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 grow some things, celebrate a coupe of birthdays, do some doodling, hear some railroad songs and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Growing
May 15 way back in 1862 President Lincoln established the Bureau of Agriculture, which was to preserve and distribute various new varieties of seeds and plants, and to collect agricultural statistics and issue reports about crops. So let’s have a set of rapidly rotating records having to do with growing things.

You’re Lettin’ the Grass Grow Under Your Feet – Fats Waller and His Rhythm
Where the Shy Little Violets Grow – Bill Haid’s Cubs / Erwin Talor
Make My Cot Where the Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows – California Ramblers/Arthur Fields

Segment 2: Wizards
May 15 marked the birth in 1856 in Chittenango, New York of writer Lyman Frank Baum, so here for the birthday of the author of “The Wonderful WIZARD of Oz”, are some rapidly rotating records by some other wizards.

Some Sweet Day – Richard M. Jones’ Jazz Wizards /Sara Martin
I’m Goin’ Hunting – Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards
Oriental Man – Jimmy Blythe’s Washboard Wizards

Segment 3: Doodles
May 11 marked the birth in 1911 in Los Angeles or Winstead Sheffield Weaver. You may know him better as “Doodles” Weaver, so in his honor we’re gonna do some doodling of our own.

Doodle Doo Doo – Ray Miller AHO
Do Doodle Oom – Piron’s New Orleans Orch
Cock-a-Doodle Doo – Harry Raderman’s Orchestra

Segment 4: Railroad
May 10 in 1869, The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railways were joined together at Promontory, Utah, creating the nation’s first transcontinental rail line, so, to commemorate the linking of the two railways, here is a set of railroad songs.

Railroad Blues – Benson Orch of Chicago
Railroad Man – Ladd’s Black Aces
Got the Railroad Blues – Gene Austin with George Reneau

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

Adoree – Herb Gordon’s Hotel Adelphia Whispering Orchestra (May 14, 1928)
Singin’ in the Rain – Fred Rich AHO / The Rollickers (May 10, 1929)
Hi-Ho The Merrio – Irving Aaronson and His Commanders / Phil Saxe and Cliff “Red” Stone, v. (May 15, 1926)

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