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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 Bix, Miff Mole and Peter DeRose and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Time
Today is the first day of Daylight Saving Time here in the US, except for Arizona. Benjamin Franklin is thought to have come up with the idea of daylight saving in 1784. So, here’s a little time:

There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time / Frank Luther, v.
How The Time Can Fly – Red Nichols
When It’s Daylight Saving Time in Oshkosh (I’d Rather Be In Kalamazoo) – Ted Weems AHO

Segment 2: Bix Beiderbecke
March 10 marked the birth in 1903 in Davenport Iowa, of Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke.

Sorry – Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang
For No Reason At All In C – Tram Bix and Lang
Rhythm Kings – Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang

Segment 3: Miff Mole
March 11 marked the birth in 1898 in Roosevelt, New York of Irving Milfred Mole, better known as “Miff” Mole.

Slippin’ Around – Red and Miff’s Stompers
Imagination – Miff Mole’s Molers
Original Dixieland One Step – Miff Mole’s Molers

Segment 4: Peter DeRose
March 10 marked the birth in 1900 in New York City of composer Peter DeRose.

When I’m Walking With My Sweetness (Down Among The Sugar Cane) – Henry Starr
When Your Hair Has Turned To Silver – Sam Lanin (Cr. Phil Spitalny’s Music) / Scrappy Lambert, v.
I Just Roll Along (Havin’ My Ups and Downs) – Harry Richman

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

San – Husk O’Hare’s Super Orchestra of Chicago (March 10, 1922)
Hello Cutie – Sam Lanin’s Dance Orch / Arthur Fields (March 11, 1927)
I Like Pie, I Like Cake, But I Like You Best Of All – Edwin J. McEnelly’s Orchestra (March 9, 1925)
Lucious – Lew Gold AHO (March 8, 1928)

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