I play a Casavant pipe organ and a Hammond at different churches. The Hammond can sound really nice if you turn off that vibrato, no need for a Leslie. Its the vibrato that makes it sound like the roller rink organ.
Thank you. Someone finally gets it. That's what it was originally intended for (Churches, not theaters and the like). True, these could do much more than that. Leslie wanted theater organ sounds (or that of an opera singer, evident when the right registration is chosen), which is why he made his speaker to begin with. Frightening results when the two are "married."
In my town there was a place that sold "Pee-AW-no's" and organs lol. I actually taught myself how to type on a daisywheel typewriter I bought from a place called Floyd's Piano & Typewriter.
Our two local malls had two in each - Fletchers and SouthEast Keyboards. I worked in SEK but I could only stand it for three months then quit. None now!
Yes, Porter Warrignton Heaps, who appeared as the "Choir Master/Organist", represented Hammond for 40 years, promoting their organs and giving "demonstration" concerts for them, until his retirement in 1970. His spent the last years of his life in Palo Alto, California, continuing to give concerts, while serving as organist and music director of the Palo Alto Community Church. He died in May 1999, at the age of 92.
This was an excellent demo video of the Hammond organ! Loved this! Bet this video help sell MANY Hammond organs-and Mr Hammond started with making electric clocks! His tone wheel design was ingenious!
Indeed! The tone wheel generator has a lot in common with an electric guitar. The wheels are the strings and the pickups are essentially the same design wise.
@@PatrickRosenbalm YES! Can go along with that analogy! And organists want the older tonewheel organs with the tubed amps! And some of the wheels have different. Shapes in their teeth to shape the sound!
@@rexoliver7780 Yes they do. A masterpiece of design and engineering. I have a 1969 L143 I'm restoring as time permits. The generator oil attached to the inside wall was and is still unopened. Cabinet is excellent but the generator squalled a bit when I got it. I bought new oil for it as I wanted to keep the original "original". ;-)
I know there will be commenters following you that will claim this represented a unreal vision of utopia. that's only because they never grew up in a friendly town like this. I did. It isn't fake. It's real. Just not found often anymore. They just don't know what they don't know. They want to prove a negative only because of their limited experience and the echo chamber they live in.
@@videodistro Totally agree, when the young revisionists spout their nonsense I tell them I was there and you weren't and I was there during your time as well. LBJ had a great line, "Don't shit me cuz I know better" :)
Actually, the 70s and even much of the 80s likely have much more in common with this 1957 film than they do with the present, those times being BC (before computers)
@@videodistro Some people today have to look for something to hate because they have nothing to hate. They're not creative so let's destroy the creative, it's quite sad really that they want to destroy a society that gave them everything, including the means to destroy it.
You only have to look at TV comedians to confirm the downhill slide. Until around the early '90s, TV comedians (their characters, anyway) were people you'd like to hang out with because they were fun, funny & had crazy adventures. Think Al Bundy or the cast of Friends, for instance. These days, the joke seems to be that these people are so unbearable that you just have to laugh at them. Think Shameless or the cast of The Office. Or even "super heroes". Who would you prefer you kid look up to, '60s Batman or contemporary Deadpool or perhaps even the Suicide Squad, since they're so "diverse"? The whole world is going to Hell in a hand basket & people are cheering it on... And all I can do is shake my head & walk away...
I rebuilt an "M" series hammond organ some time back, they are really built for the long hull, however, no one knows how to play piano/ organ anymore, thanks to the advent of the computer!!!
the list is very long on the pop bands that used the "B" series hammond organ coupled with the lesley. I have yet to hear a computer mimic the sound quality of the hammond organ!!!!!, its like the "PIPE ORGAN", it just can not be duplicated!!!!
@@davidwalters8225 this lazy new generation always finding cheaper and more practical ways to get things done. Back when I was growing up, we were taught hard work.
Thank you ! I love the organ , and this was a very interesting video . Too bad most churches don't use organ music anymore . I'm grateful that our church does . What an amazing instrument , and kudos to the geniuses that invented it .
I just subscribed to this channel the other night because I'm a sucker for old history and Americana, and as a fanatical keyboard player, this was a real treat! Keep up the great work, Mr. Perry.
@@anonymusum Obviously older than the 50s, both in sound and the musical stylings. The technology and parts to build these zombies were around before the 30s. It's amazing how these were still thought of, and built the same way, for 4 decades.
When i got out of college i went to work in an audio business I got stuck working on hammond organs while i wished i had the guitar slot Now i know i had the groovy job. I even found a factory flaw on the porta B and made it better than showroom.
Just watched this again... The ballpark segment was amusing. They obviously wanted him playing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." But, back when this film was made, that song wasn't public domain. So, they had him play something like it, but not it to avoid a copyright problem.
