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.

In putting together the “wobbly” second segment of this week’s show, I included “The Wobbly Walk” by Charles W. Hamp, known as the “California Blue Boy.” When I realized his birthday was last week, I reworked the playlist of the show to give Hamp his own birthday segment for the first time. You’ll find out LOTS of information about him and his career, and you’ll hear the record shown above, which helped launch his career and propel him to be the highest paid star on radio. Hamp recorded “Dream House” several times, but this was the first. British pianist, singer and monologist Ernest Hastings also gets a birthday segment for the first time this week. In other segments, we’ll get a musical taste of some condiments and do the scrontch!   There’s lots of great music and interesting information, so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and be magically transported back to a different–and we thing better–musical era. 

ENJOY THE SHOW!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Scrontch

Symphonic Scrontch – Lloyd Scott’s Orchestra
Saturday Night Scrontch – Hokum Jug Band
Scrounch – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra / Ivie Anderson, v.

Segment 2: Wobble

Stone Mountain Wobble – Scottdale String Band
The Wobbly Walk – California Blue Boy with the Tampa Blue Five
Washington Wobble – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra

Segment 3: Ernest Hastings

Perverted Placards – Ernest Hastings
The Nut Brown Ale Of England – Ernest Hastings

Segment 4: Charles W. Hamp

Down Where The Sun Goes Down – Charles W. Hamp
Rose Of Bohemia – Chas. Hamp & Earl Reynolds (The California Blue Boys)
Dream House – Charles W. Hamp (The California Blue Boy)

Segment 5: Condiments

Too Much Mustard – National Promenade Band
I Want To Go To The County Mayo – M. J. O’Connell
Ketchup – Fields and Hall (Sunday Drivers)