I Love to Hear You Singing, played by Jim Roseveare

In this 1986 performance Jim Roseveare (1942-1989) plays the mighty Loew's Ohio Morton pipe organ in the state capitol, Columbus. Photos were taken at rehearsal. Haydn Wood wrote the music and Lillian Glanville wrote the words to this song, copyrighted in Britain in 1928, and later published in the U.S.A. Roseveare copied this arrangement from a recording made by 'poet of the pipe organ,' Jesse Crawford. Roseveare and pianist Peter Mintun performed a piano and organ concert at Oakland's (Calif.) Paramount Theatre, which led to an invitation to perform at this magnificently restored 1928 theatre. The Ohio was designed by the architect Thomas Lamb, famous for his opulent movie theatres. Like all movie palaces, "the circumstances for which it was created ceased to exist" (a succinct quote by theatre historian Steve Levin) and its future was seriously doomed in 1969. Thanks to public outcry and the newly formed Columbus Association for the Performing Arts, enough money was raised to prevent demolition. The project became the first complete restoration of an American movie 'palace.' Mr. Roseveare is usually associated with the WurliTzer pipe organ, but had a deep appreciation for this Morton instrument, which was original to the structure.