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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 we’ll answer some musical questions, check the lost and found, and celebrate the birthdays of Clarence Williams and Vernon Duke.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Questions
October 11 in 1936 the first nationwide radio quiz show “Professor Quiz” debuted. So here to commemorate “Professor Quiz”, are some musical questions.

Where did you stay last night? – King Oliver’s Jazz Band
Am I Blue? – Ben Selvin and His Orchestra / Smith Ballew, v.
Love is Like That, What Can You Do – Ruth Etting

Segment 2: Lost
October 9 in 1943, “Land of the Lost”, that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the sea, made its debut on ABC radio. So here to commemorate “Land of the Lost” are some rapidly rotating records about being lost.

I’ve Lost My Heart in Dixieland – Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Lost Motion – Joe Haymes AHO
Lost and Found – Fats Waller and His Rhythm

Segment 3: Found
Well we just had a segment about being lost, so it’s only fitting that we have a set about being found.

Found My Gal – Tal Henry and His North Carolinians /Harold Madsen, v.
I Only Found You for Somebody Else – Isham Jones AHO
We Found Romance – Earl Hines and His Orchestra / Walter Fuller, v.

Segment 4: Clarence Williams
October 8 marked the birth in 1898 outside of New Orleans, Louisiana of Clarence Williams.

Cushion Foot Stomp – Clarence Williams Washboard Band
The Shim Sham Shimmy Dance – Clarence Williams Jug Band / Ikey Robinson
I Got What It Takes (But it breaks my heart to give it away) – Clarence Williams Washboard Band /Bessie Smith
I’m a Little Blackbird – Clarence Williams’ Blue Five /Eva Taylor, v.

Segment 5: Vernon Duke
October 10 marked the birth in 1903 in Russia of Vladimir Alexandrovich Dukelsky, better known as Vernon Duke, popular song composer of the 1930s and 40s.

I’m Only Human, After All – Joe Venuti & New Yorkers / Scrappy Lambert
April in Paris – Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra
What is There to Say – Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees

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