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Let Korla Pandit Hypnotize You With His Hammond Organ!

submitted by plastiquemonkey

1 decade 7 years 3 months ago

Korla Pandit had a daily afternoon music TV show in LA back in the 1950s where he played his unique percussive style of Hammond organ while mystical cloud projections passed in the background and the camera focused in on his dreamy hypnotic eyes.

So dreamy & hypnotic, in fact, that wealthy women started sending him really expensive gifts, like grand pianos. Rumors began to circulate that Pandit was actually hypnotizing women thru the TV & the concern got so great that the station cancelled him & he was replaced by an up & coming pianist - Liberace.

Korla slipped into obscurity, eventually playing organ at silent film revival houses in LA until Tim Burton cast him for a cameo as himself in Ed Wood.

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I feel like donating something to him.

plastiquemonkey

he died in 1998

his website is interesting. i like the photo of him holding a bust of himself.

Saw him in San Fran, atta silent film, playing the house organ-

I think there's a video of him up at 2girls1cup.com, no? no, I think I may be wrong about that one. Great post. Very interesting story behind that - thanks for posting your research.

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