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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (01:12):
It wasn't but two or three decades ago.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
If you lived on the east side, and Terry lives
on the east Side, she would drive by this beautiful
place called Paramount Music palace out or terry.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You remember it, absolutely, remember it.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
But any good experience is always there many many many times.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And that's the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
There is an out now program called Remember the Paramount,
and we have Patty butt Win and we have just
installed joining us. Now, Patty, I'm gonna start with you.
What got this thing started? This is really good, good idea.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Well, i'll tell you what. This is our fourth performance,
the third that has been titled Remember the Paramount. And
we just had a group of people from the ISOA,
which is the Indiana our Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Association, and
the cic A t O S which is good luck Patty,
(02:03):
the Central Indiana Council Chapter A chapter you got it,
the American Theater or Organized Society.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You got it. You got it?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Pronounced that, Justin? How would you pronounce chach tros? You
watch your mouth, all right? So you got to started
to bring back this mighty Worlitzer.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Absolutely, the Worlitzer has been at the theater since Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You got it?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
And Justin has played at the Yule Tide.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Celebration and I have heard him. He's a lot of fun.
He does the intermissions, he does and I went. I
remember seeing him. I went up to try to tap
him on the show. I thought, No, I better not
do that. He's going to screw this up.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
No, he's born to do it. Now.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
I'm going to get mad if you don't tap me
on to come and come and see me. Now, we're
all going to come and what about?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
What about? Ken? Double joins us on the program it Ken, good.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Morning, delighted to be with you again. This is going
to turn into an annual visit.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
All right, that works for us.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So how does Ken work into this whole feel?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You played for many many years, didn't you. Ken?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Well, back in the days when I was sportscasting, I
had this secondary career and I was actually between TV
gigs and was asked to substitute at the Paramount Music Palace.
This is back in nineteen eighty because Donna Parker played
there all those years. She was pregnant with her daughter
and God bless her couldn't hardly reach the keys. So
(03:35):
for six months before I landed at Channel six Television,
I was playing the pipe organ at the Paramount. Took
my lessons and I was a kid in Chicago learned
how to play the theater organ, love it. And when
I retired from sportscasting now back in two thousand and eight,
I became president of the American Theater Organ Society and
(03:56):
did that job and then have continued playing. So guys
have never been paid the work. I got paid to
what sporting events, and now I get paid to play
these things. And it's fabulous and it's great to be
back for another show at the Circle Theater.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
What makes the pipe organ so much fun to play?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
The theater organ is a totally different animal than the
one you have a church. It was built to be
like an orchestra. Its first job was to make music
for silent films and particularly at the pizza restaurants, and
at one point in time there were almost one hundred
of them around the country. They put the so that
they were built like an orchestra. They wanted a xylophone,
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there's a real xylophone. They wanted drums, there are real drums.
They wanted tambourines and tests, and that's these were built
in the twenties. You didn't it didn't have an opportunity
to sample the sound and push it through a speaker.
If you wanted that sound. It had to be the
real thing. So in addition to all the pipe voices
that create the music, the organist becomes orchestrator and arranger
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and conductor, and all of this wonderful stuff is at
his fingertips, which allows for tremendous flexibility and a lot
of fun.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Another one of the organists that performs on this wonderful
instrument is just install and justin as you as you
go through this, when you're choreographing it, how do you
remember where all these buttons are? I mean, if you're
wanting to snare to him, and all of a sudden
you get a xylophone, how do you how do you
remember where all of them are?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
That's a good question. I mean.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
A far more practice person would probably write some of
this down.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I do.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
I do, But sometimes you just get into muscle memory.
And so even though every theater organ is a little
bit different, the way I can go and set it up.
So think about you know you put w IBC on
your radio preset of course, all right.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well you would do the same thing. Just so is
the check coming in? All right? So we'll wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
That tells me to like that might be transistor driven
because you can reprogram your keys.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
So basically the connection between the organ and the pipes
nowadays has been updated, right, so there is a computer system,
at least in the one on their circle. Some of
them are still original and have you know, like fifty
miles of wiring and you know, so if I want
this sound, I can push a button and all the
stops will move down, and that way I can access
(06:27):
whatever sound. Okay, and then if I want something softer,
and I push the next preset and then different stops
will go down.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And so I understand you're going to be playing from
the Wizard of Oz and you're going to be playing
from Wicked both.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
So the theme of the show is Then and Now,
which was one of the albums that came.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Out as like Ken and you ooh, I mean I
didn't know.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
No, this is the production meeting for next year right here,
we're starting right now. So the concept I thought, well,
one like, it's an open enough theme, I can play
whatever I want. But then also it was an album
titled from the Music Palace, and what I thought was, okay,
what would you have heard when you went to the
(07:11):
Music Palace? Then what would you hear if it were
still open now, and so I actually did a little
bit of field research on a couple of things. There
are two really fantastic pizza parlors still left in the country.
One is in Mesa, Arizona, that's sort of the mecca
for US theater organists called organ Stop Pizza.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
If you're ever out there, you got to go.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
Another one is in Greenfield, Wisconsin, which is a suburb
of Milwaukee, Oregon, Piper Pizza and I and I know
both of the organists at both those places, and I
was like, what do you what are you playing now?
