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 the concrete stools in the photograph look like mushrooms, it’s no accident. This is the outdoor dance floor of the Toad Stool Inn in Avondale, near Cincinnati, Ohio in 1924. You’ll find out just why we’re sharing this picture in the third segment of this week’s show, a birthday salute to Bernie Cummins. Joe Moss also has a birthday segment to start off the show. Last week we heard songs performed by Paul Ash AHO, but this week we’ll hear tunes written by Paul Ash played by others. And we’ll visit the fortune teller and give you the finger!  Well, not really, but we will give you a couple of songs about fingers. You’ll find out why in the fourth segment of the show. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to an earlier–and we think better–musical era. Just click the link above to instantly listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.          

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Joe Moss

Banking On The Weather-A Great Big Bunch Of You – Joe Moss AHO / Audrey Marsh & Sammy Fain, v.
Saddle Your Blues To A Wild Mustang – Joe Moss and His Society Dance Orchestra / Buddy Clark, v.
Blue Is The Night – Meyer Davis’ Hotel Astor Orchestra UDO Joe Moss

Segment 2: Paul Ash

You’re The One For Me – Ben Pollack’s Californians / Ilomay Bailey, v.
Just Once Again – Ruth Etting
Thinking Of You (I’ve Grown So Lonesome) – The Clevelanders / Tom Stacks, v.

Segment 3: Bernie Cummins

Home Folks Blues – Bernie Cummins and His Toad Stool Inn Orchestra UDO Gene King
Lonely – Bernie Cummins and His Hotel New Yorker Orchestra / Walter Cummins, Paul Roberts, Bernie Cummins, v.
Minnie The Mermaid (A Love Song In Fish Time) – Bernie Cummins and His Hotel New Yorker Orchestra / Orch., v.

Segment 4: Fingers

One Finger Joe – Rube Bloom
Music In My Fingers – Victor Arden-Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra / Frank Luther, v.

Segment 5: Fortune Teller

The Fortune Teller – Overture
Sam ‘n’ Henry Visit The Fortune Teller’s – Sam ‘n’ Henry (Freeman F. Gosden and Charles J. Correll)
The Fortune Teller – Johnny Green AHO / Peg LaCentra, v.

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