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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.

I’m willing to bet that almost everyone knows who this fellow is. This is a 1926 studio publicity still for the picture “So’s Your Old Man” in which Fields plays Samuel Bisbee, an inventor. So why a photo of Fields for this week’s playlist? I don’t think he said it in “So’s Your Old Man,” but Fields is famous for the phrase “Godfrey Daniel,” which is as close as he could come to saying “goddammit” without having the censors cut it from the film. Such words and phrases are sometimes called “by-words” and in the fourth segment of this week’s word you’ll hear one of them. We’ll also have not one, not two, not three but FOUR birthday segments for Ted Kohler, Noble Sissle, Johnny Marvin and Jimmy McHugh. 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: Johnny Marvin

12th Street Rag – Johnny Marvin and William Carola
Hum Your Troubles Away – Johnny Marvin
Calling – The Knickerbockers (Ben Selvin) / Johnny Marvin, v.

Segment 2: Jimmy McHugh

Harlemania – Duke Ellington AHO
Dorothy – Frank E. Banta
I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me – Roger Wolfe Kahn AHO

Segment 3: Noble Sissle

Are You Happy? – Noble Sissle
Sweetheart Memories – Noble Sissle
Dixie Moon – Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake

Segment 4: Doggone

Doggone That Train – Jimmie Davis
That Doggone Dog Of Mine – The Three Keys
Doggone, I’ve Done It – The Boswell Sisters

Segment 5: Ted Koehler

In A Tent – Benson Orchestra of Chicago UDO Don Bestor
The Waltz Of Love – Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders / Hal White, v.
My Sweetie’s Sweeter Than That – Isham Jones AHO