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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 take a trip down the Mississippi, take a trip to Miami, take a trip into space, celebrate Rudy Valle’s birthday, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Mississippi
July 29 in 1940, John Sigmund of St. Louis, Missouri completed a 292-mile swim down the Mississippi River, so here to commemorate his swim, are some rapidly rotating records about the mighty Mississippi.

Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) – The Goofus Five
Mississippi, Here I Am – Coon-Sanders Orchestra
Mississippi Shivers – Zez Confrey AHO

Segment 2: Miami
July 28 in 1896, the community of Miami, Florida was incorporated.

Get Out and Get Under the Moon – Miami Royal Palm Orchestra
In a Little Spanish Town – Miami Marimba Band
New Charleston – The Miami Dance Orch.

Segment 3: The Stars
July 29 marked the day in 1958 on which Congress authorized the United States space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA. So to commemorate the creation of NASA, here are some celestial songs.

Underneath the Stars With You – Bob Haring AHO
Sing a Song to the Stars – HOW Orch/Bert Hirsch
By the Light of the Stars – Bennie Kreuger’s Orch

Segment 4: Rudy Vallee
July 28 marked the birth in 1901 in Island Point, Vermont, of Hubert Prior Vallee, better known as Rudy.

Keep a Little Song Handy – Rudy Vallee
A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody – Rudy Vallee
You Try Somebody Else – Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

I’m Walking Around in Circles – Art Landry AHO (July 29, 1926)
Begging for Love – The Travelers / Elmer Feldkamp, v. (July 30, 1931)
Here We Are – The New Englanders / Annette Hanshaw (July 14, 1929)

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