonathan Ortloff. All rights reserved. These recordings may not be used, reproduced or transmitted, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or the use of any information storage and retrieval systems, without prior permission in writing from Jonathan.

"Tom Grierson Plays Palace Favorites"

This CD was re-mastered by Dick Clay from the original 1963 release stereo LP vinyls.  The original tape master was recorded in the Rochester's RKO Palace Theatre 2 years before the theatre became a victim of urban renewal in 1965. The artist Tom Grierson, an Organist Hall of Famer, opened the Wurlitzer 4/21 featured in this album on December 24, 1928. Mr. Grierson was the RKO Palace House Organist until the management stopped using the organ in the 1940s. This CD has been released to celebrate the 75th birthday of this famed Wurlitzer and the luxurious RKO Palace and the 40th birthday of RTOS itself. RTOS restored and moved this now 4/23 instrument to its present home in Rochester's Auditorium Theatre where it has been used to entertain hundreds of thousands since the start of a regular series of concerts beginning in January 1967. Tom Grierson Plays Palace Favorites produced by the RTOS in 2003.

The CD includes the following selections:

    RKO March, Green Leaves of Summer, Holiday, Fiddle-Faddle, Enjoy Being a Girl, Magic Flute, Hail Festival day, Sleeping Beauty Waltz, The Maid with the Flaxen Hair, Welsh Hymn and Finlandia.

To Order "Tom Grierson Plays Palace Favorites" from the U.S.A. and Canada send check (or Money Order)

for $12.95 in U.S. funds made out to "RTOS Recordings" with memo stating "for RTOS013" to:

RTOS Recordings
48 North State Steet
Nunda, NY 14517-9655


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