Artist
George Wright
Popular
Albums
Merry Christmas
2023 · Album
Encores
2023 · Album
The Roaring 20's
2023 · Album
Flight to Tokyo (The Mighty Wurlitzer, Album of 1958)
2023 · Album
George Wright Encores at the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ (The Mighty Wurlitzer, Album of 1955)
2023 · Album
The George Wright Sound (The Mighty Wurlitzer, Album of 1957)
2023 · Album
The Genius Of George Wright (The Mighty Wurlitzer, Album of 1957)
2023 · Album
Wurlitzer Pipe Organ - Merry Christmas (Album of 1955)
2021 · Album
Monsters
2020 · Album
Encores
2020 · Album
George Wright and The Other Brothers Band Live
2020 · Album
The Wright Touch
2020 · Album
Live! Farewell to the San Francisco Fox Wurlitzer
2016 · Album
I Love The Organ
2015 · Album
Virtuoso of the Theatre Organ
2015 · Album
The Greatest Hits Collection
2015 · Album
Christmas Gold Collection
2014 · Album
Merry Christmas - George Wright at the Wurlitzer Organ
2014 · Album
George Wright At His Mighty Wurlitzer
2013 · Album
The Wright Touch
2013 · Album
George Wright Goes South Pacific
2012 · Album
Christmas Essentials
2012 · Album
My Fair Lady
2011 · Album
The Very Best Of
2011 · Album
Singles & EPs
Quarter To Nine
2026 · Single
Purple Valentine
2025 · Single
Little Things
2024 · Single
LUCY
2023 · Single
Love is Lost
2023 · Single
The Carnage Multiplied
2022 · Single
George Wright - Extended Play - Plays His Favorite Organ Solos
2001 · EP
Quiet Village
1959 · Single
George Wright Plays the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, Vol. 2
1958 · Single
George Wright Plays the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, Vol. 3
1958 · Single
Plays the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, Vol. 1
1958 · Single
Encores at the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, Vol. 1
1956 · Single
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About
George Wright (born George Wilbur Wright, August 28, 1920 – May 10, 1998) was an American musician, undoubtedly the most famous virtuoso of the theatre organ of the modern era.
Wright was best known for his virtuoso performances on the huge Wurlitzer theater pipe organs at the famed Fox Theater on Market Street in San Francisco and the ornate Paramount Theaters in both New York City and Oakland. In the early 1940s he was an active performer on radio, first on the west coast; in 1944 he was transferred to New York City by NBC, and played numerous radio shows from 1944-1951. In 1948 he was hired as solo organist at the Paramount Theatre in Times Square. He left New York in 1951. The early 50s brought fame via his iconic recordings on HIFI Records, using the 5-manual Wurlitzer originally from the Paradise Theatre, Chicago, installed in the home of HIFI owner Richard Vaughn. The 60s brought more fame through his recordings (primarily on the DOT label) on the organ sponsored by Leslie organ speaker inventor Don Leslie and installed in his warehouse on S. Fair Oaks Blvd. in South Pasadena. In the 70s, he installed a theatre pipe organ in his home in the Hollywood Hills, where he recorded numerous LPs on the BANDA label in the 1980s and early 90s. He concertized widely across the United States. He also played two concerts in the UK (one on a Conn electronic organ, as a Conn promotional event, the other on the Wurlitzer organ in the Gaumont State Theatre, Kilburn, London).