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Cherry Wainer: Funky Organ

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Marc Myers
Feb 17, 2017
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Virtually unknown in the States, Cherry Wainer was a British organist who appeared most often on German television in the 1960s as a duo with her husband, drummer Don Storer. What she lacked in time and swing she more than made up for with energy and charisma. Wainer died in 2014. Here are a few clips:

Here she is playing the Peter Gunn theme...

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