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. 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...

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 an early first time birthday salute to Louis Wesleyn. The 1920s expression “So’s Your Old Man” is a response to an insult, essentially meaning “same to ya”...

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 Phil Cook in which you’ll find out some very interesting information about him, not to mention hearing a rather unusual reco...

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. “Cowboy Love Song” is the first recording of the song you know better as “Red River Valley” and you’ll hear all about the song and the Red River Valleys (yes, plural!) in the second segment of this week’s edition of Rapi...

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 laddie is? He’s Scottish vaudeville and music hall singer and comedian Harry Lauder.  You’ll hear from him in a segment on this week’s show about “lassies.” The first part of the show is a bit differ...

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 Flora May Augusta Flannagan, better known professionally as Australian popular singer and music hall performer Florrie Forde. You’ll hear her in the second segment of this week’s edit...

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? Even though Euell Gibbons died in 1975, he lives on in American popular culture history for his television commercials for Post Grape Nuts cereal, which he said “tastes like wild hickory n...

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. Like last week, there are not one, not two, but three first time birthday segments on this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. You’ll hear all about Gus Edwards (pictured above), Bob Haring and Ben Russell. If th...

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’s no “One Thing in Common” segment on this week’s show, but we do have not one, not two, but three first time birthday salutes for Addison Burkhardt, Benee Russell and somewhat belatedly, Alex Gerber. W’ll also do...

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 sincerely hope, and am confident it’s the case, that you enjoy the “One Thing in Common” segments we’ve been having on the show lately. I say this because, yes, there’s yet another episode on this week’s show! And this...

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 first show of our 21st year on the air! Rapidly Rotating Records premiered on KISL on Sunday, July 23, 2000 and we’ve been bringing you “vintage music to which you can’t NOT tap your toes” from “rapidly ro...

Welcome to Rapidly Rotating Records’ TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY SHOW! Rapidly Rotating Records premiered on KISL on Sunday, July 23, 2000 and we’ve been bringing you “vintage music to which you can’t NOT tap your toes” from “rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s ever since. We had hoped to have a big party and live show direct from the massive KISL studio complex in Avalon, but Covid 19...