I too just discovered this channel a few weeks ago. I love playing this video as it has memories for me. At 73, I'm still playing the organ & piano for church. We have a B-3 at our church and we have brought it into the 21st century. The man who services our organ, along with myself, have brought this instrument well into the 21st century. He has added some other electronics, 2 small Leslie speakers, in addition to the old tone cabinet, things like chimes, while keeping the beautiful sound of the Hammond organ. Yes, we spent some money but I will match it with any new instrument.
I have seen the A100 played with the JR 20 tone cabinet and a Leslie also it sounded wonderful! i miss the B3 in our church they replaced it with a Rogers, not the same.
I loved this!! I'm still kicking myself for not buying an RT3 and PR40 back in 2005 for $800.... Original owner from 1960 too. I do however own a 1969 Hammond L143 and a Leslie 715. I use a Roland VR-730 for the road but you can't beat the real thing!! It's amazing what people like Jon Lord, Steve Winwood, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and others did with them in the late 60s and 70s. Lars Hammond hated the Leslie speaker and I think even took legal action against them. Funny how that ended. Maybe Periscope might find and post a film about the Hammond Novachord. Literally the first polyphonic synthesizer from 1939.
You could argue that a Hammond tonewheel organ *IS* a polyphonic synthesizer, doing additive harmonic synthesis. Unlimited polyphony too. More a matter of philosophy than technology/
Hammond hated Leslie speakers as his tone cabinets couldn´t compete with them. That meant that the sales went south. In the end they bought Leslie - and made one bad decision after the other.
Interesting fact. Laurens Hammond HATED The Leslie Tone Cabinet and came out with his own version of it which failed. Note how there is no Leslie in any scenes in this documentary. That’s by design.
The First "Official" Hammond with Built-in Leslies was the "T" Series Spinets, later the R-100 and X-77 as far a Tone-Wheel organs were concerned. When Laurens Hammond retired, the first project was the Console with Built-in (stationary) speakers was the A-100 in 1959 and slightly later the D-100 (an RT-3 with Built-In speakers. While Laurens was still in charge, Some Engineers at Hammond had a secret project called S-A-M-B-O (somewhat Politically Incorrect, but meant "Salvaged And Modified Burned Burned Organ") which was a C-3 that had survived a Fire and they were using it to tinker with. They essentially turned it into what became an A-105.
I know, right? But without that animation they just sound insufferable, don't they? 99% of these old Hammond recordings seem to have the organ set to "skating rink."
He purposely put the B+ power supply in his tone cabinet to prevent anything else from working with the Hammond. He went lawer shopping when the Leslie speaker provided the B+ to work with Hammonds.
Gee whiz mister, that would sure sound keen through a Leslie speaker. Get out of my store kid! 😁 I love my vintage Hammond tonewheel organ but it's white toast without a Leslie. To each their own, the Hammond organ is an American treasure no matter how you like it served up.
It is from Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite", Number 1, "Morning Mood". My two other fav's from that suite are "Anitra's Dance", and "In the Hall of the Mountain King".
I am going to defer to Richard Bell on this ... there was a snippet (just a bar, or so) of "Be Still My Soul" just before 10:33. I thought that was the one you inquired about.
I love the Leslie sound too, but the Hammond organs own Vibrato and Chorus (vibrato + dry signal) I,II,and III give the tone wheel sound nice animation without clobbering when dealing with using the draw bars as harmonic builders for instrument emulation. I used to put the Hammond M3's Vibrato/ Chorus rocker switch half way between and it would unground the scanner and give a great Leslie imitation. It would have the phase animation and a chop chop chop amplitude modulation. ( I'm posting what was the second half of the comment to you by itself as another comment...about Leslie invention)
@@paulj0557tonehead Same here, and I'm so happy that someone else agrees with me. Many do not know that using a Leslie, especially on fast, turns it into something its not (a theater organ, a deep sound effect box, or an opera singer). The original was the best. You could play straight thru a Leslie, but most won't bother. When played straight thru a Leslie, it sounds like a PR, but more booming.
I like organ music more than most people, but that vibrato sound makes me nauseous. It sounds like old funeral parlor music. It's impossible to imagine that teenager liking it. 19:00 was interesting. B3s used in rock music, by Perez Prado, etc are fun.
Glad to see I'm not the only one that sees this. The vibrato (and tremolo-from the word, tremulant) is why: we don't like theater organs, opera, and anything like that. No, not for funeral parlors, but for old theaters, venues, etc. When played straight (PR or Leslie) with no effect...actual music comes out. Donald Leslie didn't know what he was doing, and he was butthurt about the PR cabinets. This wasn't supposed to be the next (or another) WurliTzer. He went ahead and did just that. It took me until 2005 to learn why I don't like most (electric) organ music. It's not the organ/input, it's the output device.
