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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’ve got some songs about felines, twilight, and some railroad songs, a set of Victor records, a vocabulary lesson and we’ll look at this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Ailurophile
The word for this week is ailurophile, which is someone who is a cat lover – as in “Some extreme ailurophiles have been known to leave large large sums of money in their wills to their cats.”

Pussy Cat Rag – Halfway House Orch
The Cat’s Whiskers – Patt Patterson a/h Champion Pep Riders
Teasing the Cat – Fred van Eps Trio

Segment 2: Railroad
October 4 in 1948, “The Railroad Hour” debuted on ABC radio. So here to commemorate “The Railroad Hour” are songs about railroads.

Choo Choo – Marius B. Winter ah Dance Orchestra
The Little Red Caboose Behind the Train – Paul Warmack and His Gully Jumpers
Railroad Blues – Yerkes Southern Five

Segment 3: Victor Records
October 3, marked the incorporation in 1901 by Eldridge R. Johnson of the Victor Talking Machine Company. It was created out of a merger between a company which produced flat disc records and a company which manufactured machines for playing disc records. So here in commemoration is a trio of Victor records.

Trees – Eddie Harkness AHO / Harold Dana
The Yes Habit – Phil Donley AHO / Phil Donley, v
Marianne – Arden-Ohman / The Four Rajahs, v.

Segment 4: Twilight
10 PM on Friday, October 2, 1959 “The Twilight Zone” made its debut on CBS TV. So here to commemorate the show are some rapidly rotating records about twilight.

Linger a Little Longer in the Twilight – Ruth Etting
Twilight – Dave Harman AHO
Tennessee Twilight – Chicago Rhythm Kings

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History
Here’s the portion of the show where we play rapidly rotating records which were recorded this past week in years past.

Neapolitan Nights – Cole McElroy’s Spanish Ballroom Orch (September 30, 1926)
Tempermental Papa – Josie Miles (October 2, 1924)
Just a Little Dance, Mam’selle – Imperial Dance Orchestra / Eddie Gale

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