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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’ll have some songs about eggs, celebrate the birthdays of Grant Clarke, Scrappy Lambert and Archie Gottler, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Eggs

I’m putting all my eggs in one basket – Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys / Stuff Smith
Can you fry an egg – Dubin’s Dandies / Irving Kaufman, v.
Big Butter and Egg Man – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five

Segment 2: Grant Clarke
May 14 marked the birth in 1891 in Akron, Ohio of lyricist Grant Clarke.

Home In Pasadena – Frank Westphal Orch
Rosie, Make It Rosie For Me – Plantation Dance-Jazz Orch
Now That I Need You You’re Gone – Joe Venuti’s Rhythm Boys / Harold Arlen, v.
Weary River – Jan Garber AHO / Unidentified, v.

Segment 3: Archie Gottler
May 14 marked the birth in 1896 in New York City of composer Archie Gottler.

Are We Downhearted? No! – Bar Harbor Society Orch / Unidentified, v.
Doing The Boom Boom – Leo Reisman AHO
Hittin’ The Ceiling – Piccadilly Players

Segment 4: Scrappy Lambert
May 12 marked the birth in 1901 of Harold R. Lambert, better known as “Scrappy” Lambert.

Now You Got Me Worryin – Owen Fallon AHO / Scrappy Lambert, v.
Me And My Shadow – Scrappy Lambert
Smile When The Raindrops Fall – Imperial Dance Orchestra / Scrappy Lambert, v.
Bashful Baby – Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra / Burt Lorin (Scrappy Lambert)

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

Savannah – The Georgians
Let’s Make Up – George Olsen and His Music – Fran Frey / Bob Borger, v.
She’s Sweeter Than Sugar – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch / William Little Jr.

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