Hammond had a bad habit of completely and constantly ignoring the musicians who were actually giving their instruments a name; choosing instead to relentlessly market their instruments to middle class white people who supposedly only wanted to play hymns and show tunes. “Any kind of music you want”……..except for jazz, blues, gospel or rock and roll. You know, the kinds of music that the Hammond is great at doing, made great by a incredibly diverse group of players. The Hammond was and still is terrible at doing the many of the things Hammond actually ‘meant’ for their organs to do.
1957 ... things were peachy with my family, my parents were just having their first kid and life was good. 1967 the cracks were starting to show. 1977 they'd split up, we kids and Mom were on Welfare, and I was in a constant state of near-malnutrition. Yeah, take me back to 1957 too.
1936-37 (truly Pre-WW2, albeit the Depression). Leslie (a theater organ, and fine arts nut), bought one himself one day. He was butthurt by the original, PR speaker. He didn't like the sound of it. So, he came up with this, in response. The only way to tell one of these, apart from his WurliTzer, is the fast-slow speed. You don't get to control the tremulant's speed on original theater organs. Now, it was truly possible to recreate their sounds (which I hate).
The Hammond B-3 I have in my studio was made in 1957, just like this movie. Times sure have changed. It's still holding up well, though. But, the Leslie 122 is definitely needed.
It's not generally well known but one of the reasons the Soviet Union collapsed was due, in part, to the much feared "Organ Gap" with the West. Common knowledge that the US & Canada have the highest per capita rate of Organ ownership.
At the time Laurens Hammond was still alive, and he would not permit Leslie Tone Cabinets to be sold by Hammond dealers. He didn't like the sound. They had to set up a companion dealership nearby. After he no longer controlled the company in the mid 60's the dealers were allowed to sell both.
This is another cool episode of the Hammond organ and how it works and it has a very cool sound a lot of famous people who used the Hammond organ korla pandit Eric Burdon and the Animals played there most iconic song using the Hammond The House of the Rising Sun
HAMMOND ORGANS always stuck with the "tried and true" designs. It was their MASSIVE "LESLIE" SPEAKERS with their mechanical "whirling" vibrato which made them stand out and gave HAMMOND B2's&B3's their preferred status with churches, and later HARD ROCK groups too. John Lord of "DEEP PURPLE" played a HAMMOND it was a magnificent LIVE concert instrument. LORD was LOUD!!! And he loved getting his organ to SCREAM his "riffs". I think GARTH HUDSON of "THE BAND" also played one too. He's famous for the "color" he was able to add to the group's "sound" with it. I must confess a fondness for their biggest competitor "WURLITZER ORGANS". These guys went very high tech in the 1970's even adding the first "synthesizer" to its instruments. Also... The HAMMOND as you see in this video required much more direct "input" from the organist in pulling and setting the "stops" to the correct position to achieve the "harmonics" he/she wanted to achieve. The WURLITER had a more simple, more advanced "lever" system which was much easier for the organists to "set". Both achieved WONDERFUL sounds; especially with the hands and feet of an experienced "master". TWO of the greatest theater organs you can still hear played live are here in NYC's "RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL" where they are featured before the main shows and also at intermissions. It's worth it to go in JUST to hear them alone! They don't call these things "THE KING OF INSTRUMENTS" for nothing folks! This is a fun video! Thanks for the momories!!!
Though originally Hammond didn't want you to use a Leslie as it wasn't made by them, naturally they ended up buying Leslie and are no both under the ownership of Suzuki musical instruments.
Laurens Hammond would have nothing to do with Don Leslie's speaker. Don was able to succeed despite Hammond's attitude. I knew Don Leslie, he lived into his 90's.
I guess we'll never know if they were late for dinner. Did mother throw it out and send them to bed? Did she cry herself to sleep and decide she wanted a divorce? Lots of plot holes. Maybe there's a sequel.
She probably called Chicken Delight or some shit. Ate it all herself washed down with the bottle of vodka she keeps hidden and sent 'em all to bed w/o their dinner.
Wurlitzer sued Hammond, claiming that Hammond had no right calling their clock an organ. An organ produces music by forcing air through pipes. This clock does nothing of the sort! The case lasted all year, with much expert testimony, during which time, and due to the publicity, Hammond sold hundreds of electric organs to churches all over the country.
Jim’s daughter sure is square... No Elvis? That Hammond could do so much more. I think I first heard a Hammond on Walter Wanderley’s 1966 hit Summer Samba, and then at Crosley Field. I have an XK3C and a 2101, also an L112 spinet - real tonewheel but amp dying. And a Roland VR09 which weighs less than some of my guitars so it’s the only one that goes anywhere.
Here is an even more interesting video on the history and development of the Hammond organ: ruclips.net/video/iBjp2ZDA8A0/видео.html This instrument was invented by an engineer named Lorenz Hammond who had no musical training or ability. He invented the electric organ because his electric clock business started to fizzle. Hammond was a Thomas Edison / Henry Ford / Steve Jobs type.
