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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 pose some questions, pick some daisies, and celebrate a couple of birthdays.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Love Songs
Sex therapist, author and TV celebrity, Dr. Ruth Westheimer was on June 4 in 1928 in Germany. Her television show has been syndicated internationally. So here in honor of Dr. Ruth are some love songs.

Look at ‘em Doing It – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
You Gotta Know How to Love – Irving Aaronson and His Commander
I Don’t Want to Make History – Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys
Old Fashioned Love – Sleepy Hall

Segment 2: Ted Lewis
June 6 marked the birth in 1891 in Circleville, Ohio of Theodore Leopold Freidman, better known as Ted Lewis. To celebrate here four from is Ted Lewis and his Orchestra.

Rhythm
Is Everybody Happy Now
Home Made Sunshine
I Wish I Were in Peoria

Segment 3: Questions
On June 7, 1955, “The $64,000 Question” premiered, and became the most watched and talked about program on TV. Contestants had to answer 10 questions correctly beginning at $64 and doubling the amount with each correct answer upward to the $4,000 category. So here, in commemoration of “The $64,000 Question”, “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire”, and “The Weakest Link” are some musical questions.

How Come You Do Me Like You Do – Original Memphis Five
Who’s That Knocking at My Door – Annette Hanshaw
Was That the Human Thing to Do? – Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra / Margaret Lawrence, v.
Who? You? – Jack Gardner’s Orchestra / Dillon White, v.

Segment 4: Daisies
June 7 marked the birth in 1909 of Jessica Tandy. She was sixteen when she made her professional stage debut in London, and at age 81, she won an Oscar for her performance as a Southern lady who befriends her black chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy. So here in commemoration of Jessica Tandy and her Oscar for “Driving Miss Daisy”, are some songs about daisies.

You’ve Got Me Picking Petals off of Daisies – High Hatters
I’m Knee Deep in Daisies – George Olsen
Telling it to the Daisies – Annette Hanshaw and her sizzling syncopators
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow – Jean Goldkette

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