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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.

Normally we play music around historical events, but apparently not much happened this past week in history, and so we’re going to play some songs around quotations made by some historical figures. We’ve got songs about grammar, we’re going to have a vocabulary lesson, play some requests, and flatter you.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Flattery
To get us started, we’ve got some songs about flattery.

You’re a real sweetheart – Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra / Frank Munn, v.
You’re the Top – Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra / Dan Donovan, v.
You’re a Heavenly Thing – Bill Barry and His Orchestra
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby – John Kirby and His Orchestra / Nat Gonella, v.

Segment 2: Subjunctive
As a public service, here’s this evening’s grammar lesson, starting with some quotations on grammar and punctuation. American author Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, said “Damn the subjunctive. It brings all writers to shame.” The subjunctive now appears mainly in fixed or formulaic expressions, such as, “come what may.” Now I just happen to have some musical examples of the subjunctive mood.

If You Were The Only Girl in the World – Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees
If You Were Only Mine – Isham Jones AHO/ Unknown, v.
If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies – Paul Specht Orch / Johnny Morris, v.
To Whom It May Concern – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Lois Deppe, v.

Segment 3: Blooming Bing
One thing that did happen this past week, on July 5, 1934, Bing Crosby sang “Love in Bloom”. Irving Aaronson’s orchestra backed Bing, and Brunswick recorded the whole thing. The song was fairly popular, but became much more so when Jack Benny made it a popular standard.

Love in Bloom – Irving Aaronson’s orchestra / Bing Crosby, v.

Segment 4: Request for Bill
Listener Bill from Madison, Wisconsin asked to hear Bill Carlsen, so here for listener Bill is the Wisconsin Roof Orchestra.

She’s Still My Baby – Devine’s Wisconsin Roof Orchestra / Spencer Reuter, v.
Wobaly Walk – Wisconsin Roof Orchestra / Henry “Bubbles” Reber, v.
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home – Bill Carlsen and His Orchestra / Jack Teter, v.

Segment 5: Absqutulate
I learned a new word the other day. Absquatulate – which means to leave suddenly or to run away, and synonyms include abscond, skedaddle, vamoose, and take off. Now name another radio program anywhere on the planet where you’re going to find this kind of vital information! In any case, here are some songs about leaving suddenly.

Since You Went Away – The Whoopee Makers / Chick Bullock, v.
Sugar Babe, I’m Leavin’ – Blue Steele
Going Away and Leave My Baby – Horace Smith
You May Leave, but this will bring you back – Memphis Jug Band / Charlie “Bozo” Nickerson, v.

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