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 little fella, taking a defiant pose, is known by many names depending on where in the country you are, but are most commonly called crayfish. So why is there a picture of a crayfish featured in the playlist for this week’s show? Well, because there are actually a few vintage songs about crayfish, or crawdads, and in the final segment of the show, we’ll play a couple. We’ll also have another Rapidly Rotating Records vocabular lesson–Yiddish Edition! In other segments, we’ll get hammered, musically, that is, we’ll hear some songs about sweet girls, and have a Hiawatha 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: Fakakta

Mama You’re A Mess – Kid Smith & Family
I’m All Broken Up Over You – Bob Haring AHO
Getting Off A Mess – Seven Little Clouds of Joy

Segment 2: Hammer Museum

Maggie Get The Hammer – Carlisle Brothers
Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy – Monroe Brothers
The Man Behind The Hammer And The Plow – Prince’s Band

Segment 3: Sweet Girls

Sweet Girl Mary – Randolph McCurtain’s College Ramblers
Sweetest Girl In Town – Oscar Ford
Sweetest Girl In The World – Tune Wranglers / Buster Coward, v.

Segment 4: Hiawatha

Hiawatha’s Melody Of Love – The Broadway Band
Hiawatha Breakdown – Scottdale String Band
Hiawatha’s Lullaby – Little Jack Little

Segment 5: Crawdads

Crawdad Blues – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
Crawdad Song – Leon’s Lone Star Cowboys
The Lobsters’ Promenade – Fred Van Eps

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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.

On this week’s show, we’ll be celebrating four birthdays; those of Julie Wintz, Juan Llossas, Clark Kessinger and Earl Granstaff. Actually five birthdays, because this is Rapidly Rotating Records’ 25th Anniversary Show! Hard to believe, but we’ve been bringing you toe-tapping music of the 1920s and ’30s for a quarter-century now! Maybe not for another 25 years, since by that time I would be 101 years old, but we’ll continue to do so as long as we are able. 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: Silver Anniversary

Look For The Silver Lining – Manhattan Melody Makers (Bidgood’s Broadcasters / Sam Browne, v.
There Must Be A Silver Lining – Ben Selvin AHO / Lewis James, v.
We’ll Find A Silver Lining Bye And Bye – The Connecticut Collegians (Jay Wilbur and His Band) / Les Allen, v.

Segment 2: Julie Wintz

What Is This Thing Called Love? – Julie Wintz and His Mayflower Orchestra / Julie Wintz, v.
Congratulations – Julie Wintz and His Mayflower Orchestra / Jim Andrews, v.
After You’ve Gone – Julie Wintz AHO

Segment 3: Juan Llossas

Fur dich, mein Baby – Juan Llossas und sein Tango-Orchester / Max Mensing, v.
San Francisco – Juan Llossas mit seinem Tanz-Orchester
Cuchares Y Su Tiempo – Juan Llossas y Su Orquesta

Segment 4: Clark Kessinger

The Devil’s Dream – Kessinger Brothers / Ernest Legg, Caller
Pop Goes The Weasel – Kessinger Brothers
Ragtime Annie – Kessinger Brothers

Segment 5: Earl Granstaff

He’s The Hottest Man In Town – Earl Granstaff
Craving – Earl Granstaff
Copenhagen – Earl Granstaff

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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 vaudeville star, accordionist and composer Count Guido Pietro Deiro and he starts off this week’s show with his rendition of Hans von Holstein’s tune, “Hong Kong: The Chinese Love Song” in a “Hong Kong” segment. In other segments, we’ll celebrate Blossom Seeley’s birthday and hear three more from Percy Chandler, We’ll also do some lounging at the Waldorf and in the final segment chase the blues away. 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: Hong Kong

Hong Kong: The Chinese Love Song – Guido Deiro
Hong Kong Dream Girl – Wally Erickson’s Coliseum Orchestra
Hong Kong Haggis – Patricia Roosborough

Segment 2: Blossom Seeley

I Found A Round-About Way To Heaven – Blossom Seeley
It’s Just That Feeling For Home – Blossom Seeley
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – Blossom Seeley

Segment 3: Percy Chandler

The Ice Man Lives In An Ice House – Percy Chandler and His Band / Unidentified, v.
Panicky Pete The Pirate – Percy Chandler and His Band / Unidentified, v.
She’s A Good, Good Girl – Percy Chandler and His Band / Unidentified, v.

