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 gentleman is? He’s pianist Cliff Jackson shown here at New York City’s Cafe Society in 1947. You’ll hear him earlier in his musical career as piano roll artist, classic blues accompanist and bandleader with his group the Crazy Kats. His is but one of four birthday we’re celebrating on this week’s show. The others are Hero De Rance, William Tracey and Tommy Kinsman. In the fourth segment, we’ll engage in sole jollity and have a tasty snack.  There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to a different–and we think better–musical era. 

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Tommy Kinsman

Mean To Me – Florida Dance Band (Tommy Kinsman AHO) / Cavan O’Connor, v.
Soon – Tommy Kinsman and His Band / Tommy Kinsman, v.
Get Rhythm In Your Feet – Tommy Kinsman and His Band

Segment 2: Hero De Rance

You’re Mine – Edward Mallory Orchestra / Ethel Waters, v.
The Journey’s End – Raymond Newell
When The Circus Comes To Town – Jack Hylton AHO

Segment 3: Cliff Jackson

Hock Shop Blues – Cliff Jackson (Piano Roll)
Dirty Mistreater – Carrie Edwards
Torrid Rhythm – Cliff Jackson and His Crazy Kats

Segment 4: Popcorn

Popcorn Man – George Elrick and His Music Makers / George Elrick, v.
For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow – Tiny Hill AHO

Segment 5: William Tracey

Down By The Gas Hourse (The Wery Woist Part Of The Town) – Aileen Stanley & Billy Murray
Dancin’ Dan – Selvin’s Orchestra / Isabelle Patricola, v.
Dixie Is Dixie Once More – American Quartet

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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.

You are probably familiar with the song “Orange Blossom Special,” the unofficial anthem of bluegrass.  You may be less familiar with the passenger train of the same name.  In the last segment of this week’s edition of the show, you’ll hear the Rouse Brothers play “Orange Blossom Special” and you’ll find out how the song and the train are related. The first segment of the show will have not the usual three records, but twice that many! That’s because they are Little Wonder Records and you’ll find out all about the label and hear six fine examples. In other segments, we’ll do some yearning and craving, but we’ll take time to stop and smell the blossoms.  There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to a different–and we think better–musical era. 

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Little Wonder Records

Back To The Carolina You Love – Baritone (Al Jolson) – LW 20
Pass The Pickles – Band – LW 37
He Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars – Tenor Solo (Maurice Burkhart) – LW 164
That Broadway Chicken Walk – Banjo Solo (Fred Van Eps?) – LW 568
You Don’t Need The Wine To Have A Wonderful Time – Tenor Solo (Jack Kaufman) – LW 1293
Cutie – Band – LW 1598

Segment 2: Wonder

I Wonder How It Feels – Paul Specht AHO / Unidentified Vocal Trio, v.
No Wonder I’m Blues – New Orleans Ramblers / Ben Pollack, v.
Wonder Bar – Ted Fiorito AHO / Dick Powell, v.

Segment 3: Yearning

Yearning (Just For You) – Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Elliott Shaw, v.
Yearning For Mandalay – Preston Jackson and His Uptown Band
Yearning And Blue – Junie C. Cobb and His Grains Of Corn

Segment 4: Craving

Craving – Clayton F. Fattey’s Roycroft Orchestra
Cravin’ A Man Blues – Lillian Glinn
I Crave My Pig Meat – Blind Boy Fuller

Segment 5: Blossoms

Orange Blossom Special – Rouse Brothers
Orange Blossoms – A Syncopated Impression – Billy Mayerl (Piano Solo)
When You Were The Blossom Of Buttercup Lane And I Was Your Little Boy Blue – Micky’s Night Birds (Milt Shaw’s Detroiters)

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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 lady is? She’s 1930s nightclub singer Adelaide Moffett and you’ll hear three of her recordings with three different orchestras in the fourth segment of this week’s edition of the show. You’ll also find out all about her very interesting life and career. Also getting a first-time birthday segment this week is Ivie Anderson, known as “The Voice of Ellington” and you’ll hear three of her records with the Ellington orchestra. In other segments, we’ll do some pedaling, not peddling, but pedaling, we’ll listen to some church bells and you’ll find out what pie plant is and who pie plant is!  There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to a different–and we think better–musical era. 

