A”Break Up” Edition of RRR #1222 Dec. 17, 2023

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 week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records we’ll be celebrating the birthdays of Thomas Allen and Louis Mitchell. With apologies to Neal Sedaka, we’ll also commemorate “International Break Up Day” with a set of songs about breaking up! We’ll have a set of songs by some “Wileys” and as an educational public service, we’ll have another RRR Vocabulary Lesson in which the record above figures prominently. There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and prepare to be transported back to a different–and we think better–musical era. Click on the player above to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience.

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Thomas Allen

Low Bridge! Everybody Down! (aka Fifteen Years On The Erie Canal) – Billy Murray
By The Watermelon Vine – Shannon Quartet
Arrival Of The Robins – Victor Orchestra / Joseph Belmont, Whistling

Segment 2: Louis Mitchell

Toot-Toot-Tootsie (Goo’bye) – Mitchell’s Jazz Kings
Indecision (Big Or Small Hat) – Mitchell’s Jazz Kings
C’est Paris – Mitchell’s Jazz Kings

Segment 3: Wileys

Windy City – Arnold Wiley
I Got A Right To Sing The Blues – Dorsey Brothers Orchestra / Lee Wiley, v.
Havin’ Lots Of Fun – Al Handler’s Alamo Cafe Orchestra

Segment 4: International Break Up Day

The Hour Of Parting – Fred Rich AHO / Scrappy Lambert, v.
Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine – Herb Wiedfoeft’s Cinderella Roof Orchestra
Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine) – Bob Haring AHO / Dick Robertson, v.

Segment 5: Vocabulary Lesson: P I Z E U X I S

Salty Dog Hey Hey Hey – Allen Brothers
Does She Do, Do, Do What She Shouldn’t Do – Sam Lanin and His Troubadours
Ho-Ho-Ho Hogan – Davy’s Broadway Syncopators (Meyer Davis’ Swanee Syncopators

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