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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 Grant Clarke and Archie Gottler, maybe play some maybe songs, play some records for no particular reason, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Grant Clarke
May 14 marked the birth in 1891 in Akron, Ohio of lyricist Grant Clarke.

Am I Blue? – Alfredo and His Band/ Eddie Grossbart, v.
Nobody Cares If I’m Blue – Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys / Lee Morse, v.
Weary River – Bob Haring AHO / Dick Robertson, v.

Segment 2: For No Particular Reason
Here where we play rapidly rotating records we’ve come across while putting this show together, which aren’t part of a specific topic, but are nonetheless interesting, unusual, or for whatever reason warrant sharing.

Ostrich Walk – New Yorkers Tanzorchester
I Can’t Stop Babying You – Dan Russo and and Ted FioRito’s Oriole Orchestra
Kiddie Kapers – Varsity Four (Harry Reser)
Laughing Stomp – Vance Dixon and His Pencils / Papa Too Sweet, v.

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

Come On, Baby – Harry Reser’s Cliquot Club Eskimos / Tom Stacks, v.
Anything To Hold Your Baby – Tom Morton’s Orchestra / Irving Kaufman, v. (As George Kay)
Doing the Boom Boom – Leo Reisman AHO / Lou Levin, v.

Segment 4: Maybe

Maybe You’ll Be The One Who’ll Be The One To Care – Hern Wiedpeft AHO / Leon Lucas, v.
Maybe. Who Knows – Ted Lewis AHO
Maybe It’s Love – Lietzke’s Midnight Serenaders / Glen Lietzke, v.

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History
Playing rapidly rotating records celebrating birthdays, having been recorded this past week in years past

Frankfurter Sandwiches – Al Lentz AHO / Al Lentz, v. (May 17, 1927)
I’m Saving Saturday Night For You – Al Staria and His Ambassadors Band / Phil Arnold, v.
What A Day – Mason Dixon Orchestra (May 15, 1929)
Not A Cloud In The Sky – Isham Jones AHO / Eddie Stone, v. (May 14, 1930)

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