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 these folks are? It’s the Pickard Family. They were as popular in the 1920s as the Carter Family, the Stoneman Family and Fiddlin’ Powers and Family and were led by patriarch Odebdia Orlando Pickard, better known as “Dad” Pickard. In the fourth segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, you’ll hear them perform “The Little Red Caboose Behind The Train” from 1929. We’ll be celebrating two birthdays this week, those of barrelhouse blues singer Georgia White and saxophonist and bandleader Don Parker.  This is a show you can really get “behind.”  There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour, relax with your favorite beverage and be transported back 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: Georgia White

I’m So Glad I’m 21 Today – Georgia White
When You’re Smiling The Whole World Smiles With You – Jimmy Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra / Georgia White, v.
The Stuff Is Here – Georgia White

Segment 2: Vamping

Fascinatin’ Vamp – Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra
The Vamp – Walford-Astoria Singing Orchestra

Sally Green (The Village Vamp) – Billy Murray
Sob Sister Sadie (The Vamp Cry Baby) – Ernest Hare

Segment 3: Don Parker

Tiger Rag – Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1923)
Pick Me Up And Lay Me Down In Dear Old Dixieland – Don Parker Trio

Only You And Lonely Me – Don Parker and His Band at Piccadilly Hotel and Kit-Kat Club, London
Rose Of The Rio Grande – Don Parker’s Western Melody Boys

Segment 4: Behind

Behind The Clouds (There’s Crowds And Crowds Of Sunbeams) – Percival Mackey and His Band / Harry Glen (Fred Douglas), v.
He Left Her Behind Before – Savoy Orpheans / Ramon Newton, v.
Little Red Caboose Behind The Train – Pickard Family

Bonus Track

Stingo Stungo – Pennsylvania Syncopators

THANKS FOR LISTENING!