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.

I’ve been accused of losing my mind more than once, and apparently bandleader Bob Zurke is losing his mind as well. This week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records starts off by playing some mind games. We’ll also have another episode of “One Thing in Common” where we play a set of rapidly rotating records which seemingly have nothing whatsoever to do with each other yet have one this in common. This time there are six records over two segments. You’re probably familiar with the Hoosier Hot Shots, but in the third segment of the show you’ll hear from and about some other hot shots. And in the second segment we’ll fulfill a request. There 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 era of music. 

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: Mind Games

Georgia On My Mind – Quintet du Hot Club of France
I’m Losing My Mind – Bob Zurke and His Delta Rhythm Orchestra / Evelyn Poe, v.
You Don’t Know My Mind – Bob Dunn’s Vagabonds

 Segment 2: Request

Dixie Girl – Plantation Trio (Van Eps Trio)
He’d Have To Get Under, Get Out And Get Under – Victor Military Band
Dixie Girl – Dick Rogers AHO

Segment 3: Hot Shots

I’m Gonna Stomp Mr. Henry Lee – Eddie’s Hot Shots
Who’s Sorry Now – Harlem Hot Shots
Three Men Went A-Hunting – Byrd Moore and His Hot Shots

Segment 4: One Thing In Common 1

It’s A Sin To Tell A Lit – Freddy Ellis AHO / Seymour Richards, v.
On The Sunny Side Of The Street – Ted Lewis and His Band / Ted Lewis, v.
Walk Right In – Cannon’s Jug Stompers / Hosea Woods, v.

Segment 5: One Thing In Common 2

A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody – John Steel
Marry An Ugly Woman – Hubert Raphael Charles (The Lion)
Tom Dooley – Grayson and Whitter

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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.

Welcome to the very first Rapidly Rotating Records show of 2021. I imagine you’ll join me in hoping that the new year will be much better than 2020. In the second segment of the show, we’ll have another episode of “One Thing In Common.” That’s the musical game where we play a set of records which seemingly have nothing whatsoever to do with each other and yet have…one thing in common. In the third segment of the show we’ll have a set of “clean” songs. Now that we have a couple of vaccines again the COVID virus, it’s important for everyone to get vaccinated as soon as available to them so the last segment of the show has a set of songs about getting a shot. There’s also detailed information about the fascinating life of W. B. Chenoweth, leader of Chenweth’s Cornfield Symphony Orchestra. And in the spirit of the new year, the first segment of the show is a set of “new” songs.  There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour, prepare your favorite beverage, get comfortable and enjoy the show. It will be time well spent. 

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: New

There’s A New Day Comin’ – Ted Lewis and His Band / Ted Lewis, v.
Dawn Of A New Day – Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights / Charles Goodman, v.
It’s A Whole New Thing – Frankie Carle and His Sunrise Serenaders / The LeAhn Sisters, v.

 Segment 2: One Thing In Common

Every Day Blues (Yo Yo Blues) – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
Jiving The Jeep – Red Norvo AHO
Zip Zip Zipper – Light Crust Doughboys

Segment 3: Clean Songs

I Said No – Alvino Rey AHO / Yconne King, v.
Electrician Blues – Lizzie Miles
I’m Going To Give It To Mary With Love – Cliff Edwards
My Girl’s Pussy – Harry Roy and His Bat Club Boys / Harry Roy, v.

 Segment 4: Vaccination

I Think You Need A Shot – Walter Davis
Give Me Another Shot – Casey Bill Weldon
The Last Shot Got Him – Chenoweth’s Cornfield Symphony Orchestra
Big Shot – Fess Williams and His Royal Flush 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.

Welcome to the final Rapidly Rotating Records show…of 2020 that is! On this week’s show we’ll take a musical trip to Wyoming, we’ll visit some exotic isles, half fulfill a request, have a vocabulary lesson and give in. There’s plenty of great music and what I think is some fascinating information, so prepare your favorite beverage, get comfortable and click below to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience. Best wishes to all for a happy, healthy, safe, extraordinarily prosperous and most inportantly, COVID-free New Year. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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: Laramie

The Man From Laramie – Poul Bundgaard, v. with Elo Magnussen AHO
Lady From Laramie – Terry Gilkyson
Will You Marry Me, Mr. Laramie? – Orrin Tucker AHO / Bonnie Baker, v.

