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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.

Recently in the 78 discussion group online, there was a thread going about song titles with bad grammar. So, on this evening’s show, the rules of grammar are out the window as we have songs with double negatives, poor syntax, mismatched tense, and incorrect case.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Correcting Sentences
To get us started, while I recall sitting in Mrs. Reynolds high school English class diagramming sentence.

I Faw Down and Go Boom – Paul Clifford’s Master Musicians
I Ain’t Got Nobody – Fats Waller
There Ain’t No Maybe in My Baby’s Eyes – Al Lynn’s Music Masters / John Ryan

Segment 2: Just Wrong

Ya Gotta Know Hot to Love – Irving Aaronson and His Commanders / Irving Arronson, Phil Saxe, Harold Saliers, v.
Tain’t No Sin – Lee Morse and her Bluegrass Boys
There’s Oceans of Love by the Beautiful Sea – Joe Haymes AHO

Segment 3: Don’t
I could have done the entire show just with songs with “ain’t” in the title, but this set don’t got no such songs.

It Don’t Do Nothing by Rain – Art Gillham
My Papa Doesn’t Two Time No Time – The New Orleans Jazz Band
Because My Baby Don’t Mean Maybe Now – Geo Olsen – Bob Borger, v.

Segment 4: Do Good

Does My Sweetie Do – And How! – Fred Waring ah Penn
You Don’t Mean No Good – Tommy Settles with Ezekial Lower and Lee Bunkley
Why Do I Care What Somebody Said? – Red McKenzie and the Mound City Blue Blowers

Segment 5: Ain’t

I’ve Got It (But It Don’t Do Me No Good – Annette Hanshaw, v.
Ain’t That Grand and Glorious Feeling – Goofus Five
If it Wasn’t for you, I Wouldn’t be crying now – Arcadia Peacock Orch of St. Louis /Chick Harvey, v.
Ring Dem Bells – Lionel Hampton AHO

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