PAUL KIRNER - "IT'S NOW OR NEVER" (O SOLE MIO) - 4/20 + MELOTONE COMPTON/WURLITZER ORGAN - 2014

PAUL KIRNER plays "IT'S NOW OR NEVER" ("O SOLE MIO") on the
4/20 + Melotone COMPTON/WURLITZER at COMPTON LODGE SAPCOTE
at a Live Performance in June 2014.
This number was a Number One Chart Hit for Elvis Presley, released as a 45rpm Record in 1960
by RCA Victor, was Presley's biggest selling single, which achieved sales of over 20 million copies.
Video from the ComptonLodgeStudios Archive Collection.
Uploaded by ComptonLodgeStudios, South Street, Ynyshir, in the Welsh Rhondda Valley.

[@HD7100]

Very nice arrangement Paul. I also enjoyed your tasteful registration choices. About 1969 and 1971 I was playing five nights a week in an Italian supper club. I had my Hammond organ there and of course I was asked to play a fair amount of Italian music such as this tune. I haven't played O Sloe Mio in a long-long time. One piece that was requested a lot at that venue was Gina Nia Mia. Gary

[@ComptonLodgeStudios]

Hi HD7100, Thank You for your complimentary comments. Always a delight to get another musicians opinion
on these videos of mine. Thanks again, PAUL K at ComptonLodgeStudios in South Street, Ynyshir, Rhondda.

[@frederickfarias9515]

“O Sole Mio” Love the organ, especially the theatre organ. There is a film (was on ‘UA-cam’) that shows how Compton builds its organs.

[@ComptonLodgeStudios]

Thanks Frederick, PAUL ComptonLodgeStudios in the Rhondda.

[@jackraves7363]

🎼 that melotone is somewha creepy here haha 😉

[@ComptonLodgeStudios]

You've hit the nail on the head Jack, it does have a very wierd sound. They were loved by some players but hated by others!
Even worse was the Compton Melotone Organ, some folk won't agree, apologies in advance. I played one in a pub occasionally when I worked for a guy called Bill Dickson who operated a company called The Elecric Organ Hire Company from his home in Maidenhead.
This Melotone he hired to a pub in Chalk Farm, London. I played there a few full weekends, Thursday to Sunday nights inclusive,
and when I arrived they had had a "Puch-Up" in the early evening and were bringing out more tables and chairs from the cellar.
The life of the itinerate musician is not always a happy one. Some would say "Yeah, but it's Great Experience"!
Thanks for commenting Jack, Best Wishes from the old "Pro" in the Rhondda, PAUL.