What an amazing talent!!!!!!!!!!
And judging by her pedal technique in the 1st piece, I know she must have been
classically trained!!!!!!!
Although, the heels are a bit too high......
She pays 2 pieces in this video!!!!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/x17so6

Enjoy!!!!!

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I can write for you any sheet music

Hi Rob,
             I tried posting but I don't think it took.
I am the boy in the picture with Ethel that is posted on her memorial
web site. and for what it is worth, my vote is, "NO" the woman with
Frank Sinatra is NOT Ethel Smith.

                                    Jerry

--- In ethelsmith@yahoogroups.com, "Robb" <hammondrobb@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi there all you ES experts.  Here's a good one.  Someone has just
listed an item on Ebay,
> which is suppose to be Frank Sinatra singing, and Ethel Smith
playing the piano.  Unless I
> have totally lost my mind,(possible) or  miss Smith had plastic
surgery prior to the hundreds
> of pictures taken of her, then the woman pictured with Frank is NOT
Ethel.  Would love to
> know what you all think.  Just search "ethel smith" at
www.ebay.com, give it a look, and post
> your thoughts... Robb


My thoughts are this:

                      No way in Hell is that Ethel Smith with Frank
Sinatra! It is almost comical to think that this woman in the photo
even looks remotely like Ethel Smith. the hair do was common in those
days and that is where any resemblence between the to ends.

                                                     Jerry

>

Hi there all you ES experts.  Here's a good one.  Someone has just listed an
item on Ebay,
which is suppose to be Frank Sinatra singing, and Ethel Smith playing the piano.
Unless I
have totally lost my mind,(possible) or  miss Smith had plastic surgery prior to
the hundreds
of pictures taken of her, then the woman pictured with Frank is NOT Ethel. 
Would love to
know what you all think.  Just search "ethel smith" at www.ebay.com, give it a
look, and post
your thoughts... Robb

VERY COOL ITEM ON EBAY !

   ETHEL PLAYING THE PIANO AND SINGING LIVE... (AUDIO)

For all who have contacted me about their reopening.
                       Roaring 20's Pizza and Pipes
in Ellenton Florida
will re-open on
Thursday, November 29th
at 4:30 P.M.
Bill Vlasak will resume playing
your favorites on the mighty WurliTzer
at 5:00 P.M.
www.roaring20spizza.com

Cheers!
Chaz
"Those who say it cannot be done should
                              not interrupt those of us who are doing it".



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Dear Listers

I have been told (by both the late Ashley Miller &
John Seng) that Ethel had a staff of arrangers to work
things up for her.  Ashley himself did some of them,
and Milton Page was also credited, but they always
were sold under Miss Ethel's name.

Lew Williams


      
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I've often wondered about Ethel's published arrangements.  Did she
actually write them or were they transcribed from her performances or
did someone arrange the numbers prior to Ethel's performance.  Does
anyone know?  Many thanks, and happy Thanksgiving to all Ethel fans,
and may she rest in peace.

Al Rossi
Thomaston, CT

Happy Thanksgiving group.  This year, Thanksgiving falls on November 22nd, which
was
Ethel's birthday.. So, break out the Tico Tico tapes or records, or MP3s or
whatever format
you may choose, pop Bathing Beauty into the VCR/DVD, or better yet, if you can
sit down
at the old Hammand, do it !  Happy Birthday... OH.. CHECK OUT 2 cool items on
ebay.. A
really strange looking picture and an "Ethel Smith Christmas Ornament"... How
cool is that
!

_Click here: YouTube -  Ethel Smith Hammond Organ Player_
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For any that missed the first announcement of this super concert, I submit it
once more. Hope to see many of you Sunday.

  The Manasota Theatre Organ Society
Invites You To Hear An Afternoon Of Music
LIKE  YOU MAY NEVER  HAVE  HEARD  BEFORE !
Featuring a FINE theatre organist and the President of
The American Theatre Organ Society
KEN  DOUBLE
at the console of the magnificent
4 manual WurliTzer Theatre Pipe Organ
performing a concert of patriotic music.
Also featured are the Ditchfield Family Singers,
barbershop harmony quartet.
Sunday May 27, 2007 - 2:30 P.M.
GRACE  BAPTIST  CHURCH
8000 BEE RIDGE ROAD,  SARASOTA, FLORIDA
2 1/2  Miles East of I-75 (Exit 207)
Admission $12.00 in advance or $15.00 at the door.
Call 941-922-2044 for tickets and information.
Don't Miss This!!!

Chaz@...

