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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.
So why is there a bottle of Green River Bourbon on this post instead of a Tin Pan Alley composer or a vaudeville artist or other ’20s or ’30s vocalist, instrumentalist, band orchestra? Well, you’ll find out in the final segment of this week’s special St. Patrick’s Day edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. In other segments, we’ll do some messin’ around and hear some songs about birth and death. Don’t worry, it’s not nearly as morbid as it sounds. There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and prepare to be taken back to an earlier–and we think better-musical era. Just click on the player above to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience. Best wishes for a pleasant St. Patrick’s Day. Please drink responsibly and NEVER drink and drive!
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Here’s the complete playlist:
Segment 1: St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day – Sean Nolan’s Dublin Orchestra
Irish Delight – Flanagan Brothers
In The Garden Where The Irish Potatoes Grow – Dr. Smith’s Champion Hoss Hair Pullers
Segment 2: Messin’ Around
Everybody Mess Aroun’ – Georgia Strutters / Perry Bradford, v.
Messin’ Around – Joe Candullo and His Everglades Orchestra
Don’t Mess Around With Me – Mississippi Maulers / Roy Evans, v.
Segment 3: The Birth Of…
The Birth Of The Blues – Carroll Gibbons (Piano) and His Boy Friends
The Birth Of The Shamrock – Charles Massinger
The Birth Of Radio (The Romance of Marconiphone)
Segment 4: Death
I’m Tickled To Death I’m Me – The Piccadilly Players Dir. Al Starita / Betty Bolton, v.
Slow Death – Douglas Williams
I’m Starving To Death For Love – Three Tobacco Tags
Segment 5: Wearin’ O’ The Green
Floating Down The Old Green River – Billy Murray
Roll Right Offa My Green – Dale Wimbrow (Pete Dale) The Del-Mar-Va Songster and His Rubeville Tuners
In Your Green Hat – The University Six
I’m a retired electrical engineer and was intrigued by ‘The Birth of Radio’. I doubted that the three dot letter ‘S’ sounded quite as clean as the recreation suggested. Marconi’s spark-gap transmitter would have sounded more like a series of static buzzes in the headphones of the receiver.
Wikipedia has a rather extensive article under the heading Spark-gap_transmitter. The wiki article includes some audio of what a 1907 spark-gap signal would have sounded like. The article also includes a section on Marconi’s 12 Dec 1901 transatlantic experiment. Here is an excerpt :
“Knowledgeable sources today doubt whether Marconi actually received this transmission. Ionospheric conditions should not have allowed the signal to be received during the daytime at that range. Marconi knew the Morse code signal to be transmitted was the letter ‘S’ (three dots). He and his assistant could have mistaken atmospheric radio noise (“static”) in their earphones for the clicks of the transmitter. Marconi made many subsequent transatlantic transmissions which clearly establish his priority, but reliable transatlantic communication was not achieved until 1907 with more powerful transmitters.”