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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 be measure the temperature, measure our progress, get happy, celebrate a birthday, and hear some record recorded this past week in history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Mileage
May 12 in 1847, Mormon pioneer William Clayton invented an odometer which he called a “roadometer”, perhaps not the first odometer but we’re going to commemorate William Clayton’s roadometer, with some rapidly rotating records about mileage.

Ten Little Miles From Home – Sam Lanin’s Dance Band
(Step By Step, Mile By Mile) I’m Marching Home To You – Carolina Club Orch/Arthur Fields
Ten Little Miles from Home – Ben Bernie Roosevelt/Frank Luther

Segment 2: This Week in Recording History

Harlem Madness – The Rhythmic Eight (May 16, 1930)
18th St. Strut – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (May 14, 1925)
A Picnic for Two – Fred Waring’s and His Pennsylvanians/ Nelson Keller, Clare Hanlon, Tom Waring, v. (May 13, 1932)

Segment 3: Nightingale
May 12 marked the birth in 1820 of nurse and health activist Florence Nightingale, so in honor of Florence Nightingale, here are some rapidly rotating records about Nightingales.

Nashville Nightingale – Charleston Seven
Nightingale Rag Blues – Hitch’s Happy Harmonists
Nashville Nightingale – Waring’s Pennsylvanians

Segment 4: Hot & Cold
May 14 marked the birth in 1686 of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, the German physicist responsible for the temperature scale that bears his name in 1724. So here to commemorate Fahrenheit’s scale, we’re going to go from hot to cold and back again.

‘Tain’t Cold – The Red Heads
Sweet and Hot – Ben Pollack AHO
Keep the Home Fires Buring (Cause your mama’s getting cold) – Goofus Five/Blanche Vincent

Segment 5: Get Happy
May happens to be National “Get Happy” Month, so let’s finish with a set of happy songs.

Get Happy – Nat Shlikret and the Victor Orchestra / Frank Luther, Phil Dewey, Leo O’Rourke, v.
Sing a Happy Little Thing – Orpheus Dance Band /Maurice Elwin, v.
It’s a Happy Old World After All – Al Lynn’s Music Masters

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