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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’ show we’ve got some dreamy songs, some hello and good-bye songs, and we’ll celebrate a couple of birthdays.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Oneiric
We’re going to start off with a vocabulary lesson. The word for this week is oneiric, an adjective meaning of or relating to dreams or “dreamy” as in The misty garden setting and odd dialogue gave the film an oneiric quality.” So here to begin the program are some oneiric songs.

Hong Kong Dream Girl – Wally Erickson’s Coliseum Orchestra
Dreaming a Dream – Al Bowlly
The Girl With the Dreamy Eyes – Jack Hylton and His Orchestra / Pat O’Malley

Segment 2: Hello
Alexander Graham Bell, of the telephone invention, suggested using the greeting of “Ahoy” when answering the telephone. Obviously, that didn’t take. Thomas Edison thought that ““hello”” would be a more appropriate greeting, so here are some “hello” songs to commemorate Thomas Edison’s suggestion to use “hello” instead of “ahoy” when answering the telephone.

Hello, Bluebird – Jay C. Flippen and His Gang
Won’t You Come Over and Say “Hello” – Clarence Williams / Chick Bullock
Hello Hello – Louisiana Five

Segment 3: Cooking
August 15 marked the birth in 1912 in Pasadena, California, of Julia McWilliams. You know her better as Julia Child, America’s first lady of cooking. So here in celebration of Julia Child’s birthday, are some songs about cooking.

Chicken Supper Strut – Triangle Harmony Boys
Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love – Leonard Joy/Fannie Brice
How Mother Made the Soup – Charley Case
Home Cooking – Eddie Condon AHO

Segment 4: Mae West
August 17 marked the birth in 1893 in Brooklyn, New York, of Mary Jane West. You know her better as Mae West. She made only 6 commercial recordings, and here are three of them.

They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk
I Like a Guy What Takes His Time
Easy Rider

Segment 5: Goodbye
Earlier in the show we had a set of “hello” songs. So it only makes sense that we should have a set of “goodbye” songs.

Goody Goodbye – Harry Roy AHO/Harry Roy
Goodbye Love – Dick Himber and His Essex House Ork/Joey Nash
And So Goodbye – Adrian Rollini AHO / Herb Wyle

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