Rapidly Rotating Records 78 RPM Show – 25 November 2001

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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, pretty much anything goes, we’re going to play some “soul” music, and we have a couple of birthdays to celebrate.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Tommy Dorsey
Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr. was born on November 19, 1905 in Mahonoy Plains, Pennsylvania.

Canadian Capers – Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
Blue Moon – Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra / Jack Leonard, v.
Marie – Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra / Jack Leonard, v.
San Francisco – Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra / Edith Wright, v.

Segment 2: SOS
November 22 in 1906, the Morse Code patter of SOS was voted to be the new international signal of distress, standing for “Save Our Souls”. In honour of this, here is some “soul” music.

Got the South in My Soul – Boswell Sisters
Keep a Song in Your Soul – Fletcher Henderson


Do you know how SOS pads came to use the same initials? They’re named after a patented process, “Soap on Steel”. So here area couple of songs having to do with soap and steel.

Steel Roof – Six Blue Chips
Soap Suds – St.Louis Levee Band

Segment 3: Hoagy Carmichael
November 22 marked the birth in 1899 in Bloomington, Indiana, of composer, pianist, vocalist and actor Hoagland Howard Carmichael, better known as “Hoagy”, a nickname he received from a college sweetheart.

Boneyard Shuffle – Hitch’s Happy Harmonists
Charlie Two Step – Roane’s Pennsylvanians / Cliff Nazzaro, v.
Come Easy Go Easy Love – Sonny Clapp and His Band o’ Sunshine / Hoagy Carmichael, v.
Manhattan Rag – Irving Mills’ Hotsy Totsy Gang / Hoagy Carmichael, piano

Segment 4: Anything Goes
November 21 in 1934, Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” opened at the Alvin Theatre in New York City. In commemoration here are two from the show.

Anything Goes – Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra
Let’s Misbehave – Irving Aaronson and His Commanders

Segment 5: Coleman Hawkins
November 21 marked the birth in 1904 of Coleman Hawkins, the first great jazz saxophonist.

Chicago – The Ramblers / Coleman Hawkins

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