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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’ll celebrate the birthdays of Ruth Etting and Bud Green, give thanks, listen to this past week in recording history and have some songs about snakes.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Snakes
Here, for my friend Lyle, is a set of rapidly rotating records about snakes.

Snake Hip Dance – Wilton Crawley
Snake Rag – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
Snake Eyes – Tiny Parham
Snake Hips – The Georgians

Segment 2: Ruth Etting
November 23 marks the birth in 1903 in David City, Nebraska of “America’s Sweetheart”, Ruth Etting. She made lots of records, primarily for Columbia, and she was also a composer or lyricist of popular songs including these three:

Wistful and Blue – Ruth Etting
Maybe, Who Knows – Ruth Etting
When You’re With Somebody Else – Ruth Etting

Segment 3: Bud Green
November 19 marked the birth in 1897 in Austria of lyricist Bud Green.

Tomorrow Is Another Day – The Clevelanders (Jack Albin) / Bill Coty, v.
You Showed Me The Way – Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.
The Man Who Comes Around – Nat Gonella and His New Georgians / Nat Gonella, Stella Moya, Roy Dexter, v.

Segment 4: This Week in Recording History
Travelling back a few years, here’s some of the songs that were recorded in this week.

If Tears Could Bring You Back To Me – Riverside Dance Band (the Elmer Grosso band) / Elliott Stewart, v. (November 23, 1926)
Don’t’ Be Like That – Jean Goldkette AHO / Harold Stokes, v. (November 23, 1928)
Who Will It Be? – Gene Rodemich’s Orchestra (November 20, 1923)
The Perfect Song – Victor Salon Orch (Nat Shilkret) (November 18, 1929)

Segment 5: Thankful
This coming Thursday is Thanksgiving Day here in the US. I’m thankful for the opportunity to present this show, and even more so that you’ve chosen to listen, and I wish you a pleasant and safe holiday.

That’s Something To Be Thankful For – Sophie Tucker
Thanks – Leo Reisman AHO / Frank Luther, v.
I Thank The Moon – Piccadilly Dance Band (Allan Selby)

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