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.

On this week's show, Lew Stone and Sylvester Weaver have birthday segments. We’ll have a vocabulary lesson and learn some other lessons. 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: Stack O' Lee

Stack O' Lee Part 1 - Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards)
Stack O' Lee Blues - Waring's Pennsylvanians
Stack O' Lee Part 2 - Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards)

Segment 2: Lessons

The Ukulele Lesson - May Singhi Breen
Let That Be A Lesson To You - Jack and Jill
Lessons In Love - Adrian Rollini Orchestra

Segment 3: Lew Stone

Rain, Rain Go Away - Lew Stone and The Monseigneur Band / Al Bowlly, v.
Let Him Live - Lew Stone and The Monseigneur Band / Nat Gonella, v.
I Hate Myself - Lew Stone and The Monseigneur Band / Tiny Winters, v.

Segment 4: Cingulomania

You're Always In My Arms (But Only In My Dreams) - Bebe Daniels
I'm Gonna Put You In Your Place (And Your Place Is In My Arms) - Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.
My Honey's Lovin' Arms - Jazz-Bo's Carolina Serenaders

Segment 5: Sylvester Weaver

Guitar Rag - Sylvester Weaver
Me And My Tapeworm - Sylvester Weaver
Six String Banjo Piece - Sylvester Weaver

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, in addition to celebrating four artists’ birthdays, we’re celebrating the 26th birthday of the show!! Rapidly Rotating Records debuted in late July, 2000 on KISL 88.7 FM Avalon, our home until last year when sad to say, the station went off the air. But, against all odds, we’re still here, I don’t know if for another 26 years, but certainly, for as long as we possibly can. But for tonight, we’ve got birthday salutes for Henry Brown, Dock Walsh, Theodure Bendix and Julie Wintz. 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: Henry Brown

Deep Morgan Blues - Henry Brown
Twenty-First Street Stomp - Henry Brown
Eastern Chimes Blues - Henry Brown

Segment 2: Dock Walsh

A Precious Sweetheart From Me Has Gone - Dick Walsh
We Courted In The Rain - Dock Walsh
Educated Man - Dock Walsh

Segment 3: Theodore Bendix

The Cat And The Canary - Kaplan's Melodists
Lamb's Gambol - Fred Van Eps
The Magpie And The Parrot - Prince's Orchestra

Segment 4: Julie Wintz

I Gotta Have You - Julie WIntz and His Mayflower Orchestra / Jim Andrews (Irving Kaufman), v.
Vo-Do-Do-De-O Blues - Julie Wintz and His Hofbrau Orchestra / Bill Zimmer, v.
When The Little Red Roses (Get The Blues For You) - Julie Wintz AHO / Arthur Fields, v.

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 maintain a flawless tempo as we hear some tunes about crows and potatoes and a birthday salute to Fud Candrix. And we’ll finish up not with Compare and Contrast segments, but Clarify and Correct 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: Fud Candrix

Swingnight In Dixieland (Christmas In Dixieland) - Fud Candrix mit seinem Tanzorchester   
Always - Fud Candrix mit seinem Orchester
Two Left Feet - Tanzorchester Fud Candrix

Segment 2: Competitive Ballroom Dancing

Here Am I - Henry Jacques and His Strict Tempo Orchestra
Gangway - Joe Loss and His Band
Romany - Jack Harris and His Orchestra at Ciro’s Club, London

Segment 3: Spud Cells

Hot Potatoes - Blind Blake
Sweet Potato Blues - Lonnie Johnson
Sweet Potato Piper - Dorothy Lamour

Segment 4: Correct

Ingen Ros Utan Tornen (No Rose Without Thorns) - Helge Lindberg’s Orchestra
DaSpirar Alltid Upp Ett Litet Hopp (Then A Little Hope Always Sprouts) - Vernons Orchester
Ska Jag? Ska Jag? (Should I?)  - Gunnar Gregor

Segment 5: Clarify

Dream Garden - Henry Thies & His Castle Farm Orchestra
Royal Garden Blues - Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds
In A Little Garden (You Made Paradise) Waring’s Pennsylvanians / Tom Waring, v.

