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 gonna do some humming and some wailing, hear from the OI5, and celebrate the birthdays of Ben Bernie and Frank Trumbauer.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Bombinate
We haven’t had a vocabulary lesson in a while, and so as a public service, here is the word of the day. Bombinate, an intransitive verb meaning, to buzz or drone. To hum. So, we’re just bombinating along here

Just Humming Along – Durium Dance Band / Al Bowlly
Hum All Your Troubles Away – Zack Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels
Humming to Myself – Lou Gold AHO
Ho-Hum – Sam Lanin’s Dance Ensemble / Dick Robertson

Segment 2: Original Indiana Five
Listener Derek, way down in New Zealand, requested some non-vocal tracks by the Original Indiana Five.

Everybody’s Doin’ the Charleston Now – Original Indiana Five
Moten Stomp – Original Indiana Five
Cuckoo – Original Indiana Five

Segment 3: Ben Bernie
May 30 marked the birth in 1891 in New York City of Benjamin Anselvitz. You may know him better as “The Old Maestro”, Ben Bernie.

Sweet Georgia Brown – Ben Bernie AHO
Mine, All Mine – Ben Bernie AHO / The Speed Boy
You’ve Got To Be A Football Hero (To Get Along With The Beautiful Girls) – Ben Bernie and all The Lads

Segment 4: Frank Trumbauer
May 30 marked the birth in 1901 in Carbondale, Illinois of Frank Trumbauer.

Manhattan Rag – Frank Trumbauer AHO
Sentimental Baby – Frank Trumbauer AHO / Charles Gaylord
Sunny Side Up – Frank Trumbauer AHO / Smith Ballew, v.

Segment 5: Wailing

“Hobo’s Prayer” (Intro) – The Tennessee Tooters
Prince of Wails – Elmer Schoebel AH Friars Society Orch
TheWail – Coon-Sanders Orchestra
Zulu Wail – Nat Shilkret and his Victor Orch.

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