Welcome to John’s Old Time Radio Show!!! Listen To John Heneghan play and talk about 78 rpm records from his collection. Each episode features a different theme and style and some will feature special guests playing records from their collections. Sign up on iTunes to automatically download the show. There will be a new show posted the 1st of every month. Check back and tell your friends!!!
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78 Rpm Records Podcasts
Glenn Robison’s weekly, hour-long radio program of “toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s” broadcast Sunday evenings at 6 on KISL 88.7 FM, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California.
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The Old Dingy Jukebox features a wide variety of down home American music styles played from a diverse collection of 78 rpm and 45 rpm records. Each show takes the listener on an aural journey exploring the American musical heritage. The show’s repertoire is deep and wide with an emphasis on early to middle 20th century Americana. Styles played on the show include the blues, jazz, old time string bands, traditional folk music, honky tonk, bluegrass and early country music. Informative, yet e ...
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American Grooves Radio Hour, hosted by filmmaker and collector Joe Lauro, takes you on a deep dive into the music of pre-World War II America. It focuses on the Jazz, pioneering Blues, early Country, Gospel, Vaudeville and World Music which was being performed on the streets and in the taverns and nightclubs of pre-1935 America. ONLY original 78 rpm records from Joe’s world-renowned archive and the libraries of other notable collectors will be played. There will also be stories from the firs ...
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STEALIN' STEALN' - a jug band, medicine show classic that transcended genres is this episodes featured song o ( versions by Walker Corbins' Ramblers, Mississippi Sheiks and Memphis Jug Band will be featured!) - also along for the ride are Johnny Dodds Black Bottom Stomper, Dixon Brothers, Little Jack Little, Riley Puckett, Joe Mannone's Cafe Royal …
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A “Reflective” Edition of RRR # 1,327 Dec. 21, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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. Can you guess the subject of this photograph? It was taken around 1945 and is the mirror of the 200 Inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory being ground and polished. At…
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Some vintage and unusual Yuletide 78s by Harry Reser Orchestra , Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, Fidldin' John Carson, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, A Christmas Greeting to Decca Records Dealers from Jack Knapp and Connie Boswell, 1929 Oldsmobile Christmas, Benny Goodman Orchestra , Cotton Top Sanctified Singers, Clarence Williams Blue Five with young Loui…
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A “WCRF” Edition of RRR # 1,326 December 14, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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. Once again, for about the 15th time, Rita and I were in Rancho Cordova, California the week-end before Thanksgiving for the 39th Annual West Coast Ragtime Festival, put on …
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Blind Alfred Reed, Kokomo Arnold, George Gershwin, Washboard Rhythm Kings, Willard Robison, Rosie Mae Moore, Memphis Jug Band and more!
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A “Grandpa Bob Effros” Edition of RRR # 1,325 Dec. 7, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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 fellows are? On the left is bandleader Vincent Lopez. On the right is trumpeter and composer Bob Effros and this being his 125th birthday, he is the s…
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Joe ventures uptown to Harlem during the final years of it's dominance ( 1930-36) as "thee" place to see and be seen..MILLS BLUE RHYTHM BAND, ETHEL WATERS, DUKE and more..and offers a heartfelt dedication to the "great generation" .
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OTRS 161 “HODGEPODGE SHOW 2 w/ ARMSTRONG & POLLOCK”
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1:11:31John’s Old Time Radio Show – “HODGEPODGE SHOW” w/ ROBERT ARMSTRONG & MARK POLLOCK. Just an old fashioned 78 rpm record hang with music from the collections of Hawaiian steel great & Cheap Suit Serenaders co-founder Robert Armstrong, fellow record collector Mark Pollock and yours truly. Thanks to Mark for helping record this show remotely. The Twelv…
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Red Headed Fiddlers, Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother, Hoagy Carmichael, Ethel Waters and oter pre-war shellac heros join our end of holiday weekend broadcast!
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An “All Birthday” Edition of RRR # 1,324 Nov. 30, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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 a young Jimmie Revard, member of the Osage Nation and his is one of five birthdays we’ll be celebrating on this week’s “all-birthday” e…
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A “6 7” Edition of RRR # 1,323 November 23, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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. The featured graphic on this week’s Rapidly Rotating Records playlist is the number sixty-seven. It is, however, the numbers six and seven. So why is that? Very few, if any…
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During the mid 1920s-mid-1930s the major record companies sent their portable recording equipment to several regions in search of local artists performing jazz, country, blues and ethnic music - the market for local music and music earmarked to different ethnic groups had exploded - Texas was one of te places they went - recordings were made in Dal…
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A “Lone Ranger” Edition of RRR # 1,322 Nov. 16, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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. Of course everyone knows who this duo of the Old West is: The Lone Ranger and Tonto. We had a Lone Ranger segment on last week’s show, but this week we have not one, not tw…
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Published in mid-1925 SWEET GEORGIA BROWN has been an enduring classic covered for the last 100 years by Jazz, Pop, Country and Blues artists - we will feature sone of the earliest and coolist versions! ( plus the usual assortment of Blues, Jazz and Country rare shellac!)
