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 fellow is? You’ll find out all about him and hear several of his records and compositions in the first segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. In researching him I found out about another artist and you’ll find out all about that person in the third segment of the show. We’ll also celebrate the birthdays of Billy Mayerl and Jerry Herst and in the final segment of the show we’ll go yachting.  There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and get magically transported back to a different musical era. 

I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listening and best wishes!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Little Jack Little

Where Am I? (Am I In Heaven?) – Little Jack Little AHO / Little Jack Little, v.
The Grass Is Gettin’ Greener All The Time – Little Jack Little
Speaking Confidentially – Little Jack Little AHO / Little Jack Little, v.

I’m Needin’ You – Leonard Joy’s All String Orchestra / Frank Luther, v.
Pretty Soon – Jan Garber AHO

Segemnt 2: Billy Mayerl

I Wish I’d Bought The Missus On The Hire Purchase System – Billy Mayerl AHO / Unidentified, v.
Parade Of The Sandwich Board Men – Billy Mayerl, Piano Solo
Whirligig – Billy Mayerl AHO

Segment 3: Basil Fomeen

Oh, Baby – Basil Fomeen AHO
Lola – The Fomeen Brothers
Cheer Up – Adia Kuznetzoff

Segment 4: Jerry Herst

So Rare – Roy Fox AHO / Barry Gray, v.

Segment 5: Yacht Club

Yacht Club Swing – Fats Waller and His Rhythm
Carribean Yacht Club – Alfredo Mendez & His Piano

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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 certainly hope you recognize the man at the keyboard as Fats Waller. We’ll be celebrating Fats’ birthday in the third segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. In past tributes, we’ve always played Fats’ commercial recordings but Fats was heard regularly on radio so this year as a bit of change we’re going to play a complete radio broadcast. The photo above was taken in October, 1938 at the Yacht Club in New York City and in the show we’ll be airing, Fats plays four songs which he never recorded commercially. Do you know who Gitz Rice is? I’m guessing not, but you’ll find out all about him and hear several of his songs in the second segment of the show.  We’ll even have a bit of fun playing “Compare & Contrast” with one of his songs. We’ll also celebrate the birthdays of Tommy Tucker and Felix Arndt and we’ll have song some about hollyhocks. 

As a reminder, you’ve only got about a week left to order your limited edition KISL t-shirt. The Catalina Island Performing Arts Foundation is offering KISL Island Radio T-Shirts in order to raise funds to help offset the operational costs of the station. Here’s your chance to be stylin’ and help support the station. There are five different styles, five different colors and eight sizes, so there’s at least one that’s just right for everyone. But, they are only available until May 31, so order yours now. All orders will be shipped beginning June 8. Just click HERE for complete descriptions and ordering information.   

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 better!) musical era. 

I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listening and best wishes!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Hollyhocks

When Polly Walks Through The Hollyhocks – Allan Selby and His Band / Tom Barratt, v.
Hollyhock – Billy Mayerl (Piano Solo)

Segemnt 2: Gitz Rice

Because You’re Here – Edward Johnson, Tenor
Keep Your Head Down, Fritzi Boy – American Quartet
Dear Old Pal Of Mine – Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra
Dear Old Pal Of Mine – Shep Fields and His New Music / Ken CUrtis, v.

Segment 3: Fats Waller on the Air

Radio Broadcast from the Yacht Club, NYC, October 18, 1938

Segment 4: Felix Arndt

Toots – Dr. John Clarence Penney
Nola – The Revelers

Segment 5: Tommy Tucker

The Man Who Comes Around – Sweet Violet Boys
The Two Little Squirrels – Tommy Tucker Time / Amy Arnell, Don Brown, Tommy Tucker, 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.

On this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records we’ll celebrate the birthdays of Billy Thorburn and Sonny Clay, we’ll make a mess and even though it’s not Halloween, we’ll have some songs about some black cats. We’ll also have three songs about shirts. Why? Because for a very limited time, you can get a premium quality KISL T-Shirt! The Catalina Island Performing Arts Foundation is offering KISL Island Radio T-Shirts in order to raise funds to help offset the operational costs of the station. Here’s your chance to be stylin’ and help support the station. There are five different styles, five different colors and eight sizes, so there’s at least one that’s just right for everyone. But, they are only available until May 31, so oder yours now. All orders will be shipped beginning June 8. Just click HERE for complete descriptions and ordering information. There’s lots of great music and interesting information on this week’s show, so set aside an hour to relax over your favorite beverage and be taken back in time to a different musical era. 

Click HERE for complete descriptions and ordering information
for your KISL Island Radio T-Shirt!

