 Reginald New.
Reginald New was a cinema organist. He had begun as a choir boy, and also studied the
violin and played the church organ. In the days of silent films, cinemas needed organists, and in 1921 he secured
the console of a London cinema. In 1929 he made his first broadcast from the Beaufort Cinema, Birmingham, and in
1933 he transferred to the Regal Cinema at Kingston-Upon-Thames. |
 Red Nichols.
Ernest Loring Nichols was born on May 8th, 1905 in Ogden, Utah. His father was a music college
professor and by the time Red was 12, he was playing difficult set pieces for his father's brass band. When he heard
recordings of Bix Beiderbecke and The Original Dixieland Jazzband, he started to develop his jazz style. After a spell
in the early 1920s with a band called The Syncopating Seven, in the midwest, Red moved to New York, where he stayed for
years. In the 1930s Red was running recording sessions for Brunswick, and as Red Nichols and the Five Pennies, he worked
with all the great white jazz musicians of the day. There were often more than five pennies in the band, in fact. When Swing
came along in the 1930s, jazz was rather eclipsed and Red did not seem to record anything after 1932. He died in 1965.
Hear Red Nichols and His Five Pennies:
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Red Nichols Links:
Red Hot Jazz biography
Hole In The Web biography
 Dennis Noble.
Dennis Noble was a fine baritone singer, trained in the Cathedral School of Bristol, where
he became a chorister. Later he joined the Westminster Abbey staff, becoming lay vicar of the Abbey and leading
baritone of the choir. In that capacity he made his first broadcast on the night of the wedding of the Duke of
York (later King George VI) when the Abbey choir was packed into a tiny studio at Marconi House to sing a special
anthem. He was more versatile than might at first appear likely, and even appeared in musical comedies. |
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