at the BBC Theatre Organ with Phil Park , Styx, and George Melachrino in a programme of Rhythm Music
This is the eighth of these popular rhythm broadcasts introduced by Reginald Foort at short notice soon after he joined the BBC.
Phil Park , who has a flair for devising these novelty shows, was a journalist when Foort went to the New Victoria Cinema, Preston, in the early days of the theatre organ. Foort gave him a few lessons and took him with him as assistant when he went to Birmingham. Park has become a very well-known organist since those days and has given two solo broadcasts on the BBC Theatre Organ. He plays the piano in these rhythm shows.
Foort, of course, is at the organ.
' Styx ' plays the drums, as one would expect from the drummer in the BBC Variety Orchestra. George Melachrino is one of the most versatile of instrumentalists and plays the violin, viola, clarinet, and all the saxophones, and sings as well. He normally plays with Carroll Gibbons at the Savoy.