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.

Do you know who this jocular fellow is? He’s “The Laughing Trumpeter” Bob Effros and this week’s entire Rapidly Rotating Records show is devoted to him, celebrating his birthday, December 6, 1900. You’ll hear several records with his “maniacal” laughter, recordings of several of his compositions and recordings as a side man, many of them not heard on the show before. There’s also a brief biography and a couple of personal anecdotes about him courtesy of his eldest granddaughter and friend of the show, Barbara Effros. So set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and prepare to be transported back to a different–and we think better–musical era. Click on the player above to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Mama Inez – Fred “Sugar” Hall and His Sugar Babies / Fred Hall, v.
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile – Ben Selvin AHO / The Sunshine Boys (Joe Mooney and Dan Mooney)
Olaf (You Ought-a See Olaf Laff) – Cliquot Club Eskimos UDO Harry Reser / Tom Stacks, v.
Olaf – Six Jumping Jacks / Tom Stacks, v.
I’m In Love With You (Intro: I’m Laughing) – Ben Selvin AHO / Smith Ballew, v.
Cornfed – Dixie Stompers
Tin Ear – Spencer’s Dance Orchestra
Why Don’t You Get Lost? – Calloway’s Hot Shots (Roane’s Pennsylvanians)
Why Don’t You Get Lost? – Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees
That’s A Plenty – Philco Orchestra (From a 1930 Philco Hour Transcription)
Tin Ear – Philco Orchestra (From a 1930 Philco Hour Transcription)
The Man From The South – Harry Hudson’s Melody Men / Sam Browne, Harry Hudson & Chorus, v.
Let It Rain, Let It Pour (I’ll Be In Virginia In The Morning) – The Columbians Dance Orchestra De Luxe
Waiting For A Train – The Jimson Brothers (Frank Luther-Carson Robison)
Long Lean Lanky Mama – Ethel Waters

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