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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.

This weeks edition of Rapidly Rotating Records was recorded LIVE! We’re here in the massive KISL studio complex in the greenhouse in Avalon City Park, and helping to prove to me that there is actually someone out there listening people called in to the studio. On this evening’s show, we’ll celebrate the birthdays of Alfred Bryan, J. C. Johnson, Chick Bullock, Earl Carroll and several others.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Alfred Bryan
Lyricist Alfred Bryan was born Brantford, Ontario, Canada on 15 September in 1871.

Red Lips, Kiss My Blues Away – Mike Markel’s Orchestra / Russell Douglas, v.
Some Other Bird Whistled A Tune – Emerson Dance Orchestra
Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue? – B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Orchestra / Joseph M. White, v.
She Wore A Jacket Of Blue – Debory Somers and His Band / Gerry Fitzgerald, v.

Segment 2: Jay C. Johnson
September 14 marked the birth in 1896 in Chicago, Illinois of pianist and composer Jay C.Johnson.

Crying For You (Baby Mine) – J. C. Johnson and His Five Hot Sparks
Lone Western Blues – Wabash Trio
Dusky Stevedore – Frankie Trumbauer AHO / Frankie Trumbauer & Trio, v.
Rhythm & Romance – Fats Waller and His Rhythm / Fats Waller, v.

Segment 3: Charles “Chick” Bullock
Born 14 September 1894 in Butte, Montana, Charles “Chick” Bullock didn’t become a doctor as his parents hoped, instead he sang his heart out until 15 September 1981.

How’s Your Uncle? – The Troubadours / Chick Bullock, v.
The Cute Little Things You Do – The High Hatters / Chick Bullock, v.
Smiles – Chick Bullock
Moon Over Miami – Art Karle and His Boys / Chick Bullock, v.

Segment 4: Earl Carroll
September 16 marked the birth in 1893 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of theatrical producer, director, songwriter and composer, Earl Carroll.

Pretty Peggy – The Columbians
It’s Always Orange Day in California – Peerless Quartet
Rhythm Of The Day – Ross Gorman and His Earl Carroll Orchestra
Blue Shadows – The Revelers

Segment 5: Ben Ryan
Composer Bennett A. “Ben” Ryan was born March 30, 1892 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Love Tales – Carl Ravazza AHO / Carl Ravazza, v.
I’ve Got A Sweet Somebody To Love Me – The Travelers (Jimmy Dorsey, Dir.) Scrappy Lambert, v.
Melancholy – Vic Meyers’ Music / Unknown, v.
Inka Dinka Doo – Jimmy Durante

Segment 6: Happy Birthday
French actor, singer and vaudeville entertainer Maurice Chevalier was born in Paris on 12 September 1888.
Singer Mae Questel was born 13 September 1908 in N