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.

On this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, we have no birthday salutes and no segment topics. We are, however, having a “listening party” where I’ll be playing individual random records from my “to be processed” stack here in the studio. Why? I’ll explain at the beginning of the show. 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:

Make Those People Sway – Jack Jackson AHO

Everything Is Peaches Neath The Old Apple Tree – Roy Newman and His Boys / Earl Brown, v.

Peanuts – Silver Bell Orchestra

Riverside (Calif.) Polytechnic High School Fight Songs

Lanette – Waltz Caprice – H. Benne Henton with Conway’s Band

Sweet Indiana Home – Honey Hurst

Learn To Do The Strut – Don Parker AHO

Moonlight On The Danube – Eddie Thomas’ Collegians / Arthur Fields, v.

Ida And Dot Polka – Buono and Chiafferelli

My Idea Of Heaven – Frank Black AHO / Franklyn Baur, v.

Strum My Blues Away – Frank Black AHO / Franklyn Baur, v.

Mahogany Hall Stomp – Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five

Good Feelin’ Blues – Zach Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels

Dew-Drop Alley Stomp – “Sugar” Underwood

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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 the airship USS Los Angeles in Lakehurst, New Jersey on August 25, 1927 when, due to changing weather and wind currents, she did her famous “headstand.” So why is this the featured photograph for this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records? Well, because the fourth segment of the show is all about airships, blimps, Zeppelins and dirigibles. Listen to find out a bit of the history of the USS Los Angeles. The other four segments of the show are all birthday celebrations for Donald Lindley, “Punch” Miller, Edwin Swayze and the State of Arkansas. 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: Edwin Swayze

Jitter Bug – Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra
Weakness – Cab Calloway AHO / Cab Calloway, v.
Midnight Mama – (Jelly Roll Morton’s) Levee Loungers / Frances Hereford, v.

Segment 2: Donald Lindley

Trumpet Blues – Donald Lindley
Rhythm Of The Day – The Clevelanders
Sweet Stuff – Donald Lindley

Segment 3: Punch Miller

Golden Lily Blues – Frankie Franko and His Louisianans / Punch Miller, v.
Gates Blues – Jimmy Wade and His Dixielanders / Punch Miller, v.
Isabella – Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards

Segment 4: Airships

Come Take A Ride On My Airship – J. W. Myers
The Airship That Never Returned – Vernon Dalhart
On The Z R-3 – Bob Haring AHO

Segment 5: Arkansas Statehood

Joan Of Arkansas – Medley – Mask & Wig Glee Club
Arkansas Hard Luck Blues – Lonnie Glosson
Arkansas Traveler (Comedy Version) – Tennessee Ramblers

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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 multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer, Charles Dornberger and he’s getting a birthday segment on this week’s show. In other segments, we’ll run some numbers, we’ll hear some more from Sharp, Hinman and Sharp, celebrate Alex Gerber’s birthday and play “One Thing in Common.” 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: Numbers

Numbers On The Brain – Willie Jackson
Number Two Blues – Johnny DeDroit and His New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
Take A Number From One To Ten – Jack Oakie

Segment 2: One Thing in Common

It’s Always Orange Day In California – Irving Kaufman
For Months And Months And Months – Jack Norworth
In The Purple Twilight – The Ambassadors

Segment 3: Charles Dornberger

Oh! That Sweet In Suite 16 – Charles Dornberger AHO
Tropical Palms – Charles Dornberger AHO
Tiger Rag – Charles Dornberger AHO

Segment 4: Alex Gerber

My Home Town Is A One Horse Town But It’s Big Enough For Me – Victor Roberts & The Harmonizers Quartet
A The Fountain Of Youth – Dan W. Quinn
Some Girls Do And Some Girls Don’t – Oscar Shaw

Segment 5: Sharp, Hinman & Sharp

Robinson County – “Ted” Sharp, Hinman & Sharp
Pike’s Peak “Ted” Sharp, Hinman & Sharp
The Old Grey Horse Came Out Of The Wilderness – “Ted” Sharp, Hinman & Sharp

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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.

