Episode Details

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 evening’s show, we’re going to do some longing, play with fire, take a musical trip to Memphis and celebrate a number of birthdays.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Longing

Longing Just For You – Bert Dolan’s Chateau Orch / Bert Dolan, v.
Those Longing For You Blues – Aby Lyman and His Hotel Ambassador Orchestra
Darling I’m Longing To Greet You – Debroy Somers Band
I’m Longing For Someone – The Rhythmic Eight

Segment 2: Fire

Come Day, Go Day – Ross Gorman and His Fire-Eaters / Jimmy Kern, v.
Fire! – Harry Reser’s Syncopators / Tom Stacks, v.
Beside An Open Fireplace – Astoria Dance Players (Fred Hall) / Unidentified, v.

Segment 3: Memphis

Memphis Rag – The Chickasaw Syncopators
Memphis Kick-Up – Slim Lamar and His Southerners / Slim Lamar, v.
Memphis Sprawler – Blue Ribbon Syncopators
I Lost My Gal From Memphis – Bubber Miley and His Mileage Makers / Frank Marvin

Segment 4: November 28 – a Good Day To Be Born

Writer Harry Carroll was born November 28, in 1892.
Composer Louis A. Hirsch was born on November 28 in 1887.
Bandleader Frank Black was born November 28, 1896.

Gentleman Prefer Blues – Ray Starita and The Picadilly Revels Band (Harry Carroll)
The Love Nest – Art Hickman’s Orchestra – Art Hickman’s Orch (Louis A. Hirsch)
Highways Are Happy Ways – Frank Black AHO / Scrappy Lambert & Billy Hillpot, v.

Segment 5: Happy Birthday

“It Was So Beautiful” has two birthday celebrations attached – Harry Barris born November 24, 1905 who wrote the music and America’s Sweetheart of Song by Ruth Etting, who was born on November 23, 1903.
Bandleader Willie “The Lion” Smith was born November 25, 1897.
Rosetta Duncan, born November 23, 1900.
Keyboard wizard Vee Lawnhurst, born November 24, 1905.

It Was So Beautiful – Ruth Etting (Harry Barris)
Harlem Joys – Willie “The Lion” Smith and His Cubs
I Got A Code In My Doze – Rosetta Duncan
Breakin’ The Piano – Vee Lawnhurst

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