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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.

Welcome to a Ghoulish episode of Rapidly Rotating Records, you’ll encounter ghosts, vampires, black cats and all manner of tricks and treats on this evenings special Halloween edition.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Ghostly Songs

Ghost of the Blues – Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra
Ghost of the freaks – Luis Russell
Ghost Of A Chance – Dorsey Bros and their orch. / Gene Austin
Dancing with a ghost – Jack Jackson AHO

Segment 2: Dead
Ghosts are certainly a common Halloween image as are graveyards and dead people.

Ain’t it grand to be bloomin well dead – Leslie Sarony
Dead man blues – Jelly Roll Morton and his red hot peppers
I’d rather be dead and buried in my grave – Bessie Smith
Graveyard Blues – Jimmy Davis

Segment 3: A Bit More Ghostly
Yes, we need another set of ghost songs.

Swamp Ghosts – Snooks Friedman and His Memphis Stompers / Pat McCarthy
White Ghost Shivers – New Orleans Owls
Ghost Dance – Truett & George
Look Out for the Ghost, Red – The Tune Wranglers

Segment 4: Boo

Goblin Market – Joe Venuti and His Orchestra
Dry Bones – Fats Waller
Skeleton Jangle – Original Dixieland Jazz Band
The skeleton in the Closet – Jimmy Dorsey w/Louis Armstrong
Boneyard Shuffle – Hitch’s Happy Harmonists

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