Montalba, Georges / Pipe Organ Favorites
Album: Pipe Organ Favorites   Collection:General
Artist:Montalba, Georges   Added:Apr 2003
Label:Hit Thing  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2003-05-12 Pull Date: 2003-07-14 Charts: Classical/Experimental

Recent Airplay
1. Mar 08, 2014: Music Casserole
Danse Macabre
3. Jul 15, 2003: At the Cafe Bohemian
Danse Macabre
2. Aug 07, 2006: The National Congress Of Vaselines
Stars Fell on Alabama

Album Review
Joe Brenner
Reviewed 2003-04-29
Pipe organ and percussion indeed, recorded in the
50s, but not the solid wall of cheesy kitsch
that you might expect.

Faves:
(1) & (6) - spooky, bombastic with lots of
percussion (like, xylophone).

(7) & (18) - slow, atmospheric

(12) oddest version of "The Stars Fell on
Alabama"

Back story: Georges Montalba was a pseudonym
of now (and then?) forgotten showbiz dude,
Bob Hunter. Anton Lavey used to claim that
it was *his* pseudonym. Liner notes include
a striking photo of Lavey with his daughter
"Zeena Schreck", now a Master of the Temple
of Set. She backs up the anti-Lavey, pro-
Hunter line.


Track Listing
1. Danse Macabre   10. Anitra's Dance
2. Mazurka From Masquerade   11. Melody in F
3. March Fantasy   12. Stars Fell on Alabama
4. In a Persian Market   13. Le Secret
5. Theme From Scheherazade   14. Diane
6. Ritual Fire Dance   15. Put the Moon Back in the Sky
7. Polovtsian Dances   16. Charmaine
8. Waltz of the Flowers   17. Evening Star
9. Aura Lea   18. Washington Post March