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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 take a trip to Indiana, we’re going to shake, rattle and roll, well, shake, at least, and we’ve got some songs for flying parson.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Fools
To get things started, we’ve all done some foolish things at one time or another, and I came across some quotes about foolishness last week, so, we’re going to enthusiastically play some songs about foolishness.

No Foolin’ – The California Ramblers / Arthur Hall, v.
What a Fool I’ve Been – Lew Reynolds Flexo Recording Orchestra
These Foolish Things – Rudy Vallee
Fool Me Some More – Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra / Bing Crosby, v.

Segment 2: Heavenly Flights
Belvin W. Maynard was born in 1892. In 1918 he set a transcontinental flight record of 83 hours, 20 minutes, and became known as “The Flying Parson”, so here’s a set of songs in honor…

Halfway to Heaven – Cliff Edwards
Hallelujah – The Revelers
I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music – Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys
They Kicked the Devil Out of Heaven – Grand Central Red Cap Quartet
Flying Home – The Benny Goodman Sextet

Segment 3: Shaking
April 18 in 1906 at 5:13 am, the great San Francisco Earthquake occurred. So we’ve got some songs about shaking.

Shake It – Jelly Roll Mortons’ Hot Six
Shake That Thing – Clarence Williams & Blue Five
Steady Roll – Wilson’s TOBA Band
Shake Your Shimmy – Midnight Rounders / Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon, v.

Segment 4: Indiana
The first record in this segment just had its 72nd birthday last week on April 18. We’re going to take a musical trip to Indiana.

Indiana – Red Nichols and his Five Pennies
Sweet Indiana Home – Marion Harris, Isham Jones
She’s a Cornfed Indiana Girl – George Olsen
Anna in Indiana – Broadway Revue Midnight Rounders / Eddie Cantor
She’s a cornfed Indiana Girl – Mal Hallet

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