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.

Do you know who this little guy is? He’s John Francis Strachey before he became songwriter Jack Strachey, probably best known for co-writing “These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)” You’ll hear a recording of that, plus a couple of Strachey’s light music pieces in the second segment of this week’s show. We’ll also be celebrating Dave Franklin’s birthday. In other segments, we’ll have a vocabulary lesson, take a ride on the merry-go-round and jump out of the fire and into the frying pan! 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. Click on the player above to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.

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Segment 1: Dave Franklin

I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music – Stew Pletcher AHO, Red Norvo, Director / Stew Pletcher, v.
Give Broken Heart A Break – Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Stuart Allen, v.
A Knife, A Fork And A Spoon – Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights / Donna and Her Don Juans, v.

Segment 2: Jack Strachey

These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) – Carroll Gibbons and The Savoy Hotel Orpheans / Brian Lawrance, v.
Eros In Piccadilly – R. A. F. Concert Band
Theatreland – New Concert Orchestra Directed by Jay Wilbur

Segment 3: Frying Pan

I Want A Plenty Grease In My Fryin’ Pan – Margaret Carter
Fryin’ Pan Skillet Blues – Bessie Tucker
Home Cookin’ Mama With The Fryin’ Pan – Milt Herth Quartet / O’Neil Spencer, v.

Segment 4: Merry-Go-Round

I Love To Catch Brass Rings On A Merry-Go-Round – Billy Jones and Ernest Hare (The Happiness Boys)
Life Is Only A Merry-Go-Round – Frank Crumit
The Merry-Go_Round – Paul Van Dyke

Segment 5: Fulsilade

We Do It Just The Same – George’s Hot Shots (Don Hall Trio)
My Handy Man – Hannah’s Hot Shots
That’s A Serious Thing – Eddie’s Hot Shots / Jack Teagarden, 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 not a bandleader or composer or even a singer. He’s Memphis, Tennessee Judge Cliff Davis and Harry Philwin, known as The Memphis Singer, wrote a song about him. You’ll hear it in the first segment of this week’s edition of the show, a birthday salute to Philwin. Two others will be having their own birthday segments this week, Charles L. Bates and saxophonist Loren McMurray. We’ll also have a vocabulary lesson and another installment of “One Thing in Common” where we play a set of rapidly rotating records which seemingly have nothing whatsoever to do with each other, yet have, “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. Click on the player above to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.

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Segment 1: Harry Philwin

Just Like A Fool – Harry Philwin, The Memphis Singer
Tootie Baby – Harry Philwin, The Memphis Singer
Judge Cliff Davis Blues – Harry Philwin, The Memphis Singer

Segment 2: Loren McMurray

Doo-Dah Blues – Markel’s Orchestra
Haunting Blues – McMurray’s California Thumpers
Oogie-Oogie Wa-Wa – McMurray’s California Thumpers

Segment 3: One Thing In Common

Sioux City Sue – Original Memphis Five / Joseph A. Griffith, v.
Milwaukee Blues – Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston
Wah_Hoo – Captain Stubby and The Buccaneers

Segment 4: Charles L. Bates

Sob Sister Sadie – Original Memphis Five
Old Pals Are The Best Pals After All – Gene Austin
I Had A Sweet Mama – The Tennessee Tooters

Segment 5: Syncope

Faint Harmony – Jack Jackson AHO / Sam Costa, v.
Pass Out Lightly – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra

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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 Johnny Noble, who, in the 1920s, played a leading role in introducing Hawaiian music to the mainland. You’ll hear just three of his more than 100 recordings in the second segment of this week’s edition of the show. In the first segment we’ll celebrate the birthday of bandleader Dave Harman. In other segments, we’ll hear songs about lanterns, piccolos and ding dongs! 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. Click on the player above to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.