Cheers!
Chaz

www.TheatrePipeOrgan.com
Chaz L. Bender II, Florida
Member Manasota Theatre Organ Society
Board of Directors
Central Florida Theatre Organ Society
Board of Directors
American Theatre Organ Society
Cinema Organ Society Great Britain

"Aspire to Inspire before you Expire"

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Ethel was my idol even when I was in high school back in the 50s.  Our family
had one of her albums that we finally played on a "stero' phonograph that was
newly invented.  Back then, there were few PIPE organs around where I lived and
Hammond C3s were the church organs of choice before the Allens which was
supposed to "sound more like a pipe organ". Now I have a 1960 model in my home. 
So nostalgic - the memories!

Elthel was the first organist I ever heard who played "pop" and "fast" music on
the organ...like Tico Tico!
Most of my exposure to organ music had been church hymns, etc.

She is an ICON for sure!

Chuck in Mississippi

-----Original Message-----
From: orgelkraft@...
To: ethelsmith@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 10 May 2007 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: Ethel Smith IN FOND MEMORY 5/10/07


Ethel Smith had an amazing talent that will never be equaled! She could play
things in her huge heeled shoes most people couldn't do in their Organmasters.
(I don't think I could even WALK in some of the shoes she wore!!) She was a
talented entertainer by any measure. Ethel is one of the reasons I have a
Hammond.

Mark B.

Robb <hammondrobb@...> wrote: It is 11 years today that Ethel Smith passed
away at her home in Palm Beach. She
certainly had an interesting life ! I know she inspired me and countless other
musicians all
over the world. If any one in the group has a kind thought to share, I hope you
will. If
not, break out the old Tico Tico and give it a spin...





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Ethel Smith had an amazing talent that will never be equaled! She could play
things in her huge heeled shoes most people couldn't do in their Organmasters.
(I don't think I could even WALK in some of the shoes she wore!!) She was a
talented entertainer by any measure. Ethel is one of the reasons I have a
Hammond.

Mark B.

Robb <hammondrobb@...> wrote:                                   It is 11
years today that Ethel Smith passed away at her home in Palm Beach.  She
  certainly had an interesting life !  I know she inspired me and countless other
musicians all
  over the world.  If any one in the group has a kind thought to share, I hope
you will.  If
  not, break out the old Tico Tico and give it a spin...






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It is 11 years today that Ethel Smith passed away at her home in Palm Beach. 
She
certainly had an interesting life !  I know she inspired me and countless other
musicians all
over the world.  If any one in the group has a kind thought to share, I hope you
will.  If
not, break out the old Tico Tico and give it a spin...

Hello..................... This will be an exciting afternoon. Hope many of
you can join us.
   Chaz Bender
   Publicist, Manasota Theatre Organ Society

    The Manasota Theatre Organ Society
   Invites You To Hear An Afternoon Of Music
   LIKE  YOU MAY NEVER  HAVE  HEARD  BEFORE !
   Featuring a FINE theatre organist and the President of
   The American Theatre Organ Society
   KEN  DOUBLE
   at the console of the magnificent
   4 manual WurliTzer Theatre Pipe Organ
   performing a concert of patriotic music.
   Also featured are the Ditchfield Family Singers,
   barbershop harmony quartet.
   Sunday May 27, 2007 - 2:30 P.M.
   GRACE  BAPTIST  CHURCH
   8000 BEE RIDGE ROAD,  SARASOTA, FLORIDA
   2 1/2  Miles East of I-75 (Exit 207)
   Admission $12.00 in advance or $15.00 at the door.
   Call 941-922-2044 for tickets and information.
   Don't Miss This!!!

   Chaz@...



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Hello..................... This will be an exciting afternoon. Hope many of
you can join us.
   Chaz Bender
   Publicist, Manasota Theatre Organ Society

    The Manasota Theatre Organ Society
   Invites You To Hear An Afternoon Of Music
   LIKE  YOU MAY NEVER  HAVE  HEARD  BEFORE !
   Featuring the up-and-coming theatre organ super star
   David Gray
   at the console of the magnificent
   4 manual WurliTzer Theatre Pipe Organ.
   David hails from Scotland and has already "Knocked the Socks Off"
   audiences from coast-to-coast!
   Sunday April 15, 2007 - 2:30 P.M.
   GRACE  BAPTIST  CHURCH
   8000 BEE RIDGE ROAD,  SARASOTA, FLORIDA
   2 1/2  Miles East of I-75 (Exit 207)
   Admission $10.00 in advance or $12.00 at the door.
   Call 941-922-2044 for tickets and information.
   Don't Miss This!!!



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I too have looked high and low for these mentions from Hammond Times.
  I have found nothing.  So, maybe someone in the group knows
something.  While I'm posting, I am interested in ANY details of ANY
appearance any of the group members may have seen in person.  Please
either respond as a post or to me directly Hammondrobb@...

