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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 celebrate the birthday of “The Singing Troubador” and Benny Davis, clean things up, and take a trip to Hawaii.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Benny Davis
August 21 marked the birth in 1895 in New York City of lyricist Benny Davis.

Baby Face (Music by Harry Akst) – The Buffalodians /Harold Arlen, piano & v.
A Precious Little Thing Called Love – The New England Yankees / Annette Hanshaw, v.
I’m Nobody’s Baby – Paul Biese Orch/Marion Harris, v.

Segment 2: Soap
August 22, 1865 William Sheppard received a patent for liquid soap, so here’s a set of rapidly rotating records about soap.

Soap Suds – St. Louis Levee Band
Spring Cleaning – Fats Waller and His Rhythm/Fats Waller
The Mess – Thomas Morris and His Seven Hot Babies
I’m Gonna Wash My Hands of You – Billy Cotton a/h Band / Teddy Foster

Segment 3: Nick Lucas
August 22 marked the birth in 1897 in Newark, New Jersey of “The Singing Troubador”, Nick Lucas.

Pickin’ the Guitar – Nick Lucas, guitar solo
Hello Beautiful – Nick Lucas
When the World is at Rest – Nick Lucas

Segment 4: This Week in Recording History

Good News – George Olsen and His Music (August 18, 1927)
If It’s Good Enough for the Birds and Bees – The Rhythmic Eight (August 23, 1931)
Shaking the Blues Away – Paul Whiteman AHO (August 22, 1927)
Wabash Blues – Ted Lewis

Segment 5: Hawaii
Hawaii joined the union as the 50th state on August 21,1959, so here to commemorate Hawaii’s statehood, are some rapidly rotating records about Hawaii.

Blue Hawaii – Willard Robison and His Deep River Orch / Willard Robison
My Little Grass Shoack in Kealakakua, Hawaii – Ted Fiorito AHO /Muzzy Marcellino and The Debutantes
I’ll Fly to Hawaii – Gowan’s Rhapsody Makers
Happy Hawaiian Blues – Hawaiian Songbirds

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