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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 a zoo,a radio program, Richard Rodgers and Mildred Jane Hill and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Richard Charles Rodgers
June 28 marked the birth in 1902 in Hammels Station, New York, of one of America’s greatest and most prolific composer of popular songs, Richard Charles Rodgers.

The Blue Room – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch.
Ten Cents A Dance – The High Hatters / Welcome Lewis, v
Why Do You Suppose – Colonial Club Orch / Scrappy Lambert

Segment 2: Animals
Exactly one hundred 133 years ago today, July 1 in 1874, marked the opening of the first zoo in the United States, the Philadelphia Zoo. So to commemorate the Philadelphia Zoo, here’s a set of rapidly rotating records about some creatures you might see at the zoo.

Go Wash an Elephant – Mayfield Dance Orchestra (Bob Haring’s Happy Harmonizers)
The Monkey Doodle Doo – Busse’s Buzzards
Hyena Stomp – Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers

Segment 3: Don’t Know
The first broadcast of a radio quiz show that spoofed other radio quiz shows “It Pays to Be Ignorant” aired over WOR Radio on 25 June 1942, so here’s a set of songs to commemorate “It Pays To Be Ignorant”.

I Don’t Know, I Can’t Say – Jay Whidden and His New Midnight Follies Band
I Don’t Know and I Don’t Care – Fletcher Henderson
We Don’t Know From Nothin’ – Don Redman AHO
Don’t You Wanna Know? – Ross Deluxe Syncopators

Segment 4: Birthdays
June 27 marked the birth in 1859 of Mildred Jane Hill, who in 1893, along with Patty Hill, wrote “Happy Birthday To You”. So here, in honor of Mildred Jane Hill, are some birthday songs.

Baby’s Birthday Party – Nat Shilkret AHO
Happy Birthday To Love – Kay Kyser AHO
Mickey Mouse’s Birthday Party – Intl. Novelty Orch.

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

You Took Advantage Of Me – Sam Lanin and His Troubadors / Scrappy Lambert (June 26, 1928)
Lovable And Sweet – Gus Arnheim AHO / Nelson Hall, Art Fleming, Walter Holzhaus, v. (June 27, 1929)
That’s What I Call Keen – Ray Starita and His Ambassadors Band (June 30, 1928)
Heart Breakin’ Baby – Golden Gate Orchestra (June 24, 1927)

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