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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’re gonna be lackadaisical, we’ll celebrate the birthdays of Roger Wolfe Kahn, Spike Hughes, we’ll get tickled, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Roger Wolfe Kahn
October 19th marked the birth in 1907 in Morristown, New Jersey, of bandleader and composer Roger Wolfe Kahn.

Pretty Little Thing – Roger Wolfe Kahn AHO / Frank Munn, v.
Imagination – Roger Wolfe Kahn AHO/Franklyn Baur, v.
Anything You Say – Roger Wolfe Kahn AHO / Frank Munn, v.

Segment 2: Tickling
My friend Ernie and I were talking… so how did tickling end up as the topic?

I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze – Art Karle and His Boys / Chick Bullock, v.
I’m Tickled to Death I’m Me – The Rhythm Rascals
The Okeh Laughing Record – Novelty Songs

Segment 3: Lackadaisical
As a public service, it’s time now for this week’s vocabulary lesson. The word for today is lackasaisical, an adjective meaning lacking spirit or livliness. A synonym for lackadaisical is lazy, so here’s a set of lackadaisical songs.

Where the Lazy Daisies Grow – Jean Goldkette AHO
Lazy – Gene Rodemich’s Orchestra / Al Jolson
Lazy Weather – The Goofus Five

Segment 4: Spike Hughes
October 19 marked the birth in 1908 in London of bass player, arranger and bandleader Patrick Hughes, better known as “Spike”.

It’s Unanimous Now – Spike Hughes and His Decca-Dents
Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia – Spike Hughes and His Dance Orchestra
Bigger and Better Than Ever – Spike Hughes and His Dance Orchestra

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

I’m Gonna Hang Around My Sugar – Varsity Eight (October 20, 1925)
April Showers – Al Jolson (October 22, 1921)
Somebody to Love Me – Red Nichols and His Five Pennies / Scrappy Lambert (October 23, 1929)

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