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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? His real name is Barry Hansen, but he’s better known to his millions of fans as Dr. Demento. I’ve been a fan since the 1970s and recently had the pleasure of celebrating his 84th birthday at the L. A. Breakfast Club. So why is his the featured photograph on this week’s playlist? Well, you’ll find out in the second segment of this week’s show when I play a handful of “handful” records. Harry Harden and Lloyd Finlay will each have a birthday segment. We’ll also have a vocabulary lesson, take a musical trip to the Cumberlands and have a “Hi-Oh Silver” segment. 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Harry Harden

Blazinec (Madhouse) – Orchestr Harry Harden
Mily Hochu (Dear Boy) – Orchestr Harry Harden
Alkohol Ragtime – Jazzorchestr Harry Harden

Segment 2: Dr. Demento

Handful Of Keys – Fats Waller (Command Performance #95 Radio Broadcast)
Handful Of Riffs – Lonnie Johnson and Blind Willie Dunn
A Handful Of Stars – Artie Shaw AHO / Anita Boyer, v.

Segment 3: Coulrophobia

Joey The Clown – Jack Payne and His BBC Dance Orchestra / Billy Scott-Coomber & Jack Payne, v.
Broken-Hearted Clown – The Street Singer (Arthur Tracy)
Clownin’ Around – Jeanne Burns and Her Band / Jeanne Burns, v.

Segment 4: The Lone Ranger

Yodeling Ranger – W. Lee O’Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys
The Rangers’ Song – Lou McAdams
Texas Ranger – Cartwright Brothers

Segment 5: Cumberland Gap

In The Cumberland Mountains – Carson Robison Trio
Cumberland Gap – Frank Hutchison
Saro – Warren Caplinger’s Cumberland Mountain Entertainers

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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? His name is Ross Turner. He’s not a composer, lyricist or instrumentalist, so you may wonder why his photograph is featured on this week’s playlist. Well, Ross was my boss (he hated the term!) for the 25 years I worked at Guided Discoveries until my retirement a few years ago. Ross passed away unexpectedly on October 9 and as my feeble attempt at a tribute and message to the family, the final segment of this week’s show is dedicated to him. If you’re not familiar with Ross and Kristi Turner and Guided Discoveries, after listening to the show I encourage you to find out more about them at the website gdi dot org. In other segments, we’ll hear some records that are just “ducky,” we’ll visit some dance halls, enjoy some musical chocolate and hear about some good girls. 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Good Girls

The Good, Bad Girl – Vaughn De Leath
That’s A Good Girl – Jack Smith (The Whispering Baritone)
Good Girl – Dixie Rag Pickers

Segment 2: Just Ducky

The Duck Song – Roy Fox and His Band / Sid Buckman, v.
Ducky – Savoy Sylvians
Ducky Wucky – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra

Segment 3: Dance Halls

Sunshine – The Garden Dancing Palace Orchestra
Dance Hall Shuffle – Clifford Hayes Louisville Sluggers Orchestra
Dance Hall Doll – Dave Frost

Segment 4: Chocolate

Chocolate Avenue – Clarence Williams Orchestra
The Chocolate Soldier Selections, Part 2 – Marek Weber AHO
Frosted Chocolate – Harry Reser

Segment 5: Ross Turner

There’s A Lot Of Things You Never Learn At School – Dan W. Quinn
You Made A Difference To Me – Percival Mackey’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.

Do you know who this fellow is? He’s violinist and bandleader Marek Weber and his is one of four birthdays we’ll be celebrating on this week’s show. The other birthday segments are for H. Benne Henton, Carl Kress and Clay Boland. And in the final segment we’ll play house. 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.

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Segment 1: Marek Weber

First, Have A Little Drink With Me, Baby – Marek Weber et sein Orchester
A Little Love Affair – Marek Weber et sein Orchester
Whe You Kiss Me – Marek Weber et sein Orchester

Segment 2: H. Benne Henton

Laverne – H. Benne Henton with Conway’s Band
Il Bacio (The Kiss) (A Waltz Song) – H. Benne Henton
Nadine – H. Benne Henton

Segment 3: Clay Boland

Dreary Weather – Sam Lanin’s Orchestra
I Live The Life I Love – Richard Himber and His Essex House Orchestra / Stuart Allen, v.
He Ain’t Never Been In College – Six Jumping Jacks / Tom Stacks, v.

