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 celebrate the April Fool’s Day, as well as the month of April, August Busch’s birthday, we’ll fulfill a request, and let you know about the upcoming West Coast Ukefest.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Fools
This past week was, of course, the first of April, or April Fool’s Day. So here to commemorate “All Fool’s Day”, are some rapidly rotating records having to do with being fooled.

No Foolin’ – The California Ramblers / Arthur Hall
Fun to be Fooled – Leo Reisman AHO / Harold Arlen
Fooling – Ace Brigode and His Fourteen Virginians

Segment 2: Request
Listeners Larry and Nancy in Downers Grove, Illinois have a new computer and are back online listening to the show over Radio Free World. They requested to hear a song called “Nancy”, so here’s a set dedicated to Larry & Nancy.

Nancy – Geo Olsen and His Music – Lewis James
Back Home in Illinois – Arcadian Serenaders / Morty Livingston
Hush-A-Bye – All Colonial Club Orchestra (Bob Haring) Frank Bessinger/Frank Wright, v.

Segment 3: April
This being the first show in this month of April, here is a set of rapidly rotating records having to do with April,

April Showers – Gene Rodemich’s Orchestra
April in Paris – Henry Hall BBC Dance Orchestra / Les Allen
April Kissees – Eddie Lang and Arthur Schutt
April Showers – Al Jolson

Segment 4: Beer
March 28 marked the birth in 1899 in St. Louis, Missouri of August Anheuser Busch, Jr, and under his tenure Anheuser -Busch Brewing Company became the world’s largest brewery. So here to commemorate the birthday of August Busch Jr., is a set of rapidly rotating records about…..beer, of course.

Spiked Beer – Lawrence Welk’s Novelty Orchestra
Beer Barrel Poolka – Glahe Musette Orch
Beer Garden Blues – Clarence Williams AHO

Segment 5: Ukulele
My friend Ian Whitcomb, and the lovely Regina, will be performing live in Santa Cruz, California April 22-24, playing “Ukie” the ukulele, as part of “Uke-Fest West”, presented by the Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz and the Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum. Tonight we’re going to have our own little ukefest

Ukulele Moon – Fred Rich AHO / Smith Ballew
Ukulele Benny – Georgia Jumpers
Give Me a Ukulele and a Ukulele Baby – Irving Aaronson and His Commanders /Phil Saxe, Harold Saliers, v.

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