Rapidly Rotating Records

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. For those of you who were unable to tune in over the air or listen streaming online to the recent special 2 hour, live, 18th anniversary show, the plan was to record the show and post it so you could vicariously share in the fun. Unfortun...

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’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records starts off with a set of songs about Avalon and Catalina. Why? To promote the fact the next week, July 29, we will be celebrating the 18th anniversary of the show with a special LIVE, two-ho...

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. There are no birthday celebrations on this week’s show, but we are going to try to measure time, travel east, hear some songs about clover and anas platyrhynchos and go tenting. If you enjoy the show, please let us know by leaving a comme...

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. Oh! My goodness have we got a show for you this week! We’ll hear from some Virginians and some Californians, we’re going to go on a power trip and as promised a few weeks ago, we’re going to celebrate the birthday of Violinsky. If you enj...

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. Soon after I played last week’s “mystery record” several sharp-eared listeners wrote in to let me know the name of the tune that started off last week’s show. Unfortunately, we still don’t know the identity of the band, but research conti...

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’s edition of the show starts off with a very unusual record and a mystery I’m hoping some listener can help with. Last weekend I found a 12″ Columbia electrical 78 with a completely blank label on both sides of the record! It’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. “I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken!” We do like to be accurate with the information we include along with the music on this show so this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records starts off with corrections to several things...

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 past few weeks we’ve had first time birthday salutes for several composers and artists and this week we have not one, not two, but three more! Starting off the show is Joseph A. Goodwin, remembered primarily for “When You’re Smiling.”...

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’s show, like last week, is also in four segments instead of the usual five. The past few weeks we’ve had first time birthday salutes for several composers and artists and this week we start off the show with another, that of Reg...

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. Usually, the show consists of five segments of three or four songs each. This week, for no particular reason, there are four segments of four songs each. They say it takes all kinds, so we’ll have a segment about different kinds of girls...

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 had to go to court to answer a summons for jury service. Although I was eventually dismissed without being empaneled, it involved a lot of sitting around and waiting. Since misery loves company, for the second segment of the 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’s edition of the show starts off with another episode of “One Thing In Common” where you try to guess what the four records in the set have in common. We’re also going to track our mileage, but of course your mileage may vary! L...

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’re going to break all the rules and play a record from 1959! If you like plants and know what tecoma capensis is, you’ll be able to figure out what the topic of the first segment of the show. We’ll al...

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 is the last chance to take advantage of the special offer from The Syncopated Times. Donate $100 or more to KISL and RRR during the month of April and receive a free, one-year, 12 issue subscription to the national newspaper that ser...

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 we had a birthday salute to a member of The Revelers, Ellitt Shaw. This week we celebrate the birthday of another member of The Revelers, founder and basso profundo Wilfred Glenn. And speaking of The Revelers, we’ll tell you abo...

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. If you’re a fan of vocal close harmony, you should be very happy with the playlist of this week’s show because it’s chock full of female and male close harmony groups. We’re also going to celebrate the birthdays of Elliott Shaw and Victor...

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. It is said that nothing is free, but that’s not exactly true. Listen to the second segment of the show to find out how you can get a free subscription to The Syncopated Times, the national newspaper devoted to exploring the worlds of jazz...

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. It is said that nothing is free, but that’s not exactly true. Listen to the third segment of the show to find out how you can get a free subscription to The Syncopated Times, the national newspaper devoted to exploring the worlds of jazz,...

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 first line of the song “Me And My Shadow” starts with “Me and my shadow / strolling down the avenue.” But the lyric never reveals the avenue being strolled down. So we’re going to present some possibilities. And because there are so m...

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. There are literally hundreds of “Nation this day” and “National that Day”, some commemorating worthy causes and event, and some rather frivolous. On this week’s edition of the show, we’re going to celebrate a couple of each. Some of you m...

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. Do you know who Ernie Palmquist is? If not, and even if you do, by the end of the show, you’re going to find out more about Ernie Palmquist than you probably ever wanted to know! We’re also going to follow-up on last week’s segment about...

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. There’s a little event going on in Hollywood this evening called the Academy Awards or The Oscars. Not to be outdone by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, for the last segment of tonight’s show, we’re going to have our own O...

  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. I hope you like the “One Thing in Common” segments, because we’ve got yet another one this week! The four records in the first segment are wildly divergent, but they all have one thing in common. You can make what will likely be a futil...

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. Our family is fond of the phrase “It’s all about the stories.” And on this week’s edition of the show I’ll tell you one my favorite family stories. We haven’t had a vocabulary lesson on the show in a while, but this week we start off 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. Smoothies are good, and good for you, so during this week’s show we’re going to partake in a couple of smoothies. We’ll also hear some records by Howard Rosenthal and some songs by Howard Rosenthal. We’ll start off with some adorable song...