Listeners of a certain age==that is to say my age–may recognize this figure as the personification of the famous “bouncing ball.” The bouncing ball is a virtual device used in motion picture films and video recordings to visually indicate the rhythm of a song, helping audiences to sing along with live or prerecorded music. As the song’s lyrics are displayed on the screen in a lower third of projected or character-generated text, an animated ball bounces across the top of the words, landing on each syllable when it is to be sung. The bouncing ball technique was invented by Max Fleischer originally for the “Ko-Ko” Song Car-Tunes (1924–1927) and revised in 1929 as Screen Songs (1929–1938) for Paramount. It was introduced in March 1924 with the film Come Take a Trip in My Airship. So why tell you this? Because in the second segment of this week’s show, we’re going to do some bouncing, introduced by some information about the term “86.” In other segments, we’ll have some songs about the number 5, we’ll go in search of some things, hear from New Orleans Willie Jackson and take a lunch break. 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: Lunch Time!

The Man That Stole My Luncheon – The Boys From Home
One Hour For Lunch – Tempo King and His Kings of Tempo
Out To Lunch – Claude Hopkins AHO

Segment 2: 86

Jersey Bounce – Shep Fields and His New Music
Businessmen’s Bounce – Raymond Scott and His New Music
Benny’s Bounce – Ben Light

Segment 3: Number Five

The Mystery Of Number Five – Jimmie Rodgers
The Fives – Tampa Blue Jazz Band
Five Step – Paul Whiteman AHO / Harry Barris, Al RInker, Bing Crosby, v.

Segment 4: Where’s…?

Where’s My Other Foot? – Ted Sharp, Hinman & Sharp
Where’s My Sweetie Hiding? – Perley Breed’s Shepard Colonial Orchestra
Where Is My Meyer? – Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra / Arthur Hall, v.

Segment 5: New Orleans Willie Jackson

Who’ll Chop Your Suey When I’m Gone? – New Orleans Willie Jackson
Willie Jackson’s Blues – Willie Jackson
She Keeps It Up All The Time – Willie Jackson

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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 graphic of a giant radio transmitter tower atop the world for this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records? Well, because May is National Radio Month and in the final segment of the show we’re celebrating with three radio related records not heard on the show before. The show starts off with a correction from last week’s show in which I inadvertently played the wrong record! In other segments, we’ll hear the rest of the sides recorded by The Californiacs and three more sides from George Brooks. And you’ll find out exactly who George Brooks is! Dan Sullivan gets his own birthday segment, we’ll take a trip to the cemetery and have a segment about numbers. 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: A Correction!

For Sale (Hannah Johnson’s Big Jack Ass) – Clara Smith

Segment 2: Dan Sullivan

Listen To The Mocking Bird – Dan Sullivan’s Shamrock Band / Larry Griffin, v.
Pretty Maid Milking Her Cow – Star Of Munster – Dan Sullivan, Piano Solo
Leg Of The Duck – Roarin’ Kate (Irish Jigs) – Dan Sullivan’s Shamrock Band

Segment 3: George Brooks

When You Go Huntin’ I’m Goin’ Fishin’ – George Williams and Bessie Brown
Don’t Know And Don’t Care Blues – Hazel Meyers
Hard Driving Papa – Bessie Smith

Segment 4: Cemetery

Down In The Cemetery – Billy Bird
Cemetery Blues – Bessie Smith
Cemetery Sal – Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers / Jim Boyd, v.

Segment 5: The Californiacs

Moonlight And Roses – The Californiacs
Oh Katharina – The Californiacs
Yearning – The Californiacs

Segment 6: National Radio Month

Mrs. Schlagenhauer At The Radio – Art Linick
Radio – Atlantic Dance Orchestra / Arthur Hall, v.
Radio Impressions – Arnold Johnson 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.

