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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.

Tomorrow being Labor Day, on this evenings show we’ll be featuring songs about jobs, labor, working, and NOT working.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Gotta Work

Workingman Blues – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band / Louis Armstrong & King Oliver
I Gotta Get Up and Go To Work – Adrian Rollini AHO
Hey Pop! I Don’t Wanna Go To Work – Kay Kyser AHO / Harry Babbitt, v.

Segment 2: Lazy Days
Well, this being a holiday week-end, I suppose this should be kind of a lazy day.

Lazy Day – Ruth Etting
Lazy – Al Jolson
Lazy Mama – King Oliver’s Dixie Syncopators
Lazy Daddy – Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Lazy Bones – Ted Lewis AHO

Segment 3: Unemployed
Unemployment is an unpleasant subject, and I certainly hope no one out there is in that situation,but we have a couple of songs about unemployment.

I’m an Unemployed Sweetheart – Lee Morse
If I Ever Get a Job Again – Gene Kardos AHO

Segment 4: Can You Work

Where do you Work-a-John? – Harry Reser’s Six Jumping Jacks
Nice Work if You Can Get it – Tommy Dorsey and His Clambake Seven / Edythe Wright, v.

Segment 5: More Time to Relax
A pair of songs for a lazy Labor Day week-end, on Rapidly Rotating Records here on KISL.

Lazy Waters – Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra / Carleton Coon, v.
Lazy Rhapsody – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra

Segment 5: Work
Make a little progress until you whistle while you work.

W.P.A. – Skeets Tolbert and His Gentlemen of Swing
Whistle While You Work – Artie Shaw’s New Music

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