Wait till the young man's father finds out how much a B3 or C3 Hammond costs. Especially in those days. He'll probably start on an M3. Hope the one where they ate had a Leslie on it.
This Hammond needs to be BROUGHT BACK-many organists still want the REAL Hammond-not the digital reproduction. The Hammond was used in an automatic musical instrument-the DeCap dance organ.It was played from perforated cardboard music books-sort of like perforated paper music rolls-Hammond even made a roll played player organ. In the DeCap instrument the Hammond organ was accompanied by pipe organ pipes,and percussion. Look up DeCap organ on RUclips and you can hear the DeCap organ.
The B3 was made from 1955 to 1974. You really had a sound when the Leslie 122 was added. The PR40 tone cabinet just did not make it. Still have mine today and will never sell it.
If God made anything, he most definitely made the Hammond organ lol. Got to, got to, GOT TO HAVE a Leslie Speaker to pair with it 1000000% to achieve this instrument's optimum potential
It's not the console, but the speaker. See all of my other comments. It's amazing what you learn every day. I have never been near one in my life, but I already figured out what/how to play one. I'll stick with my PR, and still get great sounds with it (electric, church, new age, synth-like, etc.).
Thanks so much for sharing this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Oh, I had jokes..jokes and jokes....I was typing them....And then I'd just stop typing and smile at the music.....really great.
I play a Casavant pipe organ and a Hammond at different churches. The Hammond can sound really nice if you turn off that vibrato, no need for a Leslie. Its the vibrato that makes it sound like the roller rink organ.
Thank you. Someone finally gets it. That's what it was originally intended for (Churches, not theaters and the like). True, these could do much more than that. Leslie wanted theater organ sounds (or that of an opera singer, evident when the right registration is chosen), which is why he made his speaker to begin with. Frightening results when the two are "married."
The Leslie is required in the Black Church. It’s just the reality of the matter.
@@MethodistPreacher So much soul in the Leslie!
@@PutItAway101 Too much. It turns the instrument into a voice. It's like putting too much sauce or dressing on your food.
A treasure of a video!
Remember when there was always an organ/piano shop in the mall???? Yup, those days are G O N E !!!
In my town there was a place that sold "Pee-AW-no's" and organs lol. I actually taught myself how to type on a daisywheel typewriter I bought from a place called Floyd's Piano & Typewriter.
Also movie theaters, roller rinks, schools
Our two local malls had two in each - Fletchers and SouthEast Keyboards. I worked in SEK but I could only stand it for three months then quit. None now!
Yes, Porter Warrignton Heaps, who appeared as the "Choir Master/Organist", represented Hammond for 40 years, promoting their organs and giving "demonstration" concerts for them, until his retirement in 1970. His spent the last years of his life in Palo Alto, California, continuing to give concerts, while serving as organist and music director of the Palo Alto Community Church. He died in May 1999, at the age of 92.
He’s an excellent musician.
What a wholesome buncha not my cuppa but endearing. Rest in paradise, Porter. ✨
he was gay all the way lol
This was an excellent demo video of the Hammond organ! Loved this! Bet this video help sell MANY Hammond organs-and Mr Hammond started with making electric clocks! His tone wheel design was ingenious!
Indeed! The tone wheel generator has a lot in common with an electric guitar. The wheels are the strings and the pickups are essentially the same design wise.
@@PatrickRosenbalm YES! Can go along with that analogy! And organists want the older tonewheel organs with the tubed amps! And some of the wheels have different. Shapes in their teeth to shape the sound!
@@rexoliver7780 Yes they do. A masterpiece of design and engineering. I have a 1969 L143 I'm restoring as time permits. The generator oil attached to the inside wall was and is still unopened. Cabinet is excellent but the generator squalled a bit when I got it. I bought new oil for it as I wanted to keep the original "original". ;-)
This was long before my time but I can't help but think how we have devolved in things like humility and decency.
I know there will be commenters following you that will claim this represented a unreal vision of utopia. that's only because they never grew up in a friendly town like this. I did. It isn't fake. It's real. Just not found often anymore. They just don't know what they don't know. They want to prove a negative only because of their limited experience and the echo chamber they live in.
@@videodistro Totally agree, when the young revisionists spout their nonsense I tell them I was there and you weren't and I was there during your time as well. LBJ had a great line, "Don't shit me cuz I know better" :)
Actually, the 70s and even much of the 80s likely have much more in common with this 1957 film than they do with the present, those times being BC (before computers)
@@videodistro Some people today have to look for something to hate because they have nothing to hate. They're not creative so let's destroy the creative, it's quite sad really that they want to destroy a society that gave them everything, including the means to destroy it.
You only have to look at TV comedians to confirm the downhill slide.
Until around the early '90s, TV comedians (their characters, anyway) were people you'd like to hang out with because they were fun, funny & had crazy adventures. Think Al Bundy or the cast of Friends, for instance.