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The Boswell Sister's great version of the title song plus super tracks by "Ragtime" Henry Thomas, Joe Mannone Harmony Kings, Memphis Jug Band, Rev McGee in the belly of the whale and more!
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A “Demented” Edition of RRR # 1,321 Nov. 9, 2025
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1:00:00“Me and Dr. D.” 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? His real name is Barry Hansen, but he’s better known to his millions of fans as Dr. Demento. I’ve been a fan since the 1970s…
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A “Ross Turner” Edition of RRR # 1,320 Nov. 2, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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? His name is Ross Turner. He’s not a composer, lyricist or instrumentalist, so you may wonder why his photograph is featured on this week’s p…
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A “Razing” Edition of RRR # 1,319 October 26, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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 violinist and bandleader Marek Weber and his is one of four birthdays we’ll be celebrating on this week’s show. The other birthday segm…
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A “Royal” Edition of RRR # 1,318 October 19, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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 cow wearing a cowbell as the featured image on this week’s playlist for the show? Well, you’ll find out in the second segment as we hear a…
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Louis Armstrong, Paul Whiteman & His Orch, Bobby Leecan's NEED MORE BAND, Richmond Starlite Quartet, Mound City Blue Blowers, Mills Brothers, Denison Sacred Harp Singers and more!
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A “Cuckoo” Edition of RRR # 1,317 October 12, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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 common cuckoo bird as the featured image on this week’s playlist for the show? Well, it’s actually at the request of listener Robert and y…
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Abe Schwartz Klezmer Band, Scrapper Blackwell, Leadbelly, Gene Goldkette Band w Steve Broen slapping that bass, Joe Falcon & Clemo Breux, Reverend McGee , Memphis Jug Band and more!
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From the 1900s-1940s AL JOLSON and EDDIE CANTOR were beloved performers. Both beginning in Vaudeville and moving to Broadway, Films and Radio ( and in Cantor's case Television!) Both early influences to me as a budding record collectior - tgis episode includes a tribute to their artistry
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A “Haul Ash” Edition of RRR # 1,316 October 5, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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 cowboy is? He’s Bill Boyd and he’s not just a “drug store” cowboy, but the real thing. He was born and grew up on his family’s Texas ranch. You’ll find…
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An “On the Fritz” Edition of RRR # 1,315 September 28, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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. If you play Wordle, you know that one of last week’s words was “fritz.” Many people were upset by that choice because they thought its only meaning was as a proper noun, wh…
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OTRS 160 R. CRUMB’S RECORD ROOM part 71 “Slidin’ The Frets – Oddball Hawaiian Guitar From Around The World!”
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1:26:42John’s Old Time Radio Show R. CRUMB’S RECORD ROOM PT. 71 “Slidin’ The Frets – Oddball Hawaiian Guitar Records From Around The World, played by non-Hawaiians!”. Featuring John Heneghan, Eden Brower & Robert Crumb, who play fabulous music from the fabulous 78 rpm record collection of R. Crumb’s record room in France. MAMA E (HULA MEDLY) – Kalama’s Qu…
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Episode #36- 78 RPM Records From The Old Dingy Shelves: “Greenback Dollars, Malicious Bed Bugs and Waltzing With Sin.”
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1:09:26Send us a text Moon Mullican- “Southern Hospitality” King 1950 Dixieland Jug Blowers- “Memphis Shake” Victor 1927 Sonny Burns- “Waltzing With Sin” Starday 1954 Williamson Brothers & Curry- “Cumberland Gap” Okeh 1927 Woody Guthrie- “Pretty Boy Floyd” Asche 1945 Honolulu Serenaders- “Honolulu Stomp” Victor 1929 Billie Holiday- “I Gotta Right To Sing …
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A 78 rpm listening session at Joe's house, join us for the musical fun.. Mississippi John Hurt plays the Blues, Jazz, Country and Miss Annette Hanshaw!
