Baker, Don - At the Paramount Theatre Organ

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	Minute Waltz	02:51
	2	Melody In F	02:48
	3	Humoresque	02:44
	4	Barcarolle	02:30
	5	Songs My Mother Taught Me	02:35
	6	Piano Rag	02:40

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Cielito Lindo	02:34
	2	La Paloma	02:38
	3	Serenade Rhumba	02:39
	4	Dark Eyes	02:46
	5	Musical Moment	02:35
	6	Southern Rhythm	02:45

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Don Baker: A Celebration of Organ Music
These recordings are all in toe-tapping dance tempo. However, the organ has been for well over 300 years the most popular instrument of all in the realm of music. Held in high regard by first all musicians for its power, range, and ability to reproduce a variety of sounds and tonal colors, it is capable of as fine an impression musically as anything less than a full orchestra. Ever since the days of Bach, the organ has been the traditional official church instrument, and millions in the Catholic and Protestant Churches throughout the world have thrilled to its tones. In most instances, it was the sole musical instrument heard by millions of people.

Hence, the organist per se assumes a position of utmost importance as a performer and interpreter of music. In the past three decades, the best-known, most popular, and most-heard organist in America has been Don Baker.

The organist and Baker became synonymous in the minds of the public audience. More than three decades ago when Baker was official organist at the Rivoli Theatre in New York, the days of silent films brought the organ an impressive spot in the great movie palaces throughout the nation, where the organ played not only in interludes but with the film itself.

Don Baker then came into his period of widest public appeal and recognition with the advent of sound pictures. For a dozen years, he was organist at the Paramount Theatre on Times Square in New York City. The Paramount's yearly attendance topped the 3,000,000 mark for consecutive years. It is estimated that there he played for more than 36,500,000 people. Baker was at this remarkable post as organist. His role as a background music provider and the enormous number of "Community Sings" he made for Columbia Pictures, all brought him before countless millions of other people.

In 1948, Baker left New York for the West Coast, where he was featured in Hollywood and from Vegas went on to Las Vegas, Nevada. Unlike most great names, Don Baker is today as important as ever, for the organ is known, and the sale of his records, played with the impassioned full-bodied tone so well-known to Americans, remains the greatest of any living organist.

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