These days, the joke seems to be that these people are so unbearable that you just have to laugh at them. Think Shameless or the cast of The Office.
Or even "super heroes". Who would you prefer you kid look up to, '60s Batman or contemporary Deadpool or perhaps even the Suicide Squad, since they're so "diverse"?
The whole world is going to Hell in a hand basket & people are cheering it on... And all I can do is shake my head & walk away...
I rebuilt an "M" series hammond organ some time back, they are really built for the long hull, however, no one knows how to play piano/ organ anymore, thanks to the advent of the computer!!!
True. I love playing my 1963 B-3, T-442 spinet and Elegante that I use in my Band practice. It is our mascot.
the list is very long on the pop bands that used the "B" series hammond organ coupled with the lesley. I have yet to hear a computer mimic the sound quality of the hammond organ!!!!!, its like the "PIPE ORGAN", it just can not be duplicated!!!!
One word describes it best, laziness!!
@@davidwalters8225 this lazy new generation always finding cheaper and more practical ways to get things done. Back when I was growing up, we were taught hard work.
Life sure moved slowly back then.
Peri! you always have the BEST videos and this one is no exception! GREAT JOB!
I was halfway through this video when I read the whole title! I've seen "Hammond registration by Porter Heaps" in organ music for 40 years!
Thank you ! I love the organ , and this was a very interesting video . Too bad most churches don't use organ music anymore . I'm grateful that our church does . What an amazing instrument , and kudos to the geniuses that invented it .
My church still does
Great video for the most remarkable Instrument ever created, the mighty Hammond Organ!!
I just subscribed to this channel the other night because I'm a sucker for old history and Americana, and as a fanatical keyboard player, this was a real treat! Keep up the great work, Mr. Perry.
You're at the right place for the oldies
Then the 1960's and 1970's happened and the Hammond B-3 went to a whole new dimension in music!
And Hammond couldn´t keep up with those changes. Their ads basically featured 50s style music.
@@anonymusum Obviously older than the 50s, both in sound and the musical stylings. The technology and parts to build these zombies were around before the 30s. It's amazing how these were still thought of, and built the same way, for 4 decades.
@@anonymusumand what's the problem
When i got out of college i went to work in an audio business
I got stuck working on hammond organs while i wished i had the guitar slot
Now i know i had the groovy job.
I even found a factory flaw on the porta B and made it better than showroom.
This guy is quite talented 😁👍
YA should hear my brother,He has holiness Church and can Sa-moke one!.
Just watched this again... The ballpark segment was amusing. They obviously wanted him playing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." But, back when this film was made, that song wasn't public domain. So, they had him play something like it, but not it to avoid a copyright problem.
@LeeBlaske good insight. Thanks for that and for being a sub!
I own 6 Hammond consoles and 15 Leslie speakers. thanks for posting this.
I have 9, oldest is a 1950 Chord organ
Any Leslie for sell?
@@MethodistPreacher not yet!
Back when a very Suttle difference in sound was almost magical.
I too just discovered this channel a few weeks ago. I love playing this video as it has memories for me. At 73, I'm still playing the organ & piano for church. We have a B-3 at our church and we have brought it into the 21st century. The man who services our organ, along with myself, have brought this instrument well into the 21st century. He has added some other electronics, 2 small Leslie speakers, in addition to the old tone cabinet, things like chimes, while keeping the beautiful sound of the Hammond organ. Yes, we spent some money but I will match it with any new instrument.
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I have seen the A100 played with the JR 20 tone cabinet and a Leslie also it sounded wonderful! i miss the B3 in our church they replaced it with a Rogers, not the same.
Thank you folks!
That was Great!
Hammond provided the music to be married and buried by.
Indeed! Greetings from KC4BGA!
And watch soap operas by!
@@PatrickRosenbalm FB OM! Now known as AC4AQ
Married, Buried and everything in between!
And at a Pink Floyd concert, to get stoned by!!!!😂
I loved this!! I'm still kicking myself for not buying an RT3 and PR40 back in 2005 for $800.... Original owner from 1960 too. I do however own a 1969 Hammond L143 and a Leslie 715. I use a Roland VR-730 for the road but you can't beat the real thing!!
It's amazing what people like Jon Lord, Steve Winwood, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and others did with them in the late 60s and 70s.
Lars Hammond hated the Leslie speaker and I think even took legal action against them. Funny how that ended.
Maybe Periscope might find and post a film about the Hammond Novachord. Literally the first polyphonic synthesizer from 1939.
You could argue that a Hammond tonewheel organ *IS* a polyphonic synthesizer, doing additive harmonic synthesis.
Unlimited polyphony too.
More a matter of philosophy than technology/
@@paulwomack5866 Good point!! I totally agree! :-)
Hammond hated Leslie speakers as his tone cabinets couldn´t compete with them. That meant that the sales went south. In the end they bought Leslie - and made one bad decision after the other.
