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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 Harry Richman, Ted Snyder and Sidney Clare, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Clepe
We haven’t had a vocabulary lesson in a while, so today’s word for this week is clepe – an archaic word dating back to the 12th century meaning to name or to call.

That’s What I Call Sweet Music – Herman Kenin’s Multnomah Hotel Orch/Ted O’Hara
You Call It Madness – Ben Selvin AHO
Oh! You Sweet Old Whatcha-May-Call-It – Irving Aaronson and His Commanders /Charlie Trotta, Jimmy Taylor, Phil Saxe, Tony Pastor, v.

Segment 2: Ted Snyder
August 15 marked the birth in 1881 of composer Ted Snyder.

It Was Only a Sun Shower – Ted Weems AHO / Dusty Rhodes
Sheik of Araby – Red Nichols and His Five Pennies
Roam On, My Little Gypsy Sweetheart – Harry Archer AHO / Irving Kaufman

Segment 3: Harry Richman
August 11 marked the birth in 1895 in Cincinnati, Ohio of Harry Reichman. You know him better as Harry Richman.

Blue Skies – Harry Richman – Harry Richman
It All Depends On You – Harry Richman
Lucky Day – Harry Richman

Segment 4: Sidney Clare
August 15 marked the birth in 1892 in New York City of lyricist Sidney Clare.

Come On Baby – Harry Reser’s Cliquot Club Eskimos / Tom Stacks
All I Want is You – Herman Kenin’s Multnomah Hotel Orch / Van Fleming
My Sweet Tooth Says “I Wanna” – Ben Selvin AHO

Segment 5: This Week In Recording History

Collegiate – Ben Bernie ah Hotel Roosevelt Orch. / Irving Kaufman, Jack Kaufman, Lester O’Keefe, v. (August 10, 1925)
All of the Time – Cliff Edwards (August 15, 1928)
Deep in the Arms of Love – All Star Orch. /The Melody Three (Frank Luther, Johnny Parker, Phil Dewey) (August 11, 1929)

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