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 composer, arranger and pianist Percy Grainger and his birthday segment starts off this week's edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. But we also have two other birthday salutes this week for Phil Cardew and Willard Hodgin. We'll also visit some wigwams and hear both some beautiful TUNES and some BEAUTIFUL 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: Percy Grainger

Country Gardens - Alta Hill
Shepherd's Hey - Columbia Symphony Orchestra UDO Percy Grainger
Sheep And Goat Walkin' To The Pasture - Percy Grainger

Segment 2: Phil Cardew

Plastered In Paris - The Band Waggoners UDO Phil Cardew / Ferrie's Jackdauz, v.
I've Got A Date With A Dream - The Band Waggoners UDO Phil Cardew / Ferrie's Jackdauz, v.
Blue Skies Are 'Round The Corner - The Band Waggoners UDO Phil Cardew / Ferrie's Jackdauz, v.

Segment 3: Willard Hodgin

Love Is A Ticklish Thing - Willard Hodgin
I'm Just A Ramblin' Gambler - Banjo Joe (Willard Hodgin
Courtin' The Widow - Mountain Dew Dare (Willard Hodgin)

Segment 4: Wigwams

Wigwam Blues - Lloyd Barber's Green Mill Orchestra
Wigwam - Murray's Melody Men
Winona - A Wigwam Wooing - Columbia Orchestra

Segment 5: Beautiful

Beautiful - Jack Crawford AHO
Hello! Beautiful - Sam Lanin's Dance Ensemble / Unidentified, v.
America The Beautiful - Walter B. Rogers' Band

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.

It may be the day after Independence Day, but it's still the holiday weekend, so this week's show end with a couple of patriotic tunes and some food for thought. I made the announcement in the intro that we had two birthday segments on the show. While Harry M. Snodgrass does have a birthday salute, even though I announced it, Alvin Kaufman does not. The playlist was changed just before I recorded the show and I forgot to update the intro in the script and read it without remembering the change. Instead, there's a segment about islands. We'll also visit the zoo and do some waddlin'. 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: Harry M. Snodgrass

The Prisoner's Song - Harry M. Snodgrass "King of the Ivories"
Land Of My Sunset Dreams - Harry M. Snodgrass "King of the Ivories"
Maple Leaf Rag - Harry M. Snodgrass "King of the Ivories"

Segment 2: Islands

I Wish I Were An Island In An Ocean Of Beautiful Girls - from "The Prisoner Pat"
Song Of The Islands - The Three Keys
Susie (Of The Islands) - The Wolverine Orchestra

Segment 3: Gorillas

Mein Gorilla hat 'ne im Zoo - Weintraub Syncopators
The Zoo Step - Harold Veo's Orchestra
Big Gorilla Man - Gladys Bentley

Segment 4: Waddlin'

Waddlin' At The Waldorf - Fud Candrix un sein Orchester
Wa Wa Waddle Walk - Waring's Pennsynvanians
Washington Waddle - American Quartet

Segment 5: Independence Day

American Republic March - Walter B. Rogers Band
Stars And Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa Conducting the U S Marine Band
Americanism - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 there a photograph of a harp featured in this week's playlist? Well because the subject of the first segment of the show is harpist Louis Chicco. You may also have noticed the title of this week's episode is "felonious," which also refers to Louis Chicco. How in the world is that? Listen to the show and find out! In other segments, we'll have not one, but two vocabulary lessons. We'll also take a buggy ride and hear some songs about Jimmy. 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: Louis Chicco

I'm Feelin' Like A Million - George Hamilton and His Music Box Music
Would You Like To Buy A Dream? - George Hamilton and His Music Box Music
Sun Showers - George Hamilton and His Music Box Music

Segment 2: Fluctisonant

I'm On The Crest Of A Wave - Joe Venuti & His New Yorkers / Scrappy Lambert, v.
Over The Waves - Adrian Schubert's Concert Orchestra
Tidal Wave - Fletcher Henderson AHO

