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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 going to celebrate a couple of birthdays and play some songs about home sweet home.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Home Sweet Home
July 23 marked the debut in 1934 on the NBC Red Radio Network of the program “Home Sweet Home”. So here to commemorate it are some songs about Home Sweet Home.

Home Sweet Home Blues – Charles Fulcher and His Orchestra
That’s What Puts the Sweet in Home Sweet Home – Ed lawry
Headin’ for Home – Isham Jones AHO
That’s My Home – Nat Gonella

Segment 2: Romance
July 24 marked the first broadcast, in 1933, of the radio serial drama “The Romance of Helen Trent”, the story of a woman who sets out to prove what so many other women long to prove in their own lives…that romance can live on at 35…and even beyond.” Here to commemorate Helen Trent, are some songs about romance.

You’re Looking for Romance – Dick McDonough AHO / Barry McKinley, v.
A Fine Romance – Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians / Carmen Lombardo, The Trio, v.
I Want a New Romance – Isham Jones AHO
My Romance – Mills Bros. / Frank Munn, v.

Segment 3: Rudy Vallee
July 28 marked the birth in 1901 in Island Point, Vermont, of Hubert Prior Vallee, better known as Rudy.
Here’s Rudy Vallee from the soundtrack of a 1932 Paramount short entitled “The Musical Doctor”, which also starred Mae Questel, the voice of Betty Boop.
Keep a Little Song Handy

And three more to celebrate Rudy Vallee.
The Song Without a Name – Rudy Vallee
A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody – Rudy Vallee
Outside – Rudy Vallee

Segment 4: Gracie Allen
July 26 marked the birth in 1902 in San Francisco of Gracie Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen. In 1929, Gracie and husband George Burns, were asked to replace an unwell Fred Allen in a short film. I wanted to play the song “Do You Believe Me?” from that film, and I have it around here someplace, but I’ll be darned if I could find it, so you’re just gonna have to settle George Burns and Gracie Allen’s theme song, “Love Nest”.

Love Nest – Paul Whiteman
I Want You I Need You – Charlie Barnet
Love Nest – Joseph C Smith’s Orchestra

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