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Segment 1: Dave Harman

We’re Out Of The Red – Dave Harman Orchestra / George Marks, v.
When My Sugar Walks Down The Street – The Wolverine Orchestra / Dave Harman, v.
Hot-Hot-Hottentot – Dave Harman AHO

Segment 2: Johnny Noble

Kilakila Haleakala – Johnny Noble and His Hawaiian Music / Rennie Brooks and The Keamoku Trio, v.
Hawaiian Hula Medley – Johnny Noble’s Hawaiians
12th Street Rag – Johnny Noble’s Hawaiians

Segment 3: Lanterns

Where the Lanterns Glow – Van Eps Trio
Japanese Lanterns Blues – Louis Mitchell
Where The Lanterns Glow – Columbia Saxophone Sextet / Henry Burr, v.

Segment 4: Piccolo

Piccolo Rag – Blind Boy Fuller
Piccolo Blues – Jed Davenport and His Beale Street Jug Band
A High Hat, A Piccolo and A Cane – Tommy Dorsey AHO / Three Esquires, v.

Segment 5: Ding Dong

I’m A Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas – Johnny Johnson AHO / Harry McDaniel, v.
Ding Dong Ding – Harry Roy and His Mayfair Hotel Orchestra / Harry Roy-Bill Currie-Ivor Morton, v.
Ding Dong Blues – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra / Unidentified Vocal Trio

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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 singer, pianist and bandleader Jack Miller and his is one of four birthday salutes on this week’s edition of the show. The others are Phil Baxter, Gus Arnheim and Boots Douglas. The final segment is dedicated to listener Craig in Connecticut and in it we’ll try to stay one step ahead of the law. 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. 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:

Segment 1: Phil Baxter

Going! Going! Gone! – Chick Bullock and His Levee Loungers / Chick Bullock, v.
A Faded Summer Love – Bing Crosby
Kiss Me My Sweetheart – Johnny Johnson and His Statler Pennsylvanians / Fred Kintz, v.

Segment 2: Jack Miller

I’m Up On A Mountain (Talking To The Sky) – Jack Miller AHO
From Sunrise To Sunset – Whispering Jack Smith
Singin’ In The Rain – Jack Miller and The Paramounteers

Segment 3: Boots and His Buddies

Riffs – Boots and His Buddies
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Boots and His Buddies
The Goo (The Goona Goo) – Boots and His Buddies

Segment 4: Gus Arnheim

It Must Be True – Gus Arnheim AHO / Bing Crosby, v.
La Rosita – Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra / Samuel Pedraza, v.
Dancing To Save Your Sole – Gus Arnheim AHO / Nelson Hall, Ed Landry, Art Fleming, v.

Segment 5: The Law

The Jones Law Blues – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
The Law Gonna Step On You – Bo Carter
Lawyer Skinner – Smiley Burnette

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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 was born in the U. S. but spent much of his professional life in England. That’s right! He’s violinist and bandleader Jack Harris. His birthday segment starts off this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records and we’ll also be celebrating Nathan Glantz’s birthday. In other segments, we’ll fall in the well, hear some songs about Kitties and try to answer the question, “What’s that got to do with the price of cotton?” 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. 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:

Segment 1: Jack Harris

I’m Walking Between The Raindrops – Al George’s Red Pepper Band (Jack Harris) / Eddie Pola, Eddie Brandt +1, v.
Handsome Gigolo – Jack Harris AHO / Unidentified, v.
Yummy Yum Yum – Jack Harris AHO / Eddie Grossbart, v.

Segment 2: Kitties

Kosher Kitty Kelly – The Troubadours Directed by Hugo Frey
Kitty – Cameo Dance Orchestra (Bob Haring)
Kansas City Kitty – Edith Evans

Segment 3: The Price Is Right

Price Of Cotton Blues – Allen Brothers
The High Cost Of Living – Raymond Hitchcock
What Price Lyrics – Bing Crosby & Whiteman’s Original Rhythm Boys

Segment 4: In the Well

Pussy’s In The Well – The Manhattan Ladies Quartet
My Cat Fell In The Well – Eddie De Lange AHO / Eddie De Lange, v.
You Never Miss The Water (Till The Well Runs Dry – Al Cooper’s Savoy Sultans

Segment 5: Nathan Glantz

Mammy Lou – Glantz AHO
San – Baltimore Society Syncopators (Nathan Glantz)
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – Nathan Glantz AHO

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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.

