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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.
Do you know who this fellow is? He’s pianist and composer William F. Wirges and his is one of three birthdays we’ll be celebrating on this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. The other two are Benjamin Hapgood Burt and Justin Ring. In other segments, we’ll take a musical trip to “The City by the Bay” and hear about some pairings. 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.
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ENJOY THE SHOW!
Here’s the complete playlist:
Segment 1: Benjamin Hapgood Burt
My Fox-Trot Wedding Day – Irving Kaufman
Wal, I Swan! – Byron G Harlan & Chorus
The Pig Got Up And Slowly Walked Away – Billy Cotton and His Band / Alan Breeze, Teddy Foster & Chorus, v.
Segment 2: Justin Ring
Swanee Smiles -Clyde Doerr AHO
Grandma’s Music Box – Victor Novelty Orchestra
Dancing Notes – Victor Young AHO
Segment 3: William F. Wirges
The Glory of Spring = William F. Wirges AHO / Scrappy Lambert, v.
Sweet Elaine – Ritz Quartet, William F. WIrges, Piano
Afraid of You – William Wirges AHO
Segment 4: San Francisco
San Francisco Souvenir March – Pietro
On San Francisco Bay – Billy Murray
Peacock Strut – Lou Chiha “Frisco”
Segment 5: Me And…
Me And The Clock – Roy Ingraham AHO / Roy Ingraham & Male Chorus, v.
Me And Mine Are Doing Fine – Oscar Rabin and his Romany Band / The Three Ginx, v.
Ya know, Glenn, if I had AT LEAST 1/2 as much fun as you did, then you had AT MOST twice as much fun as I did.
For example, let’s say you had 100 fun. AT LEAST half of that would be 50 for me, but if I had 60 fun, twice of which would be 120 then you clearly didn’t have twice as much fun as I, since we’ve already established that you had 100.
The expression sounds right (and I think I recently realized you had borrowed the phrase, though it’s a nice one), but on examination, it’s like “heads I win, tails you lose.” The brain corrects the error as surely as it corrects for the upside-down image of the world as sent by the eyes. We have other such corrections, but we need not go into all of them.
BUT, e.g.: There’s a death-metal band I know named Spitefire. The barker says “like Spitfire, but without the ‘e'”. He’s only 13, so I haven’t pointed out that it’s like Spitfire with an ADDED ‘e’, and that his description would yield Spitfir.
So there you have it. You’ve not only been invited to examine your tag line, but you’ve learned something about ME, and perhaps (God forbid) the bulk of your audience. (Neal’s also eccentric, in his own way.) Well, it takes all kinds, and many of us fringers like old music. We come with the territory.
That’s all for now.
Cheers,
-Alan