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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’re gonna have some cake, and as if that weren’t enough bad enough for us, we’re gonna have some doughnuts, do some sewing, do some doodling and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Doodle

Cock-A-Doodle, I’m Off My Noodle – Six Jumping Jacks / Tom Stacks, v.
Do Doodle Oom – Fletcher Henderson
Doodle Do Doo – Romance of Harmony Orch
The Doodle Um Blues – Benson Orchestra of Chicago

Segment 2: Cake

Cut Yourself A Piece Of Cake (And Make Yourself At Home) – Bar Harbor Society Orch / Irving Kaufman
I Like Pie, I Like Cake, But I Like You Best Of All – Bernie Cummins AHO
Cupid On The Cake – Montmartre Mad Hatters / Fred Douglas, v.
Patty Cake, Patty Cake – Fats Waller

Segment 3: Donuts
July 9 back in 1872, John F. Blondel of Thomaston, Maine, received a patent for…..the donut cutter.

When You Dunk A Doughnut Don’t It Make It Nice – Six Jumping Jacks / Tom Stacks, v.
Who Pumped The Wind In My Doughnut – Washboard Sam (aka Ham Gravy / Robert Brown)
Where Do The Holes Go In The Doughnuts (When We Eat The Doughnuts Up)? – Adrian Schubert / Unidentified, v.

Segment 4: Sewing
July 9 marked the birth in 1819 of Elias Howe, inventor of the lock stitch sewing machine.

I Can Sew A Button – Ted Lewis and His Band / Ted Lewis, v.
Sewing Machine Blues – Jimmie Davis
Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts For Soldiers – Al Jolson

Segment 5: For No Particular Reason
Well, there’s some reason in common.

What’s The Reason? – Arnold Johnson AHO / Roy Strom/Harold Arluck/Roy Ingram, v.
For No Reason At All In C – Tram, Bix & Lang
Never Had A Reason To Believe In You – Mound City Blue Blowers / Jack Teagarden, v.

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