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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 being inspired by events during this past week in history, we’ve got some songs by “The Happiness Boys”, and songs about Hawaii

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Clarinets
Exactly one hundred eleven years ago today, Charles G. Conn of Elkhart, IN patented the metal clarinet. Here, for you to “compare and contrast”, are a couple of versions of the same song, recorded about 9 years apart, by two different bands.

Clarinet Marmalade – Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Clarinet Marmalade Blues – Frankie Trumbaure AHO / Bix, cornet

These next two songs are not about the clarinet, but are by a major proponent of the instrument, Benny Goodman.

Help Yourself to Sunshine – Benny Goodman AHO / Smith Ballou, v.
Riffin’ the Scotch – Benny Goodman

Segment 2: The Happiness Boys
August 23 in 1923 – Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, “The Happiness Boys”, were heard on radio for the first time. Here’s a quartet of songs by the pair.

I’ve Never Seen a Straight Banana – Billy Jones and Ernie Hare
Yes, We Have No bananas – Billy Jones and Ernie Hare
Barney Google – Billy Jones and Ernie Hare
That’s a Lot of Bunk – Billy Jones and Ernie Hare

Segment 3: Hawaii
August 21 1959 the citizens of the United States said aloha to their new, fellow Americans and the Hawaiian Islands became the State of Hawaii So here to commemorate the addition to the United States of the State of Hawaii, are some songs about…Hawaii.

Why Do Hawaiians Sing Aloha – Fats Waller
Sunkist Hawaii – Sam Kulua West and his Harmony Boys

Hano Hano Hawaii – Sol Hoopii and Hano Hano Hawaii
Beulah (My Hawaiian Dancing Queen) – Andy Iona and His Islanders

Segment 4: Boy Scouts
On August 21 in 1912 Arthur Eldred, a Boy Scout, became the first boy to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout — the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America program. So, here to commemorate Arthur Eldred’s achievement, is the Raymond Scott Quintette, and “A Boy Scout in Switzerland”.

A Boy Scout in Switzerland – Raymond Scott Quintet

Segment 5: Count Basie
August 21 marked the birth in 1904 in Red Bank, NJ, of bandleader and composer William James Basie, otherwise known as “The Count”.

Riff Interlude – Count Basie AHO

Well, here to wrap up are a couple more Count songs, but not by Count Basie.

Count Your Blessings and Smile – George Formby
Counting the Stars Alone – The California Ramblers / Unknown, v.

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