Carousel and Monster Wurlitzer Organ

Kit Carson County Fairground Colorado, site of this historic Carousel and Band Organ that are both operating!
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www.kitcarsoncountycarousel.com

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• COAA
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[anglerfly]

How did you get the music?

[ampicoab]

The audio was taken from a CD that was sold in the gift shop

[anglerfly]

So do you know what the second song is?

[ampicoab]

The CD gave some songs new names to match the animals on the carousel. The second tune heard is identified on the CD as, "The Sweet Giraffe Waltz". I don't know the real name.

[Rainmanxxl1967]

Organs and Galloppers - they belong together ! really nice !

[nicolaj0154]

i have never seen a craousel with live music.

i think those old carousells i have seen there are ther speskers insted of live music

like on this on there haves live music!. i love frairground organs and band organs too!.

[er10b]

@DonaldFranklin67 Luna Park Melbourne is where it resides. I wonder if it was shipped with a band organ?

[DonaldFranklin67]

@brazilio19 This carousel was made by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company in 1926, and is #85 in a series of carousels they made. Number 30 in the series of carousels they made, was exported to Melbourne, Australia, and is in an amusement park there.

[brazillo19]

If folks love ride music then there are a few artists that have songs exclusively on rides. One artist in mind is a group called Rogue Music and its awsome song called The Flume.

[brazillo19]

@DonaldFranklin67 Was this a Loof carousel? We have an old carousel that was once park of Crescent Park in RI that had a 14RPM spin. The horses were slightly angled towards the center so that the rides wouldn't fall off. This ride was built around the late 1800's and is still in operation today. To see it just google Crecsent Park carousel (Loof) and see how beautfully preserved it is, and its grand music.

[sobars1]

My Mom grew up in the very early part of the last century (born 1904) and she had a name for a carousel that seems to have died out. She always called it "the flying horses" while most people knew it as a carousel or merry-go-round. We kids never had a problem with it because the reason for her choice of words was obvious enough.

I love the band organ music. Thanks.

[Thunkful2]

@Hairbanger24

You can tell the men from the boys,

By the price of their toys!

[DonaldFranklin67]

I luv carousels, but this one seems to go kinda fast. I'd sit in one of the chariots, lest the G force would knock me off one of the horses! ;-)

[Wurlitzer157]

@KawhackitaRag

The organ it'self is powerful and fantastic but now I see why it didn't do too well.

[KawhackitaRag]

@anglerfly The tune title IS "I Wish't I Was in Dixie's Land", and it was allegedly composed by Dan Emmett in the 19th century (the 1850s). It is a very controversial song today. You can look it up on Wikipedia under "Dixie (song)".

[KawhackitaRag]

@Wurlitzer157 well, it has a small early-style roll frame that can only handle, I think, a single-tune roll, so I would imagine the carousel people change it fairly frequently.

As I recall, from an article written by Bill Black about his own 155 (in one of the earliest issues of the "Carousel Organ" magazine of the COAA, from about 2000), he noted that only a handful of original 155 rolls are known to exist, and they had from one to three tunes each, for a total of something like 36 tunes.