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.

The idea of daylight saving time (NOT daylight savingS time!) goes back to New Zealand in the 1800s.  There have been campaigns for and against is ever since. In the third segment of this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, you’ll hear a song that was written specifically to oppose Proposition 7 on the California ballot in 1930 and find out the story behind it. In the first segment of the show we’ll do some “crowing,” and in the second segment, we’ll celebrate Bert Van Cleve’s birthday. In the fourth segment we’ll have some song about asses (as in donkeys!). The final segment of the show has just one record, by the way.  There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to an earlier (and we think better!) musical era. But most of all…

ENJOY THE SHOW!

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Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Corvus brachyrynchos

The Flying Crow – Black Ivory King
Flying Crow Blues – Dallas Jamboree Jug Band
The Crow Song (Caw, Caw, Caw) – Vernon Dalhart
Old Black Crow In The Hickory Nut Tree – Ballard Cross

Segment 2: Bert Van Cleve

Somewhere In Your Heart – Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees / Rudy Vallee, v.
I Want To Be Cradled In My Mother’s Arms – Arthur Fields & Fred Hall
Ever Since Time Began – Annette Hanshaw

Segment 3: Tangents

Who Cares Anyhow – Happiness Boys
Cuban Serenade – Barnabas Von Geczy Mit Seinem Orchester
When It’s Daylight Saving Time In Oshkosh (I’m Rather Be In Kalamazoo) – Ted Weems AHO / Parker Gibbs, The Keating Twins, Country Washburn, v.

Segment 4: Donkeys

Dusting The Donkey – Golden Gate Orchestra
The Donkey Serenade – Bert Ambrose AHO / Denny Dennis, v.
The Yodeling Mule – Roy Harper & Earl Shirkey

Segment 5: By The Way

By The Way (I’m Still In Love With You) – Henry Busse AHO / Bert Lorin (Scrappy Lambert), v.

THANKS FOR LISTENING!