Interesting fact. Laurens Hammond HATED The Leslie Tone Cabinet and came out with his own version of it which failed. Note how there is no Leslie in any scenes in this documentary. That’s by design.
The First "Official" Hammond with Built-in Leslies was the "T" Series Spinets, later the R-100 and X-77 as far a Tone-Wheel organs were concerned.
When Laurens Hammond retired, the first project was the Console with Built-in (stationary) speakers was the A-100 in 1959 and slightly later the D-100 (an RT-3 with Built-In speakers.
While Laurens was still in charge, Some Engineers at Hammond had a secret project called S-A-M-B-O (somewhat Politically Incorrect, but meant "Salvaged And Modified Burned Burned Organ") which was a C-3 that had survived a Fire and they were using it to tinker with.
They essentially turned it into what became an A-105.
White bread and corn! Wholesome teenage fun.
(I've had a Hammond in my home since the 80's but it never sounds like that!)
hermoso sonido
I’m sold
I used to have a C3 with 122 Leslie. I prefer the Leslie but the tone cabinet sounds just as good
Grinnell's was the retailer for the Hammond organd in the Michigan/Ohio market...They had a store in most of the larger shopping Malls..
My mom worked for Grinnell Brothers in the 60s through 1975 in downtown Saginaw Michigan a very fine store!
Welcome to the state of Morocco with joy and pleasure, we love all peoples🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷👍
And then along came Fats Waller, Jimmy Smith, Jon Lord, Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Booker T ...
Yes! And black gospel!
What? No ‘Tico Tico’? Also, the sales demo date says 1957. The 3 series should have been out by then. All I saw were 2s and earlier.
@@Normhart Ethel Smith would be needed for Tico Tico!
I wonder if they made a special version aimed at Black customers.
@@danielsandoval2846 No.That sort of thing didn't come along until another 20 years.
What’s better than Roses 🌹 on a piano?
Tulips 🌷 on an organ!! 🐈
HaHaHa. I’ll be here all week!!
Thanks for that one😏
Hammond's hatred of the Leslie really showing through in this.
I know, right? But without that animation they just sound insufferable, don't they? 99% of these old Hammond recordings seem to have the organ set to "skating rink."
Yup. Laurens Hammond hated that speaker with a passion. He was so stubborn to allow his organs to have them.
Yes, without the Leslie the organ sounds so sterile and flat.
He purposely put the B+ power supply in his tone cabinet to prevent anything else from working with the Hammond. He went lawer shopping when the Leslie speaker provided the B+ to work with Hammonds.
@@MethodistPreacher Booker T. has entered the chat.
i remember in the early/mid 70s getting a home organ became somewhat of a fad.
Kimball at our house. I played the hell outta it.
I have 4 organs myself...and I'm 31! Definitely a great thing our society is missing out on today.
yes! my mother had one and I played it growing up (born 1976)
@@velocirapture89 I have six organs!
I first heard a Hammond Organ in Rich's Department Store in Atlanta, Ga. in the 1950's.
I use music books and registrations for Hammond Organs written by Porter Heaps. Many are autographed.
Great Video, Better times they were. What model of organ is the large one?
Gee whiz mister, that would sure sound keen through a Leslie speaker. Get out of my store kid! 😁 I love my vintage Hammond tonewheel organ but it's white toast without a Leslie. To each their own, the Hammond organ is an American treasure no matter how you like it served up.
"Tommy, you want to try sitting on my organ?"
does anyone know the name of the song at 10:33 ? it sounds wonderful :3
It is from Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite", Number 1, "Morning Mood". My two other fav's from that suite are "Anitra's Dance", and "In the Hall of the Mountain King".
@@richardbell7678 thank you :)
I am going to defer to Richard Bell on this ... there was a snippet (just a bar, or so) of "Be Still My Soul" just before 10:33. I thought that was the one you inquired about.
@@surlyogre1476 no the one he said was right, good to know that as well though
Wholesome teenage fun! Calisthenics would have been a lot more fun with a Hammond!
Man, the Hammond really needs that Leslie sound to make it come alive.
I love the Leslie sound too, but the Hammond organs own Vibrato and Chorus (vibrato + dry signal) I,II,and III give the tone wheel sound nice animation without clobbering when dealing with using the draw bars as harmonic builders for instrument emulation. I used to put the Hammond M3's Vibrato/ Chorus rocker switch half way between and it would unground the scanner and give a great Leslie imitation. It would have the phase animation and a chop chop chop amplitude modulation.
( I'm posting what was the second half of the comment to you by itself as another comment...about Leslie invention)
@@paulj0557tonehead Same here, and I'm so happy that someone else agrees with me. Many do not know that using a Leslie, especially on fast, turns it into something its not (a theater organ, a deep sound effect box, or an opera singer). The original was the best. You could play straight thru a Leslie, but most won't bother. When played straight thru a Leslie, it sounds like a PR, but more booming.
