Rapidly Rotating Records

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.

Unbelievable but true! The record above starts off the second segment of this week’s show, a trio of “unbelievable” tunes. In other segments, we’ll celebrate Larry Wagner’s birthday and enjoy a heapin’ helping of biscuits and gravy. Having slopped some, we’ll have to do the wash and we’ll marvel at some things. 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Larry Wagner

Autopsy On Schubert – Larry Wagner and His Rhythmasters
The Whistler’s Mother-In-Law – Skinnay Ennis AHO / Skinnay Ennis, v.
A Lover’s Lullaby – Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights

Segment 2: I Can’t Believe…

I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me – Royal Automobile Club Dance Band / Unidentified, v .
I Can’t Believe It’s True – Bert Lown AHO
I Can’t Believe You Really Love Me (It’s Like A Wonderful Dream) – Billy Watkins

Segment 3: Lee Maxwell’s Washing Machine Museum

Blue Washboard Stomp – Johnny Dodds’ Washboard Band
Washboard Blues – Hoagy Carmichael
The Old Washboiler – Jack O’Brien

Segment 4: What a…

What A Man! – Charley Straight and His Rendezvous Orchestra / Hannah & Dorothea Williams, v.
Oh, Brother What A Feeling – Ernest Hare
What A Mouth! – Burt Shepard

Segment 5: Gravy

What’s That Tastes Like Gravy – King David’s Jug Band
The Coat And Pants Do All The Work (And The Vest Gets All The Gravy) – Jack Kaufman & Belle Brooks
Good Sauce From The Gravy Bowl – Cab Calloway AHO / Cab Calloway, v.

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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.

If this is a vintage music show, why is there a photograph of Union Pacific “Big Boy” Locomotive 4014 on the playlist? Well. because in addition to vintage music, I’m also a railfan and Big Boy 4014, the largest and most powerful operating steam locomotive in the world is currently on it’s “Heartland of America” tour. In the second segment of this week’s show you’ll find out all about Big Boy 4014 and although not specifically about the locomotive, you’ll hear a set of “Big Boy” tunes. In other segments we’ll get hurt, put some things where they belong, have a bout of the blues and in the final segment, ask how certain things could happen. 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Put It In Here, Please

You Put It In, I’ll Take It Out – Papa Charlie Jackson
Put It Right Here (Or Keep It Out There) – Bessie Smith
Put It There – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers

Segment 2: Big Boy

Big Boy – The Lanin Orchestra / Billy Jones, v.
Big Boy Blues – Teddy Hill and His NBC Orchestra / Bill Dillard & Teddy Hill, v.
Nobody But Fanny – Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders

Segment 3: Blues

Blue Baby (Why Are You Blue?) – Al Friedman and His “Yoeng’s” Orchestra
St. Louis Blues – Arne Hulphers Och Hans Orkester
Bohunkus Blues – (Jimmy) Blythe’s Washboard Band

Segment 4: Hurt

It Hurts Me Too – Tampa Red
It Hurts So Good – Ike Rodgers / Henry Brown, piano
My Feelin’s Are Hurt – “Fats” Waller

Segment 5: How Could…

How Could Red Riding Hood – Ebenezer Slydell and The Royal Automobile Club Orchestra
How Could Anything So Good Be Bad? – Arnold Frank AHO
How Could You Leave Me Now? – New Orleans Jazz Band

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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 fellow is? He’s accordionist and comedian Phil Baker and his is one of two birthdays we’ll be celebrating on this week’s show. The other is Ernie Golden. In other segments, we’ll show out humanity, hear some song about capra aegagrus hircus and we’ll DO SOMETHING! 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Ernie Golden

In The Hush Of The Night – Ernie Golden AHO
I Meet Her In The Moonlight (But She Keeps Me In The Dark) – Ernie Golden AHO
After My Laughter Came Tears – Ernie Golden AHO

Segment 2: Phil Baker

At The Theatre, Part 1 – Phil Baker with Sid Silvers
Humming A Love Song – Phil Baker, Accordion / J. H. Muldowney, v.
At The Theatre, Part 2 – Phil Baker with Sid Silvers

Segment 3: Humanism

Complainin’ (It’s Human Nature To Complain) – Sophie Tucker
I Am Only Human After All – Joe Venuti and His New Yorkers / Scrappy Lambert, v.
Was That The Human Thing To Do – The Pickens Sisters

Segment 4: GOAT

Rocky Mountain Goat – Cliff and Ray
Paddy McGinty’s Goat – Frank Quinn / Ed Gagan, p.
Two Giddy Goats – Frank C. Stanley and Elise Stevenson

Segment 5: DO SOMETHING!

