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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 sit around and do some thinking, and we’ve got some heartfelt songs.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Thanks
This coming Thursday is Thanksgiving Day, so here are some songs of thanks.

Thanksgivin’ – Casa Loma Orch
Thanks – Lew Stone and the Monseignuer Band / Al Bowlly, v.
Thanks a Million – Morton Downey
Thanks for the Memory – Roy Fox and His Band

Segment 2: Heart
November 12 in 1925, Louis Armstrong made the first records that bore his name as bandleader, “My Heart” and “Yes, I’m in the Barrel”. So here is that 1925 recording of “My Heart”, and some other heart songs.

My Heart – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
Zing! Went the strings of my heart – Victor Young Orchestra / Ruth Etting, v.
With a Song in my heart – Franklyn Baur
The Beat of My Heart – Paul Whiteman AHO / Ramona

Segment 3: Thinking
November 12 marked the birth in 1840 in Paris of sculptor Auguste Rodin. Here, in honor of Auguste Rodin and “The Thinker”, are some rapidly rotating records about thinking.

Better Think Twice – Carroll Gibbons and his Savoy Hotel Orpheans / Harry Bentley, v.
I Ain’t Thinkin’ Bout You – Jack Gardner’s Orch / Irene Taylor, v.
Think of Me – Benson Orchestra of Chicago
Thinking of You – Annette Hanshaw

Segment 4: Sitting
November 13 in 1933, the first sit-down strike was organized by what is now the United Food and Commercial Workers Union against the Hormel Packing Company in Austin, Minnesota, the home of Spam. I hope you’ll stay seated and listen to this next set of songs about sitting.

Sittin’ Around – Harry Reser’s Six Jumping Jacks / Tommy Stacks’, v.
Sittin’ Around – Coon-Sanders Orchestra / Carleton Coon, v.
Sittin’ on a Rubbish Can – Julia Gerity and Her Play Boys
Sittin’ on a Rainbow – Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra / The King’s Jesters, John Ravencroft, George Howard, Francis Berton, v.

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