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’re gonna do some buying and selling, celebrate the birthdays of Jack Jenney, Billy Cotton and Red Nichols 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 evenings show, we’re celebrating mothers in honor of our special mothers day show, we dream mothers, red hot mothers, mothers in laws, and learn a little mothering history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete pla...

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 do some walking and some running, celebrate the birthdays of Alex Hill and Kay Swift, 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. On this evening’s show we’ll check our breath, find out who loves you, celebrate Bette Davis’s birthday and National Poetry Month, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete pl...

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 lounge around, listen to some charming music, celebrate the birthdays of Pops and Zez Confrey, and do the rhumba. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Loungers I...

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. If you’re a fan of hot vintage dance band music, you’re in fora special treat tonight because on this evening’s show, we’ll celebrate the birthday s of Jean Goldkette, George Olsen and Hal Kemp, hear from Al Jolson, 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’re going to go Mad, celebrate March and The Sunshine State, enjoy some water, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Mad Marc...

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 Harry Warren and Nat Shillkret, have some songs about marriage, have some songs by some sisters, and some songs for the new year Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete...

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 different. 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 commenta...

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. Tonight, we’re gonna turn KISL into a “number station” for the next hour, as we play rapidly rotating records having to do with numbers. Click play to find out why. 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. Now most of the bands and orchestras that we play on this show have decidedly unimaginative names, generally, the leader’s name, and His Orchestra or and His Band. For example, Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra, Jack Hy...

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’ve been accused on more than one occasion of being nonsensical. And so on tonight’s show we’re gonna get nonsensical as each of the songs on tonight’s show has a nonsense title. 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. Although listeners to this show might not believe it, I’m generally known as a pauciloquent person. Pauciloquent is a rare, archaic word meaning “uttering few words, or speaking briefly”. So, this evening’s show features...

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. Recently in the 78 discussion group online, there was a thread going about song titles with bad grammar. So, on this evening’s show, the rules of grammar are out the window as we have songs with double negatives, poor sy...

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 Phil Spitalny and Harry M. Woods, a radio series, a television series, and we’ll listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete...

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. Welcome to a ghoulish edition of Rapidly Rotating Records with yours truly, the ghost of Glenn Robison. In case you haven’t figured it out, this is a special Halloween edition of the show, featuring songs from rapidly ro...

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 Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Rolfe, Roger Wolfe Kahn and the Metropolitan Opera House. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: B.A. Rolfe Exactly 125 y...

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 get happy, have a vocabulary lesson, have some songs about cats and fiddles and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Happy 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 Clarence Williams, Johnny Burke and George Westinghouse, 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 Vincent Youmans’ birthday, play “Double or Nothing”, have some songs about farm and home, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete pla...

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 evening we’re not playing the usual Red Nichols version of our theme song, “Avalon”, but a 1935 version by Harry Roy and His Orchestra, that’s because, at the suggestion of listener Mort in Great Neck, New York, thi...

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 Fred Ahlert and William McKinney, get an adjustment, have some crackers and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playl...

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. We could do an entire show on each one of them, but on this evening’s show we’ll celebrate the birthdays of Billy Rose, Emer Schoebel, Gus Arnheim, Lou Handman and Arthur Freed. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playli...

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 Sam Lanin, Harry Tobias, and Phil Baxter, we’ll search for tomorrow 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 celebrate the birthdays of Fred Rose, Nick Lucas and Jack Payne, and cook up a musical meal. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Topic The last couple of weeks the promos...