Caribbean Holiday: for The Hammond Chord Organ

Caribbean Holiday arranged by Lou Leaman

arranged by Lou Leamanfor The Hammond Chord Organpublished by Ethel Smith Music Corp., New York (copyright 1957)Paperback9 x 12 inches, 16 pages
Chord organ is a kind of home organ that has a single short keyboard and a set of chord buttons, enabling the musician to play a melody or lead with one hand and accompanying chords with the other, like the accordion with a set of chord buttons which was originated from a patent by Cyrill Demian in 1829, etc.
Initially, the chord organ was invented as a kind of electronic home organ by Laurens Hammond in 1950. This was followed by the reed chord organ (c.1959) and Optigan (c.1971). The sound of the reed chord organ is somewhat similar to the harmonium or the accordion.
The Chord Organ was first introduced by the Hammond Organ Company in 1950. It was invented primarily by John M. Hanert, who was Hammond's primary musical engineer at the time. He had previously developed the Novachord and Solovox, two instruments which used vacuum-tube circuitry rather than tone or phonic wheels to generate the tones as in a Hammond Organ.------------------------Ethel Smith (November 22, 1902 – May 10, 1996) was an American organist who played primarily in a pop style on the Hammond organ.
Born Ethel Goldsmith, she performed from a fairly young age and traveled widely, after studying both music and several languages at Carnegie Tech. She became proficient in Latin music while staying in South America, and it is the style of music with which she is now most associated. She was a guitarist as well as an organist, and in her later years occasionally played the guitar live for audiences, but all her recordings were on the organ. She ultimately recorded dozens of albums, mostly for Decca Records.