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 the birthday of Jimmy Dorsey, and we’ll take a musical trip to Ohio.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Falls, Balance and Rope
February 28 in 1824, one of the greatest funambulists of all time, Jean Francois Gravelet, better known as Charles Blondin, was born in St. Omer, France. So what’s a funambulist? A funambulist is an aerialist or a tightrope walker, which is the inspiration behind this set.

Niagara Falls – Wooding’s Grand Central Redcap
Hold Tight – Joe Loss and His Band / Chick Henderson, two unknown, v.

Well if you’re on a rope 270 feet above Niagara Falls, you wanna make sure that rope is nice and tight
It’s Tight Like That – Jimmy Bracken’s Toe Ticklers
Bigay Na Pagabig – Manila String Circle

Segment 2: Jimmy Dorsey
February 29 marked the birth in 1904 of Jimmy Dorsey, the older of the two band leading brothers.

Easy to Love – Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
Oodles of Noodles – Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
St. Louis Blues – Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
Tiger Rag – Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra

Segment 3: Marching
This being the first show in March, here are some marches.

Knightsbridge March – Ray Noble and the New Mayfair Orchestra
The Moonlight March – Ted Wallace and His Campus Boys / Smith Ballew, two unidentified, v.

Mindinao March – Honolulu Players
March of the Hoodlums – Carmichael’s Collegians

Segment 4: Ohio
March 1 in 1803, the 17th state entered the United States of America – Ohio, the Buckeye State, so nicknamed because of the many buckeye trees there.

My Ohio Home – The Revelers
I Couldn’t Get To It (In Time) – Harold Ortli and His Ohio State Collegians
O-Hi-O (O-My-O) – Al Jolson

Segment 5: March
We’ve had some marches to celebrate the first Rapidly Rotating Records show in March, and we’ve got a little time for a song about March.

March Winds and April Showers – Harlem Hot Shots

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