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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 listen to this past week in recording history, and celebrate the birthdays of Ted Lewis, Fred Waring and Raymond Klages, and celebrate the life of my friend and co-worker Ben, who died recently of cancer.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Banjo Ben
My friend Ben packed an awful lot of living into his short 30 years of life. Athlete, musician, actor, singer, marine science instructor and sailor (amongst other things). He was affectionately known as Benjo or Banjo Ben, and is best remembered for singing sea chanties and playing the banjo. He had a positive impact on all whose lives he touched, family, friends, co-workers, and hundreds and hundreds of students and summer campers, and he is greatly missed. But to celebrate the life of Banjo Ben, we’re going to start the show with a “banjo” set.

Lollypops – Harry Reser
Uncanny Banjo – Jack Hylton’s Hyltonians
Banjoero – Dixieland Jug Blowers
Let’s Misbehave – Banjo Buddy

Segment 2: Ted Lewis
June 6 marked the birth in 1891 in Circleville, Ohio of Theodore Leopold Freidman, better known as Ted Lewis.

Where’d You Get Those Eyes – Ted Lewis and His Band
I Ain’t Got Nobody – Ted Lewis and His Band
You’ve Got That Thing – Ted Lewis and His Band

Segment 3: Raymond Klages
June 10 marks the birth exactly one hundred nineteen years ago in 1888 in Baltimore, Maryland of lyricist Raymond Klages.

Doin’ The Racoon – George Olsen and His Music / Fran Frey, Bob Borger, Bob Rice
You May Not Like It – Whispering Jack Smith
What Are We Waiting For? – Edwin J. McEnelly’s Orch./ Johnny Marvin

Segment 4: Fred Waring
June 9 marked the birth in 1900 in Tyrone, Pennsylvania of bandleader, songwriter and inventor Fred Waring.

In A Little Garden – Waring’s Pennsylvanians / Tom Waring, v.
It Made You Happy When You Made Me Cry – Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians
June Night – Waring’s Pennsylvanians

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History
Playing rapidly rotating records celebrating birthdays, having been recorded this past week in years past.

You’re Wonderful – Nat Shilkret AHO (June 8, 1928)
When I Take My Sugar To Tea – Harry Reser’s Radio Band (June 4 in 1931)
Toe-To-Toe – Black Diamond Serenaders (June 8, 1926)
String Beans – Vincent Rose and His Montmarte Orchestra (June 9, 1924)

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