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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 celebrate the birthdays of Abe Lyman and Arthur Fields, take a trip to China, move our feet and hear from some sisters.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Abe Lyman
August 4, marked the birth in 1897 in Chicago, Illinois of drummer, bandleader and composer Abe Lyman.

That’s My Weakness Now – Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra
Pal Of My Lonesome Hours – Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra / Unidentified v.
Twelfth Street Rag – Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra

Segment 2: Move Those Feet

Stomp Your Feet – Fred Elizalde and His Cambridge Undergraduates
Tap Your Feet – Marius B. Winter and His Dance Orchestra
Shake Your Feet – Fletcher Henderson AHO
Shuffle Your Feet – Bandana Babies / Don Redman AHO

Segment 3: China
The 20th Olympic games are happening in Beijing, China at the moment, so to commemorate here’s a set of rapidly rotating records about China.

Chinese Jumble – Golden Gate Orchestra (aka California Ramblers)
It’s Cold In China Blues – The Mississippi Moaner
In A Street of Chinese Lanterns – Norman Mede’s Dance Orchestra (The Nat Star Band)

Segment 4: Sister Groups
A few weeks ago listener James in Iowa suggested that I do a whole show of records by sister groups.

I’m On My Way Home – Vincent Lopez and His Casa Lopez Orch / Keller Sisters & Lynch, v.
Happiness Ahead – Pickens Sisetrs and Their Orchestra / Pickens Sisters, v.
Evryone Says I Love You – Anson Weeks and His Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / The Moering Sisters

Segment 5: Arthur Fields
August 6 marked the birth in 1888 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Abe Finklestein. You hear him singing on this show quite often, but under the name Arthur Fields.

Moxie – Harry Raderman’s Orch – Arthur Fields, v.
Wherever You Go, Whatever You Do – Manhattan Dance Makers (Ben Selvin) / Arthur Fields, v.
Geraldine (Got No Time For Anyone Else) – Arthur Fields and His Noodlers / Harry Crane, v. (Arthur Fields)

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