I like organ music more than most people, but that vibrato sound makes me nauseous. It sounds like old funeral parlor music. It's impossible to imagine that teenager liking it. 19:00 was interesting. B3s used in rock music, by Perez Prado, etc are fun.
I know - what a difference the right drawbar settings and a Leslie make!
Thank God for Don Leslie! He took the Hammond out of the cemetery!!
Glad to see I'm not the only one that sees this. The vibrato (and tremolo-from the word, tremulant) is why: we don't like theater organs, opera, and anything like that. No, not for funeral parlors, but for old theaters, venues, etc. When played straight (PR or Leslie) with no effect...actual music comes out. Donald Leslie didn't know what he was doing, and he was butthurt about the PR cabinets. This wasn't supposed to be the next (or another) WurliTzer. He went ahead and did just that. It took me until 2005 to learn why I don't like most (electric) organ music. It's not the organ/input, it's the output device.
A Hammond is just for fun I would have one in my house like Twinkie Clark
Hey guys, you think we could install a ring modular on this kit, some overdrive and plug it into Marshall amps??
Where’s all the brothers at in this video, on the other side of the tracks?
Hammond had a bad habit of completely and constantly ignoring the musicians who were actually giving their instruments a name; choosing instead to relentlessly market their instruments to middle class white people who supposedly only wanted to play hymns and show tunes. “Any kind of music you want”……..except for jazz, blues, gospel or rock and roll. You know, the kinds of music that the Hammond is great at doing, made great by a incredibly diverse group of players.
The Hammond was and still is terrible at doing the many of the things Hammond actually ‘meant’ for their organs to do.
Take me back there... Please, Take me back!
1957 ... things were peachy with my family, my parents were just having their first kid and life was good. 1967 the cracks were starting to show. 1977 they'd split up, we kids and Mom were on Welfare, and I was in a constant state of near-malnutrition. Yeah, take me back to 1957 too.
When was the Leslie speaker invented?
1936-37 (truly Pre-WW2, albeit the Depression). Leslie (a theater organ, and fine arts nut), bought one himself one day. He was butthurt by the original, PR speaker. He didn't like the sound of it. So, he came up with this, in response. The only way to tell one of these, apart from his WurliTzer, is the fast-slow speed. You don't get to control the tremulant's speed on original theater organs. Now, it was truly possible to recreate their sounds (which I hate).
I couldn't imagine wearing a coat and tie everywhere
Especially without air conditioning
I reckon you wouldn't fare very well as a Modernist...
Not to mention a hat.
I prefer the original Hammond vibrato instead of a Leslie. That preference places me in a minority, I know, but it’s a personal choice.
The Hammond B-3 I have in my studio was made in 1957, just like this movie. Times sure have changed. It's still holding up well, though. But, the Leslie 122 is definitely needed.
12:52 "And what if you want to play that dirty thang, you dig?" [Launches into Back At The Chicken Shack]
It's not generally well known but one of the reasons the Soviet Union collapsed was due, in part, to the much feared "Organ Gap" with the West. Common knowledge that the US & Canada have the highest per capita rate of Organ ownership.
When is the portable version coming out?😂
Amazing how much you need a Leslie
Remember the show "The Prisoner"? These people live on that island.
Now, I can't imagine why a Leslie wasn't mentioned..😈
At the time Laurens Hammond was still alive, and he would not permit Leslie Tone Cabinets to be sold by Hammond dealers. He didn't like the sound. They had to set up a companion dealership nearby. After he no longer controlled the company in the mid 60's the dealers were allowed to sell both.
If your heart doesn't break at 18:00...
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Thank God for Hauptwerk.
This is another cool episode of the Hammond organ and how it works and it has a very cool sound a lot of famous people who used the Hammond organ korla pandit Eric Burdon and the Animals played there most iconic song using the Hammond The House of the Rising Sun
The organ on that was a Vox Continental, played by Alan Price.
2:10 天使ミサ曲 キリエ ハモンドですごいなあ。
why does the beginning choir practice feel like the start of a PSA on predators
Too bad the audio could not be to curently standards. It's nostalgic though. Thanks
HAMMOND ORGANS always stuck with the "tried and true" designs. It was their MASSIVE "LESLIE" SPEAKERS with their mechanical "whirling" vibrato which made them stand out and gave HAMMOND B2's&B3's their preferred status with churches, and later HARD ROCK groups too. John Lord of "DEEP PURPLE" played a HAMMOND it was a magnificent LIVE concert instrument. LORD was LOUD!!! And he loved getting his organ to SCREAM his "riffs". I think GARTH HUDSON of "THE BAND" also played one too. He's famous for the "color" he was able to add to the group's "sound" with it. I must confess a fondness for their biggest competitor "WURLITZER ORGANS". These guys went very high tech in the 1970's even adding the first "synthesizer" to its instruments. Also... The HAMMOND as you see in this video required much more direct "input" from the organist in pulling and setting the "stops" to the correct position to achieve the "harmonics" he/she wanted to achieve.