I recently read in the Fall 1969 issue of The Hammond Times, in the
article "A Perfect Match... Ethel Smith and the Hammond," that Ethel
acted in a CBS-TV play called "Gilbert," "about a mother and her
young, disorganized son."

The article also mentioned a couple of commercials she'd done, one for
Ocean Spray Cranberry and another done with Soupy Sales and Gene Wood.

I've tried to find refernce to these appearances on the web, but have
met with no success.  Does anyone have any knowledge of these later
performances they'd be willing to share?

Regards,
John

--- In ethelsmith@yahoogroups.com, "bytebowser" <bytebowser@...> wrote:
>
> I've added new links to the Turner Classic Movies trailers of Bathing
> Beauty, Twice Blessed, and Easy to Wed. Ethel appears at the organ in
> all of them. The Bathing Beauty link also has her Tico Tico segment
in
> its entirety.
>
> BB
>
Thanks so much for these links.  When she's playing Tico Tico it's
almost like the camera cannot keep up with her lightning fast fingers.

Some nice footwork from a modern player:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ut7yIuCEY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WholfTUYs1w


In my opinion she does more with ONE foot than most players can do with 2 (or 4)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jerrytaylor501@...
> Sent: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:25:22 -0000
> To: ethelsmith@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Ethel Smith Re: Does anyone know?
>
> Ethel Smith is the only pop organist I have ever seen  use both feet
> very efficiently and gracefully. At a concert she gave in Scranton
> Pa , as she talked with the audience explaining the pedal board , she
> demonstrated her technique by playing "The Darktown Strutter's Ball"
> with a graceful command of pedal control with both feet equal to that
> of Virgil Fox playing a Bach fugue. She was the best! and she always
> played in heels when she was young, but chose a flatter heel to match
> her wardrobe in her later performing years.
>
>                                                     Jerry
>
>
>
> --- In ethelsmith@yahoogroups.com, MrChuk@... wrote:
>>
>>
>> Was Ethel a "peg leg" organists?  Using just her left foot on  the
> pedals?
>> And did she play in high heel shoes as shown in her  pictures?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chuck in Mississippi

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So, she didn't do the "toe heel" work on the pedals, huh?  Not  in heels???
Chuck

In a message dated 4/1/2007 8:55:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
jerrytaylor501@... writes:




Ethel Smith is the only pop organist I have ever seen use both feet
very efficiently and gracefully. At a concert she gave in Scranton
Pa  , as she talked with the audience explaining the pedal board , she
demonstrated her technique by playing "The Darktown Strutter's Ball"
with a graceful command of pedal control with both feet equal to that
of Virgil Fox playing a Bach fugue. She was the best! and she always
played in heels when she was young, but chose a flatter heel to match
her wardrobe in her later performing years.

Jerry

--- In _ethelsmith@yahoogroethelsm_ (mailto:ethelsmith@yahoogroups.com) ,
MrChuk@... wrote:
>
>
> Was Ethel a "peg leg" organists?  Using just her left foot on the
pedals?
> And did she play in high  heel shoes as shown in her pictures?
>
> Thanks,
>
>  Chuck in Mississippi
>
>
> In a message dated 10/23/2006  8:05:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> hammondrobb@ hammondrobb@<W
>
>
>
>
> It was on this date, 64  years ago, and it happened a bit like this.
It was
> Saturday night  in
> New York City. One of the most popular radio shows on the
air,  "Your Hit
> Parade", was
> about to introduce what would become  their new star. Although the
live or
> radio audience
>  didn't know this story was fiction at the time, their new star was
>  introduced like this by the
> shows MC: "You know friends, the other  evening, a man of our armed
services,
> on
> furlough in New  York, had dinner in the Iridium Room of the St
Regis Hotel,
> and  while
> there, heard a young lady who played the organ. That young  fellow
thought
> the young
> lady was so wonderful that he  could talk of nothing else and he
has asked
> Your Hit Parade
> to put her on our program. Well, we're answering the request of
that man in
> uniform who
> "left his heart at the St Regis  Hotel" by presenting "Ethel
Smith", the girl
> he heard on his
> big night in the big town. We hope all his buddies in uniform
everywhre are
> listening right
> now, becasue here she is,  Ethel Smith at the Hammond Electric
Organ playing
> Tico Tico....
> And the rest is music history. Tico Tico went on to become a huge
hit for
> Ethel, and in her
> own words "meant to me a Palm  Beach Ocean Front Condo, and a music
> publishing
> business".  Ethel was a huge hit on the hit parade, and ended up
playing the
>  tune in the
> MGM musical Bathing Beauty. Tico Tico has gone on to  become one of
the most
> recongnized Latin American tunes of all  time, being recorded by
hundred's of
> artists.
> Maybe our  good buddy Don will upload a few odd ones to the MP3
section.
>  Until then,
> give the ultimate version a listen, by the one and  only.... Ethel
Smith !
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have  been removed]
>









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Ethel Smith is the only pop organist I have ever seen  use both feet
very efficiently and gracefully. At a concert she gave in Scranton
Pa , as she talked with the audience explaining the pedal board , she
demonstrated her technique by playing "The Darktown Strutter's Ball"
with a graceful command of pedal control with both feet equal to that
of Virgil Fox playing a Bach fugue. She was the best! and she always
played in heels when she was young, but chose a flatter heel to match
her wardrobe in her later performing years.

