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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 have a vocabulary lesson, celebrate the birthdays of Fred Ahlert and William McKinney, take a drive and look at this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: William McKinney
September 17 marked the birth in 1895 in Paducah, Kentucky of drummer William McKinney.

Cotton Pickers Scat – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers
Okay Baby – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers
Do Something – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers

Segment 2: Fred Ahlert
September 18 marked the birth in 1892 in New York City of composer Fred Ahlert.

Walkin’ My Baby Back Home – Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys /Lee Morse
Love, You Funny Thing – The Blue Mountaineers/Sam Browne
Do You Intend to put an end to a sweet beginning like this – Fats Waller

Segment 3: Peregrination
It’s time now for this evening’s vocabulary lesson. The word for today is peregrination, a noun meaning “wandering”. So here is a set of songs about peregrinations.

Let’s wander Away – Bennie Krueger AHO
Song of the Wanderer – Freddy Rose
Wanderer – Ray Noble / Al Bowlly

Segment 4: This Week in Recording Week
The semi-regular feature of the show where we play rapidly rotating records which have just had a birthday, having been recorded this past week in years past.

Always Shines for Me – The Merry Sparklers/Harvey Hindermeyer, v (September 16, 1924)
My Song – Phil Spitalny AHO/Chick Bullock (September 18, 1931)
I’m With You – Ted Black AHO / Tom Brown (September 14, 1931)

Segment 5: Automobiles
We’re going to commemorate the founding of General Motors Corporation in September 16, 1908 with some rapidly rotating records having to do with automobiles.

You’re Driving Me Crazy – The New York Twelve/Frank Luther
In My Merry Oldsmobile – Jean Goldkette AHO
He’d Have to Get Under – Billy Murray

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