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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 search for tomorrow, celebrate the birthday of L. Wolfe Gilbert, hear some news, have some songs about reptiles and fulfill a request.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Tomorrow
September 3, in 1951, what was to become the longest-running TV soap opera was seen for the first time as “Search for Tomorrow” debuted on CBS-TV. So, in our own search for tomorrow, we came across the following

Take Your Tomorrow (And Give Me Today) – Edwin J. McEnelly’s Orchestra / Jim Miller & Charlie Fareell
In The Garden Of Tomorrow – Geoffrey Goodhart AHO
Tomorrow (I’ll Be In My Dixie Home Again) – Ernest Stevens Trio
Tomorrow Is Another Day – Ted Wallace and His Campus Boys

Segment 2: Roy Johnson’s Happy Pals
Listener Len in Lynden, Washington saying that he would be more than pleased if I could play anything by Roy Johnson’s Happy Pals, particularly, “Happy Pal Stomp”.

Happy Pal Stomp – Roy Johnson’s Happy Pals
Savoy Rhythm – Roy Johnson’s Happy Pals

Segment 3: L. Wolfe Gilbert
August 31 marked the birth in 1886 in Odessa, Russia of L. Wolfe Gilbert, one of the most prolific lyricists of Tin Pan Alley.

No One Can Take Your Place – Frankie Trumbauer AHO / Smith Ballew
The Right Kind of Man – Annette Hanshaw
If You Believed In Me – Colonial Club Orch / Frank Munn
Hello, Aloha, How Are You? – Sam Lanin’s Troubadors / Irving Kaufman, v.

Segment 4: The News
Exactly 173 years ago today, on September 3, 1833, the first successful penny newspaper was published.Benjamin H. Day issued the first copy of “The New York Sun”. So, here’s a set of rapidly rotating records about news.

Good News – Esther Walker
Let’s Break The Good News – Fats Waller
Bad News Blues – Ladd’s Black Aces

Segment 5: Snakes

Snake Hips – The Cotton Pickers
Snake Eyes – Tiny Parham and His Musicians
Snake Hip Dance – (Duke Ellington) The Harlem Footwarmers
Snake Rag – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band

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