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. On this evening’s show we’ll have a very caring segment, we’ll make some telephone calls, explore some ways to spend an hour and celebrate the birthdays of Karl Hajos and the state of Michigan. Thank you for your very ki...

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 take a musical trip to some exotic lands, we’ll do some bird watching, well, bird listening, hear about a flood, but not a flood of water, we’ll find our way home and celebrate the bir...

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 try to stay within our stated parameters of music of the 1920s and ’30s. But on this week’s show we’re going all the way back to the 19th century to play an Edison cylinder from 1899! In the first segment we’...

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 Rapidly Rotating Records show of the “New Twenties!” Since this is the first show of 2020, the first segment is all about “firsts,” and all of the records in the segment are being heard for the first...

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 last Rapidly Rotating Records show. Of 2019, that is! On this week’s show we’re going to hit our stride, we’ll hear from some entertainers, play some little bits of music, stream some music, and enjoy 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. You may have noticed that I sometimes start the intro to the show a little bit earlier into the opening theme song. I do this to keep from having to cut a record from the playlist. Well this week, playing all four record...

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 like pickles? Most people do, but even if you don’t like to eat pickles, I’m pretty sure you’ll like the musical pickles we have for you in the first segment of the show. We’ll also have not one, not two, not thre...

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 is a four-segment, all-birthday edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. We’ll be celebrating the birthdays of Gladys DuBois, Bob Effros, Charles L. Johnson and Lew Reynolds. I realized after finishing the show, 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. We haven’t had any birthday salutes lately, but this evening’s Rapidly Rotating Records show is an all birthday edition. We’re going to spotlight John Kiern Brennan, Vee Lawnhurs, Ruth Etting, Blue Barron and Scott Jopli...

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 any birthday salutes lately, but this evening’s Rapidly Rotating Records show is an all birthday edition. We’re going to spotlight John Kiern Brennan, Vee Lawnhurs, Ruth Etting, Blue Barron and Scott Jopli...

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’re back to a five segment show this week and on this evening’s show we’ll have a segment devoted to bellis perennis. You’ll find out why some of my friends refer to me as The Commodore, we’ll take s stroll through a m...

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. Tonight’s is another four segment show in which we’ll find some animals on top of things, we’ll hear about some reptiles, but not snakes or lizards, we’ll try to go back in time and we’ll hear some songs about those eyes...

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. Since truth seems to be in short supply in some corners of the society these days, we’re going to have a segment devoted to honestly. We’ll also have a vocabulary lesson and face our fears. Enjoy the show! Here’s the com...

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 evening’s show is rather food orients, as we’re going to enjoy some candy, brownies and tomatoes. And we’ll play the guitar. The tag line for my local NPR station, K V C R San Bernardino is “Where you learn somethin...

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 evening’s show, we’re going to celebrate three birthdays, those of Esther Walker, Billy Baskette and the United States Navy. We’re also going to go away and go on some musical journeys. Enjoy the show! Here’s the...

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 don’t know when his birthday is, but Monte Wilhite gets his very own segment on this evening’s show. What do confetti, a loose wig and “Happy Days Are Here Again” all have in common” You’ll find out in the third segmen...

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 like s’mores? That’s the graham cracker, chocolate, marshallow treat you may first have had at summer camp? Well on this week’s edition of the show we’re going to have some s’mores. Not the graham cracker kind, bu...

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 one birthday celebration on this week’s show, that of Jack Denny. In other segments, we’ll also hear about some hillbillies, do some calling, take a musical trip to Chinatown and do some catching up. Enjoy the 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. On the evening’s show we’re going to celebrate the birthdays of Tom Delaney and Arthur Freed, try to make order out of chaos, stop and smell the flowers, but a very specific flower, and hear about some parsons. Enjoy the...

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 the evening’s show we’re going to celebrate the birthdays of Tom Delaney and Arthur Freed, try to make order out of chaos, stop and smell the flowers, but a very specific flower, and hear about some parsons. Enjoy the...

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 evening’s show, we’ll celebrate the birthdays of Alex Rogers and Jose Bohr, do some more tap dancing, break some things and experience some nightmares. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Ale...

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 evening’s show were going to get in our canoes and do some paddling, have a vocabulary and physics lesson, have a set of records devoted to the trombone, and yet another dancing segment. And, if you’re a fan of M...

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 entire playlist for this evening’s show is about all things ophthalmic. Why? Well, I’m fortunate to have had the same great optometrist taking care of my vision for about the past 35 years. It’s a very good thing wh...

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. He last had a birthday tribute in 2006, so it’s about time we once again give Skinnay Ennis his own segment. Tune in to find out how he got the name “Skinnay.” In other segments, we’ll take it east, throw a fit, hear som...

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 evening’s show we’re going to do some squawking, celebrate Missouri’s statehood, we’ll take it easy, go backstage and commit some crimes. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Squawking Clarine...