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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.

Several weeks ago, we featured a program of “April showers”, an entire show of songs about rain and rainbows. According to the familiar saying, “April showers bring May flowers”, and those musical showers have done just that. This evening, we’ve got a whole show of musical flowers, blossoms, bouquets and blooms.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Roses
What better way to start off a show about flowers than with a musical bouquet of roses.

When the Little Red Roses Get the Blues for You – Imperial Dance Band (Sam Lanin) / Scrappy Lambert
Lay My Head Beneath a Rose – Colonial Club Orch (Bob Haring) / Frank Bessinger
Life Will Be a Bed of Roses – Romeo Dance Orch
Yankee Rose – Paul Specht AHO / Vocal trio

Segment 2: Blossom

Blossoms That Bloom in the Moonlight – Nat Shilkret AHO /Scrappy Lambert, v.
When You Were the Blossom of Buttercup Lane – Ted Weems AHO / Elmo Tanner
You’ll Be Mine in Apple Blossom Time – The Hit-of-the-Week Orchestra / Bert Hirsch

Segment 3: Flowers

I’m a Little Prairie Flower (I’m Wild, I’m Wild) – Jack Gardner’s Orch
In My bouquet of Memories – Paul Whiteman AHO
Primrose Stome – Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers
Roses – Jean Goldkette AHO

Segment 4: Flowering Vocals

Take a Picture of the Moon – Fletcher Henderson Orch / Baby Rose Marie
There’s a Wah-Wah Girl in Aguq Caliente – Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys / Eddie Walters
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – Charles Borne and Phil Ellis (Pianos) / Blossom Seeley, v.

Segment 5: Growing

Down Where the Blue Bonnets Grow – Phil Baxter AHO / Phil Baxter, v.
I’m Knee Deep in Daisies – George Olsen
Rose Room – Herman Kenin’s Multnomah Hotel Orch / Walton McKinney
Violets – Cline’s Collegians

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