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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 evenings show we’re going to celebrate the birth of Louis Armstrong, check the time a lot, and chase a mouse.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Mickey’s Got Time
August 3, in 1933, the world-famous Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced. So, in addition to some songs about time in general, here to commemorate the debut of the Mickey Mouse watch are some songs about……Mickey Mouse!

March of Time –
Mickey Mouse – Hal Swain
It’s About Time – Joe Haymes AHO
What, No Mickey Mouse? – Ben Bernie
Time on My Hands – Ray Noble and the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Al Bowlly, v.

Segment 2: Time For Mickey
We’re going to continue our commemoration of the introduction of the Mickey Mouse watch with some more songs about time and Mickey Mouse

Minnie Mouse and Mickey’s in Town – Don Bestor AHO / the De Marco Girls, Frank Sherry, v.
Got No Time – The Little Ramblers
Mickey Mouse’s Birthday Party – Intl. Novelty Orch.
One More Time – Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra / Bing Crosby, v.

Segment 3: Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Raised by his mother in extreme poverty, Armstrong served a term for delinquency at the Coloured Waifs Home at age 12 after firing a gun in the air on New Years Eve. It was at the reform school wher ehe learned to play the cornet.

Laughin’ Louis – Louis Armstrong AHO
My Sweet – Louis Armstrong AHO
Hotter Than That – Louis Armstrong Hot Fives
Tiger Rag – Louis Armstrong AHO

Segment 4: Louise Armstrong
Louis Armstrong recorded his first Hot Five records in 1925, and it was the first time he had made records under his own name. The band never played live but continued recording until 1928. In June, 1931, he returned to New Orleans for the first time since he had left in 1922.

Exactly Like You – Louis Armstrong AHO
Potato Head Blues – Louis Armstrong Hot Fives
You’re Driving Me Crazy – New Sebastian Cotton Club Orchestra
Skit-Dat-De-Dat – Louis Armstrong Hot Fives

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