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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.

You’re no doubt familiar with the saying “April Showers Bring May Flowers”. Well, this evening, we’ve got a whole show of April showers, which will produce a whole show full of flowers sometime in May.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Showers

It was only a Sunshower – California Ramblers
March Winds and April Showers – Harlem Hot Shots / Wingy Manone
April Showers – Al Jolson

Segment 2: Rain

Rain – Arnold Frank and His Rogers Café Orchestra
Rain on the Roof – Pauline Alpert
Run Little Raindrop Run – Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians

Segment 3: Rainy Days

I Get the Blues When It Rains – New Englanders / Annette Hanshaw
Just Like a Butterfly (That’s Caught in the Rain) – Nat Shilkret
Put Away a Little Ray of Golden Sunshine for a Rainy Day – The Top Notchers/George Wilton Ballard

Segment 4: Go Away Rain

Rain, Rain Go Away – The High Steppers
Laughing at the Rain – The Rhythmic Eight / Maurice Elwin
Singin in the Rain – B A Rolfe and His Lucky Strike Orchestra
September in the Rain – Jack Hylton AHO / Tom Warling

Segment 5: Rainbows

It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo – Wendell Hall
If You Want the Rainbow – Ted Weems AHO / Art Jerrett
Where’s That Rainbow – Frank Black AHO / Unknown, v.
Just Like a Rainbow – Benson Orchestra of Chicago

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