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’ll celebrate the birthdays of Fred Rose and Nick Lucas, fulfill some requests, and listen to this past week in recording history.

Enjoy the show!

Here’s the complete playlist:

Segment 1: Marimba
A trio of rapidly rotating marimba records for listener and fellow broadcaster Dixie Dick.

Maori (A Samoan Dance) – Green Bros. Marimba Orch
In a Little Spanish Town – Miami Marimba Band /Vocal Trio
Kiss Me – Besame – Marimba Centro Americano de Guatelama

Segment 2: Nick Lucas
August 22 marked the birth in 1897 in Newark, New Jersey of Dominic Nicholas Anthony Lucanese. You may know him as “The Singing Troubador”, Nick Lucas.

Hello, Beautiful – Nick Lucas
Teasin’ The Frets – Nick Lucas
Side By Side – Nick Lucas

Segment 3: Fred Rose
August 24 marked the birth in 1897 in Evansville, Indiana, of composer, lyricist, vocalist and pianist Fred Rose.

Hold Everything Here Come My Girl – Bill Haid’s Cubs / Frank Wells
Deep Henderson – Coon Sanders Orch
Red Hot Henry Brown – Busse’s Buzzards

Segment 4: Lost
Listener Ernie heard about the show through a post in a discussion forum on the jolson.org website, and sent me nice e-mail asking me to play “When I Lost You”.

When I Lost You – Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys / Lee Morse
We Ain’t Got Nothin’ to Lose – Bert Firman and The Rhythmic Eight
Lost Motion – Joe Haymes AHO

Segment 5: This Week in Recording History

Imagination – Winegar’s Penn Boys / Bert Dixon, v. (August 21, 1928)
Moanin’ Low – Ben Selvin and The Harmonianis/Kate Smith (August 27, 1929)
Strut Your Jones – Original Dixie Rag Pickers (August, 1925)

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