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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 evenings show we’re going to celebrate a birthday, we’re going to play a guessing game, and we’ll hear some songs for the season.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Harry Warren
Celebrating the birth of Salvatore Anthony Guaragna, born on December 24 in 1893 in Brooklyn. He wrote about 400 popular songs and show tunes, including three for which he won Academy Awards. You may recognize him by the name Harry Warren, but even if you don’t, you most certainly will recognize his songs.

I Found a Million Dollar Baby – Paul Specht
Lullaby of Broadway – Victor Young and the Orchestra / The Boswell Sisters

Sweet and Slow – Fats Waller and His Rhythm
Would You Like to Take a Walk – Annette Hanshaw

Segment 2: Guessing Game
For these next two segments of the show, I’m going to play 7 songs, and it’s up to you to see if you can figure out the common denominator and the associated trivia.

Doctor Jazz – Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers
I Got a Code in My Doze – Fred Hall and His Sugar Babies
Sleepy Head – Mills Brothers
Bashful Baby – Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra / Scrappy Lambert, v.

Segment 3: More Clues
Well, have you figured out the common denominator among the last four songs? Shall we have the final three clues?

Happy – Slim Lamar and His Southerners
Zonky – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Dave Wilborn, v.
Angry – Dud Mecam’s Wolverines

And there you have your seven clues to the common denominator and trivia behind that set. Let’s review, shall we? We started off with DOCtor Jazz, Followed by I Got a Code in My Doze, and what do you do when you have a code in your doze but sneeze. Then, we heard SLEEPY Head, and BASHFUL Baby. Figured it out yet? No? Press play and listen to the show (you’re already listening though, right?)

Segment 4: Merry Christmas
There weren’t a whole lot of Christmas songs recorded in the 1920s and 30s, but we do have a few, and so we’ll wrap up this edition of Rapidly Rotating Records with some songs for the season.

Santa Claus Express – Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra
Christmas Night in Harlem – Paul Whiteman AHO
Jingle Bells – Benny Goodman
Santa Claus is Coming to Town – Harry Reser’s Orchestra

Segment 5: Safe and pleasant holidays

I’m going to say good-bye now and end with a final holiday record rather than with our usual closing theme of Avalon. I hope you’ve enjoyed this edition of Rapidly Rotating Records.

Ted Weems AHO with Parker Gibbs

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