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Rapidly Rotating Records
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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.
Happy New Year from Rapidly Rotating Records January 1, 2023
Chop Suey 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 the first Rapidly Rotating Records show of 2023! So why is there a...
Ann Ronell & Austin J. Wylie on RRR 78 RPM Show – December 25, 2022
Ann Ronell 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 can guarantee that you’ve heard at least one of this lady’s songs. You can...
A Four-Birthday Edition of RRR 78 RPM Show – December 18, 2022
Fletcher Henderson 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 pianist, arranger and bandleader...
A Birthday Salute to Ernest Borbee – RRR 78 RPM Show – December 11, 2022
Charles Harrison Do you know who this fellow is? He’s American tenor ballad singer Charles Harrison. You’ll hear him in the third segment of the show singing “Last Night Was The End Of The World” on a 4 minute Edison Amberol cylinder. This week’s edition of Rapidly...
Back on the Air! Rapidly Rotating Records – December 4, 2022
Harry T. Burleigh Go Down Moses Broome Record Label 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 week’s edition of Rapidly...
Rapidly Rotating Records 78 RPM Show – November 13, 2022
Jane Froman at NBC mic Do you know who this lovely lady is? She’s singer and actor Jane Froman. (No relation to the fictitious “Sausage King of Chicago” Abe Froman from the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off") She was born November 10, 1907, and you’ll hear a little...
Pucker Up And Whistle – RRR 78 RPM Show – November 6, 2022
Pucker Up and Whistle Sheet Music Cover The gentleman on the sheet music above is Nat Vincent, whose birthday we’ll be celebrating in the first segment of this week’s edition of the show. Nat Vincent co-wrote the lyrics to “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles,” a huge hit in...
Composer Clay Boland – RRR 78 RPM Show – October 30, 2022
Clay Boland Do you know who this fellow is? He’s Klaypole Aloysius Boland, known to his family and friends as “Clay.” You’ll hear about his extremely busy life and hear three of his compositions in the first segment of this week’s edition of the show. In other...
How “Spike” Hughes Got the Nickname “Spike” RRR 78 RPM Show – October 23, 2022
Spike Hughes Do you know who this fellow is? He’s Patrick Cairns Hughes, but you may know him better by his nickname “Spike” Hughes. In the first segment of this week’s show, you’ll find out how he got that moniker and hear three of Spike’s recordings. We’ll also be...
A Special RRR 78 RPM Show Featuring Johnny Messner – October 16, 2022
Johnny Messner Family Portrait The portrait above is of Marcus and Catherine Messner and their five sons, Fred, Dick, Bill, Charlie and Johnny. Johnny is the youngest, third from the right. For several years in the 1930s, the brothers all played together in the...