Crowded House -Don't Dream It's Over: Best chart song of the 80's?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e93rj-SQreE

(Not vouching for the above at all, btw, but it's nice to see the song sifting down through the years.)

I love Froom's organ (first draft on Elvis Costello's "I'll Wear It Proudly") and Finn's solo, so there!

Fun fact: it's not an organ, it's a Chamberlin, sort of a cousin to the Mellotron.

Believe those are made in California, somewhere in the Inland Empire.

Perhaps by (or bought by?) Mattel. I used to own an Optigan, made by same toy folks iirc.

ooh an Optigon? always wanted to play one of those, was it cool?

Yes and no. Yes, it was cool and sounded cool, but it was also big and prone to breaking down or otherwise not working that well, and tracking down the discs was challenging/expensive. What's funny is I had always talked about them to my wife, about how I always wanted one, and years later when we moved to our first house she found one being sold at an estate sale down the street! But yeah, it didn't work that well, so I eventually sold it to a guy who I think cannibalized them for parts for better working Optigans.

Gorgeous (augmented) use of an Optigan here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVg5WZHoPos

Funny Optigan aside: I once read an interview with Tchad Blake, and he said Tom Waits was really into Optigans circa "Bone Machine" ... but only the shitty sounding built in organ that no one uses!