Rapidly Rotating Records

Rapidly Rotating Records

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Rapidly Rotating Records episodes

  • An "All Birthday" Edition of RRR # 1,372 November 1, 2026

    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.

    This week it’s a all birthday show, with Larry Yoell, Tommy Morton, James Cavanaugh, Nisse Lind and Des Tooley all having birthday segments. 

    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: Larry Yoell

    When Mother Nature Sings Her Lullaby - Richard Himber and His Essex House Orchestra / Stuart Allen, v.
    I Love You - Ted Lewis AHO / Ted Lewis, v.
    Walkin’ Around In A Dream - Ruth Etting 

    Segment 2: Tom Morton

    My Melancholy Baby - Original Indiana Five / Tom Morton, v.
    Somebody’s Making A Fuss Over Somebody - Dixie Jazz Band (OI5) / Lawrence King (Tom Morton), v.
    Broadway Baby Dolls - Tom Morton’s Orchestra (Featuring Original Indiana Five) / George Kay (Irving Kaufman), v.

    Segment 3: James Cavanaugh

    Woe! Is Me - Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.
    And They Said It Wouldn’t Last - Wingy Manone AHO . Wingy Manone, v.
    The Man With The Mandolin - Kurt Hohenberger mit seinem Soliten-Orchester

    Segment 4: Nisse Lind

    Dinah - Nisse Lind’s Hot Trio
    Tiger Rag - Nisse Lind
    Alla Tider Lilla Flicka - Nisse Lind’s Swing Band 

    Segment 5: Des Tooley

    Am I Blue - Des Tooley
    Walking With Susie - Des Tooley
    Tiptoe Through The Tulips With Me - Des Tooley

    1 hr 1 min
  • A "Witchy" Episode of RRR # 1,371 October 25, 2026

    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.

    On this week's show, Alfredo Campoli, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Hugh Cross, and Jelly Roll Morton all have birthday segments. And we’ll wrap things up with some Halloween tunes.  

    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: Hugh Cross

    Smiles - Hugh Cross and Riley Puckett
    Down Where The Swanee River Flows - Mr. And Mrs. Hugh Cross
    Wabash Cannon Ball - Hugh Cross

    Segment 2: Alfredo Campoli

    La Petite Tonkinoise - Alfredo Campoli and His Salon Orchestra
    Hiawatha Cakewalk - Alfredo Campoli and His Novelty Orchestra
    Neapolitan Serenade - Alfredo Campoli and His Salon Orchestra

    Segment 3: Roger Wolfe Kahn

    Ting-A-Ling The Bells’ll Ring - Roger Wolfe Kahn AHO
    Into My Heart - Roger Wolfe Kahn AHO / Scrappy Lambert, v.
    South Wind - Roger Wolfe Kahn AHO

    Segment 4: Jelly Roll Morton

    Georgia Swing - Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers Dance Orchestra
    Shoe Shiner’s Drag - Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers Orchestra
    Sidewalk Blues - Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers

    Segment 5: Halloween

    Witches’ Dance - Leopold Godowsky
    The Little Black Cat - Billy Merrin and His Commanders / Ken Crossley, v.
    Greenwich Witch - Zez Confrey 

    1 hr 1 min
  • An "Incognito" Edition of RRR # 1,370 October 18, 2026

    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.

    On this week's show, Charles Remue and Joseph M. White each have their first birthday segment. We’ll also celebrate Gerald Marks’ birthday, we’ll have a nocturnal segment and do some crying. 

    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: Charles Remue

    Vladivostok - Charles Remue and His New Stompers Orchestra
    Slow Gee-Gee - Charles Remue and His New Stompers Orchestra
    Ain’t She Sweet - Charles Remue and His New Stompers Orchestra

    Segment 2: Don't Cry Over...