Although it may look like the gentleman above is trying to figure out what the device is that he’s holding in his hand, he was intimately familiar with microphones, both radio and recording. He’s British bandleader Jack Payne and his is one of three natal anniversaries we’ll be celebrating on this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. The others are Hugo Frey and “The Crooning Troubadour” Nick Lucas. In other segments we’ll hear some rapidly rotating records about pickles and pussycats. 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. 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:

Segment 1: Jack Payne

My Dance – Jack Payne AHO / Billy Scott Comber, v.
Airman! Airman! (Don’t Put The Wind Up Me!) – Jack Payne and His B.B.C. Dance Orchestra / Jack Payne & Ensemble, v.
You Can’t Do That There ‘Ere – Jack Payne AHO / Jack Payne, v.

Segment 2: Pussycats

Pussyfoot March – Six Brown Brothers
Pussy Cat Rag – Halfway House Orchestra

Segment 3:: In A Pickle

Pickles – Majestic Dance Orchestra / Bert Trevor (Arthur Fields), v.
Pickles & Peppers – Ragtime Two-Step – Arthur Pryor’s Band
Dill Pickles Rag – Swift Jewel Cowboys

Segment 4: Hugo Frey

Havanola – Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra
Sally Lou – George Olsen and His Music
Ev’ry Road Is The Right Road (When The Right Little Girl Is Along) – Harry Macdonough

Segment 5: Nick Lucas

My Best Girl – Nick Lucas
(Here Am I) Broken-Hearted – Nick Lucas (The Crooning Troubadour)
For All We Know – Nick Lucas

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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 recognize the trombonist above? Correct! That’s Jack Teagarden, from a recording session in 1947, a couple of decades or so after the three you’ll hear in his first birthday segment. We’ll also be celebrating the birthdays of Irene Taylor, Hans Bund and Charlie Kunz. And in the final segment, we’ll do some major moaning. 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. 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:

Segment 1: Irene Taylor

In The Dim, Dim Dawning – Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra / Irene Taylor, v.
I Did Wanta, But I Don’t Wanta Now – Irene Taylor with Jack Gardner’s Orchestra
(Oh! Oh!) What Do You Know About Love? – Seger Ellis and His “Choir of Brass” Orchestra / Irene Taylor, v.

Segment 2: Hans Bund

Fertig Los – Hans Bund AHO
Der alte Leiermann – Hans Bund et sein Orchester / Erwin Hartung, v.
Tansfieber (Get Hot Foot) – Hans Bund mit seinem Tans-orchester

Segment 3: Charlie Kunz

Cherokee – Casani Club Orchestra Directed by Charlie Kunz / George Barclay, v.
On The Good SHip Lollipop – Casani Club Orchestra / The Carlyle Cousins, v.
A Star Fell Out Of Heaven – Casani Club Orchestra / Vera Lynn, v.

Segment 4: Jack Teagarden

Fare-Thee-Well To Harlem – Jack Teagarden Assisted by Hilton Lamare
Dirty Dog – The Whoopee Makers / Jack Teagarden, v.
Chances Are – Jack Teagarden Orchestra / Jack Teagarden, v.

Segment 5: Moaning

The Moan – Green Brothers Novelty Band
Bullfrog Moan – Lonnie Johnson and Blind WIllie Dunn (Eddie Lang)
Moan You Moaners – Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra / The Three Ambassadors, 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 recognize this lovely lady? She’s Jane Pickens, of The Pickens Sisters. You’ve heard her lots of times on the show with her sisters, but on this evening’s show, she gets a birthday salute all to herself. Hers is just one of the three birthdays we’re celebrating on this week’s show, the others being accordionist Cornell Smelser and composer Hans Flath. We’ll also have a set of random rapidly rotating records, having nothing to do with each other. And while you’re listening to the original broadcast of this show on KISL, I’m in historic Sutter Creek in California’s Gold Country. You’ll find out why in the first 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. 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:

Segment 1: Sutter Creek

Goose Creek – A Stomp – Mart Britt AHO
Deep Creek – Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers
Banjo Pickin’ Girl – Coon Creek Girls

