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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 evening’s show is all about words. I like words, and recently discovered a website called savethewords.org which devoted to rescuing obscure words – works which are so little used that they no longer appear in the dictionary. So tonight, I’ve picked five words from the site as the inspiration for five segments.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Sparsile
An adjective meaning of a star.

Singing A Song To The Stars – The Clevelanders (Jack Albin) / Irving Kaufman, v.
By All The Stars Above – Stellar Dance Band (Gil Dech Orch)
Just Like A Falling Star – Joseph Robichaux and His New Orleans Rhythm Boys
Dancing Stars – Joe Green (Xylophone)

Segment 2: Nidifice
The word that sparked this segment means a nest.

A Little Dream Nest – Ambrose AHO
Spider’s Nest Blues – Memphis Jug Band
Feather Your Nest – Albert Campbell and Henry Burr
Building A Nest For Mary – Ipana Troubadors (S. C. Lanin, Dir.)

Segment 3: Sarcinarious
The next word on this special save the words edition of the show is sarcinarious, need a clue to work out the meaning? Here’s three:

Carry It On Down – Arcadian Serenaders
Ain’t We Carryin’ On? – B. A. Rolfe and His Palais D’Or Orchestra
Carry Me Back To My Carolina Home – The Caroliners

Segment 4: Quaeritating
The rather obsolete verb quaeritate means to ask or question.

I’ll Never Ask For More – Dorsey Bros and Their Orchestra / Smith Ballew & Chorus
What More Can I Ask? – Harry Roy and His Café Anglais Orchestra / Ivor Moreton, v.
She Wouldn’t Do What I Asked Her To – Arcadia Peacock Orchestra of St. Louis

Segment 5: Vinitorian
An adjective meaning of, or pertaining to vines.

Watermelon Smiling On The Vine – Johnny Marvin
New Vine Street Blues – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
Vine Street Drag – The Missourians

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