    Who’ll Be The Next One To Cry Over You - Metropolitan Dance Players
    You’re Going To Cry Over Somebody Else - Arthur Fields
    I Wish I Had Someone To Cry Over Me - Lewis James

    Segment 3: In The Night

    Serenade In The Night - Jan Garber AHO / Russell Brown, v.
    Theif In The Night - Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.
    Blues In The Night - Cab Calloway and The Palmer Brothers

    Segment 4: Joseph M. White

    Over In Erin - J. Malachy White
    My Story Weather Pal - The Silver-Masked Tenor 
    You Only Want Me When You’re Lonesome - Victor Orchestra / The Silver-Masked Tenor (Joseph M. White), v.

    Segment 5: Gerald Marks

    Baby, What Else Can I Do? - Ethel Waters with Ed Mallory AHO
    You’re The One (You Beautiful Son-Of-A-Gun) Waring’s Pennsylvanians
    She’s Drivin’ Me Wild - Don Bestor AHO

    1 hr 1 min
  • Another "Correction" Edition of RRR # 1,369 October 11, 2026

    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.

    On this week's show, we’ll celebrate the birthday of C. A. Bixio, we’ll celebrate Native American Day, we’ll hear tree tree tunes, and hear some tunes about panthera tigris sondaica. But first. In what seems to be becoming a regular feature of the show, we'll have a correction. 

    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: Maybe Redux

    Maybe - The Ink Spots
    I'm Dreaming So Much About You - Jay Wilbur and His Band
    May Be - George Alexander

    Segment 2: C. A. Bixio

    Mamma - Carlo Buti
    Serenata En La Noche - Marimba Pan-Americana
    Vivere - Tito Schiipa

    Segment 3: Native American Day

    Indian Butterfly - Original London Radio Dance Band
    Indian War Whoop - Hyter Colvin
    The Indian Tom Tom - Big Chief Henry’s String Band 

    Segment 4: The General Sherman

    The Song Of The Trees - Lew Stone and His Band / Alan Kane, v. 
    Trees - Patricia Rossborough, Piano - H. Robinson Cleaver, Organ
    Running Round The Trees - Ray Starita and His Ambassadors / Sam Browne, v. 

    Segment 5: Panthera tigris sondaica

    Tiger Moan - State Street Ramblers
    Tiger Stomp - Curtis Mosby and His Dixieland Blue Blowers
    Super Tiger Rag - Billy Cotton and His Band

    1 hr 1 min
  • A "Collegian" Episode of RRR # 1,368 October 4, 2026

    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.

    On this week's show, we’ll be doing some waiting, we’ll hear from some collegians, maybe have a maybe segment and birthday segments for Durward Cline and John Schonberger.

    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: John Schonberger

    I’ll Think Of You - Joe Gumin AHO  
    Moonlight On The River Danube - Lud Gluskin and His Continental Orchestra / Don Darcy, v.
    Tell Me A Story - Kaplan’s Melodists

    Segment 2: Waiting

    Waiting At The End Of The Road - All Star Orch. / The Melody Three, v.
    Blue Days Waiting For You - The Melody Hounds / , v.  
    Waiting For A Train - Riley Pucket

    Segment 3: Durward Cline

    Peruna - Cline’s Collegians / Vocal Chorus 
    Violets - Clines Collegians / Jimmy McMahon, v.
    Chicadore Stomp - Cline’s Collegians

    Segment 4: Collegians

    Lovelight in The Starlight - Jack White and His Astoria Ballroom Collegians / Tony White, v.
    You Gotta Know How To Love - Chic Nelson’s Collegians (Sam Lanin) / Athur Fields, v.
    Dream Child - Carl Webster’s Yale Collegians 

    Segment 5: Maybe

    Maybe - Jesse Crawford, Organ w/Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orhcestra
    Maybe - The Georgians UDO Frank Guarente / Dolly Kay, v.
    Maybe - The Swing Rhythm Boys

    1 hr 1 min
  • An "OTIC" Edition of RRR # 1,367 September 27, 2026

    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.

    On this week's show, we’ve got birthday segments for Don Bestor, Vincent Youmans, Ted Weems and Dave Dreyer, but the show starts off with another episode of OTIC (One Thing in Common).

