It was a well-deserved flop. Via the Encyclopedia of Surfing / Matt Warshaw's Sunday Joint newsletter.

Edited: 09/28/2023 at 06:30 AM by ww

That is a good time party time. Dancing with pretty girls. Nothing wrong with that!

The choreography was pretty sharp. Good example of the dancers being more interesting than the featured singer. Matt Warshaw is a marvel for digging up the past. He's around 60 or so, slowly migrated north from southern California to Seattle.

And, that is a period piece when musicians didn't have amplified instruments. Thus the stand up bass and large kick drum to project lower frequencies.

Yes, set in the 19th century.

In terms of music from the era, organs, from little reed organs to big ones for mega churches and theaters, were popular. The 16 or 32 foot pipes delivered bass.

The big historic one that was restored and installed at the Jacksonville Symphony's acoustic auditorium has a set of duplicate pipes hiding at the back of the auditorium, which I heard in use once. Early surround sound. BTW, that organ can be played about as fast and aggressively as a concert piano.

About the best use I've seen of that auditorium was the early Star Wars movies with live music by the Symphony. It fit just fine with the dialog and sound effects on the speaker system, and really emphasized the way the score propelled the action along.

Edited: 09/29/2023 at 07:24 PM by ww

There are some good pipe organs locally that are pretty impressive sounding, too.
one of my favorites is the pipe organ in Rockledge Presbyterian church off the river.
Not huge as far as pipe organs go, not vintage but older, beautifully set up, well maintained, and it sounds fantastic.

Had the chance to play a few chords from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and the organist laughed.






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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

Jacksonville's biggest church organ might be in the Episcopal Cathedral, which was built after the downtown fire that destroyed most everything in 1901. It has an incredible medieval-English style hammerbeam roof made of really big wooden timbers. Probably bald cypress.

Vero Beach has a huge almost-new church organ at the Community Church, the one where orchestras come to perform in winter.

The new organ concerto (organ with orchestra) that the Jacksonville Symphony performed was quite a bit of fun--lots of percussion including xylophone, tubular bells, and assorted small stuff. Lots of organ sound effects. The organist followed up with a Bach piece, at breakneck speed.