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Rapidly Rotating Records
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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.
Pucker Up And Whistle – RRR 78 RPM Show – November 6, 2022
Pucker Up and Whistle Sheet Music Cover The gentleman on the sheet music above is Nat Vincent, whose birthday we’ll be celebrating in the first segment of this week’s edition of the show. Nat Vincent co-wrote the lyrics to “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles,” a huge hit in...
Composer Clay Boland – RRR 78 RPM Show – October 30, 2022
Clay Boland Do you know who this fellow is? He’s Klaypole Aloysius Boland, known to his family and friends as “Clay.” You’ll hear about his extremely busy life and hear three of his compositions in the first segment of this week’s edition of the show. In other...
How “Spike” Hughes Got the Nickname “Spike” RRR 78 RPM Show – October 23, 2022
Spike Hughes Do you know who this fellow is? He’s Patrick Cairns Hughes, but you may know him better by his nickname “Spike” Hughes. In the first segment of this week’s show, you’ll find out how he got that moniker and hear three of Spike’s recordings. We’ll also be...
A Special RRR 78 RPM Show Featuring Johnny Messner – October 16, 2022
Johnny Messner Family Portrait The portrait above is of Marcus and Catherine Messner and their five sons, Fred, Dick, Bill, Charlie and Johnny. Johnny is the youngest, third from the right. For several years in the 1930s, the brothers all played together in the...
Sidney Easton, Emile Grimshaw & More – RRR 78 RPM Show – October 9, 2022
Sidney Easton 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 Sidney Easton. This photograph was...
Slava Ukraini – Rapidly Rotating Records – October 2, 2022
Emperor Norton 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? His real name is Joshua Abraham Norton,...
Arthur Pryor on RRR 78 RPM Show – September 25, 2022
Arthur Pryor Do you know who this fellow is? He’s trombonist, bandleader and composer Arthur Pryor who is getting his own birthday salute in the second segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. You’ll hear Pryor’s most famous composition played by a...
There’s NEVER a Tie at a RR Crossing! – Sept. 18, 2022
Operation Lifesaver 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. So what in the world is the Operation Lifesaver logo doing on a...
Four Birthdays and a Vocabulary Lesson – Sept. 11, 2022
Vic Meyers Do you know who this fellow is? He’s Victor Aloysius Meyers, shown here at the height of his political career, about 30 years past the height of his musical career. You’ll hear all about both and three of his recordings in the first segment of...
Rapidly Rotating Records 78 RPM Show – Sept. 4, 2022
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 Eric Coates, British composer of light music and...