Horace Finch Late Night Music BBC Light 1961 Empress Wurlitzer.

Horace Finch Late Night Music BBC Light 1961 Empress Wurlitzer. From the Empress Ballroom Wurlitzer Blackpool. Another radio memory from a reel to reel tape going back 60 years to May 1961. With memories of the old BBC Light Programme and the last music played before close down. I was wondering whether to put this on Youtube as, sadly, the quality is not great alas, you can do great things with a programme like Audacity, but if you have a poor recording to start with, there is not a lot that can be done to improve it sadly. I always try to do as little as possible to these tape recordings to keep them original as possible. So a word of warning if you listen with headphones, there is a little bit of microphone blasting on this recording. But I just thought, in the end, it sounded so atmospheric as that Wurlitzer sounds mellifluously drifts around that huge empty Empress Ballroom. I love hearing that distant piano. There is no doubt Horace Finch was the master of this Empress Wurlitzer, and I really like his playing style and registration on this unique sounding Wurlitzer organ due to the size and structure of the Empress Ballroom. Another point to note is the BBC announcer on this 1961 Late night music is Roger Moffat, who led a very colourful life. I will put a link to an interview he did with another old Broadcaster Keith Skues, when they both worked for a Sheffield radio station in the 1980s. Roger Moffat was, in fact, the last voice to be heard on the BBC old light programme when it closed down in September 1967 the next morning it became Radio2.   / roger-moffat-this-was-your   The above is not my recording and the sound on this interview is quite poor in parts but interesting to listen to if you remembered Roger Moffat.