Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | TuneIn | RSS | More

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 taking a look at this past week in history, we’ve got some songs about money, gardens, shoes, the stock market and more. So sit back, relax, and enjoy. I’ll wind up the gramophone for you.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Gardens
Last Monday, July 3 in 1922 readers found a new magazine at their local newstand. So here to commemorate Better Homes and Gardens’ 78th birthday is a quartet of songs about…..gardens.

Royal Garden Blues – Ted Lewis AHO
Fairies at the bottom of our garden – Beatrice Lilly
In a Bamboo Garden – Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orchestra with Frank Munn
Gardening – What to do with your aspidistra – Oliver Wakefield

Segment 2: Stocks and Bonds
Another publication made its first appearance on July 3, but a little earlier in 1884. That’s when journalists Charles Dow and Edward Jones published the first average of US stocks. So here to commemorate the Dow-Jones industrial average, are a couple of definitely blue chip records.

I’ll Take an Option on You – Ted Fiorito AHO
I’m in the Market for You – George Olsen and His Music

Segment 3: Banking
Speaking of stocks and options and money, on July 3 in 1819, the first bank in the US opened in New York City. There was a total of $2,807 deposited that first day in the Bank for Savings.

Beau-Koo-Jack – the Omer Simeon Trio / Earl Hines on piano
Five Pennies – Red Nichols and the Charleston Chaser

Segment 4: Soles
I mentioned that I was going to play some “sole” music. Not sole music as in Motown, but sole music as in Florsheim. Because this past week, July 6 in 1858, a patent was issued to Lyman Blake of Abington, Massachussetts for a shoe-manufacturing machine.

One Two Button Your Shoe – Georgie Stoll and his Orchestra / Bing Crosby
Put on a New Pair of Shoes – Jack Hylton AHO
A Shine on Your Shoes – Leo Reisman
Stringin’ along on a shoestring – Henry James Allen Jr., with the Coleman Hawkins Orchestra

Segment 5: Sunday
Today is Sunday. And yesterday was Sunday Day. That’s because on July 8 in 1881, druggist Edward Berner of Two Rivers, Wisconsin invented the ice cream sundae. Here’s a pair of songs about Sunday. No, not Sunday….Sunday!

Sunday – Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra / The Keller Sisters, Al Lynch, v.
What Do You Do Sunday Mary – McNalpak’s Dance Orchestra

Segment 5: Doughnuts
On this very day July 9 in 1872, a patent was issued to John F. Blondel of Thomaston Maine for…the doughtnut cutter. We’re going to celebrate with a record that was recorded this very day, July 9, 1926.

When You Dunk a Doughnut, Don’t it make it nice – Harry Reser’s Six Jumping Jacks

Segment 5: Happy Birthday Love
We’re going to wind up this edition of Rapidly Rotating Records with another song which recently had a birthday. The song was to eventually become the theme song of Jack Benny, but it was recorded last Wednesday, July 5 in 1934

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

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

 If you enjoy the show, please let us know by leaving a comment on the website or the Facebook page or sending an email to Glenn@RapidlyRotatingRecords.com And remember, your requests and topic segments are always welcome.

RRR is also available as a podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and Google Play Music. Simply enter Rapidly Rotating Records in the search box in any of those apps and a link to the show will appear. If you listen to the podcast, please subscribe and leave a rating and comment. THANK YOU!

We are proud and happy that Rapidly Rotating Records is also part of Global Community Radio, supplying campus and community radio stations worldwide with hosted music and spoken word programming from sources including public broadcasters, other community radio stations, and independent producers from around the globe.

The Rapidly Rotating Records telephone request line is now OPEN! In addition to sending cards or letters, sending email, or posting to the the show’s website or Facebook page, you can now call in to request a particular artist, song or topic segment, leave feedback about the show, or ask questions or comment about the music. Of course, I’d be happy if you just call in to say “Hi!” and let me know you’re out there listening. The easy-to-remember number is 234-PLAY 78s or 234-752-9787.

If you’re a member of Facebook, but haven’t “liked” the show, won’t you please consider doing so? Just go to http://www.facebook.com/rapidlyrotatingrecords

And finally, please consider becoming a member of KISL. A basic membership is just $20 and a premium membership is $50. While most of you are not on Catalina Island and can’t take advantage of the merchant discounts and offers that go with membership, you’ll be supporting community radio on Catalina Island and beyond. I am not paid for the show, nor is it underwritten. I do the show because I love the music and the people, stories and culture behind it. Visit http://www.kislavalon.com/membership. Thanks!