    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: One Thing In Common

    Dear Old Southland - Eddie South
    Show Me How - Selvin’s Novelty Orchestra 
    After You’ve Gone - Bennie Payne and Fats Waller

    Segment 2: Vincent Youmans

    Wildflower - Harry Breuer 
    Nicodemus - Beatrice Lillie  
    Mississippi - Duke Ellington Orch. 

    Segment 3: Don Bestor

    Tell Me You’re Sorry - Don Bestor AHO / George C. Jager, v.
    Baby Your Mother - Don Bestor AHO / Franklyn Baur, v.
    Down By The Winegar Woiks - Johnny Marvin 

    Segment 4: Ted Weems

    This Is My Love Song - Ted Weems AHO / Wes Vaughn, v.
    Smile A Little Bit - Ted Weems AHO / Dusty Rhodes, v.  
    Sittin’ Up Waitin’ For You - Ted Weems AHO / Red Ingle, v.

    Segment 5: Dave Dreyer

    What A Night For Spooning - Harry Reser’s Syncopators / Tom Stacks, v.
    Pals Just Pals - The Melody Three
    Giggling Gertie - The Happiness Boys

    1 hr 1 min
  • A "Sunny" Edition of RRR # 1,366 September 20, 2026

    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.

    On this week's show, we’ll do some stomping, we’ll head out for some destinations, we’ll take some musical journeys, look for the fountain of youth and have a sunny segment. 

    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:  Headin' For...

    Headin’ For Louisville - Barney Barnum with Bill Bailey (The Globe Trotters) 
    Headin’ For Harlem - Brown-Morris Orchestra / Arthur Fields, v.
    Headin’ for Better Times - Lew Reynolds Flexo Recording Orchestra

    Segment 2: Stompers

    Ain’t Love Grand - John Hyman’s Bayou Stompers 
    The Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo - Douglas Finnell and His Royal Stompers / Sammy Price, v.
    Plantation Joys - Luis Russell’s Heebie Jeebie Stompers 

    Segment 3: The Odyssey

    Lonesome Journey Blues - Thomas Morris Past Jazz Masters
    Journey’s End - Paul Whiteman AHO
    My Long Journey Home - The Monroe Brothers

    Segment 4: Horaphthia

    Accent On Youth - George Hall and His Hotel Taft Orchestra / Dolly Dawn, v. 
    Fountain Of Youth - Ray Bourbon
    Flaming Youth - Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra

    Segment 5:  Sunny

    Sunny - Ernie Golden’s Hotel McAlpin Orchestra / Arthur Hall, v.
    Sunny Days - Layton and Johnstone  
    Sunny Side Up - Carlton Dance Orchestra / Irving Kaufman, v.

    1 hr 1 min
  • A "Who Loves Ya, Baby?" Edition of RRR # 1,365 Sept. 13, 2026

    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.

    On this week's show, Bert Ralton gets his first birthday segment, and Arthur Freed also has a birthday segment. In other segments, we’ll find out oh, dear, what can the matter be, we’ll find out who loves ya and we’ll go pearl diving. 

    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: Bert Ralton

    Headin’ For Home - Bert Ralton and His Havana Band
    What’s The Good Of Leaving The Dear Old Home? - Bert Ralton and His Havana Band / Bert Ralton, v.
    Isn’t She The Sweetest Thing? - Bert Ralton and His Havana Band

    Segment 2: Arthur Freed

    The Moon Is Low - Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards)
    Chant Of The Jungle - Paul Specht AHO / Johnny Morris, v.
    You’re Simply Delish - The High Steppers / Walter Van Brunt, v.

    Segment 3: Who Loves Ya, Baby?

    Nobody Loves You Like I Do - Meyer Davis’ Le Paradis Band UDO W. Spencer Tupman
    Somebody Loves You - Ted Lewis and His Band / Ted Lewis, v.
    Who Loves You Now - Roy Collins’ Dance Orchestra (Nathan Glantz)

    Segment 4: Oh, Dear, What Can The Matter Be?