I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listening and best wishes!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1:KISL Shirts 1

Oh, Will You Wash My Father’s Shirt – Sid Millward and His Nitwits

Segemnt 2: Billy Thorburn

Old Pal Of Mine – Billy Thorburn and His Music / Eddie Guray, v.
You’re Such A Sweet Little Headache – The Organ, The Dance Band and Me / Robinson CLeaver, Orcgan / Terry Devon, v.
When Did You Leave Heaven? – Billy THorburn and His Music / Ken Crossley, v.

Segment 2: Panthers

Panther Rag – Earl Hines (Piano Solo)
Pantin’ In The Panther Room – Fats Waller and His Rhythm
Black Panther Stomp – Patrick et son Orchester

Segment 3: KISL Shirts 2

Keep Your Undershirt On – Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra / Bert Lorin (Scrappy Lambert), v.

Segment 4: Sonny Clay

Chicago Breakdown – Sonny Clay’s Plantation Orchestra
Roamin’ Around – Herb Wiedieft’s Cinderella Roof Orchestra
Bogloosa Blues – Sonny Clay’s Plantation Orchestra

Segment 5: KISL Shirts 3

Shirt Tail Stomp 0 Benny Goodman’s Boys

Segment 6: Messin’ Around

Fourth Street Mess Around – Memphis Jug Band
Mess-A-Stomp – Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds Of Joy
Come On Boys Let’s Do That Messin’ Around – Blind Blake

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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 Theron Eugene Daffan, better known as Ted.  While you may not recognize his name, you’ve no doubt heard at least one of his compositions, “Born To Lose,” written in the 1940s and covered by more than 120 artists since, most famously by Ray Charles.  In the first segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, you’ll hear a 1941 recording by Ted Daffan’s Texans having to do with ecdysiasts.  The second segment of this week’s show features three records about malus domestica, or more commonly, apples. In the third segment we’ll play dumb and then dance the polka courtesy of “Whoopee John” Wilfarht.  We’ll wrap up the show with three songs for Mother’s Day, and you’ll probably want to have a tissue handy for the first two. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so… 

I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listening and best wishes!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Ecdysiast

Strip Polka – Kay Kyser AHO / Jack Martin, v.
Strip Tease – The Hip Chicks
Strip Tease Swing – Ted Daffan’s Texans

Segment 2: Malus Domestica

You’ll Be Mine In Apple Blossom Time – The Rhythmic Troubadours (Stan Greening) / Joe Sargent, v.
The Big Apple – Nat Gonella and His Georgians / Nat Gonella, v.
Apple Sauce – The Virginians

Segment 3: Dumb

Dumb Dora – Billy Murray
Is Everybody In Your Family As Dumb As You Is? – Correll & Gosden (“Amos ‘n’ Andy”)

Segment 4: “Whoopee John” Wilfahrt

Tinker Polka – “Whoopee John” Wilfahrt
Mariechen Waltz – “Whoopee John” Wilfahrt
Clarinet Polka – Whoopee John Wilfahrt and His Concertina Orchestra

Segment 5: Mother’s Day

Silver-Haired Sweetheart – Lewis James
To MOther With Love – Arthur Tracy
Old Mother Hubbard – The Blue Moutaineers

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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 1920s bandleader Earl Gresh. But this photograph was taken in 1929, after Earl’s music career came to an abrupt halt. In the first segment of this week’s show, you’ll hear three great records by Earl and His Gangplank Orchestra, find out why he left music and why he’s is a boat.  We’ll also celebrate the birthdays of Bill Smith and Fiddlin’ Doc Roberts. If you like the “One Thing In Common” and “For No Particular Reason” segments, you’ll love this week’s “To Whom Do These Records Refer” segment.  And in the final segment of the show we’ll weather some storms.   There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and get magically transported back to an earlier musical era. But most of all…

I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listening and best wishes!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Earl Gresh

Where The Wild Wild Flowers Grow – Earl Gresh and His Orchestra / Frank Harris (Irving Kaufman), v.
Help! – Earl Gresh and His Gangplank Orchestra / Band, v.
Row, Row Rosie! – Earl Gresh and His Gangplank Orchestra / Band, v.

Segment 2: Fiddlin’ Doc Roberts

Deer Walk – Fiddlin’ Doc Roberts
Take These Lips Away – Fiddlin’ Doc Roberts
Way Down South – FIddling Doc Roberts Trio

Segment 3: To Whom Do These Songs Refer?

