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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 Isham Jones, James P. Johnson and Fred Rich, do some yodeling and listen to this past week in years past.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Isham Johnes
January 31 marked the birth in 1894 of Isham Jones.

Get Lucky – Isham Jones AHO
My Baby Just Cares For Me – Isham Jones AHO / Isham Jones v.
It’s Funny To Everyone But Me – Isham Jones AHO / Joe Martin, v.
The Original Charleston – Isham Jones AHO

Segment 2: Yodel

Yodeling Bill – The Record Boys
Blue Yodel – Nat Shilkret AHO
Yodeling Chinaman – George Van Dusen

Segment 3: James P Johnson
February 1 marked the birth in 1894 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, of James Price Johnson – known as the “Father of Stride Piano”.

Jingles – James P. Johnson
A Porter’s Love Song To A Chambermaid – Jimmy Johnson AHO / Andy Razaf, v.
Skiddle-De-Scow – Johnson’s Jazzers – Perry Bradford, v.

Segment 4: Fred Rich
January 31 marked the birth in 1898 in Warsaw, Poland of Fred Rich.

Are You Happy? – Fred Rich Dance Orchestra / The Joy Boys (Sammy Fain and Artie Dunn)
He’s So Unusual – Fred Rich AHO / The Rollickers, v.
I’m Tickled Pink With a Blue Eyed Baby – Fred Rich AHO / Smith Ballew, v.

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

Sweet and Low Down – Singing Sophomores w/Ed Smalle, Piano (February 1, 1926)
What’s Good For The Goose Is Good For The Gander – Don Bestor AHO / The Chanters, v. (February 1, 1934)
Oh Lizzie – The University Six / Hal White & Chorus (February 1, 1927)

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