                                                     Jerry



--- In ethelsmith@yahoogroups.com, MrChuk@... wrote:
>
>
> Was Ethel a "peg leg" organists?  Using just her left foot on  the
pedals?
> And did she play in high heel shoes as shown in her  pictures?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck in Mississippi
>
>
> In a message dated 10/23/2006 8:05:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> hammondrobb@... writes:
>
>
>
>
> It was on this date, 64 years ago, and it happened a bit like this.
It was
> Saturday night in
> New York City. One of the most popular radio shows on  the
air, "Your Hit
> Parade", was
> about to introduce what would become their  new star. Although the
live or
> radio audience
> didn't know this story was  fiction at the time, their new star was
> introduced like this by the
> shows  MC: "You know friends, the other evening, a man of our armed
services,
> on
> furlough in New York, had dinner in the Iridium Room of the St
Regis  Hotel,
> and while
> there, heard a young lady who played the organ. That  young fellow
thought
> the young
> lady was so wonderful that he could talk of  nothing else and he
has asked
> Your Hit Parade
> to put her on our program.  Well, we're answering the request of
that man in
> uniform who
> "left his  heart at the St Regis Hotel" by presenting "Ethel
Smith", the girl
> he heard on  his
> big night in the big town. We hope all his buddies in uniform
everywhre are
> listening right
> now, becasue here she is, Ethel Smith at the  Hammond Electric
Organ playing
> Tico Tico....
> And the rest is music  history. Tico Tico went on to become a huge
hit for
> Ethel, and in her
> own  words "meant to me a Palm Beach Ocean Front Condo, and a music
> publishing
> business". Ethel was a huge hit on the hit parade, and ended up
playing  the
> tune in the
> MGM musical Bathing Beauty. Tico Tico has gone on to  become one of
the most
> recongnized Latin American tunes of all time, being  recorded by
hundred's of
> artists.
> Maybe our good buddy Don will upload a  few odd ones to the MP3
section.
> Until then,
> give the ultimate version a  listen, by the one and only.... Ethel
Smith !
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

I've added new links to the Turner Classic Movies trailers of Bathing
Beauty, Twice Blessed, and Easy to Wed. Ethel appears at the organ in
all of them. The Bathing Beauty link also has her Tico Tico segment in
its entirety.

BB

anyone have a copy of the sheet music of monkey on a string?
i believe it should be in her Jazz Dixieland Rhythm Folio.
Ever since I was a little kid, i have wanted to learn how to play that
song.  Thanks.

The Manasota Theatre Organ Society
                                                         PRESENTS

the 1925 Silent Film Comedy

"SEVEN CHANCES"
starring Buster Keaton

with accompaniment by the world-renowned theatre organist

CLARK WILSON

at the

1927 Forker Wurlitzer Theatre Organ

Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 2:30 P.M.

Grace Baptist Church
8000 Bee Ridge Road
Sarasota

2-1/2 miles east of I-75 (Exit 207)

TICKETS:  $12.00

Officers & Directors
Manasota Theatre Organ Society

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Hello..................... This will be an exciting afternoon. Hope many of you
can join us.
Chaz Bender
Publicist, Manasota Theatre Organ Society

  The Manasota Theatre Organ Society
Invites You To See A Silent Film
LIKE  YOU'VE  NEVER  HEARD  BEFORE !
It's been 75 years or more since Sarasota audiences have experienced a classic
silent film comedy with LIVE  theatre pipe organ accompaniment........the way it
was meant to be.
Buster Keaton in the 1925 Silent Film Comedy
SEVEN  CHANCES
Featuring world-renowned theatre organist
CLARK WILSON
at the 4 manual WurliTzer Theatre Pipe Organ
Sunday January 21, 2007 - 2:30 P.M.
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
8000 BEE RIDGE ROAD
SARASOTA FLORIDA
2 1/2 Miles East of I-75 (Exit 207)
Admission $12  Call 941-922-2044 for Tickets & Information

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Can't get this to open
Keep getting a "401" message Not found on this server.
Don



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