Do Something – Broadway Broadcasters
You Do Something To Me – Leo Reisman AHO / Frank Luther, v.
Don’t Just Stand There (Do Something) – Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights / Donna Wood, v.

Bonus Track:

Les Copeland’s Rag – Band (Possibly Charles Prince’s Band) Little Wonder 293A

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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 these fellows are? They’re The Harmonizers Quartet and you’ll hear them start off the second segment of this week’s show with “I Was Born In Michigan.” They also recorded as The Singing Troubadours and you’ll also find out the names of the members. We’ll be celebrating two birthdays this week, those of Malvin Franklin and Pinkey Hunter. In other segments we’ll have some songs about annelids (worms!) and in the final segment we’ll just go plain nuts! 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Pinkey Hunter

The Yale Blues – Emerson Gill and His Bamboo Garden Orchestra / Pinkey Hunter, v.
Ready For The River – Emerson Gill and His Bamboo Garden Orchestra / Pinkey Hunter, v.
My Bundle Of Love – Emerson Gill and His Castle of Paris Orchestra / Pinkey Hunter, v.

Segment 2: Malvin Franklin

I Was Born In Michigan – The Harmonizers Quartet
Set Aside Your Tears (Till The Boys Come Marching Home) – Harry Evans
Bring Out The Little Brown Jug – Happy Harry Harden’s Musette Orchestra

Segment 3: Worms!

Glow Worm Idyll – New Light Symphony Orchestra
Nix On The Glow Worm, Lena – Billy Murray
The Worm Who Loved The Little “‘Tater-bug” – Vaughn Monroe AHO / Marilyn Duke, v.

Segment 4: Romeo

Row Me On The River, Romeo – Billy Murray
Romeo and Juliet Waltz – Edison Concert Band
My Radio Romeo – Paul Bolognese AHO

Segment 5: I’m Nuts About….

I’m Nuts About Mutts – Del Lampe and His Palais D’Or Orchestra / Bill Coty, v.
I’m Nuts About Nuts – Jerry Macy and Ed Smalle
I Am Nuts About The Good Old U. S. A. – Mitchell Ayres and His Fashions-In-Music / Mary Ann Mercer & Chorus, v.

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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 fellow is? He’s violinist, bandleader and vocalist Joseph Sudy. We’re a little late in celebrating his birthday, which was August 1, but better late than never, as they say. We’ll also be celebrating Al Piantadosi’s birthday in the first segment of the show. In between, we’ll have a “ped planus” segment, we’ll pick some cotton and have a listening party. 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: Al Piantadosi

Hurt – Jack Albin and His Hotel Pennsylvania Music / Bill Coty, v.
Cowbells – Fred Hillebrand
How Could Washington Be A Married Man (And Never, Never Tell A Lie) – M. J. McConnell

Segment 2: Ped Planus (Fallen Arches!)

Where The Arches Used To Be – Jack Hylton AHO / Pat O’Malley, v.
Underneath The Arches – Billy Cotton and His Band / Alan Breeze, Billy Cotton, Fred Douglas, Ellis Jackson, v.
‘Round The Marble Arch – Sidney Torch, Organ

Segment 3: Cotton

Make My Cot Where The Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows – The Cook Sisters
Cotton Mill Girl – Lester Smallwood
Pickin’ Cotton – Arnold Johnson AHO

Segment 4: Listen Closely, Now

Listening – Green Brothers Novelty Band
Listen To That Rhythm – Bertini and The Tower Blackpool Dance Band / Maurice Elwin, v.
Listen To This – Prince’s Band

Segment 5: Joseph Sudy

Try To See It My Way – Joe Reichman AHO / Joseph Sudy, v.
Diary Of Dreams – Joseph Sudy AHO / Joseph Sudy, v.
But Definitely – Henry King AHO / Joseph Sudy, v.

