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 the fellow playing piano in the photo above is? He’s pianist and singer Freddy Johnson and he starts off this week’s show with his first birthday salute. Freddy isn’t the only one getting a birthday salute this week.  In the second segment you’ll hear three records from Jan Ralfini and His Band and in the final segment, Paul Ash gets his own segment for the first time.  We’ll also have a segment of songs about nothing and a segment about some different kinds of girls. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to an earlier–and we think better–musical era. Just click the link above to instantly listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.          

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Freddy Johnson

Harlem Bound – Freddy Johnson and His Harlemites
Jam With Bacon – Freddy Johnson and His Orchestra
Harlem Hot Club Stomp – Freddy Johnson-Les Van Spall and Their Orchestra / Rosie Poindexter, v.

Segment 2: Jan Ralfini

An Earful Of Music – Jan Ralfini and His Band / Unidentified, v.
Cheerie-Cheerie-o, Chin Chin – Jan Ralfini and His Band / Fred Douglas, v.
Pardon Me, Pretty Baby – Jan Ralfini and His Band / Tom Barrett, v.

Segment 3: The Kind

So That’s The Kind Of A Girl You Are – Art Gillham
You’re The Kind Of A Girl I Can’t Forget – Society Night Club Orchestra (Adrian Schubert) / Ralph Haines (Scrappy Lambert), v.
You’re Not The Kind – Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.

Segment 4: Nothing

She’s Nothing But Nice – Wilton Crawley
That Means Nothing To Me – Jeffries and His Rialto Orchestra
Sweet Nothing – Shilkret’s Rhyth-Melodists

Segment 5: Paul Ash

Wa Wa Waddle Walk – Paui Ash and His Granada Orchestra
You Don’t Like It, Not Much – Paul Ash AHO / Paul Small, v.
I’m Tellin’ The Birds, Tellin’ The Bees How I Love You – Paul Ash AHO / The Foursome, v.

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