 Segment 2: Isles

Isle Of Zorda – Jess Libonati, xylophone
On The Hoko Moko Isle – Collins & Harlan
The Isle Of Hootcha Kootcha – Norman Long
On The Isle Of Wicki-Wacki-Woo – Gene Rodemich’s Orchestra

Segment 3: Moiety

Half A Moon – Alfredo and His Band
Castle’s Half And Half – Prince’s Band
Half A Kiss – George Fisher and His Rhythm Band

 Segment 4: Give In

I’ll Never Give In – Benny Carter and The Ramblers
That Makes Me Give In – Ford Britten and His Blue Comets (Lou Gold) / Ford Britten (Bill Coty), v.
I Give In So Easy – Sweet Violet Boys

Segment 5: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Uncle Josh’s New Year’s Pledge – Cal Stewart
Auld Lang Syne – Nevada Van Der Veer

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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 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!

This week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records will being and end with two *extremely* different readings of Clement Clarke Moore’s “‘Twas The Night Before Christmas” but that’s the extent of the Christmas “music” this year. In the third segment of the show we’ll take a musical trip to Shanghai, which accounts for the illustrations above.  You’ll hear a snippet from “From Here To Shanhai” by Collins and Harlan which mentions the famous Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo.  In other segments, we’ll hear some *very* creative rhyming, and get “shot,” but don’t worry, not by bullets. What is the plural of “Dolores.” Doloreses or Doloresi? I ask because we’ll also have a segment with multiple songs about Dolores. There’s plenty of great music and what I think is some fascinating information, so prepare your favorite Yuletide beverage (I think I’ll have a Candy Cane Martini!), get comfortable and click below to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience. Happy Holidays!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Rhymes

It’s Psychological – Lew Stone and His Band at the Monseigneur Restaurant / Al Bowlly, v.
I Wanna Get Married – Gertrude Niesen
You’re The Top – Cole Porter

 Segment 2: Shoot!

Shoot The Likker To Me John Boy – Artie Shaw and His New Music / Leo Watson, v.
Shoot The Sherbet To Me, Herbert – Bob Chester AHO / Kathleen Lane, v.
Shoot The Sherbet To Me, Herbert – New Friends Of Rhythm

Segment 3: Shanghai

Shanghai Lil – Ben Bernie and All The Lads
Song Of Shanghai – Shanghai – Savoy Orpheans
From Here To Shanghai – Victor Military Band
From Here To Shanghai – Collins & Harlan (Excerpt)

 Segment 4: Dolores

Dance, Dolores – Harry Roy AHO / Harry Roy, v.
Dolores – Bar Harbor Society Orchestra / John Lawrence, v.
Dolores 0 Bing Crosby with the Merry Macs and Bob Crosby’s Bob Cats
Dolores – Six Jumping Jacks / Tom Stacks, v.

Segment 5: Merry Christmas

‘Twas The Night Before Christmas – Ernest Hare

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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 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!

Do you know who this fellow is? His name is Jimmy Savo. He was primarily a vaudeville performers, stage and screen actor and comedian. He made at least two commercial 78 sides, one of which starts off the fourth segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records which is all about meat balls!  To start off the show we’ll celebrate Emilw Waldteufel’s birthday.  Don’t recognize the name? I’m not surprised, but I will be very surprised if you don’t recognize the last of the three tunes we’ll play in the segment. In other segments, we’ll invite you to come over, and we’ll send for some things. And did I mention that his is a *peach* of a show! There’s plenty of great music and some fascinating information, so just click on the player at the top of the post  to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Emile Waldteufel

Dolores Waltz – Dave Grupp’s Orchestra
Ever Or Never – Victor Cafe Orchestra
Skater’s Waltz – Reginald Dixon

 Segment 2: Peaches

Little Peach – Markel and His Orchestra
My Orchard Is Short Of A Peach Like You – Bill Murray & Ada Jones
Peelin’ The Peach – Les Brown and His Orchestra / Herb Muse, v.

Segment 3: Send for…

Send For Me – Oscar Grogan
Send For A Policeman – George Lashwood
Send For Our Free Booklet – Six Jumping Jacks / Tom Stacks, v.
Send For Me – The High Hatters / Frank Luther, v.

