Martin's recordings

These files were recorded through "line in", munged and compressed into OGG Vorbis format to give a high-quality file one tenth of the size of the uncompressed wave file.

Background noise was halved in the mono recordings by recording them in stereo, time-shifting one channel to exactly align the phase of the two channels and then averaging them.

See xiph.org/ogg/vorbis for a general description of Ogg Vorbis, and vorbis.com/download if you need a program to play them.

Collections

• The Mortier Dance Hall Organ
  Two unpublished recordings of a large organ driven by punched cards.
• Winifred Atwell and her Other Piano
  Brilliant honky-tonk piano including the "Pot Black" theme.
• Girl playing Yangqin (chinese hammered dulcimer) in the bar of a hotel in Chang Ping, China.

Martin playing drunk

• Albinoni's Adagio on an "American Organ" (a harmonium that sucks instead of blowing)
• Mussorgsky's "Il Vecchio Castello" on the Görs & Kallman upright piano that I learnt on since I was 5.
  For Rosanna, on the death of Otello.

The Adventures of Twizzle

EMI RECORDS LTD 7EG 8339

Words by Roberta Leigh
Music by Leslie Clair, arranged by Barry Gray
Orchestra conducted by Barry Gray

1. The Twizzle Song, sung by Nancy Nevinson
2. Footso the Cat, sung by Denise Bryer
3. Chawky the White-Faced Golly, sung by Frank Duncan
4. Jiffy the Broomstick Man, sung by Frank Duncan
5. Stray Town, sung by Denise Bryer

The Best of Sellers

Peter Sellers
Music directed by Ron Goodwin

1. Balham-Gateway to the South (Muir, Norden, Goodwin)
2. Auntie Rotter (Monkhouse, Goodwin)
3. Party Political Speech (Max Schreiner)

The Goons