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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 it’s about celebrations – we’re going to celebrate a trademark, we’re going to celebrate the birthdays of Dorothy Fields and Howard Lanin, and we’re going to celebrate an anniversary.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Happy Anniversary
First, and most importantly, we’re celebrating an anniversary! The first anniversary of this radio program, Rapidly Rotating Records, which was first heard on KISL-FM, Avalon on Catalina Island on July 16, 2000. In celebration we’re going to we begin and end with “A Year From Today”, and commemorate the first anniversary of the broadcast version of Rapidly Rotating Records with a few years in between.

A Year from Today – Sam Lanin and His Famous Players / Scrappy Lambert, v.
After All These Years – Jack Harris AHO / Fred Latham, v.
Hundred Years from Today – Victor Young
A Year from Today – Al Katz AHO

Segment 2: Dorothy Fields
July 15 marked the birth in 1905 of lyricist Dorothy Fields to the very successful vaudevillian Lew Fields and his wife Rose. To celebrate her birth, here are three Dorothy Fields lyrics.

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Cliff Edwards
It’s the Darndest Thing – Ben Selvin and His Orchestra /The Wallace Trio, v.
Don’t Blame Me – Joseph Wagstaff
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby – Vaughn deLeath

Segment 3: Howard Lanin
Also born on July 15, but a few years earlier, in 1897, was Howard Lanin.

My Sweetie Went Away – Howard Lanin’s Arcadia Orchestra
I Cried for You – Howard Lanin’s Arcadia Orchestra
Melancholy Lou – Howard Lanin and His Ben Franklin Dance Orchestra
Don’t Wake Me Up, Let Me Dream – Howard Lanin

Segment 4: HMV
July 10 in 1900, one of the most famous trademarks in the world, ‘‘His Master’’s Voice’’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine. So in commemoration of “His Master’s Voice”, I’m going to play several of my favorite records sporting the HMV logo.

The Tap Tap – Roger Wolfe Kahn AHO
Could I, I Certainly Could – Sid Sydney AHO
Strike Me Pink – Victor Arden and Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra

Segment 5: Bonus Track
With time for just one more…

Alma Mammy – Waring’s Pennsylvanians

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