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 what the contraption above is? It’s an Ediphone. When Thomas Edison developed the phonograph in 1877, he was trying to make a machine that would record telephone messages and thought the best use of the machine would be for letter writing and dictation without the aid of a stenographer. On this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records you’ll hear some history about the invention and a record about the Ediphone. If you’re a fan of the Rocky Horror Picture show, you’ll especially enjoy the intro to the show and the second segment. In the third segment we’ll do some bouncing and the last segment was inspired by my friend, pianist and composer Sam Post. In the first segment, we’ll fulfill the first of two little requests.   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: Two Little…

Two Little Wooden Shoes – Mike Markel’s Orchestra
Two Little Bluebirds – Alfredo’s Band

Two Little Flies On A Lump Of Sugar – The New Grosvenor House Band Directed by Sid Lipton / Val Fisher (Gerry Fitzgerald), v.
Two Little Rooms – Hollywood Dance Orchestra (Adrian Schubert) / Irving Kaufman, v.

Segment 2: Say It!

Say It While Dancing – Mike Markel’s Orchestra
(I Don’t Believe It, But) Say It Again – Hollywood Players (Nathan Glantz) / Arthur Fields, v.

Say It With A Ukulele – Bennie Krueger’s Orchestra
Say It To The Ediphone – Billy Jones and Ernest Hare

Segment 3: Bouncing

Bouncing Baby Boy – Sam Manning
The Bounding Ball – Lew Stone and His Band

Bouncin’ Round – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
Bouncin’ In Rhythm – Adrian and His Tap Room Gang

Segment 4: Left Hand, Right Hand

Never Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand’s Doin’ – Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five / Louis Jordan, v.
Right Hand Friend – Leroy’s Buddy (Baill Gaither
Hands Off! – Irving Kaufman

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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 these folks are? It’s the Pickard Family. They were as popular in the 1920s as the Carter Family, the Stoneman Family and Fiddlin’ Powers and Family and were led by patriarch Odebdia Orlando Pickard, better known as “Dad” Pickard. In the fourth segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, you’ll hear them perform “The Little Red Caboose Behind The Train” from 1929. We’ll be celebrating two birthdays this week, those of barrelhouse blues singer Georgia White and saxophonist and bandleader Don Parker.  This is a show you can really get “behind.”  There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour, relax with your favorite beverage and be 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: Georgia White

I’m So Glad I’m 21 Today – Georgia White
When You’re Smiling The Whole World Smiles With You – Jimmy Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra / Georgia White, v.
The Stuff Is Here – Georgia White

Segment 2: Vamping

Fascinatin’ Vamp – Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra
The Vamp – Walford-Astoria Singing Orchestra

Sally Green (The Village Vamp) – Billy Murray
Sob Sister Sadie (The Vamp Cry Baby) – Ernest Hare

Segment 3: Don Parker

Tiger Rag – Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1923)
Pick Me Up And Lay Me Down In Dear Old Dixieland – Don Parker Trio

Only You And Lonely Me – Don Parker and His Band at Piccadilly Hotel and Kit-Kat Club, London
Rose Of The Rio Grande – Don Parker’s Western Melody Boys

Segment 4: Behind

Behind The Clouds (There’s Crowds And Crowds Of Sunbeams) – Percival Mackey and His Band / Harry Glen (Fred Douglas), v.
He Left Her Behind Before – Savoy Orpheans / Ramon Newton, v.
Little Red Caboose Behind The Train – Pickard Family

Bonus Track

Stingo Stungo – Pennsylvania Syncopators

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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’re going to take a musical trip down under to Alligator Creek, Queensland, Australia and hear John Hyman’s Bayou Stompers for the first time on the show. In the second segment we’re going to have a tantrum and throw some things. If you like lighthouses–and who doesn’t love lighthouses– in the third segment we’ll visit some lighthouses. If you watch the TV show Wheel of Fortune, you know that in this age of COVID, in order to spin the wheel, contestant use what host Pat Sajak refers to as “the little white thing.” Well, in the fourth segment of the show, we’ll have some rapidly rotating records about some other little white things. And in the final segment of the show, I’ll tell an embarassing story about my granddaughter Allison and we’ll get stung! There’s lots of great music and interesting information, and even perhaps a chuckle or two, 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: Alligators

Lullaby For A Mexican Alligator – Peter Packay and His Swing Orchestra
The Alligator Pond Went Dry – Victoria Spivey
Alligator Blues – John Hyman and His Bayou Boys

