{"id":1275,"date":"2009-08-22T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2018-08-08T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:09:08","slug":"jesse-crawford-don-baker-and-marv-merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Crawford, Don Baker and Marv Merlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dur\u00ading the era of silent films, the\u00adatre organ\u00adists were big stars.&nbsp;After the arrival of talk\u00ading films, most of them lost their jobs, but the best of them found work in oth\u00ader media, or lin\u00adgered on as names.&nbsp;Such was Jesse Craw\u00adford, who fol\u00adlowed suc\u00adcess as a film organ\u00adist with suc\u00adcess on radio, as a record\u00ading artist, and as an instruc\u00adtor. In lat\u00ader years, he became asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with the pop\u00adu\u00adlar Ham\u00admond organs.&nbsp;I have a Dec\u00adca Vocalion record\u00ading, Sweet and Low, of him per\u00adform\u00ading a dozen stan\u00addard tunes, and anoth\u00ader album which he shares with Don Bak\u00ader and Marv Mer\u00adlin, called Organ Greats. Bak\u00ader was a Cana\u00addi\u00adan organ\u00adist whose career close\u00adly par\u00adal\u00adleled Crawford\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This stuff was very pop\u00adu\u00adlar in the 1950\u2019s, when it was thought of as sooth\u00ading and mel\u00adlow, prob\u00ada\u00adbly pro\u00advid\u00ading the equiv\u00ada\u00adlent of \u201clounge\u201d music today. In fact, Bak\u00ader\u2019s ren\u00addi\u00adtion of \u201cThe Third Man Theme\u201d is includ\u00aded in Capi\u00adtol\u2019s \u201cUltra Lounge\u201d com\u00adpi\u00adla\u00adtion, Organs in Orbit. With the pas\u00adsage of time, this genre has acquired a sort of unin\u00adtend\u00aded creepi\u00adness. You could use these albums quite effec\u00adtive\u00adly as a sound\u00adtrack for a David Lynch&nbsp;film.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dur\u00ading the era of silent films, the\u00adatre organ\u00adists were big stars.&nbsp;After the arrival of talk\u00ading films, most of them lost their jobs, but the best of them found work in oth\u00ader media, or lin\u00adgered on as names.&nbsp;Such was Jesse Crawford,&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1275\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cr-listening-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7970,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/7970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}