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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 evening’s show we’ve got some songs about some funny people, and some sleepy people, and we have a couple of birthdays to celebrate.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Herbert Mills
Herbert Mills, born this past week, April 2 in 1912 in Piqua, Ohio, best known as The Mills Brothers along with Don, Harry and John Jr.

Tiger Rag – The Mills Brothers
I Heard – Mills Brothers
Chinatown, My Chinatown – Mills Brothers
Coney Island Washboard – Mills Brothers
Fiddlin’ Joe – Mills Brothers

Segment 2: Law & Order
Jack Webb was born April 2, 1920 in Santa Monica, California and is most famous as Sgt Joe Friday in the series Dragnet. Dragnet ran on radio from June 6, 1949 to September of 1955, and on TV from September 1951 to December 1959 and then again from 1966 to 70. I don’t remember ever seeing Jack Webb even crack a smile, let alone laugh, but nonetheless, we’re going to start off our little musical tribute with laughing.

The Laughing Policeman – Stan Greening / Charles Penrose , v.
Why Did You Do It? – Georgia Melodians
You Can’t Pull the Wool Over My Eyes – Ted Weems AHO / Perry Como
Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby – Benny Goodman AHO / Fred Astaire

Segment 3: Funny
April 3 in 1942, “People Are Funny” was first heard on NBC radio. Art Baker was the show’s first host. Art Linkletter took over the popular program on radio in 1943 and later moved it to television. So here’s a set of songs to commemorate “People are Funny”

She’s Funny That Way – Ted Lewis
It’s Funny to Everyone But Me – Isham Jones / Joe Martin, v.
Funny Face – Jack Smith
Funny Fumble – Harry Dial’s Blusicians

Segment 4: Sleepy
April 3 marked the birth in 1783 in New York City of Washington Irving, recognized as America’s first man of letters. The stories with which Washington Irving is most closely identified are Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. So here as a tribute to Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow are some sleepy songs.

Don’t Wake Me Up Let Me Dream – Howard Lanin’s Ben Franklin Dance Orchestra
Let Me Have My Dreams – Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra / Frank Munn, v.
A Bedtime Story – Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees

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