Rapidly Rotating Records 78 RPM Show – 22 January 2006

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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 Harry Reser and Smith Ballew, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Harrison Reser
January 17 marked the birth in 1896 in Piqua, Ohio of Harrison Franklin Reser, better known as one of the greatest banjo players of all time, Harry Reser.

Footloose – Okeh Syncopators
The Cat – Harry Reser’s Syncopators / Tom Stacks
Down South – Harry Reser’s Banjo Boys / Tom Stacks

Segment 2: Harry Reser
Harry Reser could not only play the banjo, but he also wrote 23 original compositions for it, and we’re going to hear him play three of them right now.

Pickin’s – Harry Reser
Crazy Jo’ – Harry Reser
Lollypops – Harry Reser

Segment 3: Clicquot Club Eskimos
This third segment of our tribute to Harry Reser is devoted to his Clicquot Club Eskimos.

Clicquot – Clicquot Club Eskimos
At Sundown – Harry Reser’s Cluicquot Club Eskimos
My One and Only – Harry Reser’s Clicquot Club Eskimos

Segment 4: Smith Ballew
January 21 marked the birth in 1902 in Palestine, Texas, of singer, bandleader and actor, Smith Ballew.

In My Little Hope Chest – Smith Ballew AHO / Frances Shelley, v.
Animal Crackers In My Soup – Smith Ballew AHO / Durelle Alexander
Hittin’ The Ceiling – Smith Ballew AHO / Smith Ballew

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

The Kerb Step – Jack Hylton AHO / Sam Browne (January 22, 1930)
We’ll Be The Same – Victor Arden & Phil Ohman
(January 22, 1931)
Jitter Bug – Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orch
(January 22, 1934)

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