Segment 2: Throw Down

The “Throw-Down” Blues – The Ambassadors
Throw Me In The Alley – Peetie Wheatstraw

Segment 3: Lighthouses

A Little White Lighthouse – Maurice Winnick and His Sweet Music / Sam Costa, v.
When The Bell In The Lighthouse Rings – Wilfred Glenn
The Darkened Lighthouses – Ragnar Sundquist and Eric Olson

Segment 4: Little White Things

The Little White House (At The End Of Honeymoon Lane) – Savoy Orpheans / Ramon Newton and Jim Cassidy, v.
Little White Lies – Layton and Johnstone

A Little White Gardenia – Roy Fox and His Band / Denny Dennis, v.
Parade Of The Little White Mice – Vincent Lopez and His Suave Swing Orchestra / Penny Parker, v.

Segment 5: Sting!

Stingo Stungo – Frank Crumit
I Got The Stinger – Jabbo Smith
Death Sting Me Blues – Sara Martin

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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’re celebrating three birthdays, those of George Christie, Reed Miller and Margaret Young, all three getting their own segment for the first time. As a public service and educational feature, we’ll have a timely vocabulary lesson in a segment in which we’ll play not the usual three records, but five! There is a higher percentage of acoustic records this week, including a cylinder record in the first segment. Acoustically recorded discs, made without microphones or electrical amplification, can be difficult to listen to and tiring to the ears. I do my best to select records that are in the best condition possible going in and if necessary, restore them as much as possible without destroying the music to make them as easy and pleasant to listen to. With the podcast, it’s possible to pause the show in order to take a break and I know some listeners who even listen to a segment a day in order to stretch out their enjoyment of the show to almost the whole week. It can even be downloaded to be listened to at your convenience and as many times as you’d like. However you choose to listen, THANK YOU! There’s lots of great music and interesting information, and even perhaps a chuckle or two, 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: George Christie

 On A Good Old-Time Straw Ride – Al Bernard and The Gully Jumpers
If All My Dreams Were Made Of Gold, I’d Buy The World For You – Orpheus Quartet
Down In Sunshine Valley – Manuel Romain

Segment 2: Reed Miller

There’s A Long, Long Trail – James Reed and James F. Harrison
Come Back To Arizona – Reed Miller and Frederick J. Wheeler
Molly O! – Reed Miller

Segment 3: Margaret Young

Oh! By Jingo! – Margaret Young
(I’m Scared To Death To Hold My Breath) Under The Water – Margaret Young
Tomorrow – Margaret Young

 Segment 4: Fealty

Illinois Loyalty Song – Dan A. Russo’s Oriole Orchestra
True Blue Bill – Gene Autry

Devotion – John McCormack
I’ll Be Faithful – Bernie Cummins and His New Yorkers / Walter Cummins, v.

Comrades Of The Legion – Sousa’s 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.

Every once in a while I like to throw out the phrase, “I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong” in a conversation, just to mess with people. Well, as it turns out, I actually did make a mistake on last week’s show. So the introduction to this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records starts off with an admission and correction. But once that’s been taken care of, in the first segment of the show we’ll celebrate Johnny Dunn’s birthday. Unfortunately I’ve never been to The Waldorf. The Waldorf is, of course, The Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York and you’ll hear some of the history of the hotel in this week’s show. Actually hotels, plural, since they started out as completely separate hotels. And we’ll hear some songs about The Waldorf, including the record above by our old friend Fats Waller. In the second segment we’ll have some songs about pavo cristatus (peacocks). You thought recording only went back to the late 1800s, but we’ll hear a recording from deep within the RRR archives from all the way back in 1776 of a conversation between Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson about some of Franklin’s “wise sayings.” Here at Rapidly Rotating Records we try to adhere to the wise saying to “Say what you mean and mean what you say!” so we’ll play some records asking “Did you mean it?”  Last week we heard “Muddlin’ Thro'” written by Howard Flynn and in the final segment of the show we’ll hear a couple more compositions by Howard Flynn. There’s lots of great music, interesting information and even perhaps a chuckle or two, 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: Johnny Dunn

 Smilin’ Joe – The Plantation Orchestra
Original Bugle Blues – Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds
I Promised Not To Holler Bu Hey! Hey! – Johnny Dunn and His Band

Segment 2: pavo cristatus

Peacock Rag – Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith and His Dixieliners
Peacock Walk – Harry Raderman’s Jazz Orchestra
The Peacock – Max Dolin’s Orchestra

