365 Days #43 - Caprice Capers/Caprice Capers II/The Conn Prelude Is Fun (mp3s)

MP3:
Caprice Capers - Side 1 (8:23)
Caprice Capers - Side 2 (7:53)

MP3:
Caprice Capers II - Side 1 (6:28)
Caprice Capers II - Side 2 (5:36)

MP3:
The Conn Prelude Is Fun - Side 1 (6:33)
The Conn Prelude Is Fun - Side 2 (5:30)

The Mighty Organ that you can play at home!  Featured today are three product demonstration discs from the Conn Organ Company.  While you listen to the recordings take a gander at the long rich history of Conn, take a tour of a Conn Organ Plant in 1971, and check out this Wikipedia entry to get a brief introduction.  With limited information to be found online it seems as if the Caprice is from the 1950s and the Prelude from the early 1960s but maybe a reader out there can share this knowledge.  Below are additional covers of the instructional booklets that accompanied the Organs (found via ebay).

- Contributed by: Andrew Lander and Otis Fodder

Images: Caprice Capers, Caprice Capers II, The Conn Prelude Is Fun

Images (Instructional Booklets): 430 Conn Caprice, 432 Conn Caprice, Conn Prelude

Caprice Capers
Media: 7" Single
Label: RCA Custom Records
Catalog: 4148
Credits: Bert Lynn (commentator)
Model: 430 Conn Caprice

Caprice Capers II
Media: 7" Single
Label: Conn Organ Corporation
Catalog: 5-5802
Credits: Franklyn MacCormack (commentator) and Don Kingston (recording artist)
Model: 432 Conn Caprice

The Conn Prelude Is Fun
Media: 7" Single
Label: Conn Organ Corporation
Credits: Franklyn MacCormack (commentator) and Dale Zieger (recording artist)
Model: Conn Prelude

Comments

[Kip W]

Anybody out there have a 7" LP promoting the Titano "Sounds Great" accordion? Side B (or maybe it's Side A -- it's been so long) is a solo called "Twenty Fingers" Bossa Nova, and I've been jonesing to hear it for years. I search the web. I'm pathetic. Help me, WFMU!

[Michael Downes]

I want a Conn organ.

[John Tabacco]

The Conn Prelude Strummer and the record that came along with it is from the early 70's. My family bought a brand new one right around 1973.

[Matt Baxley]

I have a variation of the same Conn Prelude record, except the narrator has a....how to say....'crisper' voice, and the fantastic musical numbers are different. The opening one sounds the same, however. Mine is a demo for the Prelude Strummer, and includes the OEM Leslie, the Stage III reverb, the 'Sassy Brass', VFM, and other wonderful features. "Play now, learn later..."