And they said, well, you know, a lot of the
tunes are sort of flash in the pan. They'll kind
of like, you know, have a hit for a bit
and then you know, make its way down. But the
stuff that gets most requested, And I kind of asked
(07:54):
them like post nineties when when the music Palace would
have closed. They said, the eighties mus really like is
lingering those nineties music like that.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Those are the middle aged people right now. Well, and
it's and it's nostalgia, it is, it really is.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
So you're going to get everything from the nineteen twenties
to the nineteen eighties, even in the nineties there may
even be a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Oh my god, there you got one point.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
All right, So Patty, we've got this big program coming up,
and we're running out of time in this segment.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Where we got Ken that we want to talk to. Okay,
well let's let Patty with the okay, and then we
got Ken and then we can go a little long here.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Okay, good Patty, tell us what this big program is
that's coming up.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Okay, The program is next Saturday. It's Saturday this year,
not Sunday. Next Saturday the thirteenth, at two o'clock at
the Hilbert Circle Theater.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, thanks for waiting till after our show. That was
really nice of it. It was important.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That was That was our key n And these guys
are good, really good.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
And the other thing is we are going to have
some side by side musicians, which are teenage musicians who
are going to be part of the Now.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well that's cool.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
And they are trumpeterears and they are going to play
with Justin and with their mentor Justin's a teacher.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Justin, you're a teacher. Do you teach the organ too? Occasionally?
Speaker 7 (09:23):
And you know, with a busy schedule of teaching and
all that, and I'm trying to actually build one of
these organs in my house now, not like the full
pipes and everything, but I bought a console and I'm
having it restored.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
So once that happens, if you want to come over
for a lesson, Well, I see that you're married. Does
your wife know you're building that?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Go ahead? Go ahead. Ken Double is on the phone
with us.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And you may remember Ken from Channel six Sports, because
that's and I was so surprised. I always knew Ken,
we watched him, but had no idea that he was
a musician as well. So Ken, what is your part
in this? The future? Remember the Paramount next Saturday?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Well, they're praying to God that the five hundred and
thirteen people that remember me from Channel six and the
Pacers and the ice and the hundred you might buy tickets.
The other thing is we are going to do a
little silent movie magic. We're going to screen Buster Keaton's
wonderful short comedy one week and I get to play
the accompaniment to the Silent Movie. I did it when
(10:26):
it first came out, But anyway, and see the event
and play for the silent film.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
All right, have you done that? So double duty? Playing?
Actually playing? Have you? I mean this must take practice, right,
have you done this before?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I have done this film several times, and yes.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Where you're playing the music and the film is playing.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Right, And so you watch it a lot, you create
some themes that work, and then you try and hit
the comic cues musically so that the audience laughs along.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Ken Terry, she'sn't been in radio a long time, and
you know, radio people, we don't really follow along through
the conversation.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So I think she missed the part.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Where when you were between sports jobs in the eighties,
you were actually a musician and you were playing at
the Paramount.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
But I didn't know that meant like with a film,
like like playing along with a film.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I did. I really set.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Back it up maybe, but recently, like recently, like yeah, Cherry,
we'll talk about all right, talk about five dollars. Okay,
it's thirty four dollars for no, thirty five dollars for
an adult if you're eighteen and under with your ID,
is it it's free?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It's free. That's huge. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
If it's somebody eighteen or under, they'll probably wonder you know,
probably we'll frisk them and wonder why they're there.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Sure I can get are you here to the old people?
Remember when we got the fake IDs for to be older.
Now we want to get him to be young after
I'm to get in thirty.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Hold on, kid, go ahead, quick.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Thing in here. There are a bunch of your listeners
that have no idea, didn't know the Paramount Music Palace,
have never heard of theater organ If they're sitting there
thinking I'm not going to an organ concert. These are
great entertainment. The instrument's fantastic, Justin's fantastic. And it will
be the surprise of your entertainment life, how much fun
(12:28):
you'll have coming to the Circle Theater. So the Hilbert
Circle Theater, let me get that right. So to those
of you listening, buy a ticket, bring your friends, and
you will have a great time.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Now that's a testimonials right there. That's a testimonial.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
That's uh, that's Ken's uh, you know his TV background.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
He just kind of put it all together, right.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
So like that, one last question, I think sportscaster, you
le's see something one last give me the score for
tomorrow's game?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
What game? Oh, colts in in the Dolphin. He doesn't
pay attention to sports anymore. He just plays hold.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Cold twenty four to seventeen.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That's seventeen, all right? Uh, you heard it here first
hold on? Is there anything else, Ken that you want
to say to Terry before we let you go?
Speaker 5 (13:15):
I can't wait to do this again next year.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
There you again, double on. Thank you for coming in.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Justine stall and the original motion from the Wizard of
Oz has joined us too for moral support.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
What the hell is that about? I warneder. Jeez, that's
rough anyway.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Tickets are thirty five dollars. It's for a great cause,
and you're going to hear a great instrument and take
your kids eighteen and under earth. There really is something
for everybody.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So that'd be fun. We're coming right back with more
ninety three WYBC.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Good John