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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 celebrating the birthdays of Bix Beiderbecke, Bernie Cummins, pick a bit of cotton, and look back on this week in years past.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Bix Beiderbecke
March 10 marked the birth in 1903 of……..that’s right! Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke.

Sensation – The Wolverine Orchestra
I’m Glad – Sioux City Six
Davenport Blues – Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers

Segment 2: Bernie Cummins
March 14 marked the birth in 1900 in Akron, Ohio, of Bernie Cummins.

Minnie the Mermaid – Bernie Cummins and His Hotel New Yorker Orch
Everybody Tap – Bernie Cummins AHO
Deep Sea Low Down – Bernie Cummins and His Hotel New Yorker Orchestra

Segment 3: Cotton
March 14, in 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin ,so here to commemorate Eli’s invention here are some rapidly rotating records about cotton

Make My Cot Where the Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows – Red Nichols Stompers
Pickin’ Cotton – Arnold Johnson AHO
Song from a Cotton Field – Bessie Brown

Segment 4: This Week in Recording History
It’s here where we play rapidly rotating records which were recorded this week. Or last week, depending on how you want to read the calendar.

Ain’t She Sweet – Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra / Franklyn Baur (March 10, 1927)
3/14/ – Button Up Your Overcoat – New England Yankees / Annette Hanshaw, v. (March 14, 1929)
I Do Not Choose to Run – Six Jumping Jacks (March 14, 1928)

Segment 5: More Bix
At the beginning of the show I promised a second set of Bix Beiderbecke.

There Ain’t No Land Like Dixieland – Broadway Bellhops / Irving Kaufman
Sorry – Bix and His Gang
Love Nest – Paul Whiteman AHO

Segment 6: Just One More
We have time for another Bix.

The Baltimore – Frank Trumbauer’s Orchestra

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