Rapidly Rotating Records

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. As you know, last week's show was rebroadcast from March 15, 2009, since I was in Durango, Colorado, attending second annual Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival.  We...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. Since I had the pleasure of attending the second annual Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival this past week-end, this week's show is from March 15, 2009.  But if you...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's "dependable"edition of the show, we'll celebrate the birthdays of Ben Selvin, Irving Kahal, Morey Davidson and Jay C. Flippen. As always, just click on th...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. Ooops!  Listener Cy just reminded me that I never posted the playlist for the February 16 show.  Because of the contest to figure out what the first 13 records in the sh...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's edition of the show, we'll celebrate the birthdays of Stan Greening, Frank Winegar and the State of Ohio, do some marching, go to the movies, have a coupl...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. As you know, last week we had a contest.  This week I'll reveal what the records from the first four segments of last week's show all had in common and announce the winn...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. We're having a CONTEST! This week's show is a special edition, because you can have the chance to win a CD!  That's right.  We're giving away a Vocalion CD of Stan Green...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. This week's edition of the show is SUPER, even though it has nothing whatsoever to do with football. We're going to take a walk and celebrate the birthdays of Isham Jone...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. This week's edition of the show is SUPER, even though it has nothing whatsoever to do with football. We're going to take a walk and celebrate the birthdays of Isham Jone...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's edition of the show we're going to commemorate a couple of "national" days, celebrate the birthdays of Harry Reser and Charley Straight and play some card...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's edition of the show we're going to commemorate a couple of "national" days, celebrate the birthdays of Harry Reser and Charley Straight and play some card...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's show we're going to do some shouting, we'll see if our ship comes in, we'll experience some happiness, celebrate the birthday of Henry "Red" Allen and hav...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. Welcome to the first Rapidly Rotating Records show of 2014. Happy New Year! On this week's show we'll listen to some "chicken" songs, take a musical trip to Georgia, and...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this final Rapidly Rotating Records show of 2013, we're going to take a stroll, we'll chase some various things, do some hyphenating, take a musical trip to Egypt and...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S !  This is our annual Christmas show, and I'm pleased that all but one of the records are making their RRR debut!  So prepare yourself a nice...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's edition of the show, we're going to play the ponies, go on a wild goose chase, hear some "dreamy" songs, do some wondering and get away to a secret little...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. I came up with a number of topics for this week's show, but couldn't come up with enough records for an entire segment for any of them, so this week, there are not one,...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. This week's brand new edition of the show is sort of a recap of the 27th Annual West Coast Ragtime Festival show in Sacramento, California last week-end. I was fortunate...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's brand new edition of RRR, we're going to hear from some Louises, take a musical trip to Jersey, fire off some cannons and celebrate the birthdays of Vee L...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's brand new edition of RRR, we'll do some pining, hear from some Helens, have a couple of ragtime sets in honor of next week-end's 27th Annual West Coast Ra...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's brand new edition of RRR, we'll turn over a new leaf, do some teasin' and squeezin' and celebrate the birthdays of Ethel Waters and James Cavanaugh. As al...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. No birthday celebrations or segment topics this week. What??!! There's just one topic and that's SWING! Swing, all swing and nothing but swing is the theme of this week'...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's brand new edition of the show, we'll visit some neighbors, go down to the river, have a great big helping of corn (the vegetable, not musical corn!) and c...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. Last week's show was "good enough," but this week's is "perfect!" as we fulfill a request, do some oohing and aahing, and play some records for no particular reason.  My...

Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's "good enough" edition of the show we're going to celebrate the birthdays of Gerald Marks and Jack Shilkret, find out what "Madame" is up to, and you'll fi...