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A “Free Speech” Edition of RRR # 1,314 Sept. 21, 2025
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1:00:00Welcome 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. To end this week’s show we have a few words to say and a few records to play in regard to recent actions taken by and on behalf of the current occupant of the White House a…
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Earl McDonald's Louisville Jug Band, Sam McGee, Duke's Cotton Club Orchestra, Venuti & Lang w Red McKenzie and all their pals join Joe for a stompin', rompin' Sunday Nite session! - a few hot versions of the standard INDIANA featured
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A “Hot Stuff ” Edition of RRR # 1,313 Sept. 14, 2025
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1:00:00Hooghuys Fairground Organ c. 1905-1910 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. This is a photograph of a c. 1905-1910 Carousel Organ manufactured by Louis Francois Hooghuys in Belgium. The Hooghuys family built s…
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A “Dictionary” Edition of RRR # 1,312 September 7, 2025
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59:45Welcome 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 fellows are? They’re the pioneering western swing band The Light Crust Doughboys and you’ll hear three of their records in the fourth segment of this …
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Perhpas the most important ind influential of the 1920s-early 30s "Classic Female Blues Singers" were Mamie Smith, Bessie Smith and Gertrude "Ma" Rainey. This episode explores some of their backrounds and recordings
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A “Tosca” Edition of RRR # 1,311 August 31, 2025
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59:45Welcome 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 not going to ask if you know who this artist is, because I imagine most everyone reading this does. Yup, he’s legendary opera lyric tenor Luciano Pavarotti. So why is h…
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OTRS 159 R. CRUMB’S RECORD ROOM part 70 “More Wacky Cartoon Jazz from The Kooky Grey Gull Record Label”
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1:03:44John’s Old Time Radio Show R. CRUMB’S RECORD ROOM PT. 70 “More Wacky Cartoon Jazz from The Kooky Grey Gull Record Label”. Featuring John Heneghan, Eden Brower & Robert Crumb, who play fabulous music from the fabulous 78 rpm record collection of R. Crumb’s record room in France. 1.WOOGEY-WOO – HUB SYNCOPATORS 2. IN A CANOE WITH YOU – PACIFIC COAST P…
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From the Triangle Harmony Boys, Frank Stokes and Daddy Stovepipe to Gus Canon's Jug Band EVERYBODY in the folk, Country and blues idiom had a song about out fowl friends! we just chicken scratch the surface in this episode!
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An “Awful” Edition of RRR # 1,310 August 24, 2025
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59:45Welcome 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’s legendary violinist Maud Powell, at the turn of the century one of the finest, and most famous violinists in the world. You’ll fi…
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TUNES FROM THE CLASSIC 1928 EDDIE CANTOR BROADWAY MUSICAL AS WELL AS OTHER TUNES ABOUT "MAKIN' WHOOPEE" FROM MOZELLE ALDERSON, EDDIE WALTERS TO LONNIE JOHNSON!
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A “Sandwich” Edition of RRR # 1,309 August 17, 2025
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59:45Welcome 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 submarine sandwich featured in the playlist for this week’s show? Well, because a sub sandwich was in the news last week. If you missed it, we’…
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An “Up A Creek…” Edition of RRR # 1,308 August 10, 2025
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59:45Welcome 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 spinach featured in the playlist for this week’s show? Well, because for no particular reason we have a “Spinach” segment! I happen to like spi…
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Sam McGee, Cleo Brown and Buddy Moss singing about their fancy automobiles join the gang of pre-war jazz, blues and country goodies!
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A “Mudbug” Edition of RRR # 1,307 August 3, 2025
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59:45Welcome 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. This little fella, taking a defiant pose, is known by many names depending on where in the country you are, but are most commonly called crayfish. So why is there a picture…
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OTRS 158 JOHN’S RECORD ROOM “The Song-Poem Phenomenon”
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1:29:42John’s Old Time Radio Show JOHN’S RECORD ROOM “The Song-Poem Phenomenon”. John Heneghan plays fabulous 45 rpm & 33 1/3 records from his Song-Poem collection. The Music Man From Mars – Rod Rogers (Rodd Keith) Human Breakdown Of Absurdity – Norm Burns And The Satellites Smoke It, The Pot – Gene Marshall The Ranger Had Too Much To Drink – Dick Kent My…
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A 25th Anniversary Edition of RRR #1,306 July 27, 2025
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59:45Welcome 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 be celebrating four birthdays; those of Julie Wintz, Juan Llossas, Clark Kessinger and Earl Granstaff. Actually five birthdays, because this is R…
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It is said that the Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis - and MEMPHIS was a key recording location for the likes of Victor and Columbia records and others during the pre-WW2 era - we will play some Tennessee musicans, Blues, Country, Jazz and some recordings made in that state during the late 1920s-mid-1930a…
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A “Banish the Blues” Edition of RRR # 1,305 July 20, 2025
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59:45Guido Deiro 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 vaudeville star, accordionist and composer Count Guido Pietro Deiro and he starts off this week’s show with his rendition o…
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Joe explore's Jelly Roll Morton' s DON'T YOU LEAVE ME HERE originally titled ALABAMY BOUND and published in New Orleans in 1909 by one Robert Hoffman who likely is the true composer - several cool version are played along with an eclectic assortment of other pre-war musical goodies!
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A “Parish The Thought” Edition of RRR # 1,304 July 13, 2025
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59:45Mitchell Parish 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? A clue is in the title of this week’s show. He’s lyricist Mitchell Parish and although he’s been heard on the show numerous …
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Berlin's songwriting career began with his first publication circa 1907 MARIE FROM SUNNY ITALY and hit it's stride a few years later with his ALEXANDER's RAGTIME BAND. This episode presents some of his early work up until the late 1930s - From Fred Astaire to "Hallelujah!"...
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A “Cotton Pickin'” Edition of RRR # 1, 303 July 6, 2025
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59:45Welcome 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 a photograph of a cotton field the featured image on thsi week’s Rapidly Rotating Records playlist? Well, because in addition to playing a record by the Brunswick…
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