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Pie Plant Pete (Claude Moye)

She Lived Down By The Firehouse – Pie Plant Pete
Lightning Express – Pie Plant Pete
Waiting For The Railroad Train – Avocado Joe (Pie Plant Pete)

Segment 2: Church Bells

Church Bells As We Hear Them – Ernest Hastings
Church Bell Blues – Mississippi Sheiks
The Church Bells Are Ringing For Mary – B. F. Goodrich SIlvertown Cord Orchestra / The Silver-Masked Tenor, v.

Segment 3: Pedaling

Pedal Your Blues Away – Earl Rouse & Brothers
She Jumped On Her Pushbike and Pedaled Away – Peggy Johnson AHO

Segment 4: Adelaide Moffett

When You Love Only One – Enrique Madreguera AHO / Adelaide Moffett, v.
I’ve Gone Romantic On You – Jack Jenny AHO / Adelaide Moffett, v.
Just One Of Those Things – Ruby Newman AHO / Adelaide Moffett, v.

Segment 5: Ivie Anderson

I’m Satisfied – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra / Ivie Anderson, v.
Truckin’ – Duke Ellington AHO / Ivie Anderson, v.
I’ve Got To Be A Rug Cutter – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra / Ivie Anderson & 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.

In putting together the “wobbly” second segment of this week’s show, I included “The Wobbly Walk” by Charles W. Hamp, known as the “California Blue Boy.” When I realized his birthday was last week, I reworked the playlist of the show to give Hamp his own birthday segment for the first time. You’ll find out LOTS of information about him and his career, and you’ll hear the record shown above, which helped launch his career and propel him to be the highest paid star on radio. Hamp recorded “Dream House” several times, but this was the first. British pianist, singer and monologist Ernest Hastings also gets a birthday segment for the first time this week. In other segments, we’ll get a musical taste of some condiments and do the scrontch!   There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to a different–and we thing better–musical era. 

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Scrontch

Symphonic Scrontch – Lloyd Scott’s Orchestra
Saturday Night Scrontch – Hokum Jug Band
Scrounch – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra / Ivie Anderson, v.

Segment 2: Wobble

Stone Mountain Wobble – Scottdale String Band
The Wobbly Walk – California Blue Boy with the Tampa Blue Five
Washington Wobble – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra

Segment 3: Ernest Hastings

Perverted Placards – Ernest Hastings
The Nut Brown Ale Of England – Ernest Hastings

Segment 4: Charles W. Hamp

Down Where The Sun Goes Down – Charles W. Hamp
Rose Of Bohemia – Chas. Hamp & Earl Reynolds (The California Blue Boys)
Dream House – Charles W. Hamp (The California Blue Boy)

Segment 5: Condiments

Too Much Mustard – National Promenade Band
I Want To Go To The County Mayo – M. J. O’Connell
Ketchup – Fields and Hall (Sunday Drivers)

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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 what this venue is? Residents of a certain age in San Bernardino and the Inland Empire will recognize it as the Arrowhead Springs Hotel, seen here in its better days. You’ll find out all about the hotel and the landmark arrowhead above it in the final segment of this week’s episode of Rapidly Rotating Records. We also have two birthday salutes this week, both first-time, for John Cali and Charles D’Almaine. And in the remaining two segments, we’ll take musical trips to Paris and Paradise.  There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to a different–and we thing better–musical era. 

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: John Cali

A New Kind Of Man (With A New Kind Of Love For Me) – Arkansas Trio
If You Want The Rainbow (You Must Have The Rain) – Gay Ellis (Annette Hanshaw) and Her Novelty Orchestra
Side By Side – Lee Morse

Segment 2: Charles D’Almaine

Pop Goes The Weasel Medley – Charles D’Almaine
Mother Machree – Charles D’Almaine
Donkey And Driver – Charles D’Almaine

Segment 3: Paris

Paris, Stay The Same – Maurice Chevalier
Parisian Rag – Emerson Military Band
Lights Of Paris – Riverside Dance Band (Harry Bidgood) / John Thorne, v.

Segment 4: Paradise

My Bird Of Paradise – Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra
Paradise Wobble – Charles Johnson’s Original Paradise Ten

Segment 5: Hot Springs

Hot Springs Blues – Bessie Smith
Since My Best Girl Turned Me Down – Albert Gale AHO
Good Little, Bad Little You – Arrowhead Inn 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.

