Welcome to Glenn Robison’s Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t not tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and ’30s.

So why is a photograph of a cotton field the featured image on thsi week’s Rapidly Rotating Records playlist? Well, because in addition to playing a record by the Brunswick house band called The Cotton Pickers, we have a whole segment of records by other cotton pickers. We’ll also have not one, but two vocabulary lessons, one English and one Yiddish! We’ll don a derby and in the final segment, we’ll bring it on home. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and prepare to be transported back to a different–and we think better–musical era. Just click the link above to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.

THANKS FOR LISTENING! ENJOY THE SHOW!

Here’s the complete playlist

Segment 1: Gelid

Cold Mammas (Burn Me Up) – Fletcher Henderson AHO
It’s Gonna Be A Cold, Cold Winter – Edith Wilson & “Doc” Straine
Cold Mornin’ Shout – South Street Trio

Segment 2: Tsuriss

Hang Your Troubles On A Rainbow – Bertini and His Blackpool Tower Dance Band
Woe Is Me – The Cotton Pickers
Aggravatin’ Papa – Marion Harris

Segment 3: Cotton Pickers

A Castle In Spain – Georgetown Cotton Pickers
Third Rail – The Cotton Pickers – Andy Mansfield, Director
Snag It – Georgia Cotton Pickers

Segment 4: Derby

Derby Day In Dixie – Elaine Gordon
When I Wore My Daddy’s Brown Derby (And You Wore Your Mother’s Blue Gown) – Selvin’s Orchestra / Dick Robertson, v.
Derbytown – Old Ced Odom and Lil “Diamonds” Hardaway

Segment 5: Take It Home

Takin’ It Home – Bob Wills
Come On Home – Blue Diamond Dance Orchestra
Take It On Home To Grandma – Ted Mays and His Band / Claytie Polk, v.

Bonus Track:

Joy Bells – Harold Leonard and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra / Vaughn De Leath, v.

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