Plays Lawrence Welk's Greatest Hits (Remastered) Eddie Layton
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Album-Release:
1966
HRA-Release:
22.06.2016
Label: RCA/Legacy
Genre: Easy Listening
Subgenre: Compilations
Artist: Eddie Layton
Composer: Frank Loesser [Non-Classical Composer], Lawrence Welk, F. Flynn, Bernie Wayne, Lee Morris, C. Washburne, Marilyn Keith, Alan Bergman, Norman Luboff, Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel, Frank Scott, Bob Calame, Ben Raleigh, Sherman Edwards, Henry Mancini, Heino Gaze, Frank Bjorn
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- 1 Bubbles In the Wine 02:37
- 2 Calcutta 02:31
- 3 Alley Cat 02:05
- 4 Baby Elephant Walk 02:29
- 5 Wonderful! Wonderful! 02:19
- 6 Apples and Bananas 01:59
- 7 Canadian Sunset 02:16
- 8 Yellow Bird 02:25
- 9 Lawrence Welk Polka 02:08
- 10 Blue Velvet 02:25
Info for Plays Lawrence Welk's Greatest Hits (Remastered)
Eddie Layton was a demonstrator for Hammond organs, Layton was Mercury Records' star organist at the height of the Space Age Pop era. Layton's style of playing was somewhere between the stiffness Ken Griffin's and the wildness Julian Gould's. He wasn't too jazzy, but he was among the most technically proficient players of the Hammond, and could find little-known features and effects when he wanted to.
This was why Hammond retained him as a house performer for nearly 50 years. The company sent Layton around the world to demonstrate the instrument. Layton estimated once that he'd visited and played at over 700 stores in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Layton started studying music as a child, but he was studying meteorology in college when he enlisted in the Navy in World War Two. The Navy brought him in contact with his first Hammond organ, one sitting at the Naval Air Station in Linhurst, New Jersey. Layton figured out how to turn it on and play it, and after the war, he sought out the legendary Jesse Crawford for lessons.
Eddie Layton, electric organ
Digitally remastered
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