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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 go down some musical streets, we’ll have some windy songs and celebrate the birthday of Lindley Armstrong Jones.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Worldly
December 12 in 1850, the novel, “Wide, Wide World” was published. It was written by Elizabeth Wetherell, and has been called the first bestseller in America. So here to commemorate “The Wide, Wide World”, are some worldly songs.

I’m Sittin’ on Top of the World – Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra
What a Funny World This Would Be – The Hometowner / Arthur Fields, v.
No one in the World But You – Ray Miller and His Orchestra
Am I in Another World? – Fats Waller and His Rhythm

Segment 2: Spike Jones
Normally on Rapidly Rotating Records we play records from the 1920s and 30s, with the occasional cylinder or disc from the 40s. All of the records in this segment of the show, however, will be from the 1940s, because last week, December 14 marked the birth in 1911 of Lindley Armstrong “Spike” Jones. Here are four from Spike Jones and His City Slickers

Clink, Clink, Another Drink
Der Fuehrer’s Face
Cocktails for Two
My Two Front Teeth

Segment 3: Windy
December 15 in 1939, the cinema classic “Gone With the Wind” premiered at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. So here to commemorate “Gone with the Wind” are some windy songs.

Gone with the Wind – Art Tatum
Night Wind – The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
South Wind – Phil Ohman and Victor Arden and their orchestra
Buckin’ the Wind – Anson Weeks and His Music / Carl Ravazza, v.

Segment 4: Streets
December 15 way back in 1854, the citizens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania were the first to see street cleaning machines in their city, which is a great reason to have a segment about streets.

Old Street Sweeper – Clarence Williams and His Orchestra / Chick Bullock, v.
Kater Street Rag – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
On the Sunny Side of the Street – Alfredo and His Band

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