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Welcome to 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.

Rapidly Rotating Records Show – December 18, 2016

This being a season of joy, on this week's edition of the show, we'll hear some rapidly rotating records about joy. We'll also spend some time alone, and celebrate the birthdays of Wilf Carter, Lud Gluskin and the State of Alabama.

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We're also proud and happy to now be rebroadcast over Global Community Radio! We're on GCR's music channel GRC-2 and can be heard on the University of Wisconsin's station WRST-FM 90.3 in Oshkosh at www.wrst.org Saturday mornings at 8 AM (Eastern).  Wwe're also now heard on WXDR, 98.9, in New Orleans, Louisiana. WXDR, known on the air as Dolphin Radio, is the student station at Delgado Community College at 7:00 AM (Central). You can find out more about Global Community Radio at globalcommunityradio.blogspot.com.

As always, just click on the link below to instantly listen streaming online and/or download the show. A number of records are making their RRR debut and your comments, topic suggestions and requests are always welcome. Let us know what your favorite record is by posting a comment to the website or to our Facebook page.

Enjoy the show!

Here's the complete playlist:

Here's the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Joy!

Soldier's Joy – Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers
Milenburg Joys – Lew Stone and His Band
Shout For Joy – Albert Ammons
Just A Crazy Song (Hi-Hi-Hi) – Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys

Segment 2: "I Want To Be Alone"

I'd Rather Be Alone – Cliquot Club Eskimos
I'd Rather Be Alone In The South – The Singing Sophomores (The Revelers)
I Want To Be Alone With Mary Brown – Al Starita and The Piccadilly Players / Eddie Gross Bart, v.

Segment 3: Wilf Carter

The Hobo's Blues – Wilf Carter
A Little Log Shack I Can Always Call My Home – Wilf Carter
The Hobo's Dream Of Heaven – Wilf Carter

Segment 4: Alabama Statehood

Alabama Stomp – Joe Watson and His Green Mill Orchestra
Alabama Flood – Andrew Jenkins
Nancy Jane – Roy Palmer's Alabama Rascals

Segment 5: Lud Gluskin

C'est Mon Gigolo – Lud Gluskin et son Orchestre
The Continental – Lud Gluskin and His Continental Orchestra
Moon Over Miami – Lud Gluskin AHO

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