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George Wright (1920-1998) was a spectacularly-talented popular organist, featured on NBC radio, at the San Francisco Fox and New York Paramount Theatres, on millions of records (primarily on the HIFI and DOT labels), in live concert performances, and heard on "General Hospital" for thirteen years. Except for his seven years in New York City (1944-1951), George lived in California.
His fascinating life is now chronicled in a three-volume scholarly biography, spanning some 1500 pages of text and images: 1) The Genius of George Wright (available on Amazon.com) 2) George Wright--Reflections Of His Life (available on Amazon.com) 3) George Writes--The Letters of America's Premier Popular Organist, George Wright (ONLY available on this website!) |
Here's an interesting webinar that includes a discussion about Fong Wan's New Shanghai Terrace Bowl Restaurant, and GW--as told by one of Fong's sons (starting at 14:26 in the video).
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Here's a link to the online version (no assurance how long the link will be active): https://bacgg.org/index.php/video-chinese-night-clubs/
GW profile published in the 1956 issue of the "Tibia":
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Article about the Pasadena Studio organ from the February 1964 "Bombarde": |
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Article from the June-July 1969 issue of "Hammond Times":
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PREVIEW the draft of CHAPTER 1 of
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Presentation at the 2016 American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS) convention in Cleveland.
Presentation at the 2015 American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS) convention in Philadelphia.
Here's a link to an interview of Dr. William Coale by "Hot Pipes" creator and moderator, Steve Ashley: https://dev.opendrive.com/api/v1/download/file.json/MF85NDI0NTc0MF8?inline=1
Video of a presentation made in the Wendell Jacob music room of the story of how the George Write biography came to be:
www.facebook.com/wmcoale/videos/10211544807708061/
Here's a link to an interview of Wendell Jacob: vimeo.com/244772508
DRAFT timeline of GW's life
(If you have documented additions or corrections, please contact me at [email protected] Thank you!)
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Stars that appeared at the New York Paramount Theatre during GW's tenure there (August 3, 1948-mid 1951)
Some of GW's output on the King label:
(scroll to the right or click "view larger version" (in lower right) to see images of the records themselves)
(scroll to the right or click "view larger version" (in lower right) to see images of the records themselves)