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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 have some songs about arachnids, and celebrate the birthdays of Isham Jones, Manny Klein and Herman Hupfield.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Spider
Friend & listener Mike was recently hospitalized for nearly a week due to what they originally thought might have been a spider bite. He’s, thankfully back home and recuperating,so here are some rapidly rotating records about {shivers} creepy, crawly spiders.

Spider Crawl – Washboard Rhythm Kings
Spider’s Nest Blues – Memphis Jug Band
The Spider and The Fly – Fats Waller

Segment 2: Webs
Well we just had a set of spider songs, and where there are spiders, there are webs!

Keep Sweeping The Cobwebs Off The Moon” – Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys / Lee Morse
Spin a Little Web of Dreams – George Scott Wood AHO / Sam Browne
The Web of Love – Earl Burtnett and His L A Bilmore Hotel Orch

Segment 3: Mannie Klein
February 4 marked the birth in 1908 in New York of trumpeter Mannie Klein.

Blue Again – Benrus Radio Orchestra / Paul Small
Just A Little Closer – Hit of the Week Orchestra (Dir Bert Hirsch) / Frank Munn, v.
The Man From The South – Rube Bloom ah Bayou Boys / Roy Evans & Rube Bloom

Segment 4: Herman Hupfield
February 1 marked the birth in 1894 in Montclair, New Jersey of composer and lyricist Herman Hupfield.

As Time Goes By – Carroll Gibbons AHO / Binnie Hale
When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba – Six Jumping Jacks / Tom Stacks
Baby’s Blue – Nat Shilkret AHO

Segment 5: Isham Jones
January 31 marked the birth in 1894 of Isham Jones.

Unfortunate Blues – Isham Jones AHO
You’re Just A Dream Come True – Isham Jones AHO / Frank Sylvano, v.
Not A Cloud In The Sky – Isham Jones AHO
There’s A Wah-Wah Girl In Agua Caliente – Isham Jones AHO / Eddie Stone, v.

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