Reginald Dixon
Reginald Herbert Dixon was born in 1904 in Ecclesall, Sheffield, England. He
began his musical development on the piano, where he won a gold medal at school,
and served as a church organist by age fourteen. In 1930, he was appointed as
the resident organist at Blackpool’s Tower Ballroom, where he developed a
signature "Blackpool Sound" on the venue's Wurlitzer organ. His popularity grew
through regular radio broadcasts, which aired multiple times a week starting in
the early 1930s. Over a career spanning several decades, he became a top-selling
artist, and his work was preserved ...
