The Happy Stoic

1. Easy Winners, Scott Joplin 2. Sent For You Yesterday, Count Basie 3. Honeysuckle Rose, Fats Waller 4. Last Date, Floyd Cramer 5. On The Rebound, Floyd Cramer

1. Jack - "Practicing what I teach" 2. Jack - Liszt, Liebestraum 3. Giridhara - Alwood, Unclouded Day

Electronic organs have evolved into synthesizers and digital keyboards. The Happy Stoic is having fun just like he did "back in the day!"

Theater Organs evolved into a plethora of electronic organs. The Technics model EX70 has digital voicing and multitrack capability. These five tracks were recorded while The Happy Stoic was working as a keyboard salesman for Sherman Clay!

Music has been Lyman Gandee's life. He played piano with a theatre pit orchestra accompanying the silent movies. While there a kindly theatre manager advised him to switch to organ. It wasn't long until Lyman was appearing as a featured added attraction at the "Mighty Wurlitzer". Then along came Kay Kyser. Lyman joined him on piano, occasionally getting to play the organ as accompaniment to the Kyser Glee Club numbers. At Universal Studios he played organ, piano, and Novachord, and background to over a thousand movies. One of the highlights was piano to the "Glenn Miller Story".

From 1928 to 1934 Everett played programs on several East Bay organs and in 1935 he finally got to play the Fox Oakland downtown for a New Year's Eve singing program. Everett continued to play the organ performing at the Paramount Theater in Oakland and others around the Bay Area, finally landing the job as organist for the 5,000-seat Fox Theatre in San Francisco in 1944, where he delighted audiences until the theatre closed in 1963.