 Segment 4: Meat Balls

One Meat Ball – Toots Camarata Orchestra / Jimmy Savo, v.
Shoot The Meat Balls To Me, Dominick Boy! – Jimmy Dorsey AHO

Segment 5: Come Over

Won’t You Come Over To My House – George E. Lee’s Novelty Singing Orchestra / Julia Lee, v.
Won’t You Come Over and Say Hello – Clarence Williams AHO / Chick Bullock, v.
Won’t You Come Over To My House – Dick Robertson AHO / Dick Robertson, 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.
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!

On this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records we’ll celebrate the natal anniversary of Arthur Wimperis. In other segments, we’ll take a musical trip to the Wabash, fire some cannon balls and just give up. In a new feature on the show, we’ll play “One of these things is not like the others” in which the record above will play a part. In the opening to the show I’ll also make a correction to last week’s show. There’s plenty of great music and what I think is some fascinating information, so just click below to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Arthur Wimperis

Friend To The End – Reed Miller
Little Peach – Waring’s Pennsylvanians / Tom Waring, v.
I’ll Make A Man Of You – Gwendoline Brogdon
When You Want A Cake Of Soap – Victor Light Opera Company

 Segment 2: The Rounders

Singin’ In The Rain – The Rounders
Broadway Melody – The Rounders
Hello, Cutie – The Rounders

Segment 3: Give Up

(If Love Makes You Give Up) Steak And Potatoes – Brian Lawrance and The Quaglino Quartet
Don’t Give Up The SHip – Mike Riley and Eddie Farley and Their Onyx Club Boys
If I Give Up The Saxophone – Jack Dalton and the Seven Blue Babies

 Segment 4: Wabash

Thinkin’ About The Wabash – Carroll Gibbons and The Savoy Hotel Orpheans / Jill Manne, v.
Wabash Blues – Claude Bampton and His Prince’s Theatre Orchestra
Underneath The Wabash Moon – Debroy Somers and His Band

Segment 5: Cannon Balls

Wabash Cannonball – Ballard Cross
Cannon Ball March – The Home Guards Band
Cannon Ball Blues – Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers

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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 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!

Do you know who this lovely lady is? Singer Helen Clare who starts off this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records with her own segment for the first time. In other segments, we’ll cobble together some songs about cobblers, watch a parade, recap the West Coast Ragtime Festival and play “One Thing in Common.” That’s where we play records which seemingly have nothing whatsoever to with each other, yet have one thing in common. There’s plenty of great music and what I think is some fascinating information, so just click below to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Helen Clare

My Very Good Friend The Milkman – Jack Jackson AHO / Helen Clare, v.
Whispers In The Dark – Jay Wilbur AHO / Helen Clare, v.
Goodnight, Wherever You Are – Harry Leader AHO / Helen Clare, v.

 Segment 2: Cobblers

Danza Espanola No. 6 Zapateado Op. 23 No. 2 (Sarasate) – Jascha Heifetz
The Cobbler’s Song – Peter Dawson

Segment 3: Doo Dah Parade

Doo-Dah Blues – Lanin’s Southern Serenaders
Gwine To Run All Night (De Camptown Races) – Wendell Hall and The Shannon Quartet

 Segment 4: One Thing In Common

I Got To See The Minstrel Show – Arthur Collins
Out Of A Clear Blue Sky – Nat Brusiloff AHO
I Love You, Sunday – Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra

Segment 5: West Coast Ragtime Festival

The Ben-Hur Chariot Race March – Sousa’s Band
Scandal Walk – Yerkes Blue Bird Orchestra
Omeomy – Roy Bargy (1920 Piano Roll)

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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 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!

Why in the world would we have the logo for Klein’s Rapid Shoe Repair Co., Inc. as the masthead of this page? Well, you’ll find out in the last segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. We’ll be celebrating not one, not two, not three but FOUR birthdays, those of J. Fred Helf, Jules Buffano, Charlie Johnson and Slatz Randall. And in the final segment, we’ll hear a couple of records about shoemakers! There’s plenty of great music and what I think is some fascinating information, so just click below to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: J. Fred Helf

New Tipperary March – Arthur Pryor’s Band
The Lightning Express – Blue Sky Boys
When You Know You’re Not Forgotten By The Girl You Can’t Forget – Jimmie Davis

 Segment 2: Jules Buffano

Thanks For The Buggy Ride – Carlyle Stevenson and His El Patio Orchestra
Henpecked Blues – Charlie Straight
Learning – Eddy Duchin AHO / Lew Sherwood, v.

