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’ve got not one, but two vocabulary lessons, we’ll celebrate a birthday, listen to this past week in recording history, and hear from Rudy Vallee.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Crepuscular
To get us started, the first of our two words of the day is crepuscular, an adjective meaning dim, or of or like twilight. So here’s a set of crepuscular song.

At Twilight – Ruth Etting
Twilight in Turkey – Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys
When the Organ Played at Twilight – Ted FioRito’s Music (Lew White, Organ)

Segment 2: Ukase
Our second vocabulary word for this evening is ukase, a noun meaning an order, command or edict. So here are some musical ukases of sort.

Never Swat a Fly – Abe Lyman’s CA Orch
Don’t Sing Aloha When I’m Gone – Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians
Be Careful – Don Bestor /Neil Buckley

Segment 3: Rudy Vallee
October 24 in 1929, “The Rudy Vallee Show” was broadcast for the first time over NBC radio, and was on the air until September 28, 1939.

Reminiscing – Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees /Rudy Vallee
I’m Keeping Company – Rudy Vallee
You Try Somebody Else – Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees /Rudy Vallee
My Dancing Lady – Rudy Vallee

Segment 4: This Week in Recording History

Alabamy Stay – The New Orleans Jazz Band (October 23, 1924)
Beale Street Blues – Mal Hallet’s Orchestra (October 23, 1929)
I Want You, I Need You – Charlie Barnet AHO/Harry Von Zell
Make My Cot Where the Cot Cot Cotton Grows – Red Nichols’ Stompers (October 26, 1927)

Segment 5: Tonight
October 23 marked the birth in 1925 of tonight Show host Johnny Carson. So here to commemorate Johnny’s birthday, here’s a set of rapidly rotating records about Tonight,

Tonight’s My Night With Baby – Irving Kaufman
I’m Just in the Mood Tonight – Rhythmic Eight
I Wonder Where My Baby is Tonight – The Goofus Five

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