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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 Kay Swift, Lionel Hampton and Alex Hill, have a vocabulary lesson, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Katherine Faulkner Swift
April 19 marked the birth in 1897 in New York City of composer Katherine Faulkner Swift.

Can This Be Love – Victor Arden and Phil Ohman, Duo Pianists
Fine and Dandy – The Travelers (Jimmy Dorsey, Dir.) / Scrappy Lambert, v.
Can’t We Be Friends – Red Nichols and His Five Pennies / Scrappy Lambert, v.

Segment 2: Alex Hill
April 19 marked the birth in 1906 in Little Rock, Arkansas of composer, arranger, pianist and bandleader Alex Hill.

Stompin’ ‘Em Down – Alex Hill
St. James Infirmary – Alex Hill AHO
Ain’t It Nice? – Alex Hill and His Hollywood Sepians

Segment 3: Moments
As a public service, it’s time for for this evening’s vocabulary lesson. The word for today is trice – a noun with its origins in late Middle English, around 1400-1450 and means a very short time, a brief moment, or an instant. So here are some rapidly rotating records about some brief moments.

Hot Moments – Big Time Trio
The Moment I Saw You – Ray Noble AHO / Al Bowlly
My Mad Moment – Paul Specht AHO

Segment 4: Lionel Hampton
April 20 marked the birth in 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, of percussionist and bandleader Lionel Hampton.

Stompology – Lionel Hampton
On The Sunny Side Of The Street – Lionel Hampton
Piano Stomp (Shine) – Lionel Hampton

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History
Happy birthday to some rapidly rotating records celebrating birthdays, having been recorded this past week in years past.

Canadian Capers – Harry Roy AHO from Café Anglais / Band Chorus (April 21, 1933)
Lady of the Morning – Piccadilly Players (April 22, 1929)
Memphis Bound – Fletcher Henderson AHO (April 18, 1925)
Now I’m In Love – Gus Arnheim ah Ambassador Hotel Orch / Buster Dees (April 17, 1929)

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