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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 go sailing, we’re gonna get slapped down, and we’ll celebrate an invention and a birth.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Topic To get us started, today is the anniversary of a couple of water related events. Just before dawn on August 3 in 1492, Christopher Columbus left Spain with his three ships to sail the ocean blue. And on August 3 in 1880, the American Canoe Association was formed at Lake George, New York.
Paddlin’ Madeline Home – Geoffrey Goodhart AHO
Christopher Columbus – Don Redman AHO
Transatlantic Lullaby – Turner Layton

Title – Artist / Vocalist

Segment 2: Slaps
One of my favorite movies of all time is “Patton” and one of the most memorable scenes in the picture is of the infamous slapping incident. That took place on or about August 3, 1943.

Slap That Bass – Ike Ragon AHO / Ike Ragon, v.
Slappin’ the Bass – Ted Weems AHO/Parker Gibbs
Sax-O-Phun (A Study in Laugh and Slap-Tongue) – George Olsen and His Music

Segment 3: Fences
On August 2, 1887, Mr. Rowell Hodge received a patent for barbed wire. So to commemorate Rowell Hodges invention, are some rapidly rotating records about fences

Barb Wire Blues – The Mound City Blue Blowers
Don’t Fence Me In – Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, v.
Sittin on a Backyard Fence – Paul Whiteman AHO / Rhythm Boys

Segment 4: Baltimore
July 30 marked the establishment in 1729 of Baltimore, Maryland. So here in commemoration are some rapidly rotating records relating to Baltimore

Baltimore – Jack Crawford AHO
Comin’ and Goin’ – Baltimore Bell Hops (Fletcher Hendeson)
Up and At ‘em – Baltimore Society Orchestra

Segment 5: WAVES
July 30 in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Women’s Reserve, known as “Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service” or more commonly by its acronym, the WAVES. So here in honor of the Waves, are some rapidly rotating records about….waves

I’m on the Crest of a Wave – Arnold Johnson AHO
A Life on the Ocean Wave – Thomas Chalmers
Tidal Wave – Fletcher Henderson AHO

Well, we have time for one more. Here’s a wave of a different sort, a Heat Wave, from Sol K. Bright and His Hollywaiians.

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