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Happy Birthday to the Hammond Organ!

Guy sends birthday greetings to Laurens Hammond, inventor of the Hammond organ, with some of his favourite organ tunes.

Plus the Beckapedia, the Poet Laureate, the Novachord and a smattering of 1993.

Produced in Salford by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • 4 minutes ago

    Finley Quaye

    Even After All

    • Epic.
  • 8 minutes ago

    Vega Trails

    Largo

    • Gondwana Records.
  • 17 minutes ago

    Sibylle Baier

    Wim

    • Orange Twin.
  • 21 minutes ago

    Shack

    Walter's Song

    • Marina.
  • 24 minutes ago

    Walter Schumann & Kitty White

    Hush Little One Hush

    • Soundtrack Classics.
  • 28 minutes ago

    Bee Gees

    You Should Be Dancing

    • Polydor.
  • 28 minutes ago

    Dele Sosimi

    You No Fit Touch Am (Medlar Remix)

  • 28 minutes ago

    Alfie

    Protracted

    • Regal Recordings.
  • 33 minutes ago

    Whoman

    Morning Dew

    • Capitane Records.
  • 38 minutes ago

    Talk Talk

    I Don't Believe In You

    • EMI.
  • 43 minutes ago

    The Flaming Lips

    All We Have Is Now

    • Warner Bros.
  • 47 minutes ago

    Charles Smart

    Light Programme linking music

  • 48 minutes ago

    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    Easy Money

    • Mute.
  • 56 minutes ago

    Talking Heads

    Psycho Killer

    • EMI.
  • 1 hour ago

    Rory Bremner

    Psycho Killer

  • 1 hour ago

    Jesse Wong

    She Takes Forever

    • LWF Records.
  • 1 hour ago

    Katherine Priddy

    Hurricane

    • Cooking Vinyl.
  • 1 hour ago

    The Selecter

    Three Minute Hero

    • Virgin.
  • 1 hour ago

    Grant Green

    Ain't It Funky Now

    • Blue Note.
  • 1 hour ago

    Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Tic Tac Toe

    • Stax.
  • 1 hour ago

    Steely Dan

    Any Major Dude Will Tell You

    • MCA.
  • 1 hour ago

    Brother Bones

    Sweet Georgia Brown

    • Acrobat.
  • 1 hour ago

    Anna McLuckie

    Bitten Winter Skin

    • Self release.
  • 1 hour ago

    The Breeders

    Cannonball

    • 4AD.
  • 1 hour ago

    Nalan

    Stars

    • Mansions and Millions.
  • 1 hour ago

    The Clash

    The Guns Of Brixton

    • EPIC.
  • 1 hour ago

    Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Summertime

    • And Now!.
    • Rhino/Elektra.
    • 6.
  • 1 hour ago

    The Specials

    A Message To You, Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez)

    • Chrysalis.
  • 2 hours ago

    Ray Alonge, Jim Buffington, Kenny Burrell, Don Butterfield, Billy Byers, Earl Chapin, Jimmy Cleveland, Bill Corea, George Duvivier, Bernie Glow, Urbie Green, Thad Jones, Phil Kraus, Marky Markowitz, Jimmy Maxwell, Ernie Royal, Jimmy Smith, Tony Studd, Grady Tate & Snooky Young

    Main Title From "The Carpetbaggers"

    • VERVE.
  • 2 hours ago

    PJ Harvey

    Rid Of Me

    • Universal-Island Records Ltd..
  • 2 hours ago

    Santana

    Oye Como Va

    • CBS.
  • 2 hours ago

    Manic Street Preachers

    La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

    • COLUMBIA.
  • 2 hours ago

    Led Zeppelin

    Over the Hills and Far Away

    • Atlantic Records.
  • 2 hours ago

    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    Red Right Hand

    • Mute.
  • 2 hours ago

    The Smashing Pumpkins

    Geek U.S.A.

    • Virgin Records.
  • 2 hours ago

    Beastie Boys

    So What'cha Want

    • Capitol Records.
  • 2 hours ago

    Souls of Mischief

    93 Til Infinity

    • Jive.

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