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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.

This past week, April 23 – May 2 was National Dance Week. The purpose of National Dance Week is to heighten the awareness of dance and its contributions to the culture. So to help promote National Dance Week, we’re going to heighten the awareness of dance by having our own little dance marathon with a whole show of rapidly rotating records about dance.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: We’re Dancing

Ev’rybody Dance – Memphis Jazzers
Shall We Dance – Paul Whiteman AHO
Teach Me to Dance Like Grandma – George Fisher and His Kit-Kat Band

Segment 2: Feel the Rhythm

Harlem Rhythm Dance – Clarence Williams AHO
The Jazz Dance – Eubie Blake’s Jazzone Orchestra
When Jenny Does Her Low Down Dance – Elgar’s Creole Orchestra / Ben Thigpen
Snake Hip Dance – The Harlem Footwarmers (Duke Ellington)

Segment 3: Small Dancers

The Doll Dance – Pauline Alpert
Dance Little Lady – Fred Elizalde and His Anglo-American Band / Dick Maxwell
Latest Dance Hits Medley – The Coliseum Dance Orchestra

Segment 4: Get Dancing

On With The Dance – Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orch / Ben Pollack
Tain’t No Sin – George Olsen and His Music / Dick Gardner
Let’s Face the Music and Dance – Ted FioRito AHO / Stanley Hickman

Segment 5: He’s Dancing

They Say He Ought to Dance – Nicholas Brothers
Dance of the Cuckoos – (Second Half) – Van Phillips and Orchestra
Charleston is the best dance after all – Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten

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