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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.

This evening’s show is a special two hour episode and includes a special guest, my friend and fellow record collector, Edgar Bullington. As the former host of Bathwater Music he has a great collection, and he’s going to share some of that with us tonight

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Edgar Bullington

Avalon – Al Joleson
Singing in the Bathtub – Chick Endor
And That Ain’t All – Billy Murray

Segment 2: Collection Inspiration
More songs that inspired Edgar to collect records.

I’m a lonesome little raindrop – George Gershwin
Big City Blues – Annette Hanshaw
Loose Your Blues & Laugh At Life – Jimmie Revard and His Oklahoma Playboys / Curly Williams

Segment 3: Inspired by the Joleson Collection

Hooray for baby and me – Al Joleson
Everyone says I love you – Isham Jones

Segment 4: Prohibition

I’ll see you in CUBA – Billy Murray
Hide It In Your Cellar – Bert Williams

Just A Gigolo – Jack Hylton AHO
Just A Little Drink – The Radio Franks / Ray Millar, v.

Segment 5: Influential Memories

The Ballyhoo Theme song , cheer up – Eddie Cantor
Lenora – Leo Riceman AHO
Oh How She Can Sing – Van and Schenck

Segment 6: Hawaïen Fads

Ukulele Baby – Abe Lyman and his Californians
Everybody Does It In Hawaii – Jimmy Rogers, v.

Segment 7: By The Moonlight

Lazy Moon – Billy Murray, v.

Segment 8: Different 78s
Playing an actual ’78 in the studio from the CAP show and something pretty.

You can smile – Homer Rodeheaver and the Rodeheaver singers
While Miami Dreams – Bar Harbor Society Orchestra

Segment 9: Back To Avalon
Avalon was the subject of a copyright claim… so we’re playing to the together to let listeners see what they think.

E lucevan le stelle – Enrico Caruso (From Tosca by Puccini)
Avalon – Art Hickman Band

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