Segment 4: Waldorf-Astoria

Lounging At The Waldorf – Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.
Lazy Day – Jack Denny and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra / June Pursell, v.
All That I Need Is You – Joseph Knecht’s Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra

Segment 5: Banish The Blues

Whistle And Blow Your Blues Away – Riley Puckett
Smilin’ The Blues Away – Jelly Roll Morton Trio
Dance Your Blues Away – Billy Merrin and His Commanders / Ken Crossley, 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? A clue is in the title of this week’s show. He’s lyricist Mitchell Parish and although he’s been heard on the show numerous times before, he’s not had his own birthday segment, until now. There are two other birthday segments this week, for Noble Sissle and Johnny Marvin. In other segments, we’ll take a musical trip through the Panama Canal and in the final segment, enjoy some pork chops. 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: Mitchell Parish

Dixie Doorway – Cab Calloway AHO / Cab Calloway, v.
Sweet Madelon – Billy Murray and Walter Scanlan (van Brunt)
The Way I Feel Tonight – Chick Bullock and His Levee Loungers / Chick Bullock, v.

Segment 2: Noble Sissle

Crazy Blues – Noble Sissle
Sweetheart Memories – Noble Sissle
Boo Hoo Hoo – Noble Sissle / Eubie Blake, Piano

Segment 3: Johnny Marvin

Roll ‘Em Girls – Wells & Patterson
Down Ole Virginia – Honey Duke
Out On An Island – Frankie Wallace and His Guitar

Segment 4: Panama Canal

Through The Panama Canal – Victor Military Band
Down Beside A Dutch Canal – Percy Chandler and His Band / Arthur Lalley (?), v.
Where The Oceans Meet In Panama (That’s Where I’ll Meet You) – Irving Kaufman

Segment 5: Pork Chops

I Want Some – Ted Mays and His Band / Claytie Polk, v.
I’m Gonna Beat Your Bread – Lee “Pork Chop” Green
Wham (Wham, Re, Bop, Boom, Bam – Doctor Sausage and His Five Pork Chops

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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.

So why is a photograph of a cotton field the featured image on thsi week’s Rapidly Rotating Records playlist? Well, because in addition to playing a record by the Brunswick house band called The Cotton Pickers, we have a whole segment of records by other cotton pickers. We’ll also have not one, but two vocabulary lessons, one English and one Yiddish! We’ll don a derby and in the final segment, we’ll bring it on home. 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: Gelid

Cold Mammas (Burn Me Up) – Fletcher Henderson AHO
It’s Gonna Be A Cold, Cold Winter – Edith Wilson & “Doc” Straine
Cold Mornin’ Shout – South Street Trio

Segment 2: Tsuriss

Hang Your Troubles On A Rainbow – Bertini and His Blackpool Tower Dance Band
Woe Is Me – The Cotton Pickers
Aggravatin’ Papa – Marion Harris

Segment 3: Cotton Pickers

A Castle In Spain – Georgetown Cotton Pickers
Third Rail – The Cotton Pickers – Andy Mansfield, Director
Snag It – Georgia Cotton Pickers

Segment 4: Derby

Derby Day In Dixie – Elaine Gordon
When I Wore My Daddy’s Brown Derby (And You Wore Your Mother’s Blue Gown) – Selvin’s Orchestra / Dick Robertson, v.
Derbytown – Old Ced Odom and Lil “Diamonds” Hardaway

Segment 5: Take It Home

Takin’ It Home – Bob Wills
Come On Home – Blue Diamond Dance Orchestra
Take It On Home To Grandma – Ted Mays and His Band / Claytie Polk, v.