Segment 3: Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say

Did You Mean It? – Joe Loss and His Band / Chick Henderson, v.
Did You Mean What You Said Last Night? – Joe Furst AHO
Make Me Know It (If You Mean What You Say) – Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys

 Segment 4: Lounging at the Waldorf

Lounging At The Waldorf – Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.
Rhumba At The Waldorf – Don Jose and His Orchestra
Waddling At The Waldorf – Fud Candrix AHO

Segment 5: Howard Flynn

Clatter Of The Clogs – Debroy Somer Band / Dan Donovan, v.
Looking On The Bright Side – Henry Hudson Orchestra / Jenny Howard, v.
One Tiny Tear – Howard Flynn AHO / Cavan O’Connor, 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 the fellow above is? He’s violinist Dajos Bela, born Leon Golzmann in Kiev, Ukraine on December 19, 1897. You’ll hear him directing the Odeon studio orchestra to start off the fourth segment of the show playing “All Muddled Up.” The segment closes with a vastly different arrangement of “All Muddled Up” performed by Harry Reser’s OKeh Syncopators. As an amateur mixologist and fan of vintage cocktails, I do a fair amount of muddling for mojitos, juleps, smashes, caipiroskas, old-fashioneds and shrubs. We’re going to muddle our way through the fourth segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records with some tunes about muddling. In other segments we’ll put on the brakes and get told what not to do and in the final segment we’ll get slap happy. The show starts out with some “unfortunate” records. 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: Unfortunate

Unfortunate Blues – The Benson Orchestra of Chicago
The Unfortunate Brakeman – Kentucky Ramblers
Rye Straw – Fiddlin’ Doc Roberts

Segment 2: Brakeman

Brakeman Blues – Whitey McPherson and The Rhythm Wreckers
The Brakeman’s Reply – Cliff Carlisle
Mr. Brakeman Let Me Ride Your Train – Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon

Segment 3: Don’t Do That

You Shouldn’t Do That – Casey Bill Weldon
Don’t Do That To The Poor Puss Cat – Ronnie Munro AHO / Leslie Sarony, v.
Ah! Ah! Aw! Aw! Papa Mustn’t Do That – Earl Gresh and His Gangplank Orchestra / Unidentified, v.

Segment 4: Muddling Through

All Muddled Up – Kuenstler-Kappelle Dajos Bela
Muddlin’ Thro – G. H. Elliott
All Muddled Up – OKeh Syncopators (Harry Reser)

Segment 5: Slap Happy

Show Slap Dance – Heinie and His Grenadiers
Slap Happy Lassie – Teddy Powell AHO / Ruth Gaylor, v.
Slap It, Shake It – Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets

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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.

Rapidly Rotating Records is a G-rated family show, but we push the envelope this week in the fourth segment with a set of songs about “the world’s oldest profession,” including the one above by Georgia White. In other segments, we’ll have some Presidential fanfare, we’ll hear some tunes about rubus fruticosus (blackberries!) and express some emphatic affirmations.   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: Leon René

 When The Swallow Come Back To Capistrano – The Ink Spots
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South – Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends
I’m Mr. African – Leon Rene’s Orchestra / Banjo Buck, v.

Segment 2: Rubus fruticosus (Blackberries)

Blackberry Rag – Three Stripped Gears
Blackberry Blossom – Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith and His Dixieliners
Four Little Blackberries – Vess L. Ossman

Segment 3: Hail to the Chief

Hail To The Chief (Excerpt) – Victor Male Quartet
Presidential Polonaise – Sousa’s Band
Hail Columbia – Victor Military Band

 Segment 4: Oldest Profession

My Monday Woman Blues – Jim Jackson
Selling My Pork Chops – Memphis Minnie
I’ll Keep Sittin’ On It (If I Can’t Sell It) – Georgia White

Segment 5: Yes, Sir!

Yes, Sir – Milton Brown and His Brownies
Yes Sirt! That’s Lazy Bones – Dixie Daisies
Yes, Sir! That’s My Baby – Ace Brigode and His Fourteen Virginians

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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 lovely lady is?  She’s Elsie Carlisle who starts off this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records with her very own birthday salute. Unfortunately, we can play but three of the 340 or so recordings that she made. We’ll be introducing a new feature on this week’s show. It’s sort of like “One Thing in Common” but for lack of a catchier name, we’re calling it “To Whom Do These Records Refer?” We’ll be playing three records whose titles refer not to a composer or artist, but to an activist in the labor movement. If you know the answer before I tell you at the end of the segment, I’d like to talk to you after the show to find out just how you know! The third segment of the show will be devoted to songs about Alabama, started off with another version of a song we played last week, “Yea Alabama.” You should always treat the boss with respect and the fourth segment will give you some tips of dealing with the boss. The final segment of the show is all about dream boats. There’s plenty of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour, get your favorite beverage, relax and

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: Elsie Carlisle

 Pu-Leeze! Mr. Hemingway – Ambrose AHO / Elsie Carlisle, v.
Moonlight On The Waterfall – Jack Harris AHO / Elsie Carlisle, v.
The Clouds Will Soon Roll By – Ambrose AHO / Elsie Carlisle, v.

