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. Before we get to this week’s show, on last week’s show, I said the  vocalist on “Open Up Your Arms, California last week was Irving Kaufman. Well, that’s not true. He’s LeRoy Montesanto, who is slated to get his own segm...

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 gentlemen are? They’re Charles (Charlie) Correll (l.) and Freeman Gosden (r.) best known for their portrayal of “Sam and Henry” and later “Amos ‘n’ Andy” on radio. While they did make some commercia...

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 Rapidly Rotating Records starts off with a first time birthday salute to American poet Eugene FIeld. You’ll want to have a tissue on hand before listening to the Eugene Field segment which starts o...

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 Rapidly Rotating Records starts off with a first time birthday salute to bandleader and composer Ernie Golden. In the second segment we’ll spotlight Andrew B. Sterling, lyricist of “Meet Me In St....

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? I’m guessing not. He’s Austrian violinist and bandleader Ernst Holzer. You’ll hear him start off the third segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records with his band Hot Jazz...

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 distinguished looking gentleman is? He was known as “The Tango King of England” and “The English Glenn Miller.” That’s right! Bandleader Gerald Bright, better known by his one-word professional name,...

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. While you’re listening to the original Sunday night broadcast of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, I’m actually in Vermont, attending a family reunion. So in the first segment of the show, you’ll hear some...

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. In the third segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, we’re going to take a musical trip to St. Louis, Missouri, and hear the song in the sheet music above.  Most recordings of Saint Louis Blues are in...

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 birthday cake pictured above instead of a vintage composer or artist? This week is a special edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. Not that they aren’t *all* special, but this one is *VERY* special becau...

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 idea of daylight saving time (NOT daylight savingS time!) goes back to New Zealand in the 1800s.  There have been campaigns for and against is ever since. In the third segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotati...

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 is in the photograph above? It’s xylophonist Lou Chiha, who went by the professional name “Frisco.” Listen to the second segment of this week’s show and you’ll find how he came to use that name...

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 Rapidly Rotating Records starts off with a first time birthday salute to Peter Mendoza. Well, actually it starts off with a correction to an attribution made on last week’s show! Then we hear from...

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 lady is?  She’s Ermine Calloway, Edison’s answer to Helen Kane, Victor’s “Boop-Boop-A-Doop Girl.” And she’s getting her very own birthday segment on the show for the first time.  Also getting his own...

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 record above was requested and is being heard on the show for the first time. It’s  definitely one of the stranger records we’ve played.  You’ll hear the story behind it in the third segment of this week’s edition of...

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 Rapidly Rotating Records starts off with a first time birthday salute to Al Donahue, who made headlines with his 1933 marriage.  You’ll find out why in the first segment. In the second segment of t...

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 lady is?  She was born Lizzie Douglas but at her first recording session for Columbia Records, she was given a new name by a Columbia A&R (Artist and Repertoire) man. Find out her professional na...

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? You’ll find out all about him and hear several of his records and compositions in the first segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. In researching him I found out about...

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 certainly hope you recognize the man at the keyboard as Fats Waller. We’ll be celebrating Fats’ birthday in the third segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. In past tributes, we’ve always played Fa...

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’ll celebrate the birthdays of Billy Thorburn and Sonny Clay, we’ll make a mess and even though it’s not Halloween, we’ll have some songs about some black cats. We’ll...

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 Theron Eugene Daffan, better known as Ted.  While you may not recognize his name, you’ve no doubt heard at least one of his compositions, “Born To Lose,” written in the 1940s and cove...

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 1920s bandleader Earl Gresh. But this photograph was taken in 1929, after Earl’s music career came to an abrupt halt. In the first segment of this week’s show, you’ll hear three grea...

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 Golden Pheasant Restaurant in Cleveland, shown above in a post card, served American and Chinese food and had a large dance floor. They provided a dance band throughout the day and evening and one of the bands was Au...

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 the show we’re going to celebrate not one, but four birthdays. One of those is for Harry J. Lincoln, composer of “The Midnight Fire Alarm,” the sheet music to which is pictured above.  And the r...

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 the show we’re going to get misty, we’ll get in synch, have a history lesson and celebrate Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith’s birthday. We’ll also take a musical trip to Avalon with three records never pla...

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’m baaaaaack! I certainly hope you enjoyed last week’s April Fool’s show with my friend and host of the vintage music program The Shellac Stack, Bryan Wright and I swapping personas. We had a great time “hosting” each o...