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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 being the last show in June, we’ve got some songs about June. We’ve also got some slang songs and some songs from “Swing Time”.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Whistling
You know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow.

Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away – Ben Selvin and His Orchestra / Eddie Walters, ukulele
I Love to Whistle – Fats Waller and His Rhythm
How You Gonna Wet Your Whistle – Harry Frankl (Singin’ Sam)
Whistling for a Kiss – Leo Reisman and His Orchestra / George Wheeler, v.

Segment 2: Swing Time
The Old Town Music Hall is a theater, built in 1922 in El Segundo, California. I was there recently for a screening of the 1936 Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers picture “Swing Time”, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Which inspired this set of songs from “Swing Time”.

The Way You Look Tonight – Fred Astaire
Pick Yourself Up – Fred Astaire
Never Gonna Dance – Fred Astaire
A Fine Romance – Fred Astaire

Segment 3: June
This is the last Rapidly Rotating Records show for the month of June. So what better time to play a set of songs about June than now.

Where Were You on June 3rd? – Fats Waller
June Night – Waring’s Pennsylvanians
June in January – Teddy Joyce AHO
June Time is Love Time – Ray Noble

Segment 4: Slang
Recently, I came across some quotations on the character and value of slang, slang, of course, being informal, nonstandard vocabulary or expressions, so let’s begin a set of songs with some mild slang.

Everything is Hotsy Totsy Now – Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra / Joe Sanders, v.
Ain’tcha – Helen Kane
I’m Nuts About Screwy Music – Jimmy Lunceford and His Orchestra

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