Rapidly Rotating Records 78 RPM Show – 25 April 2004

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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, there’ll be a whole lotta shakin’ goin’on, you can take it or leave it, we’ll have some rhymes, and celebrate the birthdays of Kay Swift and Alex Hill.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Take it Or Leave it
Last week on April 21 in 1940, the program, “Take It or Leave It”, was first heard on CBS radio. The show offered contestants a top prize of a whopping $64. and there were no lovely parting gifts or consolation prizes. Losing contestants just left. The show was later known as The $64 Question. So here to commemorate ATake It Or Leave It

No One Can Take Your Place – Frankie Trumbauer AHO / Smith Ballew
Take Your Tomorrow – Edwin J. Mcenelly AHO / Miller & Farrell
Don’t You Leave Me Here – Charlie Johnson’s Original Paradise Ten

Segment 2: Shaking
This past week on April 18 in 1906 at 5:13 am, the great San Francisco Earthquake occurred.

Honey Don’t You Shake Me Down – New Orleans Jazz Band
Memphis Shake – Dixieland Jug Blowers
Shake It and Break It – Lanin’s Southern Serenaders / Sam Lanin

Segment 3: Rhymes
New listener Cleon in Upland, California reminded me the other day that April is National Poetry month. Now of course not all poems rhyme, but here in honor of National Poetry month are some rapidly rotating records about rhymes.

A Rhyme of Love – Fats Waller and His Rhythm
Rhymes – Fred Waing and His Pennsylvanians / Johnny “Scat” Davis, Poley McClintock and Orch.
How Many Rhymes Can You Get – Jack Harris AHO / Elsie Carlisle and Sam Brown / Jack Harris AHO
Trees – Eddie Harkness AHO / Harold Dana

Segment 4: Katherine Faulkner Swift
April 19 marked the birth in 1897 in New York City of composer Katherine Faulkner Swift.

Can This Be Love? – Victor Arden & Phil Ohman, Duo-Pianists/ Frank Luther
Fine and Dandy – The Travelers (Jimmy Dorsey, Dir.) / Scrappy Lambert

Segment 5: Alex Hill
April 19 marked the birth in 1906 in Little Rock, Arkansas of composer, arranger, pianist and bandleader Alex Hill.

Shake That Jelly Roll – Junie C. Cobb and His Grains of Corn
Stompin’ ‘em Down – Alex Hill / Johnny Wells, d.
Chicago Rhythm – Jimmy Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra

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