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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 get happy, have a vocabulary lesson, have some songs about cats and fiddles and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Happy
On October 16 in 1939, listeners to the NBC Blue Network heard the 15 minute radio drama “Right to Happiness” for the first time, to commemorate we’re having a segment that will hopefully bring you some happiness too.

There is a Happy Land – Nat Shilkret & His Victor Orch
Happy Days are Here Again – Jack Cloakey’s Tait’s at the Beach Orch / Paul Slobody
Happy Times – Hal Kemp AHO / Skinnay Ennis
It’s a Hap-Hap-Happy Day – Bob Zurke and His Delta Rhythm Band / Claire Martin

Segment 2: Poltroonery
Here’s something we haven’t had in a while, a vocabulary lesson. The word for this evening is poltroonery, a noun meaning cowardice or pusilianimity. So here’s a set rapidly rotating records about poltroonery.

I’m Afraid of You – George Fisher and His Kit-Cat Band / Eddie Grossbart, v.
Who’s Afraid of Love – Fats Waller and His Rhythm
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf – Dick Himber and His Essex House / Elmer Feldkamp, Terry Shand & Trio

Segment 3: Fiddles
October 15 marked the debut in 1931 at Broadway’s Globe Theater of Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach’s “The Cat and The Fiddle”. We’ve got a couple of segments of the show to dedicate to “The Cat and The Fiddle”, the first about fiddles

Fit as a Fiddle – Roger Wolf Kahn / The Kahn-a-Sirs, v.
Gypsy Fiddles – Ray Noble AHO / Al Bowlly
(The Lady of My Dreams) Taught Me How to Play the Second Fiddle – Frank Crumit

Segment 4: Kitty
Well, we had a set of fiddle songs to commemorate “The Cat and The Fiddle”, so here’s a set of kitty songs.

If I Had You – Arthur Rosebery and His Kit Cat Dance Band / Len Lees
Ring Around the Moon – Cliff Jackson and His Crazy Kats
Harlem Joys – Willie “The Lion” Smith and His Cubs
Ace in the Hole – Al Katz and His Kittens

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

No News or What Killed the Dog – Nat M. Wills (October 14, 1908)
It Makes No Difference Now – Sweatman’s Brownies (October 10, 1924)
My Scandinavian Girl – Irving Aaronson & His Commanders / Phil Saxe & Chorus (October 16, 1928)

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