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. Most of the records on this week's show are making their RRR debut! We're going to celebrate the birthday of Fred Fisher, hear from some other Fishers, go fishing, celeb...

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 all birthday show, we'll spotlight Ted Weems, Vaughn De Leath, Vincent Youmans, Frank Banta and a few others. My favorite record on this week's...

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 show, we'll hear some apologies, hand out some bouquets, go sideways, do some wishing and celebrate the birthday of Dave Dreyer. As always, simp...

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 show, we'll celebrate the birthdays of Harry Akst, Charlie Kunz, Sidney Clare and others, and buy some tickets. As always, simply click on the 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 show, we're going to put on some britches, take a musical trip to Egypt, have a cigarette, spend some time by some various places and get the bl...

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 show, we're going to go to bed, celebrate the birthdays of Abe Lyman and Roy Bargy, and do some roamin' in the gloamin'.  As always, just click...

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. THIRTEEN! That's the number of years that Rapidly Rotating Records has been broadcast on KISL.  We started back in late July of 2000 and have been here ever since.  For...

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. Normally a family show, this week's Rapidly Rotating Records is filled with naughty, dirty songs filled with swearing!  Don't send the kids out of the room just yet.  It...

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. FIVE! That's (at LEAST) the number of records being played on this week's edition of RRR for the first time! We're going to celebrate the birthdays of Ted Koehler, Johnn...

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 celebrate the birthdays of Irving Caesar, Joe Young and George M. Cohan, come to some realizations and hear some songs about Liza.  A...

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 study music-ology and celebrate the birthdays of Maceo Pinkard, Clyde Doerr, Gene Austin and John Golden.  As always,...

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 Transom Radio Story Workshop was a huge success, as you heard if you tuned in for the listening party on Friday evening. If you weren't able to catch it, I'm...

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 show is all about radio, radio bands and radio personalities and is dedicated to the participants in the Transom Traveling Radio Story Workshop, being hosted...

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 show was originally broadcast June 7, 2009, but if you've just started listening to the show in the intervening four years, it's new to you. We'll have some...

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, it's a special 2 HOUR edition of Rapidly Rotating Records.  If you missed the live show, direct from KISL last Sunday evening, below are links to the "studio"...

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 show is all "about you," as we have a special welcome segment, hear from British music hall star and actress Nellie Wallace (don't worry, I wasn't familiar w...

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 evening at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. This week's show is so packed with great music that when I got through with the show, it went over 2 minutes long. Rather that cut a song, I decided to cut some of the co...

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 evening at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's show, we're going to take a musical trip to Manhattan, play some games, play some miserable songs and do some scattin'.  As always, just click on the link...

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 evening at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. Ever have an "Old-Fashioned" cocktail?  (Rye whisky, bitters, sugar, splash of water and optional garnish.)  There's a great scene in "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" in...

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 evening at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. We won't be celebrating any birthdays this week, but that doesn't mean we won't be celebrating, since we'll be playing records to celebrate Earth Day and Arbor Day.  We'r...

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 evening at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's show we'll celebrate the birthdays of Lou Gold, Kay Swift and Lou Herscher, see what we can and can't do, and do some drifting. As always, just click on th...

TOIPICWhoa! Nellie – 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 evening at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. Do you love bacon?  Well, who doesn't?!  But even if you don't love bacon, you're gonna love the first segment of this week's show, which is all abou...

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 evening at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's brand new show, we'll like go somewhere someday, make a correction and issue an apology, do some blacksmithing and celebrate World Health Day.  As always,...

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 evening at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. This week's show was originally broadcast on May 30, 2008, but if you haven't heard it before, "it's new to you", and even if you did hear it, that was five years ago 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 evening at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. HAPPY SPRING!  On this week's edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, we're going to celebrate the vernal equinox, visit darktown, and celebrate World Water Day and the birt...