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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 fulfill a couple of requests, celebrate the Count’s birthday, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Past, Present, Future
Listener George from Odessa, Ontario, Canada wrote to ask for a couple of songs by The Boswell Sisters. So here’s the first of two sets, each containing one of George’s requested songs, this one inspiring some fortune telling.

Let’s Drink a Drink to the Future – Ben Selvin AHO
My Future Just Passed – Boswell Sisters
You’re My Past, Present and Future – Abe Lyman AHO / Frank Sylvano

Segment 2: Count Basie
August 21 marked the birth in 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey, of pianist, composer and bandleader William Basie, better known as “Count” Basie.

The Dirty Dozens – Count Basie, Piano
Lester Leaps In – Count Basie’s Kansas City Seven
Prince of Wails – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra

Segment 3: Faults
George in Odessa, Ontario, Canada. Are you listening? Here’s your other request.

It’s All My Fault – Connee Boswell
It’s All Your Fault – Don Redman AHO / Harlan Lattimore
It Ain’t No Fault of Mine – Fred “Sugar” Hall and His Sugar Babies / Arthur Fields

Segment 4: Midwest
Listener Ron is from here in southern California, but was recently in Chicago and sent in a request for some songs about the Midwest.

Chicago Breakdown – Sonny Clay’s Plantation Orchestra
Little Joe from Chicago – Mary Lou Williams (Piano)
Chicago – The Original Memphis Five
Red Hot Chicago – Fred Waring ah Pennsylvanians / Fred Waring, v.

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

Shaking the Blues Away – Paul Whiteman AHO
Barbara – The Texans (Sam Lanin) (August 19, 1827)
How Am I To Know – Ben Selvin AHO (August 13, 1929)
Woe! Is Me – Fats Waller and His Rhythm (August 20, 1935)

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