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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 do some walking and some running, celebrate the birthdays of Alex Hill and Kay Swift, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Katherine Faulkner Swift
April 19 marked the birth in 1897 in New York City of composer Katherine Faulkner Swift.

Can’t We Be Friends – Leo Reisman AHO / Lewis Conrad, v.
Can This Be Love? – The Travelers (Jimmy Dorsey, Dir.) / Scrappy Lambert, v.
Fine and Dandy – Victor Arden & Phil Ohman

Segment 2: Alex Hill
April 19 marked the birth in 1906 in Little Rock, Arkansas of composer, arranger, pianist and bandleader Alex Hill.

Southbound – Alex Hill AHO
You’ve Had Your Way – Hokum Trio
Functionizin’ – Alex Hill and His Hollywood Sepians

Segment 3: Peripatetic
It’s time now for this week’s vocabulary lesson. The word for today is peripatetic, an adjective meaning “of, relating to, or given to walking”. So, here’s a set of peripatetic songs.

When My Sugar Walks Down the Street – Johnny De Droit ah New Orleans Jazz Orch.
Walkin’ Around in a Dream – Herman Kenin’s Mulnomah Hotel Orch
Who Walks in When I Walk Out? – Ray Noble AHO / Al Bowlly, v.

Segment 4: Running
April 19 way back in 1897, the first Boston Marathon, the first of its type in the U. S. was run, so here are some rapidly rotating records about running.

Runnin’ Wild – Ladd’s Black Aces
Runnin’ Ragged – Joe Venuti’s Blue Four
I Do Not Choose to Run – Harry Reser’s Six Jumping Jacks

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

Jazz Baby – Marion Harris (April 19, 1919)
An Operatic Nightmare – Felix Arndt (April 14, 1916)
The Gold Diggers’ Song – Ted Lewis AHO (April 19, 1933)
Dust, Dust – Ben Selvin AHO / Unidentified Vocal Duet

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