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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’re going to celebrate Mother’s Day, and a couple of birthdays.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Mothers’ Day
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed Mother’s Day as a national holiday to be held on the second Sunday of May. So here for all the mothers out there, as well as mothers to be, and anyone who has mother, is the first of three sets of songs about mothers.

Mama Inez – Fred Hall
Who Calls You Sweet Mama Now? – The Range Riders / Little Willie
Go Home and Tell Your Mother – Don Voorhees/Scrappy Lambert

Segment 2: Alice Faye
May 5 marked the birth in 1915 on New York’s west side, of Alice Jeanne Leppert. You know her better as stage and screen star Alice Faye.

Here’s the Key to My Heart – Alice Faye
Spreadin’ Rhythm Around – Alice Faye
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm – Alice Faye

Segment 3: Mammy
Although Anna Jarvis’ is credited for having Mother’s Day proclaimed a national holiday, she was outraged by the commercialization of the holiday and filed a lawsuit to stop a 1923 Mother’s Day festival.

Mammy o’ Mine – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
My Mama’s in Town – Lloyd Turner and His Villa Venice Orch
My Mammy – Al Jolson

Segment 4: Red Nichols
May 8 marked the birth in 1908 in Ogden, Utah, of cornetist and bandleader Ernest Loring Nichols, better known as “Red”.

Avalon – Red Nichols 5 Pennies
Look Who’s Here! – Golden Gate Orch
I’m in Love Again – Six Hottentots / Irving Kaufman

Segment 5: Love Mother
You may wish to have a tissue handy for this last set of mother’s day songs.

My Mother’s Eyes – Waring’s Pennsylvanians/ Clare Hanlon
A Letter to My Mother – Ray Noble Orchestra / Al Bowlly, v.
Baby Your Mother Like She Babied You – Vaughn deLeath

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