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All the Latin rhythm songs were so much fun. I think the only one I didn't play was "Lady of Spain", but just about everything else. I have a button called "Crash Cymbal" on my old Conn organ that gave every song like that a great ending! Do you have any more old organ recordings on your Hammond? Would love to hear them.

Here's another popular favorite that really works on the organ that I played/recorded at that same recital 30+ years ago on my Conn:

NOLA
https://app.box.com/shared/d7zrjkznpv

I thought my old Conn organ in the back room was a goner a few years ago.. I hadn't played it for a couple years and suddenly noticed my cat, Gwen, pawing at the top lid. I opened it up, and there was a mouse nest, and I caught a glance of a little mouse scurrying down into the bowels of the organ! I cleaned out the little nest and expected the organ to be ruined, imagining the mouse/mice chewing on all the wires and stuff inside, but when I played it, there didn't seem to be any damage at all. Whew!

Hi, Ed: I got a few of his books over the years, and they're around here somewhere, probably in the back room. One book I got taught something called a "Tenth Progression", which I really liked a lot. Did you learn/play that one?

Bill Irwin:

http://www.amazon.com/Tenth-Progres...1-1&keywords=tenth+progression+magic

http://www.amazon.com/Irwins-Series-Popular-Organist-Collection/dp/B000K103F6

Yes, I think I had all his books, and I remember that one particularly well. Works great on songs like Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered, or This Nearly Was Mine, or Ruby My Dear.

Wish my hands were just a tad bigger so I could play the tenths on the piano. Unfortunately, I can only reach them in a few keys. Someone oughta invent a piano with foot pedals.

Ed

Hey, there's an idea! Some of the bigger Conn organs had such a wonderful and authentic-sounding Piano, it was sort of like that, though.

Regarding the 10ths, my hands aren't quite big enough either, so I just roll 'em, or sometimes just play the thirds, 1 + 3(10th), etc. with the right hand especially.