Audiodisc, EDNA SELLERS, WGN Chicago Organist, 8" 78 rpm, RARE*****
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EDNA SELLERS - WGN CHICAGO ORGANIST - REMEMBER IF YOU WERE THE ONLY GIRL / WHEN THE ORGAN PLAYED AT TWILIGHT - AudioDisc Recording, Radio WGN, 8", 78 rpm, this Record is in Very Good+ condition with NO Visible imperfections (Plays Well), it comes in the Original Paper Sleeve with hand written info. that is in Very Good condition, fell free to ask questions, buyer to prepay and add $4 for media mail shipping in the states, NO out of the U.S. shipping available .....
Edna J. Sellers was a longtime Chicago movie palace organist, accompanied the silent movies and newsreels in the 1920s and later played for soap operas on the radio and ice-skating at the Chicago Arena. Born in Manilla, Iowa, she moved to Lincoln, Neb., where she began studying piano at age 10. By the time she was 12, Mrs. Sellers had learned the rudiments of the church organ. Soon afterwards, the church organist retired and turned the job over to her.
While in high school, she got a job playing at the Lincoln Nickelodeon. She then moved to Chicago, where she started selling records for the Wurlitzer Co., on Wabash Avenue. The firm had a theater-type organ housed in a warehouse nearby and allowed her to practice on it. She started playing in the small Boston Theater on Clark Street, where she alternated playing organ for the features and piano for the newsreels. She met and married Preston Sellers, a fellow organist. The two were a team and performed together or one after another in such Chicago movie palaces as the Uptown, the Oriental, the Howard and the Marbro. They played for silent films, and later for vaudeville shows as well as between film features. From 1937 ot 1943, Mrs. Sellers was organist at the Chicago Arena. She also played for soap operas and a variety of other programs on Chicago radio stations. These included ''The American Warblers,'' a Sunday morning program which featured singing canaries.
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