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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 gonna do some dancing, we’ll have a vocabulary lesson, some family songs , and some bird songs.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Topic
Listener Mort in Great Neck, New York, pointed out that National Dance Week is April 25-May 4. I have plenty of dance songs, so here are three beginning with Mort’s favorite band, Charlie Kunz.

I’m in a Dancing Mood – Charlie Kunz Casani Club
Everybody Dance – Joe Loss/Clem Stevens
Just a Little Dance, Mam’selle – Jack Teagarden AHO/Jack Teagarden, v.

Segment 2: Peripateti
It’s time now for this week’s vocabulary lesson. The word for today is peripatetic, an adjective meaning “of, relating to, or given to walking”, or “moving or traveling from place to place; itinerant.

Goin’ Places – Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang / Arthur Schutt, piano
Wanderers – Charlie Kuns / Geo. Barclay
Singing a Vagabond Song – Nat Shilkret / Frank Luther

Segment 3: Birds
March 26 marked the birth in 1785 of John James Audobon, known for his work depicting America’s birds. So here in honor of John James Audobon is a set of rapidly rotating records about birds.

I’ll Build a Nest – Bert Lown AHO / Ted Holt
Nashville Nightingale – Waring’s Pennsylvanians
Wedding of the Birds – Fred Rich AHO / Smith Ballew

Segment 4: Family
April 25, 1938, the 15 minute serial drama “Your Family and Mine” made its debut on NBC Radio. So here in commemoration are some rapidly rotating records about some family members.

How’s Your Uncle? – The High Steppers / John Amendt
Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
Mother in Law – Horace Smith

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

Black and Blue Rhapsody – Alphonse Trent (April 24, 1926)
I’m in the Market for You – Bob Haring AHO (April 25, 1930)
The Lonesome Road – Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra / Willard Robison, v. (April 26, 1929)

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