Segment 3: Solipsism

All By Myself - Ted Lewis Jazz Band
Me! - The Knickerbockers (Ben Selvin) / Dick Robertson, v.
Me, Myself And I - Nat Gonella and His Georgians

Segment 4: Druve-thru

Covered Wagon Days - Frank Banta and Cliff Hess
The Buggy Song - Heinz Wehner and HIs Legendary Orchestra from the Delphi Palace Theatre
Old Chuck Wagon Days - Montana Slim (Wilf Carter)

Segment 5: Jimmy

Jimmy (I Love But You) - Joseph M. Knecht's Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra
Jimmy Had A Nickel - Todd Rollins AHO / Chick Bullock
Ol' Jimmy - Jo Boullion et son Orchestre

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 evening’s show we’ll fulfill a couple of requests, visit some fields and streams, celebrate Boop Day and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show!

Here's the complete playlist: 

Segment 1: Glory

Listener Alvin sent a nice e-mail a couple of weeks ago saying that he had been thinking about our flag, which, of course is sometimes referred to as “Old Glory”, and suggesting a set of “glory” songs.
 
Good Morning Glory - George Hall’s Taft Hotel Orch. / Loretta Lee 
Glory - Gene Kardos AHO / Dick Robertson 
I’m Riding to Glory - Picadilly Players 

Segment 2: The Happiness Boys

I got another nice e-mail a couple of weeks ago from listener Paul, who listens each week with his daughter, who is just 15. It’s nice to know that some of my listeners are actually younger than the records I play. They requested something by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, The Happiness Boys.

Pardon Me While I Laugh - The Happiness Boys 
I Can’t Sleep in the Movies - The Happiness Boys
Billy Jones and Ernest Hare - The Happiness Boy 
What? No Women? - Jones & Hare 

Segment 3: Boop

August 8 in 1930, Paramount Studios released the animated cartoon “Dizzy Dishes”, which contained the first appearance of Betty Boop. So, at the suggestion of listener Jim, we’re going to celebrate Boop Day.

Betty Boop - Phil Spitalny’s Music 
Boop-Boop-a-Doopa Trot - Spike Hughes and His Decca Dents 
Betty Boop - Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees / Mae Questel 

Segment 4: Field & Stream

August 14 in 1873, the first issue of “Field and Stream” magazine was published, so commemorating 132 years, here are some rapidly rotating records about fields and streams.

By a Rippling Stream - Johnny Hamp 
Song from a cotton field - Bessie Brown 
Beside a Lazy Stream - Frank Black AHO 

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

It’s here where we play rapidly rotating records celebrating birthdays, having been recorded this past week in years past.
 
Them Ramblin’ Blues - The Goofus Five (August 11, 1924)
Just a Dancing Sweetheart - Ray Noble and the New Mayfair Dance Orch/Al Bowlly (August 14, 1931)
It Was So Beautiful - Harry Richman (August 15, 1932)
It’s the Tune That Counts - Fats Waller and His Rhythm/Fats Waller (August 10, 1939) 

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

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 Warren Caplinger and Nelson Maple both have birthday segments. It's none of their birthdays as far as I know, but the Four Rajahs have their own segment. We'll also hear some train whistles and some sonic booms. 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: Warren Caplinger

McDonald's Farm - Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers
Saro - Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers / Warren Caplinger, v.
Something Got A Hold Of Me - The Carter Family / A. P. Carter, v.

Segment 2: Nelson Maple

Down By The River - S. S. Leviathan Orchestra Directed by Nelson Maple
Louisville - S. S. Leviathan Orchestra Directed by Nelson Maple
Tell Me A Story - S. S. Leviathan Orchestra Directed by Nelson Maple

Segment 3: The Four Rajahs

Waitin' For Katie - The Four Rajahs
Gotta Be Good - Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra / The Four Rajahs, v.
Broadway Melody -  Nat Shilkret AHO / The Four Rajahs, v.

Segment 4: The NASA Quest Project

I Faw Down An Go Boom - Dick Robertson
O. O. O. O. O. O. - Oh Boom! - Harry Roy AHO / Harry Roy & Ray Ellington, v.
Boom - Jay Wilbur and His Band / The Cavendish Three, v.

