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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.

Looking back at some events in history during this past week, we’ve got some songs about roses, dimes, butter, and health

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: International Celebration
January 1 in 1892, Ellis Island opened to begin the processing of what would amount to more than 20 million immigrants to the United States. So here in commemoration of Ellis Island, and all the people who passed through it are some international songs.

Copenhagen – The Wolverines
Spanish Mama – Cook & Dreamland Orchestra
Egyptian Ella – Ted Lewis AHO
Shanghai Shuffle – George Warmack AHO

Segment 2: Roses
Last week of course, was New Years Day, the celebration of which includes the Rose Parade and the Tournament of Roses. So here to celebrate the New Year and commemorate the Rose Parade and the Tournament of Roses, are some songs about….roses

Roses of Picardy – Red Nichols and His Five Pennies
Yankee Rose – Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra
I’m Bringing a Red Red Rose – Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra

Segment 3: Dimes
January 3 in 1938, The March of Dimes was established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt — to fight poliomyelitis with which Roosevelt himself was afflicted. So here to commemorate all the good work the folks at the March of Dimes do, and of course, to those who contribute, are a couple of songs about dimes.

Ten Cents a Dance – Ruth Etting
Brother Can You Spare a Dime – Charlie Palloy AHO

Segment 4: Butter
On January 3, in 1871 Henry W. Bradley received a patent for oleomargarine. Originally, oleomargarine was white and was sold in plastic bags with a color tab inside the bag. One had to break the tab and squish the yellow color through the oleomargarine! So here to commemorate margarine, are a couple of songs not about margarine, but butter

Sweet Butter – Kaplan’s Melodians
Big Butter and Egg Man – Mugsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band

Segment 5: Health
On January 3 in 1938, the first broadcast of the serial drama “Woman in White” was presented on the NBC Red network. It related the romance of a nurse and a young surgeon. So here for all those real honest to goodness doctors and nurses out there, are some songs about health.

Love is Good for Anything That Ails You – Eddy Duchin AHO
Long as You’ve Got Your Health – Ray Noble AHO
High Fever – Cookie’s Gingersnaps

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