The WURLITER had a more simple, more advanced "lever" system which was much easier for the organists to "set". Both achieved WONDERFUL sounds; especially with the hands and feet of an experienced "master". TWO of the greatest theater organs you can still hear played live are here in NYC's "RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL" where they are featured before the main shows and also at intermissions. It's worth it to go in JUST to hear them alone! They don't call these things "THE KING OF INSTRUMENTS" for nothing folks!
This is a fun video! Thanks for the momories!!!
@Christopher St John You're welcome! Thanks for your compliment.
Though originally Hammond didn't want you to use a Leslie as it wasn't made by them, naturally they ended up buying Leslie and are no both under the ownership of Suzuki musical instruments.
@@dglcomputers1498 Thanks for the update! Much appreciated.
Laurens Hammond would have nothing to do with Don Leslie's speaker. Don was able to succeed despite Hammond's attitude. I knew Don Leslie, he lived into his 90's.
@@johnnyjames7139 Thank you for the information. WOW! As usual there's ALWAYS a "back story" to everything.
Don't forget to learn how to play "How Dry I Am" for when they spike the punch.
I guess we'll never know if they were late for dinner. Did mother throw it out and send them to bed? Did she cry herself to sleep and decide she wanted a divorce? Lots of plot holes. Maybe there's a sequel.
She probably called Chicken Delight or some shit. Ate it all herself washed down with the bottle of vodka she keeps hidden and sent 'em all to bed w/o their dinner.
The "ice man " enjoyed it jist fine ....
Wurlitzer sued Hammond, claiming that Hammond had no right calling their clock an organ. An organ produces music by forcing air through pipes. This clock does nothing of the sort! The case lasted all year, with much expert testimony, during which time, and due to the publicity, Hammond sold hundreds of electric organs to churches all over the country.
It would be great to read a transcript of that case!
Jim’s daughter sure is square... No Elvis? That Hammond could do so much more. I think I first heard a Hammond on Walter Wanderley’s 1966 hit Summer Samba, and then at Crosley Field. I have an XK3C and a 2101, also an L112 spinet - real tonewheel but amp dying. And a Roland VR09 which weighs less than some of my guitars so it’s the only one that goes anywhere.
Another Hammond promo film (1955, Church oriented) here: ruclips.net/video/C96lYzVpak0/видео.html
Very nice historical document. But so far away from what I am doing with my Hammond B3 organs as a Jazz-organist :-)
The Hammond was the undisputed KIng of Jazz organ at the time. So does he play any jazz? lol
they shoulda hired vincent crane and made a few high tech rock versions to sell to an entire generation,
Here is an even more interesting video on the history and development of the Hammond organ:
ruclips.net/video/iBjp2ZDA8A0/видео.html
This instrument was invented by an engineer named Lorenz Hammond who had no musical training or ability. He invented the electric organ because his electric clock business started to fizzle. Hammond was a Thomas Edison / Henry Ford / Steve Jobs type.
I want to be in Dr Morrison's house. In Spruce Drive.
Wait till the young man's father finds out how much a B3 or C3 Hammond costs. Especially in those days. He'll probably start on an M3. Hope the one where they ate had a Leslie on it.
This Hammond needs to be BROUGHT BACK-many organists still want the REAL Hammond-not the digital reproduction. The Hammond was used in an automatic musical instrument-the DeCap dance organ.It was played from perforated cardboard music books-sort of like perforated paper music rolls-Hammond even made a roll played player organ. In the DeCap instrument the Hammond organ was accompanied by pipe organ pipes,and percussion. Look up DeCap organ on RUclips and you can hear the DeCap organ.
The B3 was made from 1955 to 1974. You really had a sound when the Leslie 122 was added. The PR40 tone cabinet just did not make it. Still have mine today and will never sell it.
When it's played straight thru, or on slow. Otherwise, we have another unwanted theater organ. Not many B3 nuts know that.
Meh.. Needs more cowbell!
NEVER EVER BEAT A HAMMOND ORGAN! EVER!!!.
I am gay and i can say it for sure, the teacher and his pupil were it too : ) hahha.
If God made anything, he most definitely made the Hammond organ lol. Got to, got to, GOT TO HAVE a Leslie Speaker to pair with it 1000000% to achieve this instrument's optimum potential
Hammond's sound God Awful, nothing can change that.
It's not the console, but the speaker. See all of my other comments. It's amazing what you learn every day. I have never been near one in my life, but I already figured out what/how to play one. I'll stick with my PR, and still get great sounds with it (electric, church, new age, synth-like, etc.).