Bonus Track:

Joy Bells – Harold Leonard and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra / Vaughn De Leath, 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.

For this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, we’re back to our usual format and will be having a vocabulary lesson and a “rhythm” segment. We’ll also hear some more from “Sugar” Underwood, take a ride on a choo-choo and celebrate Clyde Doerr’s birthday. 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: Rhythm

College Rhythm – Jack Oakie
Charleston Rhythm – Imperial Dance Orchestra
Nothin’ But Rhythm – Freddie Jenkins’ Harlem Seven

Segment 2: Ostrobogulous

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me – Ted Lewis and His Band
Naughty Lola – Marlene Dietrich
Make Those Naughty Eyes Behave – Ace Brigode and His 14 Virginians

Segment 3: “Sugar” Underwood

Jacksonville Blues – Jacksonville Harmony Trio
Davis Street Blues – “Sugar” Underwood
Them Piano Blues – Jacksonville Harmony Trio

Segment 4: Clyde Doerr

Dancing Fool – Club Royal Orchestra udo Clyde Doerr
Jeunesse – Clyde Doerr / Gyula Ormay, Piano
California – Club Royal Orchestra udo Clyde Doerr

Segment 5: Royal Train

Choo-Choo Blues – The Virginians udo Ross Gorman
Mississippi Choo Choo – Blossom Seeley
Blue Railroad Train – Delmore Brothers (Alton & Rabon)

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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.

On this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, we have no birthday salutes and no segment topics. We are, however, having a “listening party” where I’ll be playing individual random records from my “to be processed” stack here in the studio. Why? I’ll explain at the beginning of the show. 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:

Make Those People Sway – Jack Jackson AHO

Everything Is Peaches Neath The Old Apple Tree – Roy Newman and His Boys / Earl Brown, v.

Peanuts – Silver Bell Orchestra

Riverside (Calif.) Polytechnic High School Fight Songs

Lanette – Waltz Caprice – H. Benne Henton with Conway’s Band

Sweet Indiana Home – Honey Hurst

Learn To Do The Strut – Don Parker AHO

Moonlight On The Danube – Eddie Thomas’ Collegians / Arthur Fields, v.

Ida And Dot Polka – Buono and Chiafferelli

My Idea Of Heaven – Frank Black AHO / Franklyn Baur, v.

Strum My Blues Away – Frank Black AHO / Franklyn Baur, v.

Mahogany Hall Stomp – Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five

Good Feelin’ Blues – Zach Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels

Dew-Drop Alley Stomp – “Sugar” Underwood

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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.

This is a photograph of the airship USS Los Angeles in Lakehurst, New Jersey on August 25, 1927 when, due to changing weather and wind currents, she did her famous “headstand.” So why is this the featured photograph for this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records? Well, because the fourth segment of the show is all about airships, blimps, Zeppelins and dirigibles. Listen to find out a bit of the history of the USS Los Angeles. The other four segments of the show are all birthday celebrations for Donald Lindley, “Punch” Miller, Edwin Swayze and the State of Arkansas. 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: Edwin Swayze

Jitter Bug – Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra
Weakness – Cab Calloway AHO / Cab Calloway, v.
Midnight Mama – (Jelly Roll Morton’s) Levee Loungers / Frances Hereford, v.

