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. 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...

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’ve been accused of losing my mind more than once, and apparently bandleader Bob Zurke is losing his mind as well. This week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records starts off by playing some mind games. We’ll also have a...

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. Welcome to the very first Rapidly Rotating Records show of 2021. I imagine you’ll join me in hoping that the new year will be much better than 2020. In the second segment of the show, we’ll have another episode of “One 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. Welcome to the final Rapidly Rotating Records show…of 2020 that is! On this week’s show we’ll take a musical trip to Wyoming, we’ll visit some exotic isles, half fulfill a request, have a vocabulary lesson and give in. 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. I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listeni...

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 hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listeni...

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 hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listeni...

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 hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listeni...

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 hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listeni...

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 the show starts off with a birthday salute for bandleader Lloyd Finlay and one of the three records we’ll play is pictured above, “Rope ‘Em Cowboy.” It’s a fun record with lots of musical effects,...

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 the show consists of just four segments instead of the usual five, but don’t worry, there’s the same amount of great music and interesting information in store,We won’t be hearing it by Earl Fuller...

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. As the Village People sing, “It’s fun to stay in the YMCA” and in the first segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, you’ll hear some history of the YMCA which you may not have been aware of. In other...

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. It’s a bit past our 1930s boundary, but this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records starts off with a trip down the Lone Star Trail courtesy of Bing Crosby. In the fourth segment we’ll find out how well you know your...

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 picture of the Smith Brothers on the page this week? Well, because you’ll be hearing from the Smith Brothers toward the end of the show. But not the Smith Brothers shown above.  Find out which Smith Bro...

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 Lacy Rutherford Bohannon, Jr., but he’s better known as big band vocalist Bob Hannon and he’ll be heard on this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records answering the mu...