Segment 4: Carl Kress

Love Song – Carl Kress
Shanghai Dream Man – Irwin Abrams Orchestra / Les Reis, v.
Stage Fright – Dick McDonough and Carl Kress

Segment 5: Razing The House

I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down – HHazel Meyers
White House Blues – Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers
You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down – Cripple Clarence Lofton

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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 is there a photograph of a cow wearing a cowbell as the featured image on this week’s playlist for the show? Well, you’ll find out in the second segment as we hear a set of rapidly rotating records about cows. In other segments we’ll hear songs about cygnus olor have a segment about kings in general and one very specific king and celebrate Brian Lawrance’s birthday. 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Brian Lawrance

There’s No Green Grass ‘Round The Old North Pole – Brian Lawrance and The Quaglino Quartet
Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Brian Lawrance and His Lansdowne House Sextet
Toodle-Oo – Brian Lawrance and His Lansdowne Orchestra / Brian Lawrance, v.

Segment 2: Cowbell

Cowbell Serenade – Paul Whiteman AHO
Cows May Come, Cows May Go, But The Bull Goes On Forever – Peerless Quartet
Cows – Earl Oliver’s Jazz Babies (Harry Reser)

Segment 3: No Kings

At The Court Of Old King Cole – Ray Noble AHO
Shim-Me-King’s Blues – Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds
Dew, Dew, Dewy Day – King’s Dance Orchestra / Arthur Fields (?), v.

Segment 4: Swans

Le Cygne (The Swan) – Mario “Harp” Lorenzi & Sydney Torch
Wal, I Swan – Riley Puckett
The White Swan – Edison Symphony Orchestra

Segment 5: King Tut

Old King Tut (In Old King Tutankhamen’s Day) – Billy Jones & Ernest Hare
Cohen Visits Tutankhamen’s Tomb – Monroe Silver
Tut-Ankh-Amen (In The Valley Of The Kings) – S S Leviathan Orchestra udo Nelson Maples

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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 is there a photograph of a common cuckoo bird as the featured image on this week’s playlist for the show? Well, it’s actually at the request of listener Robert and you’ll find out why in the final segment of this week’s show. In other segments, John Murray gets his first birthday segment. We’ll have a segment about The Volunteer State (Tennessee, in case you didn’t know) and we’ll take a musical trip to the border. And we’ll listen to a speech. 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: John Murray

She’s A Good Girl – 7 Blue Babies / Jack Dalton (Jack Kaufman), v.
Oh What A Thrill – Chicago Hot Five (Chicago Rhythm Kings) / Eddie Miles, v.
Hello, Sunshine, Hello – New Mayfair Dance Orchestra udo Carroll Gibbons / Harry Shalson, v.

Segment 2: Tennessee

Tentin’ Down In Tennessee – Paul Whiteman AHO / Austin Young, Charles Gaylord, Jack Fulton, v.
Come On To Nashville, Tennessee – Collins & Harlan
Down Among The Sleepy Hills Of Tennessee – Blossom Seeley

Segment 3: Borders

Down On The Border – Lee Green
Opera Presentation Of “South Of The Border” – Alec Templeton
Border Of New Mexico Blues – Bo Carter

Segment 4: Speech!

Speech! – Joe Friedman’s Monte Carlo Orchestra
Don’t Speak To Me – Lottie Kimbrough and Winston Holmes
Me No Speak-A Good English – Green & Ryan

Segment 5: Cuckoo

Dance Of The Cuckoos – Rudy Starita, Xylophone with Arthur Lally AHO / Al Bowlly, v.
Coo Coo Stomp – D. C. Nelson’s Serenaders
The Coo Coo Bird – Clarence Ashley

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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 cowboy is? He’s Bill Boyd and he’s not just a “drug store” cowboy, but the real thing. He was born and grew up on his family’s Texas ranch. You’ll find out more about him and hear three of his more than 200 recorded sides in the first segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. In other segments, we’ll combine our “One Thing in Common” and vocabulary lesson bits into one segment and find ourselves down in a coal mint. We’ll also haul some ashes and go ape. 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: Bill Boyd

The Train Song – Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers
Wah Hoo! – Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers / Bill Boyd, v.
Under The Double Eagle – Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers / Bill Boyd, v.

