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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’ve got some songs about crime, building, and even some songs about nothing at all.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Wise Sayings
We’re going to start this evening’s show with some songs to commemorate the birthday of scientist, printer, author, publisher, inventor…Benjamin Franklin, who was born this past week on January 17 in 1706. Franklin came up with all sorts of “wise sayings” such as “A penny saved is a penny earned” and “Early to bed, early to rise, and so on. So here’s a set of songs who’s titles are in themselves, “wise sayings”

The Best Things in Life Are Free – Jack Hylton AHO / Hugo Rignold, Chappie d’Amato, v.
Count Your Blessings and Smile – George Formby
It’s Great Life if You Don’t Weaken – Sam Lanin AHO
You Can’t Have Everything – Judy Garland

Segment 2: It’s Criminal
Alphonsus Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 17, 1899. Increasingly implicated in the corruption of political, law enforcement, and labor officials, Capone was convicted of income-tax evasion in 1931 and sentenced to 11 years. So here is a set of crime related songs, starting off with a gang of a different type.

March of the Hoodlums – Irving Mills and His Hotsy Totsy Gang
I Can’t Stand Sittin’ in a Cell – Frank Crumit
I Surrender Dear – Gus Arnheim
Somebody Stole My Gal – Frankie Franko and His Louisianans

Segment 3: Building
January 21 in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan, the first Kiwanis Club was formed. So here are some building songs, in commemoration of the Kiwanis Clubs and all the fine work they do, and their motto: We Build.

I’ll Build a Nest – Bert Lown AHO
You’re a Builder Upper – Leo Reisman AHO / Harold Arlen, v.
Building a Nest for Mary – Al Friedman AHO
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise – Paul Whiteman

Segment 4: Nothing
January 16 in 1973, Harold Pullman Coffin created a holiday. January 16 is National Nothing Day! So, let’s play some records about….Nothing.

Nothin’ – Gene Austin – Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra
Better Than Nothin’ – Slim Lamar and His Southerners

Nothing Left to Do But Say Goodbye – Isham Jones and His Orchestra / Frank Sylvano , v.

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