Rapidly Rotating Records 78 RPM Show – 5 September 2004

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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 celebrate the birthdays of Sam Lanin, Harry Tobias, and Phil Baxter, we’ll search for tomorrow and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Sam Lanin
Sept. 4 marked the birth in 1891 of bandleader and band contractor Sam Lanin.

Sunshine – Sam Lanin AHO
Sweet Child (I’m Wild About You) – Sam Lanin’s Dance Orchestra
Singin’ in the Bathtub – Sam Lanin’s Dance Orch.
I’m Always Smiling – Billy Hays and His Orch.

Segment 2: Labor Day
I hope you’re enjoying your Labor Day week-end. I know I am. And in honor of Labor Day, here’s a set of rapidly rotating records having to do with labor.

Whistle While You Work – Pauline Alpert, Piano
I Gotta Get Up and Go To Work – Adrian Rollini AHO
Where Do You Work-a John? – Harry Reser’s Six Jumping Jacks

Segment 3: Phil Baxter
Exactly 108 years ago today, September 5, in 1896, Phil Baxter was born in Navarro County, Texas.

Down Where the Bluebonnets Grow – Phil Baxter
If I Had You and You Had Me – Phil Baxter and His Texas Tommies
I Don’t Love Nobody But You – Phil Baxter AHO / Phil Baxter, v.

Segment 4: Tomorrow
September 3, in 1951, what was to become the longest-running TV soap opera was seen for the first time as “Search for Tomorrow” debuted on CBS-TV, join us in our own search for tomorrow.

Tomorrow Who Cares? – Ruth Etting
Tomorrow is Another Day – Billy Merrin and his Commanders / Rita Williams
Take Your Tomorrow and Give Me Today – Jackson and His Southern Stompers

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

Beyond the Blue Horizon – George Olsen AHO / Bob Borger & Geo. Olsen (September 5, 1930)
Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine – Glen Oswald’s Serenaders
(June 16, 1924)
My Gal Sal – Miff Mole’s Molers
(September 1, 1927)

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