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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 play some “naughty” songs, fulfill some requests, celebrate the birthdays of Rube Bloom and Robert H. Cleary, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Naughty
Listener Len in Lynden, Washington sent an e-mail last week suggesting a set of “naughty” songs. So, send the kids outside, and put on your headphones.

Naughty Man – Fletcher Henderson AHO
Blues (My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me) – Jimmie Noone’s Apex Orch.
You Remind Me Of A Naughty Springtime Cuckoo – Helen Morgan

Segment 2: Len’s Requests
Listener Len also requested a couple of other records, which I’m pleased to play.

I’ve Got To Have A Mamma Now – Billy Hays AHO
I Left My Sugar Standing In The Rain – The Goofus Five / Beth Challis, v.
I Got A Code In My Doze – Rosetta Duncan

Segment 3: Rube Bloom
April 24 marked the birth in 1902 in New York of pianist, composer, arranger and vocalist Rube Bloom.

There’s A Wah-Wah Gal In Agua Caliente – Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys / Eddie Walters, v.
Song of The Bayou – Marion Hardy’s Alabamians / Alabama Magpie Trio, v.
The Man From the South – Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Rube Bloom, v.
The Doll Dance – Rube Bloom, Piano

Segment 4: Michael H Cleary
April 27 marked the birth in 1902 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, of composer Michael H. Cleary.

Is There Anything Wrong In That? – Annette Hanshaw (as Dot Dare)
Hello, Baby – Bert Lown and His Biltmore Music / Smith Ballew
Here It Is Monday And I’ve Still Got A Dollar – Chick Bullock’s Levee Loungers

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

Stomp Off, Let’s Go! – Fred Hamm AHO (April 30, 1925)
Jericho – Arthur Ross and His Westerners (April 29, 1929)
Sweet Georgia Brown – The Varsity Eight (April 28, 1925)

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