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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 going to celebrate the birth of a hotel magnate, and have some songs to celebrate the New Year.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Harry Warren
Christmas Eve in 1893 marked the birth in Brooklyn, New York of Salvatore Anthony Guaragna. You may recognize him by the name Harry Warren, but even if you don’t, you most certainly will recognize his some of his approximately 400 songs.

You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby – Chick Bullock and His Levee Loungers
Nagasaki – Nat Gonella and His Georgians
Where the Shy Little Violets Grow – H. Oreste and His Queensland Orchestra
Away Down South in Heaven – The Virginians, under the direction of Nat Shilkret / Scrappy Lambert

Segment 2: Hotels
Christmas Day in 1887 marked the birth in San Antonio, New Mexico of Conrad Nicholson Hilton. He built his hotel empire by renovating old hotels, building new ones and buying existing hotels. So here in honor of Conrad Hilton are some songs about hotels.

Small Hotel – Jack Hylton
Honeymoon Hotel – Chick Bullock and His Orchestra
The Bell Boys – Billy Golden and Joe Hughes
Honey Bunch – The Broadway Bellhops

Segment 3: Harry Warren Soundtracks
Harry Warren contributed songs to 75 motion pictures, resulting in over 128 hits.

My One and Only – Harry Reser’s Cliquot Club Eskimos / Tommy Stacks, v.
I Found a Million Dollars Baby – Frank Auburn and His Orchestra

Lulu’s Back in Town – Dick Powell
Lullaby of Broadway – Harry Roy and His Orchestra / Bill Currie, v.

Segment 4: New Year’s Day
The world’s most celebrated holiday, New Year’s Day, has been observed on January 1 in most English- speaking countries since 1751 when the British calendar act was passed.

Let’s Drink a Drink to the Future – Ben Selvin and His Orchestra
New Year’s Eve in a Haunted House – Raymond Scott Quintet
Happy New Year – Spike Jones

Segment 5: Auld Lang Syne
Scottish poet Robert Burns is considered the original author of “Auld Lang Syne.” He said he heard an old man singing the words and wrote them down. The literal translation means “old long since” and less literally, “days gone by”.
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played “Auld Lang Syne” as a New Year’s Eve song for the first time in 1929.

Auld Lang Syne – Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians

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