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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.

Lots of vintage music personalities had birthdays this past week including Yip Harburg, Fred Hall, Debroy Somers, Johnny Dodds, Bud Freeman and Billie Holiday, but on this evening’s show, we’re going to play rapidly rotating records based on not one, not two, but five vocabulary words. This time you can blame my lovely wife and her discovery ofwww.freerice.com

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Clover
Trefoil is a noun which refers to any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago, having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves, or a plant of the genus trifolium, which includes European mountain clover, crimson clover, Italian clover, purple, white, and red clover and Buffalo clover.

There’s A Four-Leaf Clover In My Pocket – Bob Haring AHO
Living In Clover – Ray Noble Orchestra / Al Bowlly, v.
Under The Clover Moon – Harry Hudson’s Band
I’m Walking Through Clover – Louisiana Rhythm Kings

Segment 2: Medicine
Paregoric is a noun which means an anodyne – a medicine that relieves pain (more specifically, paregoric is camphorated tincture of iodine).

I’m the Medicine Man for the Blues – Ted Lewis
Doctor Medicine – South Memphis Jug Band
Love Is Good For Whatever Ails You – Johnny Hamp and His Kentucky Serenaders

Segment 3: Wander
Peregrinate, an intransitive verb, peregrinate means to wander from place to place, especially on foot.

Wandering On To Avalon – Edison Bell Orchestra
Wandering In Dreamland – Ted Lewis and His Band
Let’s Wander Away – Bennie Krueger’s Orch

Segment 4: Laughing
The fourth word in this special vocabulary edition of the show is cachinnate, an intransitive verb meaning to laugh hard, loudly, immodestly or convulsively or to guffaw.

Laughing Marionnette – Carl Fenton Orchestra
Pardon Me While I Laugh – Billy Jones & Ernest Hare
It’s Hard To Laugh Or Smile – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra

Segment 5: Beginnings
Incipience means beginning to exist or to be apparent, or the act or process of bringing or being brought into existence. So here to wrap up the show are some rapidly rotating records about incipiencies.

That’s Where the South Begins – Orpheus Dance Band / Maurice Elwin, v.
Life Begins at Oxford Circus – Jack Hylton
Let’s Begin – Emil Coleman with this Riviera Orchestra / Fran Frey, v.
A Sweet Beginning Like This – Fats Waller

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