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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 fulfill 5/6 of a request, celebrate New York’s anniversary, celebrate the birthdays of Rudy Vallee and Buddy Clark, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: New York
New York became the 11th of the United States on July 26, 1788.

Do the New York – Ben Selvin AHO
The New Yorker – Red Nichols ah Five Pennies / Red McKenzie
The Sidewalks of New York – Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orch./James Lewis
My New York – Mal Hallet AHO / Frank Marvin

Segment 2: Requests for Alvin
Regular listener Alvin has been patiently waiting for me to fulfill several requests, and I was able to come up with two and a half out of three.

Got Me Doin’ Things – Teddy Hill AHO / Bill Dillard
Love is Never Out of Season – Ozzie Nelson
Just a Night for Meditation – Al Friedman AHO

Segment 3: Rudy Vallee
July 28 marked the birth in 1901 in Island Point, Vermont, of Hubert Prior Vallee, better known as Rudy.

Just an Echo in the Valley – Rudy Vallee
Ha-Cha-Cha – Rudy Vallee AH Connecticut Yankees / Rudy Vallee & The Debutantes
Reminiscing – Rudy Vallee AH Connecticut Yankees / Rudy Vallee

Segment 4: Buddy Clark
July 26 marked the birth in 1912 in Dorchester, Massachusetts of Samuel Goldberg, better known as vocalist Buddy Clark.

Sweet Music – Lud Gluskin and His Continental Orchestra / Buddy Clark
I’m Grateful to You – Dick McDonough AHO / Buddy Clark
Evening – Gus Arnheim AHO / Buddy Clark

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History
It’s here that we play rapidly rotating records celebrating birthdays, having been recorded this past week in years past.

Ten Thousand Years Ago – Ted Lewis and His Band / Vernon Dalhar (July 28 1933)
Row, Row, Rosie – The Varsity Eight (July 29, 1925)
Birmingham Bertha – Jean Goldkette AHO / Kay Palmer (July 27, 1929)
That’s Annabelle – The Harmonians (July 30, 1926)

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