Segment 2: Cornell Smelser

Accordion Joe – The Jungle Band / Dick Robertson, v.
I Was Made To Love You – Cornell and His Orchestra
Collegiate Love – Cornell and His Orchestra

Segment 3: Jane Pickens

Lover – Jane Pickens
The Man I Love – Jane Pickens
Dixie – Jane Pickens and Her Piano

Segment 4: Hans Flath

Rose Of Araby – Isham Jones and His Rainbo Orchestra
A Summer Dream (Chimes and Bells Duet) – Albert Benzler & Henry Nesbit with the Edison Military Band
The Moose – Toralf Tollefsen, Accordion

Segment 5: For No Particular Reason

My Toreador – Joe Green
Scadatin-Dee – Sammy Stewart AHO
Tap-Dancer – Otto Dobrint AHO

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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 recognize this fellow? He’s composer, pianist and bandleader Roy Bargy. Although he’s heard regularly on the show, his last birthday salute was ten years ago, so it’s about time he gets the spotlight again, with a little bit of new information. “It’s the berries” is a slang term from the 1920s meaning that something is very good. This week’s show is the berries as we have segments about strawberries, other types of berries, and even razzberroes! And we’ll also hear about flappers, both toilet flappers and Jazz Age flappers! 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. 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:

Segment 1: Roy Bargy

Get Lucky – Isham Jones AHO
Slipova – Frank Banta & Cliff Hess
Tee-Pee Blues – Benson Orchestra of Chicago UDO Roy Bargy

Segment 2: Flappers

Why Do They Call Them Flappers? – Edith Clifford
The Flapper Wife – Harry Reser’s Syncopators
Flapper Walk – Frank Westphal and His Rainbo Orchestra

Segment 3: Strawberries

The Fate Of Old Strawberry Roan – Wilf Carter
Jenny’s Strawberry Festival, Parts 1 & 2 – Bob Miller and His Hinky DInkers

Segment 4: Other Berries

Blueberry Lane – Carl Haworth
Huckleberry Picnic – Louise Massey & The Westerners
Black Raspberry Jam – Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.

Segment 5: Razzberries

Razzle Dazzle – Vess L. Ossman
Any Ice To-Day, Lady? (A Collegiate Razzberry) – Aileen Stanley & Billy Murray
Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz – Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra / 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.

Do you recognize this fellow? He’s been heard on the show dozens of time as a soloist, in duets and in groups, but never had his own birthday segment until tonight. He’s singer Lewis James and you’ll hear him in three solo performances in the first segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. We have two more birthdays to celebrate on this week’s show, those of Winston “Winky” Tharp and “High Noon.” Yes, the Gary Cooper movie. We’ll also have two segments devoted to a single vocabulary word. 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. 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:

Segment 1: Lewis James

Wear Your Sunday Smile (Intro: Judy, Who D’Ya Love) – Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra / Lewis James, v.
Blue River – Jean Goldkette AHO / Lewis James, v.
Baby Face – Ipana Troubadours / Lewis James, v.

Segment 2: Vocabulary Lesson: FATIDIC

Fate (It Was Fate When I First Met You) – Paul Whiteman AHO
My Fate Is In Your Hands – Vincent Lopez AHO / Frank Munn, v.

Segment 3: The Fate Of…

The Fate Of Kinnie Wagner – Al Craver (Vernon Dalhart)
The Hand Of Fate – George Reneau (The Blind Musician of the Smoky Mountains)
The Fate Of Dewey Lee – Carter Family

Segment 4: High Noon

Morning, Noon and Night – Ben Selvin AHO / Jack Miller, v.
Morning, Noon and Night In Vienna – Edison Concert Band
I Want You Morning, Noon And Night (Intro: Little Partner Of Mine) – Knickerbocker Orchestra UDO Eddie Elkins

Segment 5: Winston “Winky” Tharp

A Cathedral In Rio – Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye / Arthur Wright, v.
Squareface – Gene Gifford AHO / WIngy Manone, v.
The Panic Is On – Mezz Mezzrow and His Swing Band

Segment 6: Cathedrals

Cathedral In The Pines – George Olsen and His Music / Eddie Howard, v.

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