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 visit Penn Station, get a CARE package, get a haircut, hear some songs from a Cole Porter musical, and celebrate the birthday of William Enos. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: 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. The Thanksgiving holiday is coming up this week, and so this evening’s show is all about giving thanks. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Thanksgiving Thanksgiving celebrations and harvest festival...

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 Richard Whiting, Robert Fulton and the State of Washington. And you’ll find out Vincent J. Schaefer’s claim to fame. 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’re going to celebrate the birthdays of Adolph Saxe and Leonard Slye. Who’s Leonard Slye, you ask? Well, stay tuned and you’ll find out. We also have some songs about fathers, life and days. Enj...

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 take a trip to Nevada, celebrate a couple of birthdays, and take an airplane flight, so you might want to get out a ball point pen and take some notes. 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’ve got some songs for Halloween, which is coming up in a few days. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: B.A. Rolfe But to get us started, last week, October 24 marked the bi...

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 tuned in last week, you know EXACTLY what we’re going to play this evening. That’s because we’re repeating last week’s playlist. All of the songs on this week’s show were played last week, but by different artists...

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 tonight’s show, we have no topics and no themes, no birthdays and no trivia. What we do have is the first of a pair of duplicate playlists. All of the tunes on tonight’s show will be played again next week, in their 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’ve got songs composed by Terry Shand, we’ll play some midnight music, we’re going to check into some hotels, get religion, and hopefully we’ve not bitten off more than we can chew. Enjoy the sho...

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’ve got songs about roses and drums, and we’ll celebrate the birthdays of George Gershwin and the “original radio girl”. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Vaughn DeLeath 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. We’ve got quite a wide range of musical styles on this evening’s show, dance bands, sweet bands, jug bands, string bands, and blues bands, so you’ll want to adjust your rabbit ears antenna. We’re going to make musical tr...

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’ve got some songs about the Golden State, we’ll have some beautiful songs, songs to fulfill your heart’s desire, we’ll hear from a couple of sailors and as they used to say on Rowan and Marin’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’re going to hear from Bing, we’ll search for tomorrow, hit the rails, and have some songs about some beautiful people. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Lionel Hampton We...

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. Grab a pencil and paper and write down 15 numbers between 1 and 11,790. Why, you ask? Well, normally, we come up with the playlist for the show based on some event, piece of trivia, or artist or composer’s birthday. This...

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’ll have a second helping of cooking songs, we’ll celebrate Count Basie’s birthday, Cornelius Swarthout’s invention, and we’ll hear from the Happiness Boys. 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’ show we’ve got some dreamy songs, some hello and good-bye songs, and we’ll celebrate a couple of birthdays. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Oneiric We’re going to start off with...

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 several birthdays, including that of a cartoon character. Are you ready? Set? Let’s go. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Abe Lyman August 4 marked 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. On this evening’s show, we’ll be coming and going, we’ll celebrate a birthday, go to camp and dance on a rainbow. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Rainbow July 28 in 1939, Judy Garland, backed by...

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 special second anniversary edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, an hour of toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s with yours truly, Glenn Robison. We began broadcasting 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’re going to celebrate the birthday of Dorothy Fields, dream some dreams, pop off, and take a giant leap. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Dorothy Fields July 15 marked 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. On this evening’s show we’ll spotlight “The Poet of the Organ”, we’ll have a set of digital songs, sell some stuff and celebrate a birthday. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Selling May 19 in 1912...

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’ve got songs about birds, Tennessee, mines and nickels. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Topic May 14 in 1945, the dramatic adventure serial “The Sparrow and the Hawk” 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 bemoan April 15, take a midnight ride, and celebrate the birthday of Thornton Wilder. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Cigarettes & Smoking April 17 in 1933, form...

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, a little later on we’re going to have breakfast, and we’ll have a quartet of songs by quartets. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: First Parentheses For no particular reason...

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 play the ponies, acknowledge daylight savings time, and hear from “the champion of the people”. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Spavined As a public service, w...