Sidney Torch

AHot Pipes-Part 1
BHot Pipes-Part 2

Label: Columbia
Catalogue number: FB1970
Genre: Instrumental
Condition: Excellent+
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #27244

Sidney Torch at the theatre organ playing 'Hot Pipes' across both sides of a late-1930s Columbia FB disc, before he moved on to conducting and composing light music.

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