Out Of The Tempest – George Olsen and His Music / Fran Frey, v.
I Was Taken By Storm – Joe Haymes AHO / Skeeter Palmer, v.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (I Love You) – Herb Jeffries

Segment 4: Bill Smith

Love Me Tonight – Harold Stern AHO / Bill Smith, v.
Just A Little Flower Shop Around The Corner – Harold Stern and The Biltmore Orchestra / Bill Smith, v.
My Room – Harold Stern AHO / Bill Smith, v.

Segment 5: Storms

The Miami Storm – Vernon Dalhart
I’ve Been In The Storm So Long – Spike Hughes

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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.

The Golden Pheasant Restaurant in Cleveland, shown above in a post card, served American and Chinese food and had a large dance floor. They provided a dance band throughout the day and evening and one of the bands was Austin Wylie’s Golden Pheasant Orchestra.  You’ll hear Austin Wylie’s band on this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records in a segment of tunes by Arthur Lange played by others. We’ll also have TWO “One Thing in Common” segments and TWO vocabulary lessons. We’ll also play a record that got cut from last week’s show because of time. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour over your favorite beverage and be transported musically back to a different era.

I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listening and best wishes!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Vocabulary Lesson

After Dinner Speech – Red Norvo AHO / Mildred Bailey, v.
A Stump Speech In The 10th District – Bascom Lamar Munsford
Speech – International Novelty Orchestra / Billy Murray, v.

Segment 2: Combo “One Thing in Common” / Vocabulary Lesson

Fast Asleep In Poppyland – Paul Biese’s Novelty Orchestra
Love Bound – Austin Wylie’s Golden Pheasant Orchestra
Dust – Columbia Photo Players (Ben Selvin) / The Rondoliers, v.

Segment 3: Arthur Lange

By The Lake – The Ambassadors
In A Boat For Two – Lanin’s Orchestra
I Never Care About To-Morrow (As Long As I’m Happy To-Day) – Jan Garber AHO

Segment 4: Brown Skin

Brown Skin Gal (In The Calico Gown) – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra / Herb Jeffries, v.
Brown Skin – Victor Military Band
Brown Skin Girl Down The Lane – Massey Family

Segment 5: One Thing In Common

Mimi – Walt Leopold Orchestra
Isn’t It Romantic? – Harold Stern AHO
You’d Be Surprised – Billy Murray

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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 the show we’re going to celebrate not one, but four birthdays. One of those is for Harry J. Lincoln, composer of “The Midnight Fire Alarm,” the sheet music to which is pictured above.  And the recording of “The Midnight Fire Alarm” we’re playing, by Prince’s Orchestra, is every bit as raucous and exciting as the cover illustration would suggest.  We’ll also celebrate the birthdays of Arthur Lange, Gene Rodemich and Lou Gold. And we’ll take a musical trip to Calico Ghost Town. There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour to relax over your favorite beverage and be taken back in time to a different musical era. 

I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listening and best wishes!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Arthur Lange

Tickle Me – Arthur Lange AHO
You – Arthur Lange AHO
Oh! Baby (Don’t Say “No” Say “Maybe”) – Arthur Lange AHO

Segment 2: Gene Rodemich

Honolou – Gene Rodemich’s Orchestra
Tenth Interval Rag – Gene Rodemich’s Orchestra
By The Pyramids – Gene Rodemich’s Orchestra

Segment 3: Harry J. Lincoln

Rapasz Band – March – Kosatka Concertina Quartette
I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home – Oscar Seagle
Midnight Fire Alarm – Prince’s Orchestra

Segment 4: Calico Ghost Town

Calico Rag – Howard Kopp and Frank E. Banta
Calicoco – Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra

Segment 5: Lou Gold

If You Could Sweep The Clouds Away – Lou Gold AHO / Irving Kaufman, v.
Sixty Seconds Every Minute – Lou Gold AHO / Jimmy Kern, 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.

On this week’s edition of the show we’re going to get misty, we’ll get in synch, have a history lesson and celebrate Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith’s birthday. We’ll also take a musical trip to Avalon with three records never played on the show before, including the one pictured above. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour over your favorite beverage and be transported musically back to a different era.

I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listening and best wishes!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith

I’m Bound To Ride – Arthur Smith and His Dixieliners / Arthur Smith, v.
Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time In Cheatham County – Arthur Smith and His Dixieliners / Arthur Smith, v.
Blackberry Blossom – Arthur Smith and His Dixieliners

Segment 2: Misty

Maid Of The Mist – Jan Savitt AHO
In A Mist – Bix Beiderbecke
Misty Mornin’ – Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra

Segment 3: Syncopated Times Radio

Syncopated Jamboree – Roy Carlson’s Dance Orchestra (Adrian Schubert) / Irving Kaufman, v.
Syncopatin’ Sal – Waring’s Pennsylvanians / Tom Waring, v.
Syncopated Shuffle – Harlem Footwarmers (Ellington)

Segment 4: Avalon

Avalon – Alix Combelle et son Orchestre
Avalon Town – Colonial Club Orchestra / Scrappy Lambert, v.
That Night In Avalon – Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra / Jimmy Ray, v.