Segment 2: Hauling Ashes

I Lets My Daddy Do That – Hattie Hart
Ashes Of Dreams – The Rhythm Maniacs udo Arthur Lalley / Maurice Elwin, v.
Shake Your Ashes – Claude Hopkins AHO

Segment 3: One Thing in Common / Vocabulary Lesson

Chittlin’ Supper – Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill
Liver And Bacon – Collins & Harlan
Pig Foot Shuffle – Fowler’s Washboard Wonders

Segment 4: Coal

A Coal Miner’s Dream – Miner Hawins (Vernon Dalhart)
Down In A Coal Mine – Edison Concert Band
Your Boy Is On The Coal Pile Now – Arthur Fields

Segment 5: Jane Goodall

In Zanzibar (My Little Chimpanzee) – Harry Macdonough
The Higher The Monkey Climbs – Fiddling Bob Larkin and His Music Makers
Monkey And The Baboon – Barbecue Bob

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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.

If you play Wordle, you know that one of last week’s words was “fritz.” Many people were upset by that choice because they thought its only meaning was as a proper noun, which Wordle does not use. (Wordle doesn’t use plurals, either, by the way.) In the final segment of this week’s show, you’ll find out where the phrase “on the fritz” likely originated. We also have two birthday salutes this week. One is that of trombonist Joe Harris and you’ll hear three of Joe Harris’ records to start off the show. The other birthday is not of a composer or artist, but of the modern railroad, celebrating its 200th birthday. The drawing above is of George Stephenson’s steam locomotive and cars of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which opened 200 years ago on September 27, 1825. We’ll also have another episode of “One Thing in Common.” And get out your dancing shoes because we’ll have not one, not two, but three records by the Van Eps Dance Orchestra. Really. For sure this time! 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: Joe Harris

Hangin’ Around – Georgia Melodians
Ole Mammy Ain’t Gonna Sing No More – Ben Pollack Orchestra / Joe Harris, v.
Blue River – Prairie Ramblers

Segment 2: Birth of the Modern Railway

Let Me Be Your Sidetrack – Jimmie Rodgers
There’s Lots Of Stations On My Railroad Track – Ada Jones & Billy Murray
Choo Choo Blues – Art Landry’s Syncopatin’ Six

Segment 3: One Thing in Common

I Wonder How It Feels (To Be Head Over Heels In Love) – Webster Moore and His High Hatters (Sam Lanin’s Famous Plaers) / Webster Moore (Scrappy Lambert), v.
Thanks For The Buggy Ride – Phil Hughes and His Hight Hatters / James Potter (Arthur Hall), v.
Duke Of Ka-Ki-Ak – The High Hatters udo Leonard Joy / Frank Luther, v.

Segment 4: Van Eps Dance Orchestra

Old Roses – Van Eps Dance Orchestra / Howard Phillips, v.
Nothing But The Best – Van Eps Dance Orchestra / Howard Phillips, v.
Shadows Of Love – Van Eps Dance Orchestra / Howard Phillips, v.

Segment 5: Wordle : Fritz

Fritz Is On The Fritz – Dixie Daisies
Sing Me A Song, Fritz – Joseph Hortiz
Fritzi – Hollywood Dance Orchestra of New York (Nathan Glantz)

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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.

To end this week’s show we have a few words to say and a few records to play in regard to recent actions taken by and on behalf of the current occupant of the White House against late night comedians and the press. In other, less provocative segments, Emry Arthur, Robert A. King and Harry Salter will all be receiving first-time birthday salutes. And we’ll have yet another Rapidly Rotating Records vocabulary lesson. 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Emry Arthur

Going Around The World – Emry Arthur
Short Life Of Trouble – Emry Arthur
Nobody’s Business – Emry Arthur

Segment 2: Harry Salter

Was It A Dream? – Harry Salter and His Willys-Knighters / Unidentified, v.
The Mystery Man – Harry Salter and His Willys-Knighters / Frank Bessinger, v.
I Ain’t Got Nothin For Nobody But You – Harry Salter AHO / Bob Merwin, v.

