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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.

Tomorrow being the dreaded tax day, we’ve got some songs about some poor people, and we’ll be celebrating the birth of Paul Robeson.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Quartets
April 11 in 1936 marked the founding of the SPEBSQSA. That’s the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. So to commemorate the SPEBSQSA, we have some songs by some quartets.
Carolina in the Morning – American Quartet
Blue Jeans – Premiere Quartet
Ain’t We Got Fun – The Harmonizers Quartet
Always in All Ways – Merle Johnson’s Sax Quartet

Segment 2: Paul Robeson
April 9 marked the birth in 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey of African-American athlete, singer, actor and civil rights advocate Paul Robeson.

Little Pal – Paul Robeson
Little Man, You’ve Had a Busy Day – Paul Robeson
A Banjo Song – Ray Noble and the New Mayfair Orchestra / Paul Robeson
Ol’ Man River – Paul Robeson

Segment 3: Poor People
As a public service, I’d like to remind you that tomorrow is the deadline for filing your income tax return. For all those people who will be feeling poor at having to come up with money for the IRS, here are some songs about some other poor people.

Poor Papa – The Goofus Five
What cana poor fellow do? – Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
Poor Apache – Maurice Chevalier
Poor Buttermlk – Zez Confrey

Poor Papa – Whispering Jack Smith
Poor Mr. Chisolm – Fred Astaire
Poor Li’l Me – Luis Russell AHO

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