Segment 3: Charlie Johnson

Hot Bones And Rice – Charlie Johnson AHO
Birmingham Black Bottom – Charlie Johnson’s Original Paradise Ten / Monette Moore, v.
Walk That Thing – Charlie Johnson and His Paradise Ten

 Segment 4: Slatz Randall

Got A Great Big Date With A Little Bitta Girl – Slatz Randall AHO / Unidentified, v.
Hello, Gorgeous – Slatz Randall AHO / Unidentified Vocal Trio
I’d Do Anything For You – Slatz Randall AHO / Unidentified, v.

Segment 5: Shoemakers

Nobody Cares (When I’m Lonesome) – Klein’s Serenading Shoemakers (Joe Green)
Shoemaker’s Dance – Victor 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.

This week’s edition of the show starts off with a birthday salute for bandleader Lloyd Finlay and one of the three records we’ll play is pictured above, “Rope ‘Em Cowboy.” It’s a fun record with lots of musical effects, as are several records on the show. We’ll also celebrate the birthday of composer Mayhew Lake. There’s been some serious counting going on around the country recently, so we’ll do some counting of our own in the second segment. We’ll get some kicks in the fourth segment and finish up with a musical trip to Pago Pago! Be aware that I forgot to credit Eddie Holly with the vocal on “Stop Kicking My Heart Around” on the show. There’s lots of great music and some fascinating information in store, so just click on the link to listen streaming instantly online and/or download the show for listening at your convenience.     

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: Lloyd Finlay

You’ll Want Me Back Someday – Lloyd Finlay AHO
Mamma (Won’t You Come And Ma-Ma Me) – Lloyd Finlay AHO
Rope ’em Cowboy – Lloyd FInlay AHO

 Segment 2: Counting

Don’t Count Your Chickens (Before They Hatch) – Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra
It’s The Little Things That Count – Jan Garber AHO
Counting The Days – The Ambassadors

Segment 3: Mayhew Lake

Clown Dance – Conway’s Band
The Joker – Sousa’s Band
Flirting Whistler – Conway’s Band

 Segment 4: Kicks

Kicky-Koo – Joseph Samuels’ Music Masters
Stop Kicking My Heart Around – Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra / Eddie Holly, v.
I Get A Kick Outa Corn – Ford Leary and His Boys / Ford Leary, v.

Segment 5: Pago Pago

The Monkeys Have No Tails In Pago Pago – Abe Lyman and His Californians / Rose Blane, v.
Pago Pago – Pua Almeida and His Club Pago Pago Orchestra
South Of Pago Pago – Carl Ravazza and His Orchestra / Carl Ravazza, 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.

This week’s edition of the show consists of just four segments instead of the usual five, but don’t worry, there’s the same amount of great music and interesting information in store,We won’t be hearing it by Earl Fuller’s Famous Jazz Band as pictured on the sheet music above, but we will be hearing “Sliding Sid” played by the Victor Military Band to start off a “sliding” segment. We’ll start off the show by celebrating Herman Finck’s birthday with four of his compositions.  We’ll do some trumpeting in the third segment and finish things up by taking a musical trip on Route 66 and a couple of other routes.    

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: Herman Finck

The Flag That Never Comes Down – Edward Hamilton
Pirouette – McKee’s Orchestra
Around The Map – Victor Military Band
In The Shadows – Bidgood’s Broadcasters / Cavan O’Connor, v.

 Segment 2: Sliding

Sliding Sid – New York Military Band
Slidin’ Around – Donald Lindley and His Boys
Corbin Slide – Alex Hood and His Railroad Boys
Slide, Mr. Jelly, Slide – Fess Williams and His Royal Flush Orchestra

Segment 3: Trumpeting

Trumpet Blues – Donald Lindley
The Trumpet’s Prayer – King Oliver Orchestra
American Trumpeter March – Conway’s Band

 Segment 4: Routes

Route 66 – King Cole Trio
Route 23 – Al Donahue AHO
Route Marchin’ – Peter Dawson

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