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Rapidly Rotating Records

Glenn Robison’s weekly, hour-long radio program of “music to which you can"t NOT tap your toes" from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s.

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An "Ecstacy" Edition of RRR # 1,361 August 16, 2026

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2026/08/21

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.Do you know who this lovely lady is? She was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, but you know here better as Austrian-American actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. You'll find out a little bit about one of her first films in the third segment of this week's shoe. In other segments, Harry Akst and Mike Markels have birthday

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A "Lucky" Edition of RRR # 1,360 August 9, 2026

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2026/08/15

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 week's show, Luckey Roberts and Abe Lyman have birthday segments. We’ll check on the weather, hear about Jack and Jill and play One Thing in Common. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and prepare to be transported back to a different–and we

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A "Lesson Learned" Edition of RRR # 1,359 August 2, 2026

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2026/08/03

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 week's show, Lew Stone and Sylvester Weaver have birthday segments. We’ll have a vocabulary lesson and learn some other lessons. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and prepare to be transported back to a different–and we think

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The 26th Anniversary Edition of RRR # 1,358 July 26,...

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2026/07/27

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 week's show, in addition to celebrating four artists’ birthdays, we’re celebrating the 26th birthday of the show!! Rapidly Rotating Records debuted in late July, 2000 on KISL 88.7 FM Avalon, our home until last year when sad to say, the station went off the air. But, against all odds, we’re still here, I

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A "Clarify and Correct" Edition of RRR # 1,357 July...

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2026/07/20

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 week’s show, we’ll maintain a flawless tempo as we hear some tunes about crows and potatoes and a birthday salute to Fud Candrix. And we’ll finish up not with Compare and Contrast segments, but Clarify and Correct segments. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your

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A "Beautiful" Edition of RRR # 1,356 July 12, 2026

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2026/07/12

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.Do you know who this fellow is? He's composer, arranger and pianist Percy Grainger and his birthday segment starts off this week's edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. But we also have two other birthday salutes this week for Phil Cardew and Willard Hodgin. We'll also visit some wigwams and hear both some beautiful

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A "Patriotic" Edition of RRR # 1,355 July 5, 2026

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2026/07/06

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.It may be the day after Independence Day, but it's still the holiday weekend, so this week's show end with a couple of patriotic tunes and some food for thought. I made the announcement in the intro that we had two birthday segments on the show. While Harry M. Snodgrass does have a birthday salute, even though I

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A "Felonious" Edition of RRR #1,354 June 28, 2026

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2026/06/29

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.So why is there a photograph of a harp featured in this week's playlist? Well because the subject of the first segment of the show is harpist Louis Chicco. You may also have noticed the title of this week's episode is "felonious," which also refers to Louis Chicco. How in the world is that? Listen to the show and

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A "Glorious" Edition of RRR August 14, 2005

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2026/06/26

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 fulfill a couple of requests, visit some fields and streams, celebrate Boop Day and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show!Here's the complete playlist: Segment 1: GloryListener Alvin sent a nice e-mail a couple of weeks ago saying that he had been thinking about

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A "BOOMing" Edition of RRR # 1,353 June 21, 2026

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2026/06/25

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 week's show Warren Caplinger and Nelson Maple both have birthday segments. It's none of their birthdays as far as I know, but the Four Rajahs have their own segment. We'll also hear some train whistles and some sonic booms. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your

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A “Hays-ee” Edition of RRR # 1,352 June 14, 2026

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2026/06/15

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.Do you know who these chaps are? The fact that I am describing them as “chaps” gives the hint that they are British. And in fact they are the British singing duo of Bob and Alf Pearson. You’ll find out all about them in the final segment of this week’s show. But before that, you hear other

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A “Peach” of a Show! RRR # 1,346 May 3, 2026

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2026/05/11

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.So why is there a picture of peaches featured on the playlist for this week’s Rapidly Rotating Records? Well, listen to the last segment of this week’s show and you’ll find out. In other segments, things will get a little fuzzy (having nothing to do with peach fuzz), we’ll have an employment

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A “Pup” Edition of RRR # 1,344 April 19, 2026

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2026/05/05

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.I’m going to bet that everyone seeing this photograph knows the name of the subject. That’s right! it’s Pete the Pup from the Our Gang / Little Rascals comedies. On this week’s edition of the show, you’ll hear all about Pete as well as three rapidly rotating records about some other

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A “Tennessee” Edition of RRR # 1,343 April 12, 2026

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2026/04/29

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. Here, at last, is the April 12, 2026 edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. I apologize for the delay in posting it, but better late than never. Pictured above is the reason for the delay, a two week visit to visit family in Tennessee. For our last two visits, we stayed within the state, but this time we made a side

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An "All Birthday" Edition of RRR # 1,342 April 5, 2026

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2026/04/07

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A “Mostly Birthday” Edition of RRR # 1,340 March 22,...

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2026/03/22

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.Do you know who this fellow is? He’s pianist, bandleader and band broker Jean Goldkette and you’ll hear from and about him in the third segment of this week’s show. I say in the intro to the segment that he was born March 18th, 1893 in Patras, Greece. but the date and place of his birth remain a matter of

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A “Felicific” Edition of RRR # 1,339 March 15, 2026

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2026/03/15

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.Do you know who this fellow is? He’s composer Joseph Meyer and his birthday segment ends this week’s felicific show. And in the third segment of the show, you’ll find out what felicific means! George Thomas also has a birthday segment which starts off the show. And we’ll also have a

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A “Dear Deer” Edition of RRR # 1,336 Feb. 22, 2026

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2026/02/22

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.I didn’t have time to make the correction on this week’s show, but on last week’s show I completely left out the details on the first record in the segment about cake, “Cut Yourself A Piece Of Cake (And Make Yourself At Home.)” It was Joseph Samuels’ Orchestra with the vocal by

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A “Lemony” Edition of RRR # 1,333 February 1, 2026

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2026/02/02

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.Before he was “Singin’ Sam,” Harry Frankel performed in blackface, an unfortunate part of his life as an entertainer and one I hope he would regret. Fortunately for us, he took on the persona of “Singin’ Sam” and you’ll hear three of his recordings as “Singin’

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A “Tricky” Edition of RRR # 1,331 January 18, 2026

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2026/01/18

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.You’ve probably already figured out from the poster above that one of the segments on this week’s Rapidly Rotating Records is songs from Benny Goodman’s historic Carnegie Hall Concert of January 16, 1938. But that’s not the only thing that happened on January 16th in history. You’ll find

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