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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.

This evening we’ll have a second helping of cooking songs, we’ll celebrate Count Basie’s birthday, Cornelius Swarthout’s invention, and we’ll hear from the Happiness Boys.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Knowing
August 24 in 1950 the crime solving radio show “Somebody Knows”, was heard for the final time on radio. So here to commemorate “Somebody Knows”, are some songs about knowing

I Know That You Know – The Revelers
My Mammy Knows – California Ramblers (Martin Smith)
You and I Know – Dick McDonough AHO / Howard Philips, v.

Segment 2: Count Basie
August 21 marked the birth in 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey of William Allen Basie.

Oh Eddie – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
Shoe Shine Boy – Jones-Smith Incorporated
Twelfth Street Rag – Twelfth Street Rag / Count Basie and His Orchestra

Segment 3: Cooking
August 23 in 1902, Fannie Merrit Farmer opened her cooking school, Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, in Boston, MA, so here to commemorate Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, here are some songs about cooking.

Hors D’oeuvre – Murray’s Ragtime Banjo Quartet
If My Baby Cooks as Good as she looks – Roving Romeos
Too Much Mustard – Europe’s Society Orch.

Segment 4: Jones and Hare
August 23 in 1923 – Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, were heard on radio for the first time. Here are the Happiness Boys, Jones and Hare. Actually, Jones. Then Hare. Then, Jones AND Hare.

My New York – Jones, v
Go ‘Long Mule – Hare, v.
There Ain’t No Flies on Auntie – Jones and Hare

Segment 5: Waffles
August 24 in 1869, Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York received a patent for a “device to bake waffles”, the waffle iron, so in commemoration of Cornelius Swarthout’s invention, here is a trio of songs about waffles.

Waffles – Irving Aaronson and His Commanders
Waffle Man’s Call – Johnny Beyersdorfer and His Jazzola Novelty Orch
Chicken and Waffles – Bunny Berigan and His Blue Boys

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