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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.

This evening is a whole series of firsts! This is the first two hour edition of the show. This will be the first time that we’ll play some contemporary recordings on the show. And the reason for those firsts is that this is also the first time for us to have a special guest on the show. I’ve mentioned his name on the show a few times, but it is my great pleasure to welcome to the show in person, the founder, Executive Producer, designer, and sometimes liner notes writer, transfer and remastering engineer, and even performing artist, of the Rivermont Records CD label, Bryan Wright. He’s here in California because he will be attending the 2010 Grammy Awards for the first time, which are being presented tonight, January 31.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Happy Six
A selection from the Grammy-nominated CD featuring 25 selections by Harry Yerkes’s pioneering jazz band “The Happy Six,” recorded between 1919 and 1923.

My Little Bimbo Down on the Bamboo Isle
Leave Me With A Smile
Siam Soo

Segment 2: Isham Jones
Songs from Isham Jones and His Orchestra.

Song of the Blues
The Cat
What’ll You Do

Segment 3: Frank Banta

My Sugar
Sailin’ Along

Segment 4: Rich Conaty
Richard Brian “Rich” Conaty is best known for the weekly music radio show he hosted, The Big Broadcast, on Fordham University’s FM radio station, WFUV, in the Bronx, New York. The Big Broadcast: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s is about to be released by Rivermont records, compiled by Rich.

I’m More Than Satisfied – Larry Abbott AHO
Good-Bye Blues – Singin’ Sam
Play Me A Frigid Air – Sid Peltyn and His Orchestra

Segment 5: Syncopated Musings
Syncopated Musings: Classic Piano Rags and Ragtime Waltzes – the CD released of Bryan Wright paying tribute to several “classic” ragtime composers.

Smiles and Kisses (by Harry Jentes)
The Thriller (by May Aufderheide)

Segment 6: Edwin J McEnelly
One of my favourite Rivermont Records releases – Edwin J. McEnelly’s Orchestra: Complete Recordings.

That Night in Araby
Take Your Tomorrow (And Give Me Today)
Sleep, Baby, Sleep

Segment 7: Dainty Debutantes: Female Novelty Pianists of the 1930s

A Rivermont release of music from ladies of syncopation with complete discographical information, and insightful commentary by Alex Hassan.

You Are My Hearts Delight – Edythe Baker
To a Wild Rose – Patricia Rossborough

Segment 8: Sam Lanin

get out and get under the moon- Sam Lanin
gonna get a girl – Sam Lanin’s Dance Orchestra / Irving Kaufman, v.

Segment 9: The West End Jazz Band of Chicago 
This is a selection from their first cd on the Rivermont label.

There’s a Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder
Tozo!

Segment 10: Lou Gold
Lou Gold’s name may not be well-known today, but in the 1920s, he was responsible for hundreds of popular “hot dance” records.

Don’t Be Like That
Loving You the Way I Do

Segment 10: Big Broadcast
Two more from other Big Broadcast volumes

Keepin’ Myself for You by Paul Specht and His Orchestra 
Get Hot Foot – Hans Bunn AHO

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