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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.

Today is Mother’s Day. So in honor of all the mothers and mothers-to-be out there, and to everyone who has a mother, we’ve got a whole show of songs having to do in some way or another with mothers. We’ve got songs about dream mothers, mean mamas, red hot mamas, your mother and mine, and even a mother-in-law.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Happy Mother’s Day

Mama Inez – Fred Hall
Dream Mother – George Olsen and His Music
That’s My Mammy – Dorsey Bros
My Mama’s In Town – Lloyd Turner and His Villa Venice Orchestra

Segment 2: Officially Mother’s
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson officially proclaimed Mother’s Day as a national holiday to be held on the second Sunday of May. Here are some more songs to continue our tribute to mothers.

Alma Mammy – Waring’s Pennsylvanians
Mean, Mean Mama – Vic Meyers AHO
Don’t Be Afraid to Tell Your Mother – Mills Brothers
Baby Your Mother Like She Babied You – Belle Baker

Segment 3: Mother’s Sentiment
Anna Jarvis, credited for having Mother’s Day proclaimed a national holiday, said “I wanted Mother’s Day to be a day of sentiment, not profit!”

Your Mother and Mine – Nat Shillkret and the Victor Orchestra / Frank Munn
My Mother’s Eyes – Roy Shields and His Orchestra / George Jessel, v.
Celie, Does Your Mother Know You’re Out – Whispering Jack Smith
Did Your Mother Come From Ireland? – Charlie Kunz and his Casani Club Orchestra / Vera Lynn, v.

Segment 4: Mothers of the World
Many celebrations of Mother’s Day are held throughout the world, and although they don’t all fall at the same time, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia and Belgium DO celebrate Mother’s Day on the same day as the US.

Mother-In-Law Blues – The Patent Leather Kids / Horace Smith
Lots o’ Mama – The Hottentots
Mama’s Gone, Goodbye – Thelma Terry and Her Playboys
Red Hot Mama – Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra / Sophie Tucker
Do What Your Mother Did – Sterling Trio

Segment 5: My Mammy
Well, this wouldn’t be a Mother’s Day show without including this last song.

My Mammy (The Sun Shines East – The Sun Shines West) – Al Jolson

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