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. 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...

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. With April 1 coming up in a few days, on this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records we’ll have a little fun and the record above may give you a clue as to what’s going on. We’ll be celebrating the birthdays of Haydn...

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 what the contraption above is? It’s an Ediphone. When Thomas Edison developed the phonograph in 1877, he was trying to make a machine that would record telephone messages and thought the best use of the machi...

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 folks are? It’s the Pickard Family. They were as popular in the 1920s as the Carter Family, the Stoneman Family and Fiddlin’ Powers and Family and were led by patriarch Odebdia Orlando Pickard, bett...

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’re going to take a musical trip down under to Alligator Creek, Queensland, Australia and hear John Hyman’s Bayou Stompers for the first time on the show. In the secon...

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’re celebrating three birthdays, those of George Christie, Reed Miller and Margaret Young, all three getting their own segment for the first time. As a public service...

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. Every once in a while I like to throw out the phrase, “I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong” in a conversation, just to mess with people. Well, as it turns out, I actually did make a mistake on last week’s sh...

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 above is? He’s violinist Dajos Bela, born Leon Golzmann in Kiev, Ukraine on December 19, 1897. You’ll hear him directing the Odeon studio orchestra to start off the fourth segment of the show p...

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. Rapidly Rotating Records is a G-rated family show, but we push the envelope this week in the fourth segment with a set of songs about “the world’s oldest profession,” including the one above by Georgia White. In other se...

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 lovely lady is?  She’s Elsie Carlisle who starts off this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records with her very own birthday salute. Unfortunately, we can play but three of the 340 or so recording...

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 fourth segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records is all about pigeons, and there’s a very specific reason I’ll be playing the record above and three other records about pigeons. Listen to the show to...

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. There are a couple of very important dates in January which we’ll remind you of in this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records.  We’ll also get a bit carried away.  And since we haven’t done so in quite a while, we’l...