Segment 2: Donald Lindley

Trumpet Blues – Donald Lindley
Rhythm Of The Day – The Clevelanders
Sweet Stuff – Donald Lindley

Segment 3: Punch Miller

Golden Lily Blues – Frankie Franko and His Louisianans / Punch Miller, v.
Gates Blues – Jimmy Wade and His Dixielanders / Punch Miller, v.
Isabella – Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards

Segment 4: Airships

Come Take A Ride On My Airship – J. W. Myers
The Airship That Never Returned – Vernon Dalhart
On The Z R-3 – Bob Haring AHO

Segment 5: Arkansas Statehood

Joan Of Arkansas – Medley – Mask & Wig Glee Club
Arkansas Hard Luck Blues – Lonnie Glosson
Arkansas Traveler (Comedy Version) – Tennessee Ramblers

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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 multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer, Charles Dornberger and he’s getting a birthday segment on this week’s show. In other segments, we’ll run some numbers, we’ll hear some more from Sharp, Hinman and Sharp, celebrate Alex Gerber’s birthday and play “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: Numbers

Numbers On The Brain – Willie Jackson
Number Two Blues – Johnny DeDroit and His New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
Take A Number From One To Ten – Jack Oakie

Segment 2: One Thing in Common

It’s Always Orange Day In California – Irving Kaufman
For Months And Months And Months – Jack Norworth
In The Purple Twilight – The Ambassadors

Segment 3: Charles Dornberger

Oh! That Sweet In Suite 16 – Charles Dornberger AHO
Tropical Palms – Charles Dornberger AHO
Tiger Rag – Charles Dornberger AHO

Segment 4: Alex Gerber

My Home Town Is A One Horse Town But It’s Big Enough For Me – Victor Roberts & The Harmonizers Quartet
A The Fountain Of Youth – Dan W. Quinn
Some Girls Do And Some Girls Don’t – Oscar Shaw

Segment 5: Sharp, Hinman & Sharp

Robinson County – “Ted” Sharp, Hinman & Sharp
Pike’s Peak “Ted” Sharp, Hinman & Sharp
The Old Grey Horse Came Out Of The Wilderness – “Ted” Sharp, Hinman & Sharp

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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.

Listeners of a certain age==that is to say my age–may recognize this figure as the personification of the famous “bouncing ball.” The bouncing ball is a virtual device used in motion picture films and video recordings to visually indicate the rhythm of a song, helping audiences to sing along with live or prerecorded music. As the song’s lyrics are displayed on the screen in a lower third of projected or character-generated text, an animated ball bounces across the top of the words, landing on each syllable when it is to be sung. The bouncing ball technique was invented by Max Fleischer originally for the “Ko-Ko” Song Car-Tunes (1924–1927) and revised in 1929 as Screen Songs (1929–1938) for Paramount. It was introduced in March 1924 with the film Come Take a Trip in My Airship. So why tell you this? Because in the second segment of this week’s show, we’re going to do some bouncing, introduced by some information about the term “86.” In other segments, we’ll have some songs about the number 5, we’ll go in search of some things, hear from New Orleans Willie Jackson and take a lunch break. 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: Lunch Time!

The Man That Stole My Luncheon – The Boys From Home
One Hour For Lunch – Tempo King and His Kings of Tempo
Out To Lunch – Claude Hopkins AHO

Segment 2: 86

Jersey Bounce – Shep Fields and His New Music
Businessmen’s Bounce – Raymond Scott and His New Music
Benny’s Bounce – Ben Light

Segment 3: Number Five

The Mystery Of Number Five – Jimmie Rodgers
The Fives – Tampa Blue Jazz Band
Five Step – Paul Whiteman AHO / Harry Barris, Al RInker, Bing Crosby, v.

Segment 4: Where’s…?

Where’s My Other Foot? – Ted Sharp, Hinman & Sharp
Where’s My Sweetie Hiding? – Perley Breed’s Shepard Colonial Orchestra
Where Is My Meyer? – Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra / Arthur Hall, v.

Segment 5: New Orleans Willie Jackson

Who’ll Chop Your Suey When I’m Gone? – New Orleans Willie Jackson
Willie Jackson’s Blues – Willie Jackson
She Keeps It Up All The Time – Willie Jackson

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