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 play a guessing game, fulfill a request, go to the beach and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Guessing Game This past W...

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 breakfast, strike it rich, listen to this past week in recording history, and have some songs for the upcoming holiday. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Breakfast...

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 the birthdays of Ben Pollack and Benny Krueger, do some spelling, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment...

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 a special Father’s Day show, featuring rapidly rotating records about fathers, papas, daddies and grampas, but we’ll also have our regular “This Week in Recording History” segment. 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. On this evening’s show we’ll celebrate the birthdays of Ted Lewis, Percival Mackey and Bert Lown, hear from the Rev. J. M. Gates and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete play...

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 often ask for suggestions for segment topics for the show, but for this evening, listener Dan’s recent suggestion has been applied to the entire show. Tonight, it’s all “hotel orchestras” all the time. In the 20s virtu...

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 Fats Waller, George Hamilton Green and Ernest Stoneman, play some records for no particular reason and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show...

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 Grant Clarke and Archie Gottler, maybe play some maybe songs, play some records for no particular reason, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy t...

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 being Mother’s Day, this evening’s show is all about mothers, mamas, grandmas, mammys, and maybe even a mother-in-law or two. Anna Jarvis is credited with bringing about the official observance of Mother’s Day. Her...

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 gonna roll ‘em, celebrate the birthday of Bing, introduce a new segment to the show, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1...

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 birthday of Bessie Smith, have a barn dance, commemorate the sinking of Titanic, run a marathon, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the co...

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. Lots of vintage music personalities had birthdays this past week including Yip Harburg, Fred Hall, Debroy Somers, Johnny Dodds, Bud Freeman and Billie Holiday, but on this evening’s show, we’re going to play rapidly rota...

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 fulfill some requests, test our luck, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Lucky I am just back from a business conferen...

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 Paul Specht, Sidney Arodin, Paul Whiteman and Hal Kemp, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1:...

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 past week, there were so many fine composers and artists who had birthdays that I was having trouble trying to edit the list, so I’m just going to skip the biographies and use that time to play something from each o...

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 Irving Kahal, “Hutch”, and Florida, do some whispering, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1:...

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 Alexander Graham Bell and Frank Munn, fulfill a request, go out in the rain and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete p...

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 Nacio Herb Brown, Ivan Browning and Harry Archer, go the Oscars and have some songs about a fruit. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Banana’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 evening’s show we’ll celebrate the birthday of Harry Reser, listen to this past week in recording history, and have some songs about…well, stay tuned and find out. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Se...

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 Ace Brigode, Harry Roy and Al Bowlly, fulfill a request and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1:...

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 Vincent Lopez, Art Gillham, Carroll Gibbons and Fred Van Eps, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segme...

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. Around this time of the year, a number of composers, songwriters and bandleaders sometimes don’t get featured so that we can present vintage Christmas music on our special Christmas show. Because of that, and at the sugg...

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. T his evening’s show is starting out a little differently. This being our Christmas show, I’ve got a Christmas present for you: I’m going to shut up and just play a whole show of vintage Christmas records, with no commen...

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 Harold Adamson, Lud Gluskin and Lew Brown, have a vocabulary lesson and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist:...

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 listen to some rags, fulfill some requests, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Rag Scott Joplin’s date of birth is oft...