Organ Grinder Time Capsule - Jonas Nordwall Performing - 1970's
In this newly-acquired footage from the 1970s, organist Jonas Nordwall performs a full set at the Organ Grinder restaurant in Portland, Oregon. This compilation is from vintage video tapes which were recently provided to the Organ Grinder documentary project.
Around 1977, representatives from Sony visited the Organ Grinder to test an improved pro video camera for its low-light and dynamic range capabilities. (The format was 3/4" U-Matic, a workhorse industrial video standard.) These tapes had sat unwatched for over 40 years until now, and are the best quality video shot at the Organ Grinder from that era found so far. The audio was recorded in true stereo, which is rare for the time. After a painstaking restoration, we happy to be able post the contents of the tapes so that fans of the Organ Grinder can re-live these magic memories.
Imagine having to adapt TV show theme songs and popular rock tunes of the era to this instrument, 7 days a week for decades! They all had such MAD skills to pull it off.
https://youtu.be/5BulrFZl07Y?si=G8x6-pgzv8ea8N9A
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