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Title: The Mighty Wurlitzer
Post by: alfonzos on June 06, 2008, 03:44:46 PM: I'm guessing that when Beat the Clock was cancelled in 1974 that it was the last game show to use live organ music. Right or Wrong?
Title: The Mighty Wurlitzer
Post by: Chief-O on June 06, 2008, 03:46:00 PM: [quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'187606\' date=\'Jun 6 2008, 02:44 PM\']
I'm guessing that when Beat the Clock was cancelled in 1974 that it was the last game show to use live organ music. Right or Wrong?
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Ivan Ditmars' live music on LMAD was primarily organ. If you mean just organ, then as far as I know, BTC was last.
Title: The Mighty Wurlitzer
Post by: chris319 on June 06, 2008, 05:46:57 PM: Arthur B. Rubenstein used either a Rhodes piano or some kind of synth on ANBTC, FWIW. This was in 1979 so you can determine the landscape for synth technology at the time.
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Post by: davemackey on June 06, 2008, 09:49:10 PM: The "Wheel of Fortune" and "Hollywood Squares" remotes from Radio City Music Hall took advantage of the hall's massive organ.
Title: The Mighty Wurlitzer
Post by: bossjock967 on June 07, 2008, 12:38:05 AM: [quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'187609\' date=\'Jun 6 2008, 05:46 PM\']
Arthur B. Rubenstein used either a Rhodes piano or some kind of synth on ANBTC, FWIW. This was in 1979 so you can determine the landscape for synth technology at the time.
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And there is no better sound than one of a Rhodes piano. Well... except for a Wurlitzer electric piano.

My 2 Lincolns.
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Post by: chris319 on June 07, 2008, 12:52:38 AM: I still think the Rhodes piano is the "mystery instrument" in the first Tattletales package, the instrument someone thought was a marimba.
Title: The Mighty Wurlitzer
Post by: bossjock967 on June 07, 2008, 01:52:57 AM: [quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'187621\' date=\'Jun 7 2008, 12:52 AM\']
I still think the Rhodes piano is the "mystery instrument" in the first Tattletales package, the instrument someone thought was a marimba.
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I'd agree. I washed one of the cues through Adobe Audition and cleaned it up pretty good... and it's pretty clear it's a Fender/Rhodes piano.

If I can figure out a way to post a link without it being a direct one... I will.
Title: The Mighty Wurlitzer
Post by: clemon79 on June 07, 2008, 05:26:17 AM: [quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'187617\' date=\'Jun 6 2008, 06:49 PM\']
took advantage of the hall's massive organ.[/quote]
Boy, if I had a nickel every time I heard THAT...

/I'd still be broke
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Post by: DrBear on June 07, 2008, 06:22:24 AM: Hmm...eight posts before an organ joke. We're slipping, folks.
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Post by: Jay Temple on June 07, 2008, 12:10:41 PM: Only because I held back. Since the line's been crossed, ...

Actually, it was Joanna Gleason's mom who "took advantage of the hall's massive organ."
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Post by: BrandonFG on June 07, 2008, 01:43:55 PM: [quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'187631\' date=\'Jun 7 2008, 12:10 PM\']
Actually, it was Joanna Gleason's mom who "took advantage of the hall's massive organ."
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No more calls!
Title: The Mighty Wurlitzer
Post by: uncamark on June 09, 2008, 05:05:48 PM: To return to the topic (ahem)...

"T or C" was the last game show with live organ music over "BTC" by a hair. Hal Hidey had replaced Dave Bacal halfway through the 1973-74 season and stayed on for the last Barker season in 1974-75.
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Post by: entguy1 on June 09, 2008, 06:11:55 PM: Speaking of Joanna Gleason, did anyone notice that she's in the "Sex and the City" movie? Still impressive at age 58...