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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.

This being Mother’s Day, this evening’s show is all about mothers, mamas, grandmas, mammys, and maybe even a mother-in-law or two.
Anna Jarvis is credited with bringing about the official observance of Mother’s Day. Her own mother had tried to establish A Mother’s Friendship Days as a way to heal the scars of the Civil War. Two years after her mother died, Jarvis held a ceremony in Grafton, West Virginia, to honor her. She was so moved by the proceedings that she began a massive campaign to adopt a formal holiday honoring mothers. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed Mother’s Day as a national holiday to be held on the second Sunday of May.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Mother

Dream Mother – Rhythm Maniacs / Maurice Elwin, v.
No One Loves You Better Than Your M A Double M Y – Virginians / Ed Smalle, Billy Murray, v.
That New-Fangled Mother Of Mine – Leslie Henson, v
Go Home And Tell Your Mother – Frank Banta

Segment 2: Continuing Mother’s Day Songs

When Mother Nature Sings Her Lullaby – Richard Himber ah Essex House Orch. / Stuart Allen, v.
Little Mother – Willard Robison AHO / Billy Jones, v.
I’m Gonna Take My Mother Out Tonight – Brian Lawrance and His Quaglino’s Quartet / Brian Lawrance, v.

Segment 3: Wonderful Mother
Although Anna Jarvis founded Mother’s Day, she spent her fortune trying to stop the commercialization of the holiday. She was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a war mothers’ convention where women sold white carnations to raise money. White carnations were Jarvis’s symbol for mothers.

That Wonderful Mother of Mine – Frank Munn
Your Mother and Mine – Dorsey Bros Orch / Irving Kaufman
Let Every Day Be Mother’s Day – Clarence Williams

Segment 4: Mama, Mammy, Mommie
Other pronouns for mother.

That’s My Mammy – Dorsey Brothers and Their Orchestra / Bill Dutton, v.
Mama Inez – Fred “Sugar” Hall and His Sugar Babies / Fred Hall and Arthur Fields, v.
My Mammy Knows – The California Ramblers
My Mommie Sent Me To The Store – Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.

Segment 5: Dear Mother
You may wish to have a tissue handy for this last set of mother’s day songs.

My Mother’s Eyes – Waring’s Pennsylvanians / Clare Hanlon
M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means The World To Me) – Henry Burr
Baby Your Mother Like She Babied You – Vaughn DeLeath

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