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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 check our breath, find out who loves you, celebrate Bette Davis’s birthday and National Poetry Month, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Love Me
A couple of weeks ago I received a request from listener Ernie for a song called “Does She Love Me?” As it turns out, the song Ernie was thinking of is actually titled “It’s Too Soon to Know” which was written in 1947 by Deborah Chessler and recorded by Sonny Til and The Orioles. The lyric starts out “Does She Love Me”, which is what created the confusion. That song is outside the focus of this show, but I do have several versions of “Does She Love Me?”.

Does She Love Me? Positively, Absolutely – Harry Reser’s Six Jumping Jacks
Do You Love Me? – Colster Dance Orch (Selvin) / Smith Ballew
I’m Satisfied You Love Me – Celestin’s Original Tuxedo Jazz Orch / Oscar Celestin

Segment 2: Breath
April 5 marked the birth in 1827 in Upton, Essex, England of surgeon Joseph Lister, the first baron Lister of Lyme Regis, the founder of modern antiseptic surgery, and of course, the namesake of Listerine mouthwash. So in commemoration of Joseph Lister, here’s a set of rapidly rotating records about breath.

Out of Breath and Scared to Death of You – Joe Venuti’s New Yorkers/ Scrappy Lambert ,v.
With Every Breath I Take – Lew Stone Band / Alan Kane, v.
I Breathe on Windows – Charlie Kunz and the Casani Club Orch/Geo. Barclay,

Segment 3: Rhymes
Listener Cleon in Upland, California reminded me the other day that April is National Poetry month, Of course not all poems rhyme, but here in honor of National Poetry month are some rapidly rotating records about rhymes.

Rhymes, Parts 1 & 2 – Jack Hylton AHO / Leslie Sarony, v.
A Rhyme of Love – Fats Waller and His Rhythm
Trees – Isham Jones AHO

Segment 4: Janes
April 5 marked the birth in 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts, of Ruth Elizabeth Davis. You know her better as Academy Award winning actress Bette Davis who was nominated for her portrayal of the demented child star Jane Hudson in 1962’s “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane”, which is one of my favorite movies. So here, to celebrate a great movie and a great actress are some rapidly rotating records about some other Janes.

Me and Jane in a Plane – Jack Hylton AHO – Jack Hylton/Hugo Rignold, Chappie D’Amato
Mary Jane – The Melotone Boys
Plain Jane – Jack Harris AHO

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

There’s Somebody New – Ray Starita ah Ambassadors Band (April 5, 1928)
Honey – Ben Selvin AHO / Dick Robertson, v. (April 9, 1929)
Wild and Foolish – The Red Heads (April 7, 1926)

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