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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 Eugene Fodor and Johnny Green, visit the lost and found, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Traveling
October 14 marks the birth in 1905 of Eugene Fodor, who pioneered the modern travel guidebook. So here in honor of Eugene Fodor is a little traveling music.

I Wanna Go Places and Do Things – Jesse Stafford AHO
Cross Roads – Nat Shilkret AHO
Traveling Man – Prince Albert Hunt’s Texas Ramblers
Journey’s End – George Olsen and His Music

Segment 2: Lost
October 9 in 1943, “Land of the Lost”, the children’s adventure-fantasy radio serial that took place wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the sea, So here to commemorate “Land of the Lost” are some rapidly rotating records about being lost.

Lost My Baby Blues – The Arkansas Travelers
Lost – Mezz Mezzrow and His Swing Band
Lost Motion – Joe Haymes AHO

Segment 3: Found
Well we just had a segment about being lost, so it’s only fitting that we have a set about being found.

Since I Found You – Sam Lanin and His Dance Orchestra / Irving Kaufman
I’ve Found A New Baby – KXYZ Novelty Band
I’ve Found A Horseshoe – George Fisher and His Kit-Cat Band / The Three New Yorkers, v.

Segment 4: Johnny Green
October 10 marked the birth in 1908 in Far Rockaway, New York of composer, arranger, bandleader and pianist John W. Green. You may know him better as “Johnny Green”.

Repeal The Blues – Lee Wiley
An Hour Ago This Minute – John W. Green
I Cover The Waterfront – Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra

Segment 5: This Week In Recording History

Whoop em up blues – Curtis Mosby & His Dixieland Blue Blowers (October 14, 1927)
Crazy People – Lud Gluskin AHO / Drena & Kearny Walton, v. (October 10, 1932)
Doin’ The Racoon – The Knickerbockers (October 8, 1928)
Together, We Two – Fred Rich and His Hotel Astor Orchestra / Irving Kaufman, Della Baker, v. – (October 11, 1927)

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