Segment 5: Hottentot

Hottentot – The Whoopee Makers (Ellington)
Happy Hottentot – Miss Patricola
Hot-Hot-Hottentot – Roger Wolfe Kahn 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.

I’m baaaaaack! I certainly hope you enjoyed last week’s April Fool’s show with my friend and host of the vintage music program The Shellac Stack, Bryan Wright and I swapping personas. We had a great time “hosting” each others’ show so to speak and I hope you quickly got the joke and were able to enjoy the music without trying to figure out what the heck was going on. And in case you haven’t heard it, you can hear me hosting Bryan’s show on his website, www.shellacstack.com. It’s program number 219, but don’t stop there. As on the Rapidly Rotating Records website, all of Bryan’s previous shows are also available for listening online and/or downloading for listening at your convenience. This week, we’re back to normal here on RRR with our usual unusual mélange of dance bands, hot bands, sweet bands, show tunes, novelty tunes, blues, jazz and more on everything from Aeolian to Zonophone, and by everyone from Aaronson to Zurke. On this week’s show everything’s going to be all right! This being the first program in April, we’ve got a couple of songs about April. We’ll also celebrate Marion Harris’s birthday, have a vocabulary lesson and in the fourth segment, I’ll introduce you to Beatrice Harrison, the lady in the photograph above. There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour to relax over your favorite beverage and be taken back in time to a different musical era. 

I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listening and best wishes!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Gruntled

Satisfied – Henry Busse AHO / Vocal Trio
Contended – The Ponce Sisters
Ooh, But I’m Happy – Little Jack Little AHO / Little Jack Little, v.

Segment 2: Marion Harris

Oo, Oo, Ooh! Honey What You Do To Me – Marion Harris
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday – Marion Harris
Wasn’t It Nice? – Marion Harris

Segment 3: All Right

All Right, All Right, All Right – Joe Haymes AHO / Skeeter Palmer & Cliff Weston, v.
Well All Right Then – Jimmy Lunceford AHO / Orchestra, v.
Everything’s Gonna Be All Right – Coon-Sanders Orchestra / Joe Sanders, v.

Segment 4: Beatrice Harrison

Songs My Mother Taught Me – Beatrice Harrison with Nightingales
Caprice (Delius) – Beatrice Harrison, Cello with Orchestra
Viennese Melody (Kreisler) – Beatrice Harrison, Cello – Margaret Harrison, Piano

Segment 5: April

A Couple Of April Fools – Billy Cotton and His Band / Allen Breeze, v.
April Blossoms – Savoy Orpheans / Ramon Newton, 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.

With April 1 coming up in a few days, on this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records we’ll have a little fun and the record above may give you a clue as to what’s going on. We’ll be celebrating the birthdays of Haydn Wood and Frankie Carle and in the fourth segment we’ll do a little struggling.  The first segment of the show will be taken up with another episode of “One Thing In Common” but you’ll have no trouble at all figuring out the common threat of the three records in the set. Your comments and feedback about the show are always welcome, but especially so for this edition.  There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be taken magically back to a different musical era. Most importantly… 

I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listening and best wishes!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Fooling

Who Did You Fool After All? – The Virginians
You Wouldn’t Fool Me, Would You? – Annette Hanshaw
You Can Fool Some Of The People Some Of The Time – Jimmie Lunceford AHO / Jimmie Young, v.

Segment 2: Frankie Carle

Oh! What It Seemed To Be – Frankie Carle AHO / Marjorie Hughes, v.
Sunrise Serenade – Mel Rose AHO (Joe Loss and His Band)
Doll Dance – Frankie Carle AHO

Segment 3: Haydn Wood

Roses Of Picardy – Ted Lewis and His Band / Ted Lewis, v.
A Brown Bird Singing – Richard Tauber
I Love To Hear You Singing – Jesse Crawford

Segment 4: Struggles

Struggle Buggy – King Oliver and His Orchestra
Gut Struggle – Wilmer Davis
Struggling – Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards

Segment 5: Identity Crisis

Who Am I? – Gene Austin
Who Do You Think You Are – Ramona with Johnny Green
Whose Who Are You? – Herbert Berger and His Coronado Hotel Orchestra

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