So why is there a sign for the Shady Lady Ranch announcing this week’s episode of Rapidly Rotating Records? Well, you’ll find out in the third segment of the show, after segments about Jazzbos and John Stepan Zamecnik. You’ll find out what the Shady Lady Ranch was, and what it is now, and in the fourth segment, you’ll hear about some other “Shady Ladies.” And in the final segment, we’ll have a more cerebral set. 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: Jazzbos

Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town – Bessie Smith
Jazzbo Stomp – Memphis Jug Band
You Don’t Mean Me No Good – Jazzbo Tommy Settlers and His Lowlanders / Tommy Settlers, v.

Segment 2: John Stepan Zamecnik

Polly – Zez Confrey AHO
All America March – Prince’s Band
Indian Dawn – The Californiacs

Segment 3: The Shady Lady

Shady Lady – Al Friedman AHO / Donald J. Parker Trio, v.
Shady Lane Blues – Clifford Hayes’ Louisville Stompers
Shady Grove My Darling – The Prairie Ramblers / Floyd Holmes, v.

Segment 4: Shady Ladies

For Sale (Hannah Johnson’s Jack Ass – Clara Smith
Come And Get It – Lil Johnson
Must Get Mine In Front – Barrel House Annie

Segment 5: Brains

Scatter-Brain – Frankie Masters AHO / Frankie Masters, v.
Brainstorm – Coon-Sanders 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.

Do you know who this fellow is? He’s one of my favorite pianists and composers, Billy Mayerl (pronounced “Merrill”) and you’ll hear him perform one of his super syncopations in the fourth segment of this week’s show having to do with “punching!” In other segments, we’ll celebrate the birthdays of Fleta Jan Brown and Mildred Hunt. We’ll also so some asking and get drunk. Don’t worry, just musically. 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!

Segment 1: Fleta Jan Brown

Kiss Me Again (I Like It) – Helen Clark and Henry Burr
The Party That Wrote “Home Sweet Home” Never Was A Married Man – Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
Underneath The Stars – Raymond Dixon (Lambert Murphy)

Segment 2: Mildred Hunt

My Dear – Mildred Hunt
A Shady Tree – Paul Whiteman AHO / Mildred Hunt, v.
Redskin – Ben Selvin AHO / Mildred Hunt, v.

Segment 3: You Asked For It

I’ll Never Ask For More – Golden Gate Orchestra / Van (Walter Van Brunt), v.
Did She Ask For Me? – Freddie Martin AHO / Elmer Feldkamp, v.
You Asked For It – You Got It – Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.

Segment 4: Drunkards

Father’s A Drunkard And Mother Is Dead – Charley Vaughn (Waler Coon)
The Drunkard’s Grave – Bailes Brothers
The Drunkard Song – Harry McDaniel AHO (Johnny Johnson AHO / Unidentified, v.

Segment 5: Punches

The Punch And Judy Show – Ambrose AHO
Everybody To The Punchin’ – The Kessinger Brothers (Clark & Luches)
Puppet Suite – Punch – Billy Mayerl

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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? Well, it says so right on the photograph, so the question then becomes, “Do you know who George Dewey Washington is?” If not, you’ll find out in the first segment of this week’s edition of the show as he gets his first birthday salute. In other segments we’ll celebrate the birthday of the State of Louisiana and hear from some Louisianans. And after we have a call to order, we’ll have some song about gladness. 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: George Dewey Washington

(Step By Step – Mile By Mile) I’m Marching Home To You – George Dewey Washington
The Singing Fool Selectrions, Parts 1 and 2 – Debroy Somers and His Band / George Dewey Washington, v.

