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 fulfill a couple of requests and have several vocabulary lesson.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Tubicinate
My good friend, expert & well prepared outdoorsman Bill Mendoza, died recently due to freak weather while kayaking on Mono Lake. As another friend said the other day, it’s just not fair. Even so, when this show’s over, if you’re not familiar with Mono Lake, I know Bill would join me in hoping you’ll point your browser to www.monolake.org to find out about this unique and amazing place along the eastern Sierra Nevada in California. Bill was a kind, gentle and selfless human being as evidenced by his more than 30 years as an extremely dedicated junior high school special education teacher, and his financial and lifestyle support of numerous humanitarian and conservation causes. But, in addition to his passion for his family and friends, for Mono Lake, and for education, Bill Mendoza also tubicinated.
Tubicinate is a verb meaning to blow a trumpet. Bill Mendoza tubicinated in the local community’s Ontario Chaffey Show Band just about every Monday evening for nearly a quarter century. So here for my friend Bill Mendoza, are some rapidly rotating records about trumpets.

Two Trumpet Toot – Harry Roy
One Note Trumpet Player – Joe Haymes
The OKEH Laughing Record (The Trumpet Lesson) – [Probably: Otto Rathke, cornet & male laughing / Lucie Bernardo, female laugh]

Segment 3: Zez Confrey
This request comes from musician and RRR listener Hannu in Finland, who is recovering from some surgery on his Achille’s tendon. So, with best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery, we’re going to have a couple of segments with Hannu’s requests.

Charleston Chuckles – Zez Confrey AHO
Coaxin’ The Piano – Zez Confrey, Piano Solo
All Muddled Up – Zez Confrey AHO

Segment 4: Febrific
The next word in this evening’s vocabulary lesson is febrific. It comes from the latin febris for fever and means producing fever, feverish or having a fever.

Swing Fever – Frankie and Johnny Orchestra
High Fever – Coon-Sanders Orchestra
Charleston Fever – O’Bryant’s Original Washboard Band
Spring Fever – Rube Bloom (Piano)

Segment 5: Lachrymiform
The last word in our vocabulary lesson this evening is lachrymiform, an adjective meaning tear-shaped, or having the form of a tear. Yes – it’s a segment with tears.

Tears – King Olivers Jazz Band
Through My Tears – Ralph Bennett Orchestra / Elmer Feldkamp, v.
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes – Ruth Etting

Segment 5: Frank Banta 
Hannu’s other request was for Frank Banta.


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