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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 fellow is? He’s pianist and composer Charles Luckeyth Roberts, better known as “Luckey” Roberts. His is one of three birthdays on this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, the others being Nat D. Ayer and Henry Burbig. We’ll also have an arboreal segment celebrating the regrowth of Lahaina’s banyan tree following last year’s tragic fires and a “child” 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Charles Luckeyth “Luckey” Roberts

Rosetime And You – Zez Confrey AHO
Railroad Blues – Benson Orchestra of Chicago UDO Roy Bargy
Music Box Rag – Lucky Roberts

Segment 2: Nat D. Ayer

Everybody Loves My Girl – Billy Watkins
Oh, You Beautiful Doll – Hoosier Hot Shots / Skip Farrell, v.
If You Were The Only Girl In The World – Nat Gonella and His Georgians / Nat Gonella and Stella Moya, v.

Segment 3: Henry Burbig

Romeo and Juliet – Henry Burbig
Ragamuffin Romeo – Jack Albin and His Hotel Pennsylvania Music / Bill Coty, v.
Hi-De-Ho Romeo – Cab Calloway AHO

Segment 4: Child

Our Child – Charles E. Mack
The Engineer’s Child – Vernon Dalhart
Sweet Child – Puritan Dance Orchestra / Henry Bartless (Arthur Fields), v.

Segment 5: Lahaina Banyan Treet

Beneath A Banyan Trett – Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian Hotel Orchestra
A Shady Tree – The Cook Sisters

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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 fellow is? He’s bandleader Abe Lyman and his is one of FIVE birthday segments of this week’s edition of the show. The others are Roy Bargy and Carson Robison with first time birthday segments for Bill Cox and Blind Boy Fuller 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Abe Lyman

Bye-Bye Pretty Baby – Abe Lyman’s Californians / Frank Sylvano, v.
That’s All There Is – Abe Lyman’s California Orchestra / Charles Kaley, v.
San – Abe Lyman’s Sharps and Flats

Segment 2: Blind Boy Fuller

Oozin’ You Off My Mind – Blind Boy Fuller
Truckin’ My Blues Away – Blind Boy Fuller
The Death Of Blind Boy Fuller – Brownie McGhee (Blind Boy Fuller #2)

Segment 3: Carson Robison

Naw! I Don’t Wanta Be Rich – Tranvelin’ Jim Smith (Carson Robison)
Never Leave Your Gal Too Long – Carson Robison Trio
Whistle-itis – Carson Robison

Segment 4: Roy Bargy

Sunshine Capers – Roy Bargy
Get Lucky – Ralph Williams and His Rainbo Orchestra
Feedin’ The Kitty – Isham Jones Orchestra

Segment 5: Bill Cox

Leavin’ Town Blues – Bill Cox
Fate Of Will Rogers And Wiley Post – Bill Cox – The Dixie Songbird
Jazz Baby – Bill Cox and Clifford Hobbs

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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 fellow is? He’s bandleader Don Voorhees, who is getting his first birthday segment on this week’s edition of the show. You’ll hear some interesting information about him and hear three of his dozens of recordings in the third segment of the show. Dailey Paskman is also getting his first birthday segment this week and in other segments, we’ll have some surprises, get slap happy and hear about some Lizzies. 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: Dailey Paskman

Dailey Paskman’s Radio Minstrels, Parts 1 and 2
Chansonette – Lambert Murphy

Segment 2: Slap Happy

Slap-Slap (That’s The Way You Say Hello) – Charlie Spivak AHO / Ginger Maylen, v.
Pistol Slapper Blues – Blind Boy Fuller
I’m Slapping Seventh Avenue (With The Sole Of My Show) – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra

Segment 3: Don Voorhees

That’s My Hap-Hap-Happiness – Larry Murphy Dance Orchestra (Don Voorhees) / Unidentified, v.
Clementine (From New Orleans) – Don Voorhees AHO / Frank Harris (Irving Kaufman), v.
The RIff Song – Don Voorhees and His Earl Carroll’s Vanities Orchestra / Shannon Quartet, v.