Segment 2: “To Whom Do These Songs Refer?

St. James Infirmary – Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys
Los Coyotes – Narciso Martinez
Love For Sale – Ruby Newman AHO / Adelaide Moffett, v.

Segment 3: Alabama

Yea Alabama – Jazz Pilots
Alabama Mamma – Jack Padbury’s Cosmo Club Six
Alabama Blues – Three Stripped Gears

Segment 4: The Boss

Sassin’ The Boss – Red Nichols Orchestra
Yes Sir, Boss – Arcadian Serenaders
Boss o’ The Hoose – Glen Ellison

Segment 5: Dream Boat

When My Dream Boat Comes Home – Billy Thorburn and His Music / Ken Crossley, v.
Dream Boat – The Troubadours / Jack Parker, v.
My Little Dream Boat – Ted Lewis and His Band / Ted Lewis, 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.

The fourth segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records is all about pigeons, and there’s a very specific reason I’ll be playing the record above and three other records about pigeons. Listen to the show to find out all about the island’s very interesting and historic connection to pigeons. In other segments, we’ll be playing records relating to the recent NCAA Championship game,  and celebrating James V. Monaco’s birthday. In a little less upbeat segment, we’ll hear some depression era songs about starvation. But the first segment opens the show with some very happy records.  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: For No Particular Reason

 Happy Days Are Here Again – Gregor et ses Gregoriens
Bidin’ My Time – The Foursome
Happy Days – Vincent Lopez and His Hotel Pennsylvania Music
Segment 2: James V. Monaco

That Big Bonde Mamma – Tennessee Ten
Boy! Oh, Boy! Oh, Boy I’ve Got It Bad – The High Hatter / Frank Luther, v.
Ah-Ha! – Ted Lewis and His Band / Ted Lewis, v.

Segment 3: Starvation

Starvation Blues – Jessie Stone’s Blue Serenaders
Starving To Death On A Government Claim – Edward L. Crain
The Northern Starvers Are Returning Hime – Charlie McCoy and Bo Carter

 Segment 4: Pigeons

Carrier Pigeon – Raymond Scott AHO
Carrier Pigeon Blues – Luella Miller
Pigeon Walk – Victor Military Band
Pigeon Walk – Jimmie Lunceford AHO

Segment 5: NCAA

Yea Alabama – Snooks Friedman and His Memphis Stompers
Buckeye Battle Cry – Frank Crumit

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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.

There are a couple of very important dates in January which we’ll remind you of in this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records.  We’ll also get a bit carried away.  And since we haven’t done so in quite a while, we’ll have another episode of “For No Particular Reason” which will span not one, not two, but three segments.   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: Prohibition

 Hello, Montreal – Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians
I’ll See You In C-U-B-A – Ted Lewis’ Jazz Band

Segment 2: Carried Away

Carry It On Down – Arcadian Serenaders
Oh, Boys, Carry Me ‘Long – Harry C. Browne

Segment 3: For No Particular Reason 1

Tweet Tweet – Jack Payne and His Hotel Cecil Orchestra / Jack Payne, v.
I Swung The Election – Jack Teagarden AHO / Jack Teagarden, v.
I Want A Pardon For Daddy – Henry Burr & James Stanley
Courthouse Bump – Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers

Segment 4: For No Particular Reason 2

Capitol Blues – Dewey Jackson’s St. Louis Charleston Peacock Orchestra / Floyd Campbell, v.
A White House Of Our Own – Ted FioRito AHO / Muzzy Marcellino, v.
Get Out Of Town – Eddy Duchin AHO / Stanley Worth, v.
National Guard March – Victor Orchestra

Segment 5: For No Particular Reason 3

The Lunatic’s Lullaby – Seven Wild Men (Harry Reser) / Tom Stacks, v.
Coo Coo – Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra
Go Away And Don’t Come Back – Jack Stillman’s Orioles
Seven Long Years In Prison – Tenneva Ramblers
Which Side Are You On? – The Almanac Singers

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