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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.

This evening’s show is for the birds, and we’ll fulfill some requests, celebrate the birthdays of Ed Heyman and Joe Burke and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Al Jolson
I received a nice e-mail last week from listener Dave, president of the local chapter of the International Al Jolson Society asking for some records by Leroy Shield.

Sing Song Girl – LeRoy Shield AHO / James Blackstone, v.
Won’t Be Long Before He Belongs To Me – LeRoy Shield & Orch. / Jane Green , v.
Everywhere You Go – Frankie Masters AHO (Dir. LeRoy Shield) / Frankie Masters, v.

Segment 2: Robins
Listener James in Waterloo, Iowa to tell spring must be just around the corner because he had just seen his first robin of the year. So for listener James, here’s a set of rapidly rotating records about robins,

A Little Robin Told Me So – Jack SHilkret AHO / Chick Bullock, v.
Robins & Roses – Sydney Upton AHO / Chips Chippendall, v.
Ragtime Robin – George H. Green & Frank Banta

Segment 3: Ed Heyman
March 14 marked the birth in 1907 in New York City of lyricist Ed Heyman

You Oughta Be In Pictures – Richard Himber and his Eddex House Orch/ Joey Nash, v.
Easy, Easy Go – Ruth Etting
Darling I’m Longing to Greet You – Debroy Somers Band / Quartet
Rain, Rain Go Away – The High Steppers / Elmer Feldkamp, v.

Segment 4: Joe Burke
March 16 marked the birth in 1884 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of composer Joe Burke.

Dancing With Tears In My Eyes – Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra / Lewis James
A Little Bit Independent – The Six Swingers / Sam Costa
We’re On The Highway To Heaven – Jackie Taylor AHO

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

Sweet Georgia Brown – Ben Bernie AHO (March 19, 1929)
By A Lazy Country Lane – Ted Wallace and His Campus Boys / Elmer Feldkamp & Ed Kirkeby (March 18, 1931)
Somebody Loves You – Ted Lewis and His Band / Ted Lewis (March 16, 1932)
I’m Ka-Razy For You – Horace Heidt’s Orchestra / Warren lewis, Jerry Browne, Harold Moore, v. (March 16, 1929)

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