Popular Organist Kevin Morgan at the Keyboard of the Ex Gaumont Wurlitzer in the Granada Studios in Manchester.


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Kevin began to learn to play the piano at the tender age of 3. At school he was awarded many national music prizes for the highest marks in the Royal School of Music examinations. He began to play the organ at the age of 9 and two years later he played for his first service in Salisbury Cathedral. He was introduced to the theatre organ by the late Ron Curtis. A demanding concert and recording schedule regularly takes him the length and breadth of both the UK and Europe. He has performed in many of the country's finest concert venues and is often featured on the BBC Radio 2 programme The Organist Entertains'.

In 1968 the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust was formed to save the 4/20 Wurlitzer organ in the Odeon, Manchester. Thanks to the co-operation of Rank Leisure Services, the LTOT were able to acquire this instrument when the cinema closed for conversion into a multi-screen cinema.
 
On the 8th July 1973, the final organ concert was held in the Odeon and for the next four years, the organ underwent removal, restoration and transplantation into the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, where it was opened on the 11th September 1977. The Wurlitzer was removed from the Free Trade Hall in the late 1990's and was installed in the Ballroom of Stockport Town Hall, where it was opened in November 1999. 
 
Tracks are: Sing Everybody Sing; Fireside Fusiliers; Dance Of The Butterflies; My Love Is Only For You; Kangaroo; Blue Moon; On A Wonderful Day Like Today; I Ruled The World; One Morning In May; Powder Rag; In Chambre Separee; Its A Most Unusual Day; The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful; Love Me Or Leave Me; It All Depends On You; Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams; The Penguin's Dance; Military Shuffle; What A Perfect Combination; No Strings; Goody Goody.  


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