A Florenz Ziegfeld Edition of RRR # 1,288 March 23, 2025

Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

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? He’s American impresario and producer Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. and this week’s is an “All Ziegfeld” edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, with songs featured in many of the Ziegfeld Follies, Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic and other Ziegfeld productions. 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.

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1:

Ziegfeld Follies (Medley One Step) – Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra
List’ning On The Radio – Frisco Syncopators
Adoring You – Ray Miller AHO

Segment 2:

Makin’ Whoopee – Eddie Cantor
Zigeuner – Noel Coward
All The Boys Love Mary – Van & Schenck

Segment 3:

If I Give Up The Saxophone (Will You Come Back To Me?) – Jack Dalton (Jack Kaufman) and The Seven Blue Babies
Hello, Frisco – Alice Green & Edward Hamilton
Was I? – Lil Johnson

Segment 4:

It All Belongs To Me – Harry Jacobson, Piano
Second Hand Rose – Fanny Brice
Ooh! Maybe It’s You – Harry Reser’s Syncopators / Franklyn Baur, v.

Segment 5:

Shake Your Feet (Intro: Swanee River Blues) – The Georgians
Madame Ah! La Marquise Ah! – Joe Loss AHO / Chick Henderson & Unidentified f., v.

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