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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.

Do you know who this fellow is? I’m going to guess you don’t, so I’ll tell you! He’s accordionist and actor Phil Baker. This is a movie still from the 1943 picture “The Gang’s All Here.” You’ll hear one of Phil’s accordion recordings in the first segment of the show, and you’ll hear much more from and about Phil Baker when he gets his own birthday segment on the September 1 show. On this week’s show we’ll have a vocabulary lesson and celebrate the birthdays of Dorothy Fields and Will S. Hays. We’ll also express some doubts and hear some songs about Henry Ford. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and prepare to be transported back to a different–and we think better–musical era. Just click the link above to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Hagiography

The Bells Of St. Mary’s – Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra
St. Louis Bound – Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers
St. Swithun Blues – Phil Baker

Segment 2: Will S. Hays

Parted By The Riverside – Ernest V. Stoneman and His Dixie Mountaineers
Tell Me That You Love Me – The Carter Family
The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane – Kenneth Calvert

Segment 3: Dorothy Fields

It’s The Darndest Thing – The D’Orsay Dance Orchestra / Le Dandy Trio, v.
Blue Again – The Revelers
On The Sunny Side Of The Street – Grace Hayes

Segment 4: Doubts

Living In Doubt – Hal Kemp AHO / Deane Janice, v.
Without A Shadow Of A Doubt – Jan Garber AHO / Russell Brown, v.
The Goldoliers: No Possible Doubt Whatever – Columbia Light Opera Company

Segment 5: Henry Ford

Since Henry Ford Apologized To Me – The Happiness Boys
Will Rogers Nominates Henry Ford For President – Will Rogers
Henry Ford’s Model A – Oscar Ford