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 week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records we’re celebrating three birthdays, those of George Christie, Reed Miller and Margaret Young, all three getting their own segment for the first time. As a public service and educational feature, we’ll have a timely vocabulary lesson in a segment in which we’ll play not the usual three records, but five! There is a higher percentage of acoustic records this week, including a cylinder record in the first segment. Acoustically recorded discs, made without microphones or electrical amplification, can be difficult to listen to and tiring to the ears. I do my best to select records that are in the best condition possible going in and if necessary, restore them as much as possible without destroying the music to make them as easy and pleasant to listen to. With the podcast, it’s possible to pause the show in order to take a break and I know some listeners who even listen to a segment a day in order to stretch out their enjoyment of the show to almost the whole week. It can even be downloaded to be listened to at your convenience and as many times as you’d like. However you choose to listen, THANK YOU! There’s lots of great music and interesting information, and even perhaps a chuckle or two, so set aside an hour to relax over your favorite beverage and be taken back in time to a different musical era. 

ENJOY THE SHOW!

I hope you are all safe and healthy and doing as well as you can be given the current world situation and stay-at-home orders and that this hour of music gives you a bit of diversion and entertainment. Thanks for listening and best wishes!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: George Christie

 On A Good Old-Time Straw Ride – Al Bernard and The Gully Jumpers
If All My Dreams Were Made Of Gold, I’d Buy The World For You – Orpheus Quartet
Down In Sunshine Valley – Manuel Romain

Segment 2: Reed Miller

There’s A Long, Long Trail – James Reed and James F. Harrison
Come Back To Arizona – Reed Miller and Frederick J. Wheeler
Molly O! – Reed Miller

Segment 3: Margaret Young

Oh! By Jingo! – Margaret Young
(I’m Scared To Death To Hold My Breath) Under The Water – Margaret Young
Tomorrow – Margaret Young

 Segment 4: Fealty

Illinois Loyalty Song – Dan A. Russo’s Oriole Orchestra
True Blue Bill – Gene Autry

Devotion – John McCormack
I’ll Be Faithful – Bernie Cummins and His New Yorkers / Walter Cummins, v.

Comrades Of The Legion – Sousa’s Band

THANKS FOR LISTENING!