Segment 3: Robert A. King

I Love You In The Same Sweet way – Ted Black AHO / Tom Brown, v.
Mississippi Ripples – International Novelty Orchestra udo Nathaniel Shilkret
Tell Me You Love Me – Kensington Serenaders (Ben Selvin) / Irving Kaufman, v.

Segment 4: Vocabulary Lesson: Homodoxian

We Can’t Agree – Big Joe And His Rhythm
Me And My Neighbor Don’t Agree – Charlie Smith’s Demerara Lucky Strike Orchestra / Joe Coggins, v.
Great Final Judgment – Dewey & Gassie Bassett

Segment 5: Freedom of Speech

We Can’t Let You Broadcast That – Norman Long
I Can’t Say – New Orleans Bootblacks
Anything You Say – Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards)

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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 is a photograph of a c. 1905-1910 Carousel Organ manufactured by Louis Francois Hooghuys in Belgium. The Hooghuys family built some of the world’s finest classical church organs, beginning in the late 1700s, but Louis Francois decided to branch out and began making barrel organs, and organs for fairground and dance halls. So why is a photograph of a fairground organ featured in the playlist of a show which plays 78 RPM records from the 1920s and ’30s? Well because I wanted to play Old Faithful March by Abe Holzmann, but could only find a couple of cylinder recordings of it which were nowhere near broadcast quality. I did, however, find a recording of the tune played on a 70-Key Hooghuys Fair Organ and you’ll hear it in the second segment of this week’s show which is all about faithfulness. In other segments, we’ll try to identify some things and hear some hot stuff. We’ll also don couple of disguises. 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.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Was It…?

Was It A Dream? – The Revelers
Was It Rain? – Turner Layton
Was It Wrong? – Lofner-Harris St. Francis Hotel Orchestra / Muzzy Marcellino, v.

Segment 2: Faithfulness

Faithfully Yours – Frank Auburn AHO (Selvin’s Orchestra) / Scrappy Lambert, v.
I’ll Be Faithful – Adrian Rollini AHO / Herb Weil, v.
Old Faithful March (Holzmann) – Hooghuys Fairground Organ

Segment 3: Disguises

Blues In Disguise – Mezz Mezzrow Orchestra
You’re Just An Angel In Disguise – Ray Herbeck and His Music with Romance / Ray Olsen, v.

Segment 4: Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff – Herb Wiedoeft’s Cinderella Roof Orchestra
Strut Yo’ Stuff – La Veeda Dance Orchestra
Professor Hot Stuff – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra

Segment 5: Dave Harman

Twilight (The Stars and You) – Dave Harman AHO
Somebody Like You – Dave Harman AHO
Broadway’s Gone Hillbilly – Dave Harman 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.

Do you know who these fellows are? They’re the pioneering western swing band The Light Crust Doughboys and you’ll hear three of their records in the fourth segment of this week’s show. You’ll also find out why they’re called the Light Crust Doughboys. In other segments, you’ll hear about some of the newest words added to the Oxford English Dictionary. We’ll celebrate Fred Duprez’s birthday and visit “The Rock.” To start off the show we’ll have some songs about “man’s best friend.” 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: Fido

Fido Is A Hot Dog Now – Billy Murray
Paulina, Otto and Fido – Len Spencer and Ada Jones
Fido Blues (Fiddlin’ Blues) – Lloyd Finlay AHO

Segment 2: New Words in the OED

Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love – Phil Spitalny and His Hotel Pennsylvania Music / Annette Hanshaw, v.
That Teasin’, Squeezin’, Man Of Mine – Leona Williams and Her Dixie Band
Sharp As A Tack – Carl Kress and Tony Mottola

Segment 3: Alcatraz

Alcatraz Island Blues – Delmore Brothers
Alcatraz Prisoner – Hall Brothers
Penitentiary Bound Blues – Sylvester Weaver

Segment 4: Light Crust Doughboys

Avalon – Light Crust Doughboys
Waiting For The Robert E. Lee – Light Crust Doughboys / Dick Reinhart, v.
Pussy, Pussy, Pussy – Light Crust Doughboys / Jim “Bashful” Boyd, v.

Segment 5: Fred Duprez

Vaudeville Rehearsal – Fred Duprez
The 11:69 Express – Fred Duprez
Desperate Desmond – Fred Duprez

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