Who doesn’t LOVE fresh, piping hot, flaky buttermilk biscuits right out of the oven.  You can almost smell those gorgeous fluffy biscuits right on the screen. But why in the world is there a picture of biscuits for this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records? Well because in the fifth segment of this week’s show we’ll be playing a set of rapidly rotating records about…biscuits!  You’ll hear songs by Memphis Minnie, Georgia White and Alex Bartha and His Hotel Traymore Orchestra. But remember, sometimes a biscuit is just a biscuit! This week there are not five, but six segments on the show. We’ll be celebrating the birthdays of Cliff Hess and William Tracey, his for the first time. We’ll have a vocabulary lesson, enjoy a couple of black and tans (songs, not the drink!), play “One Thing in Common” and adhere to our 6:59:45 PM broadcast curfew.  There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to a different–and we thing better–musical era. 

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Cliff Hess

Hokey-Pokey (Diddle-Dee-Rum) – The Happiness Boys (Billy Jones and Ernie Hare) Accompanied by the Bow-Wows
Swanee Shore – Ruth Etting (Accompanied by Rube Bloom, Piano)
Beets And Turnips – Vic Meyers AHO

Segment 2: One Thing In Common

Jivin’ The Jeep – Red Norvo
Just A Bird’s Eye View Of My Old Kentucky Home – Jean Goldkette’s Book-Cadillac Hotel Orchestra
Dodge Brothers March – Dodge Brothers Industrial Band

Segment 3: Cafe Curfew

Curfew Time In Harlem – Willie Farmer AHO / Scat Powell, v.
That’s The Curfew – Pete Brown Sextette 

Segment 4: Black and Tan

When Hollywood Goes Black And Tan – Cleo Brown
Black And Tan Fantasy – The Washingtonians

Segment 5: Biscuits

Good Biscuits – Memphis Minnie
Hot Biscuits – Alex Bartha and His Hotel Traymore Orchestra
Biscuit Roller – Georgia White

Segment 6: Eidetic

I See Your Face Before Me – Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra / Kenny Sargent, v.
I’ll See You In My Dreams – Ford & Glenn (Announcer: The Solemn Old Judge of WLS)

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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? Before Spike Jones, there was Freddie “Schnickelfritz” Fisher, who gets his own birthday segment for this first time on this week’s show. Tune in to find out why he was called “Schnickelfritz” and hear three recordings by Freddie Fisher and His Schnickelfritz Band.  In the other birthday segment on this week’s show you’ll be introduced to xylophonist extraordinaire Teddy Brown. In other segments, we’ll hear some more songs about Sue,  and you’ll find out the common name for marmota monax. And since it’s summer and September 15 is a ways away, we can safely don our straw boaters. There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to a different–and we thing better–musical era. 

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Freddie “Schnickelfritz” Fisher

Was You Ever In Cincinnati? – Freddie Fisher and His Schnickelfritz Band
Colonel Corn – Freddie Fisher and His Schnickelfritz Band
Red Wing – Freddie Fisher and His Schnickelfritz Band

Segment 2: Straw Hat

An Old Straw Hat – Bunny Berigan AHO / Gail Reese, v.
A Sunbonnet Blue (And A Yellow straw Hat) – Teddy Wilson AHO / Billie Holiday, v.

Segment 3: Sue

Susan Jones – The Gold Dust Twins (Goldy and Dusty)
Walking With Susie – Earl Lee and His Singsters (Ed Kirkeby)
Broken Hearted Sue – The Brox Sisters (Piano: Arthur Johnston)
Susannah’s Squeaking Shoes – The Broadway Band 

Segment 4: Teddy Brown

Time Alone Will Tell – Teddy Brown (With Novelty Sextette) / Unidentified, v.
So Is Your Old Lady – Teddy Brown and His Cafe de Paris Band / Lionel Rothery, v.
Fairy On The Clock – Teddy Brown

Segment 5: Marmota monax

Blue Yodel No. 10 (Ground Hog Rootin’ In My Back Yard) – Jimmie Rodgers
Ground Hog – Jack Reedy and His Walker Mountain String 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.

So why in the world am I showing you a photograph of a grave marker?  Well, this is the headstone for the Baxter family in Grand Rapids, Michigan. On this week’s show you’ll find out about the patriarch of the family, Alfred Baxter and his son, Howard Frances Baxter and their connection to radio. This is a special episode of Rapidly Rotating Records in which you’ll find out the history of a number of different radio stations from the 1920s. It doesn’t follow our normal “five-topic-three-records-in-each” format, and it has a lot of information along with ten records and I hope you’ll find it as fascinating as I do.  So set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to a different–and we thing better–musical era. 

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: WEBH Edgewater, Illinois

Winter Interlude – Harry Sosnik and His Edgewater Beach Hotel Orchestra / Bob Hannon, v.
Then You’ve Never Been Blue – Ted FioRito and His Edgewater Beach Hotel Orchestra / Dusty Rhodes, v.