Segment 4: Tin Lizzie

Oh! Lizzie – The Johnny Dodds Trio
I’m Goin’ Out If Lizzie Comes In – Paul Specht’s Canadian Club Orchestra / Lorne Cole, v.
Dizzy Lizzie – Anthony Parenti and His Famous Melody Boys

Segment 5: Surprise!

You’d Be Surprised – Riley Puckett
Imagine My Surprise – Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.
I Got A Big Surprise For You – Tampa Red

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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 fellow is? I’m going to guess you don’t, so I’ll tell you! He’s accordionist and actor Phil Baker. This is a movie still from the 1943 picture “The Gang’s All Here.” You’ll hear one of Phil’s accordion recordings in the first segment of the show, and you’ll hear much more from and about Phil Baker when he gets his own birthday segment on the September 1 show. On this week’s show we’ll have a vocabulary lesson and celebrate the birthdays of Dorothy Fields and Will S. Hays. We’ll also express some doubts and hear some songs about Henry Ford. 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Hagiography

The Bells Of St. Mary’s – Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra
St. Louis Bound – Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers
St. Swithun Blues – Phil Baker

Segment 2: Will S. Hays

Parted By The Riverside – Ernest V. Stoneman and His Dixie Mountaineers
Tell Me That You Love Me – The Carter Family
The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane – Kenneth Calvert

Segment 3: Dorothy Fields

It’s The Darndest Thing – The D’Orsay Dance Orchestra / Le Dandy Trio, v.
Blue Again – The Revelers
On The Sunny Side Of The Street – Grace Hayes

Segment 4: Doubts

Living In Doubt – Hal Kemp AHO / Deane Janice, v.
Without A Shadow Of A Doubt – Jan Garber AHO / Russell Brown, v.
The Goldoliers: No Possible Doubt Whatever – Columbia Light Opera Company

Segment 5: Henry Ford

Since Henry Ford Apologized To Me – The Happiness Boys
Will Rogers Nominates Henry Ford For President – Will Rogers
Henry Ford’s Model A – Oscar Ford

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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.

I’m willing to bet that almost everyone knows who this fellow is. This is a 1926 studio publicity still for the picture “So’s Your Old Man” in which Fields plays Samuel Bisbee, an inventor. So why a photo of Fields for this week’s playlist? I don’t think he said it in “So’s Your Old Man,” but Fields is famous for the phrase “Godfrey Daniel,” which is as close as he could come to saying “goddammit” without having the censors cut it from the film. Such words and phrases are sometimes called “by-words” and in the fourth segment of this week’s word you’ll hear one of them. We’ll also have not one, not two, not three but FOUR birthday segments for Ted Kohler, Noble Sissle, Johnny Marvin and Jimmy McHugh. 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: Johnny Marvin

12th Street Rag – Johnny Marvin and William Carola
Hum Your Troubles Away – Johnny Marvin
Calling – The Knickerbockers (Ben Selvin) / Johnny Marvin, v.

Segment 2: Jimmy McHugh

Harlemania – Duke Ellington AHO
Dorothy – Frank E. Banta
I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me – Roger Wolfe Kahn AHO

Segment 3: Noble Sissle

Are You Happy? – Noble Sissle
Sweetheart Memories – Noble Sissle
Dixie Moon – Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake

Segment 4: Doggone

Doggone That Train – Jimmie Davis
That Doggone Dog Of Mine – The Three Keys
Doggone, I’ve Done It – The Boswell Sisters

Segment 5: Ted Koehler

In A Tent – Benson Orchestra of Chicago UDO Don Bestor
The Waltz Of Love – Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders / Hal White, v.
My Sweetie’s Sweeter Than That – Isham Jones AHO

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