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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.

On this evening’s show we’ll celebrate the birthdays of Harry Richman, Arthur Fields and Benny Carter, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Chocolates
For you chocoholics out there, here’s a whole set of chocolates.

Alabama Shuffle – Five Hot Chocolates
Good Feelin’ Blues – Zack Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels
Knox County Stomp – Tennessee Chocolate Drops
Sing You Sinners – Harlen Hot Chocolates (Duke Ellington) / Irving Mills, v.

Segment 2: Harry Richman
August 11 marked the birth in 1895 in Cincinnati, Ohio of Harry Reichman. You know him better as Harry Richman.

Singing A Vagabond Song – Harry Richman
Exactly Like You – Harry Richman
Lucky Day – Harry Richman

Segment 3: Arthur Fields
August 6 marked the birth in 1888 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Abe Finklestein. You hear him singing on this show quite often, but under the name Arthur Fields.

How Ya Gonna Keep ‘em Down On The Farm?” – Arthur Fields
Did You Mean It? – Joe Green and His Novelty Orchestra / Arthur Fields, v.
Hello Cutie – Sam Lanin AHO / Arthur Fields, v.

Segment 4: Benny Carter
August 8 marked the birth in 1907 in New York City of multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, arranger and composer, Benny Carter.

If I Could Only Read Your Mind – Benny Carter AHO
Royal Garden Blues – Benny Carter and His Swing Quartet
Symphony In Riffs – Benny Carter and His Club Harlem Orchestra

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

I’m Gonna Dance Wit De Guy Wut Brung Me – Harry Reser’s Six Jumping Jacks / Tom Stacks, v. (August 12, 1927)
Breezin’ Along – Ben Selvin AHO (August 12, 1925)
Charleston – Tennessee Tooters (August 12, 1925)

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