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 show is bigger and better than ever, and we’ll prove it in the bigger and better and than ever segments. We’re also going to do some shuffling in the final segment, but to start, we’re going to jump through 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. On this week’s show were going to celebrate the birthdays of Paul Biese and Merton Bories, go on a diet, fulfill a promise and…that’s all. Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Paul Biese Right Or Wrong – Gene Rodemic...

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 birthday of Peter Van Steeden. We’re also going to play with some dolls, and have songs about Venice, love and heaven. We’ll be seeing you in the last segment, but for 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. You can count on one hand, and have digits left over, the number of times Tom Coakley has ever been heard on the show, but tonight he starts off the show with his very own birthday tribute. Do you remember newspapers? 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. Do you ever have cravings? Like for a particular food (ice cream comes to mind!) or beverage? Well, tune in to this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records to find out what Art Gillham, the Carlisle Brothers and Gertr...

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 covers 24 hours, an entire day, starting off with songs about the dawn, then morning, afternoon, evening and ending with night time. Several records are being heard for the first time, and...

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 has just four segments instead of the usual five. Why? Because the phrase “Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers” came to mind this week. So the four segments have records having to do with find...

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 Frank Bacon is? I’m going to guess you don’t. How about Samantha Bumgarner? Does the name Doctor Clayton ring a bell? Listen to this week’s show to find out all about them and some other folks you may not...

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 hear from some Jazzers, we’ll mention some unmentionables, celebrate the birthday of John Klenner, get our head in the clouds and have some company. Enjoy the show! Here’s the comple...

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 program, we’re going to turn our eyes to the sky, turn some things on, have a vocabulary lesson, have a digital segment and end the show on a bright note. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: 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. Ragtime era composer Henry Lodge gets his very own birthday tribute for the first time on tonight’s show. We’ll also have some rapidly rotating records about frogs, nightingales and cocoanuts, and in the last segment 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. The violin is ranked as the most difficult musical instrument to play, with the harp, theatre pipe organ, French horn, and bagpipes close behind. But there’s one musical instrument that just about everyone can play, and...

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 pair of pairs, deal with some aches and pains and celebrate the birthday of Harry Link. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Pairings 1 Sweet And Hot – Fletcher Hen...

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 enjoy some nice hot coffee, I’ll share some things that are on my mind, we’ll hear from Herb Gordon, have some songs about hybrid equines, and solve a mystery. Enjoy the show! Here’s the comp...

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. HAPPY NEW YEAR! This is the first Rapidly Rotating Records broadcast of 2019! I hope you had pleasant holidays and that the new year so far promises to be a good one for you. It certainly does here at the massive Rapidly...

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 is the final Rapidly Rotating Records broadcast…of 2018, that is! We have no intention of presenting a final broadcast until I can no longer even lift a turntable tone arm! This week’s show starts off right by consu...

Welcome to Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78RPM records of the 1920s and’30s. Last week, I said there would be a special announcement about the show. I’m happy to announce that in addition to iTunes, the Rapidly Rotating Records podcast is now also available on Google Play Music, Stitcher, TuneIn and Spotify! The p...

Welcome to Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78RPM records of the 1920s and’30s. On this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, we’re going to take a musical trip to Monterey, California. Monterey was the capital of Alta California under both Spain and Mexico. From there, we’ll go clear across the country to visi...

Welcome to Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78RPM records of the 1920s and’30s. Don’t be alarmed, but this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records does not start off with our usual theme song of “Avalon.” Just for this week it starts with Guido Nielsen playing Joseph Lamb’s “American Beauty” rag. Why? Because this...

Welcome to Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78RPM records of the 1920s and’30s. The playlist is a bit late this week since as you were listening to the show, we were enjoying the “after party” at the West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento. We had a wonderful time and you’ll hear about some highlight on next week’s...

Welcome to Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78RPM records of the 1920s and’30s. This week, we’ll be hearing songs by three less well-known composers: Lou Cobey, Chris M. Schonberg and Hal Dyson (no relation to the vacuum guy!).  We’ll also play a guessing game and let it pour.  If you enjoy the show, please let us kn...

Welcome to Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78RPM records of the 1920s and’30s. This week, we’ll be celebrating just one birthday, that of Edgar Sampson. But that certainly doesn’t mean we don’t have a whole show full of great music. The rest of this week’s segment topics flow out of last week’s show or the one befor...

Welcome to Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78RPM records of the 1920s and’30s. On this week’s edition of the show, we celebrate the birthdays of two composers with whom you may not be familiar, Ernest Rogers and Billy Fazioli. Benee Russell, another obscure composer, also gets his own segment, even though it’s not h...

Welcome to Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78RPM records of the 1920s and’30s. The sole birthday tribute on this week’s edition of the show belongs to Reginald Dixon, organist at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool, England for 40 years! In the first segment we’re going to get the shivers, but it has nothing to do with...

Welcome to Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78RPM records of the 1920s and’30s. To help celebrate the Old Town Music Hall’s 50th Anniversary, we’re going to play some records by British music hall performers from the turn of the century. We’ll also hear about some little men (not little green men, just little men), w...