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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Query: Whatever became of "Fabulous Eddie" Osborne?
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 00:25:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 00:25:43 1985
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I should have known better than to send this query to net.music where
it got lost in some controversy over whether it was better to have a
dead head or just be grateful to be dead. Anyhow, since youse guys
like classical music maybe sone of you also like some other things
that I do and could help out with the following problem:

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What ever became of "Fabulous" Eddie Osborne, the organ player with
the special technique that wow'd the audiophiles about 30 years ago
with his aaa-ooo-gaaa horn and mighty Wurlitzer rendition of Merry
Oldsmobile, Bicycle Built for Two, McNamara's Band, etc. on Replica
Records.  Last I heard, Replica had built a special recording studio
around two Wurlitzers hooked together in Des Plaines, Illinois. That
must have been more than 25 years ago. He was a relatively young guy.
Would only be 67 today. I am aware of only two discs of his, both
by Replica Records and only one recorded in the super organ studio.
Both Mono, both still great sound.

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