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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 gonna play the ponies, acknowledge daylight savings time, and hear from “the champion of the people”.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Spavined
As a public service, we’re going to have a vocabulary lesson. Spavined, as a noun Spavin is a swelling, but the adjective also has a secondary meaning: old and decrepit or “over-the-hill”. Some might refer to the records we play on the show as spavined, but here are some records about some spavined things, other than me.

In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town – Harold Van Emburgh and His Orchestra
In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town – Belle Baker

Shabby Old Cabby – Joe Loss
The Old Town Pump – Harry Reser

Segment 2: Time
Well, it’s now daylight savings here in the US, which means we’ve got some extra time

There ought to be a moonlight saving time – Ruth Etting
It’s about time – Joe Haymes and His Orchestra / Larry Murphy, v.

Time On My Hands – Nat Shilkret
Time On My Hands – Percival Mackey and His Band / Queenie Leonard, v.

Segment 3: Ponies
Last week on April 3 in 1860, Pony Express mail service began in St. Joseph, Missouri. So here in commemoration of the Pony Express are some songs about ponies.

Stampede – Bert Firman’s Dance Orchestra
The King’s Horses – New York Syncopators

Everyone Says “I Love You” – Chico Marx
Horses – Six Jumping Jacks / Tommy Stacks, v.

Segment 4: Crime
April 3 in 1939, “Mr. District Attorney”, was heard for the first time on NBC radio. So here to commemorate Mr. District Attorney, are some songs about crime.

DA Blues – Pee Wee Russell’s Hot Four
Guilty – Ray Noble and the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Al Bowlly, v.
Put Me Behind Bars – Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans / George Melachrino, v.
Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now – The High Steppers / Dick Robertson, v.

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