Segment 2: State of Louisiana

Louisiana Hop – Uncle George Green and His Boys
Louisiana Glide – Blind Leroy Garnett
Louisiana – Swing Swingers

Segment 3: Louisianans

Town Topic Rag – Louisiana Five
Where The Sweet Magnolias Bloom – Taylor-Griggs Louisiana Melody Makers / Oscar Logan, v.
Somebody Stole My Gal – Frankie Franko and His Louisianans

Segment 4: Rules

Rules And Regulations “Signed Razor Jim” – Edith Wilson and Johnny Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds
The Hand That Rocked The Cradle Rules My Heart – John Steel
Golden Rule Blues – Bessie Smith

Segment 5: Gladness

The Gates Of Gladness – Lewis James and The Shannon Four
Nights Of Gladness – Mantovani
Sadness Will Be Gladness – Joe Manone’s Harmony Kings / Earl Warner, 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.

One of my favorite films of all time is W. C. Fields’ “It’s A Gift” featuring Charles Sellon as Mr. Muckle, the blind man, pictured above with his ear trumpet. You’ll find out a bit about the ear trumpet in the fourth segment of the show having to do with hearing. In other segments, we’ll hear from Clarence Todd, go cuckoo, button things up and in the final segment, the show’s just going to go to the dogs. Well, actually the hounds. 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: Clarence Todd

Cake Walking Babies (From Home) – Alberta Hunter and Clarence Todd with the Red Onion Jazz Babies
You Don’t Know My Mind Blues – Jamaica Jazzers
Jazz It Blues – Alabama Jug Band / Ham and Cabbage Trio, v.

Segment 2: Buttons

Someone To Sew Your Buttons On – Jack Jackson AHO / Jackie Hunter, v.
At The Button-Hole Makers’ Ball – George L. Thompson, v.
Button Up Your Heart – Ipana Troubadours

Segment 3: Cuckoo

The Coocoo’s Nest-The Tailor’s Thimble – Shaun O’Nolan
You’ve Simply Got Me Cuckoo – Irvings & Jackson
I Love You So Much – Hollywood Dance Orchestra / Ralph Haines (Scrappy Lambert), v.

Segment 4: Ear Trumpet

When I Hear That Jazz Band Play – Marion Harris
You’ve Never Heard The Blues – Johnny Dunn
I Heard – Billy Cotton and His Band / Cyril Grantham +2, v.

Segment 5: Hounds

Charleston Hound – Blue Grass Foot Warmers
Georgia Hound Blues – Tampa Red
Fox And The Hounds – Jimmy Revard and His Oklahoma Playboys

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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 vibraphonist Cal Tjader, famous in the 1960s and ’70s for his Latin jazz fusion music. So what is he doing headlining the Rapidly Rotating Records playlist? Well, listen to the final segment of this week’s show–in which we celebrate Spring–and you’ll find out! In other segments, we’ll go rolling along, do some touching–all completely appropriate–go to the opera, and hear some songs about a variety of things. 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: Song of…

Song Of The Trees – Jack Jackson AHO / Jackie Hunter, v.
Song Of The Flame (Intro: Vodka) – Ipana Troubadours
Song Of The Wood-Bird – Guido Gialdini, Whistling

Segment 2: Rolling Along

The Rolling Chair – D & R Military Band
She Came Rolling Down The Mountain – The Sweet Violet Boys
Until My Luck Comes Rolling Along – Paul Whiteman AHO

Segment 3: At the Opera

After The Opera – Eugene Howard and Willie Howard
Chicken Opera – Plantation Trio
A Bit Of Grand Opera – Murray K. Hill

Segment 4: A Touching Segment

Touched In The Head – Dixieland Swingsters
A Touch Of Texas – Freddy Martin AHO / Eddie Stone, Glenn Hughes and The Martin Men
Don’t Touch Me – Harmony Kings Orchestra

Segment 5: Spring

When Spring Comes Peeping Through – Fletcher Henderson
Spring Has Come (And I’m Alone) – Arcadia Peacock Orchestra of St. Louis UDO Jack Ford
Spring Fever – Rube Bloom

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