Segment 2: WBOW Terre Haute, Indiana

On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away – The American Singers

Segment 3: KSCJ Sioux City, Iowa

Iowa Corn Song – American Legion Official Band (Monahan Post, Sioux City, Iowa) / Ernest Lower, v. 

Segment 4: KSBA Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport Farewell – Little Brother (Montgomery)
Fence Breakin’ Blues – Shreveport Home Wreckers

Segment 5: WASH Grand Rapids, Michigan

Go Wash An Elephant (If You Wanna Do Something Big) – Gene Morgan & His Lowe’s State Theatre Orchestra
On A Laundry Wagon – Two Dark Knights

Segment 6: WBBC Brooklyn, New York

Born And Bred In Brooklyn (Over The Bridge) – Bob Haring’s Velvetone Orchestra

Segment 7: KVOS Bellingham, Washington

Breezin’ Along With The Breeze – Seattle Harmony Kings

Segment 8: KPCB Seattle, Washington

Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me – Bo Carter
How Many Biscuits Can You Eat – Dr. Humphrey Bate And His Possum Hunters

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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 composer, conductor and musical director Robert Hood Bowers. A couple of years ago he had his own birthday segment in which we played three of his compositions. This time, in addition to one more of Bowers’ tunes, you’ll hear him in a couple of other musical roles. In other segments, we’ll do some moaning, try to bring some more reason to the world and play “One Thing In Common.” In the final segment, Harry E. Humphrey will give a recitation for Memorial Day.  There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to a different–and we thing better–musical era. 

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Robert Hood Bowers

Badinage – Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Rose Of Chile – (Sam) Lanin’s Roseland Orchestra
Two Black Crows, Part 5 – Moran and Mack

Segment 2: Moaning

Moan, You Moaners – Connie’s Inn Orchestra (Fletcher Henderson)
Missouri Moan – The Missourians
The Moaning Saxophone Rag – Six Brown Brothers

Segment 3: One Thing In Common

After You, Who? – Fred Astaire
Night And Day – Django Reinhardt-Stephane Grapelli and The Quintet of the Hot Club of France
I’ve Got You On My Mind – Raie Da Costa 

Segment 4: Reason

What’s The Reason – George Scott-Woods and The Six Swingers / Majorie Stedeford, v.
Big Reason Blues – Bob Smith and His Ideal Band
For No Rhyme Or Reason – Joseph Rines and His Hotel St. Regis Orchestra

Segment 5: More Reason

Never Had A Reason – Mound City Blue Blowers / Red McKenzie, v.
For No Reason At All In C – Tram, Bix and Eddie

Segment 6: Memorial Day

The Blue And The Grey – Harry E. Humphrey 

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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 Benjamin Samberg, aka Benny Bell, among a number of other pseudonyms. Fans of the Dr. Demento show will know him from his “mind rhyme” songs “Shaving Cream” and “The Automobile Song,” but he wrote and performed many more than just those two. Benny gets not just one, but two segments in this week’s show. One features songs he wrote, sung by others, and the other features Benny singing his own songs. We’ll also celebrate the birthday of Leroy Montesanto, take a walk and hear from The Krakajax.   There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to a different–and we thing better–musical era. 

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Leroy Montesanto

Will You Be True? – Imperial Dance Orchestra / Leroy Montesanto, v.
A Pretty Girl, A Pretty Tune – Bob Green’s Dance Orchestra  / Roy Silver (Leroy Montesant), v.
My Sue – Missouri Jazz Band / Leroy Montesanto, v.

Segment 2: Take A Walk

Walkin’ The Dog – Ed Lang AHO
Walkin’ The Streets (Until My Baby Comes Home) – Wingy Manone AHO
Walking The Rails – Mike Speciale AHO

Segment 3: Benjamin Samberg

Oh That Dumb-Bell – Frank Luther
The Bum’s Rush – Hobo Jack Kelly (Ernest Hare)
Sweet Violets – Bob Dickson (Dick Robertson) 

Segment 4: Benny Bell

The Automobile Song – Benny Bell
Hetzaleh Getzaleh Goo – Benny Bell
The Boat Song (Take A Ship For Yourself) – Frankie “Miggs” Rand and His Band / Benny Bell, v.
Shaving Cream – Paul Wynn

Segment 5: The Krakajax

If Harlem Came To May-Fair – The Krakajax
Tap Your Tootsies – The Krakajax
High Rhythm And Low Moanin’ – The Krakajax 

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