Whoa it's magic...

A number of years ago I was introduced to the incredible "Magic Organ" series, which was released by the Ranwood Records group back in the '70s, thanks to an impulse purchase at a garage sale in the town of West Bloomfield, NY. "The Magic Organ Goes To Hawaii" has been a staple in my car's cassette deck ever since, and its matching yellow case/cassette is a welcome change from all those boring clear tapes or gray tapes. If you've never heard "The Magic Organ Goes To Hawaii," it kind of sounds like your great old Hawaiian standards as played through a very cheesey sounding console organ, complete with the funny percussion and all.

Needless to say, I've been on the lookout for the other members of the Magic Organ series ever since, especially on vinyl, and so it was with great excitement that I happened upon this item at a local Amvets store in Buffalo, NY. I'm not big on "carousel music" (i.e. showtunes), but this is the Magic Organ, so at the very least it will be ripe with sonic entertainment.


As luck would have it, I ended up forgetting about this purchase for a good six months or so (much of this due to the lack of free time I have for listening to records during graduate school), and recently went back to my record bin to give this new addition to the Magic Organ collection a try, when low and behold I pull the record out of the jacket and what do I see inside...

A VINYL COPY OF THE MAGIC ORGAN GOES TO HAWAII!!

It truly is magic.