Segment 5: Train Whistles

Train Whistle Blues - Emry Arthur
Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train - Delmore Brothers
Whistles - Hal Kemp AHO / Skinnay Ennis, v.

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 chaps are? The fact that I am describing them as “chaps” gives the hint that they are British. And in fact they are the British singing duo of Bob and Alf Pearson. You’ll find out all about them in the final segment of this week’s show. But before that, you hear other birthday segments for Aubrey Stauffer, Adolph Hofner and Billy Hays. Billy Hays actually gets two birthday segments! One for the real Billy Hays and one for Billy Hays used as a pseudonym by Sam Lanin’s Famous Players! 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: The Real Billy Hays

When Carolina Smiles – Billy Hays AHO / Andrew T. Stanton, v.
Do You Believe? – Billy Hays AHO / Billy Hays, v.
I’ve Got To Have A Mamma Now – Billy Hays AHO / Andrew T. Stanton, v.

Segment 2: Aubrey Stauffer

The Young Rajah – Kaplan’s Melodists
That Lovin’ Traumerei – Al Jolson
Hollywood – The Red Caps

Segment 3: Adolph Hofner

You Better Quit It Now – Adolph Hofner and His Texans / Adolph Hofner, v.
Dis Ja Lieve Spim (When I Peacefully Sleep) – Adolph Hofner and His Texans / Adolph Hofner, v.
I’ll Keep My Old Guitar – Adolph Hofner and His Texans / Adolph Hofner, v.

Segment 4: Sam Lanin as Billy Hays

I’d Rather Cry Over You (That Smile At Somebody Else) Billy Hays AHO (Sam Lanin’s Famous Players) / Scrappy Lamber, v.
Get Our And Get Under The Moon – Billy Hays AHO (Sam Lanin’s Famous Players) / Scrappy Lamber, v.
There’s A Rickety Rackety Shack – Billy Hays AHO (Sam Lanin’s Famous Players) / Artie Dunn, v.

Segment 5: Alf Pearson

Just Humming Along – Bob and Alf Pearson
An Old Lullaby – Bob and Alf Pearson
Happy Ending – Bob and Alf Pearson

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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.

Without his trademark battered top hat and clarinet you might not recognize the person above as bandleader, instrumentalist and vocalist Ted Lewis. This photograph is from the late 1910s, probably aboard RMS Olympic. The “High-Hatted Tragedian of Song” will be getting a birthday segment with three of his records not heard on the show before. Howard Johnson will also have a birthday segment and other topics include Joe Raymond, “someday” and “dearie.” 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: Dearie

The Half Of It, Dearie, Blues – Percival Mackey and His Band / Harry Glen, v.
Dearie If You Knew – Grosvenor Dance Orchestra (Jack Hylton AHO)
Ka-Lu-A Intro.: Blue Danube Blues – Broadway Dance Orchestra

Segment 2: Joe Raymond AHO

Hollywood – Joe Raymond AHO
My Sweetie Went Away (She Didn’t Say Where, When Or Why) – Joe Raymond AHO
I Wonder Who’s Dancing With You To-Night – Joe Raymond AHO

Segment 3: Someday

Someday Soon – Adolph Hofner and His Texans / Adolf Hofner, v.
Someday, Sweetheart – King Oliver’s Dixie Syncopators
Someday You’ll Say O.K! – Vincent Lopez and His Casa Lopez Orchestra / Irving Kaufman, v.

Segment 4: Howard Johnson

Who Said I Was A Bum? – Bud Billings
Down Alongside Of The Docks – Vaughn De Leath & Frank Harris
It’s Not Your Nationality (It’s Simply You) – Billy Murray

Segment 5: Ted Lewis

Wouldn’t It Be Wonderful – Ted Lewis and His Band / Ted Lewis, v.
Sweet Little You – Ted Lewis and His Band / Ted Lewis, v.
No – Ted Lewis and His Band / Ted Lewis, v.

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