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 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...

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 birthday salute to composer Bert Van Cleve. The rest of the show will be an episode of “One Thing in Common.” That’s where we play records which seemingly...

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. One of the reasons I do this show is that every single week I learn something new and interesting. In doing research for the show, I often get sidetracked or go off on tangents and find out something I wasn’t expecting....

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 had a safe and sane Fourth of July holiday and week-end. Yesterday may have been the Fourth of July, but this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records is a special Independence Day show. You’ll know it’s spe...

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. No birthday celebrations on this show and some odd segment topics, but some great music and *lots* of information which I hope you will find as interesting as we do. We start off with one my favorite records of all time...

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. Normally we celebrate a lot of birthdays on this show, and we’ll be celebrating Charles Dornberger, Charles Kaley, Henry Creamer and the State of Arkansas this week. But I’m aftaid we’ll also be making note of a death. 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. On this week’s show we’re going to play some fantastic records. Not that we don’t play fantastic records every week, but especially this week. You already know that we play nothing but the best on this show, and this wee...

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 show we’ll celebrate the birthdays of Carmino Molluzzo and Joseph Nassberg, we’ll do some drinking, get an English lesson, and do some knocking. I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you...

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 make up for a slight by playing the flip side of a record we played last week. In the midst of all that’s going on we’ll have some happy times and we’ll celebrate the bi...

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 go back musically to the “good old days.” It’s not Halloween, but we’ll have some songs about black cats. We’ll also try to figure out how some things could happen, hear...

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. We have “plenty” of music on this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records in which we’ll celebrate the birthdays of Carl Rupp. Coleman Goetz and J. R. Shannon, and hear some songs about Uncle Sam. I hope you are all s...

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 it’s another all birthday edition of Rapidly Rotating Records as we celebrate the natal anniversaries of Tommy CHristian, Gray Gordon, Alfred Solman, Phil Worde and Nan Wynn. I hope you are all safe and healthy...

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. We haven’t had a vocabulary lesson in quite a while, but we have one to end this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. In the other segments in this four segment show, we’ll do down the coal hole, go to the opera,...

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. Have you ever thought about what you would do if you suddenly had a million dollars? It’s OK. Admit it. Of course you have! Bob Pierce has and he’s going to tell you all about what he would do with a million dollars on 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. On this week’s show we’re going to celebrate the birthdays of Harry J. Lincoln and Benny Meroff. We’ll also celebrate Helen Trix’ birthday by visiting “La La Land.” And we’ll pick some violets, but not “Sweet Violets!” T...