    What’s The Matter Now - Mamie Harris 
    What Was The Matter With Rachmaninoff? - Flotsam And Jetsam
    What’s The Matter - Memphis Jug Band / Will Shade & Band, v.

    Segment 5: Pearls

    Allahabad (Pearl of the East) - Charles Remue and His New Stompers Orchestra
    Pearl O’Mine - Lyrical Melody - Plaza Theatre Orchestra
    Pearl Of Malabar - Savoy Orpheans / Cyril Ramon Newton, v.


    1 hr 1 min
  • A "Cherry" Edition of RRR # 1,364 September 6, 2026

    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.

    On this week's show, we’ll go to dreamland, we’ll present you with some take-aways, have not-birthday segments for John E. Guernsey and Harry Geise and pay a musical visit to the cherry trees in Washington, D.C.

    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: Doc Cook

    Spanish Mama - Cook and His Dreamland Orchestra
    The Memphis Maybe Man - Cook’s Dreamland Orchestra
    High Fever - Cookie’s Gingersnaps 

    Segment 2: Harry Geise

    31st Street Blues - Bennie Krueger’s Orchestra
    Blue Bird Blues - Wendell Hall w/The Virginians UDO Ross Gorman
    How Do You Do - The Radio Twins

    Segment 3: Take Away

    Don’t Take Away Those Blues - Eddie Kuhn’s Dance Specialists (of Kansas City)
    Don’t Take Away My P.W.A. - Jimmie Gordon
    Take Oh Take Those Lips Away - Brooke Johns Orchestra / Brooke Johns, v.

    Segment 4: Guernsey and Thompson

    You Ain’t Been Living Right - Vernon Dalhart
    Papa’s On The House Top - Leroy Carr
    The Circus Song - Jim Kweskin Jug Band

    Segment 5: Cherry Trees

    Wild Cherry Rag - Ed. Morton
    Cherry Tree Blues - Lil Green
    Cherry Blossoms On Capitol Hill - Vaughn Monroe AHO / Vaughn Monroe, v.

    1 hr 1 min
  • A "Rooftop" Edition of RRR # 1,363 August 30, 2026

    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.

    On this week's show, we’re going to visit some ultra chic cabarets, go up on the roof, and learn about harem life. We’ll also have an architecture lesson and another vocabulary lesson. 

    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: Ultra Chic

    Swingin’ At The Chez Florence - Willie Lewis and His Negro Band
    Chez Maxim’s Scene - Carl Brisson
    A Cup Of Coffee A Sandwich And You - Orchestre Chez Fysher ( Selvin’s Orchestra) / Unidentified, v. 

    Segment 2: Mansard Roof

    Leaky Roof Blues - Lange-McKay Orchestra
    On A Roof In Manhattan - Waring’s Pennsylvanians / Clare Hanlon-Nelson Keller-Stuart Churchill, v.
    Tootin’ Through The Roof - Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra

    Segment 3: Roof Orchestras

    Cinderella Blues - Herb Wiedoeft’s Cinderella Roof Orchestra
    She’s Still My Baby - Devine’s Wisconsin Roof Orchestra
    High Society - Monk Hazel and His Bienville Roof Orchestra 

    Segment 4: Nithing

    Cruel Papa But A Good Man To Have Around - Irene Scruggs / Clarence Williams, p.
    He’s A Mean, Mean Man - Edith Wilson and Her Jazz Hounds
    Stingy Woman Blues - Memphis Jug Band

    Segment 5: Harems

    Pearl Of The Harem - Fred Van Eps
    Harem Life - Paul Biese & His Novelty Orchestra
    Please Don’t Take My Harem Away - Sophie Tucker Acc. By her Five Kings of Syncopation 

    1 hr 1 min

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Glenn Robison’s weekly, hour-long radio program of “music to which you can't NOT tap your toes" from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s.

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