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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.

On this evening’s show, we celebrate the birthdays of Michael H. Cleary, Duke Ellington and Louisiana, but the first two segments of the show are going to be like night and day. That’s because they’re about night and day..or day and night

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Day

There’s A New Day Coming – The Midnight Minstrels / Sam Browne & Trio, v.
Lucky Day – Lou Gold AHO / Arthur Fields, v.
Rhythm Of The Day – Vincent Lopez and his Casa Lopez Orch
When Day Is Done – Edisonians

Segment 2: Night

What A Night – Irving Mills and His Hotsy Totsy Gang
Night Wind – Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.
Night Owl – Cliff Edwards

Segment 3: Michael H. Cleary
April 27 marked the birth in 1902 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, of composer Michael H.Cleary.

Singin’ In The Bathtub – Hotel Pennsylvania Music / Scrappy Lambert, v.
Hello, Baby – Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians / Will Morgan, v.
“Here It Is Monday And I’ve Still Got A Dollar” – Chick Bullock, v. with Chick Bullock’s Levee Loungers
Vaniteaser – California Ramblers (The Golden Gate Orchestra)

Segment 4: Duke Ellington
April 29, marked the birth in 1899 in Washington, D.C. of Edward Kennedy Ellington, better known as the very stylish Duke Ellington.

Chicago Stomp Down – Duke Ellington AHO / Adelaide Hall, v.
Swampy River – Duke Ellington, Piano
Jungle Jamboree – The Harlem Footwarmers

Segment 5: Louisiana
On April 30 in 1812, the Territory of Orleans, with a few boundary changes, became the 18th of the United States, Louisiana.

Louisiana Bo Bo – Georgia Cotton Pickers
Louisiana Breakdown – Hot and Heavy
Louisiana Glide – Blind Leroy Garnett

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