Rapidly Rotating Records

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. 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 thanks to the tireless efforts of many volunteers from the West Coast Ragtime Society. We had a fabulous time as always, seeing old friends, musicians and non, making new friends, listening to wonderful music performed by some of the finest musicians in the world, and enjoying plenty of fine food and drink. There was almost 120 hours of music over three days, and this show represents less that 1% of that music. It’s primarily 78 RPM records of tunes played at the festival along with several vintage piano rolls performed by the composers. There’s lots of great music and interesting information so set aside an hour with your favorite beverage and prepare

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 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 subject of this week’s “One Thing in Common” edition of the show. You’ll hear a detailed biography and everything played on the show this week features “Grandpa Bob.” He played in Vincent Lopez orchestras from 1921 to 1927, so there’s a Vincent Lopez segment. We’ll also hear from the Boswell Sisters and Frank Crumit and hear several of Bob’s compositions. 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 better–musical era. Just click the link above to listen streaming online and/or downloa

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 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” edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. I’m guess this photograph was taken before Jimmie put together his first western swing band while a student at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. You’ll find out more about Jimmie and hear three of his recordings in the second segment of the show. The other birthday segments this week are for Rosa Henderson, Percy Chandler, Ray Herbeck and George Wilton Ballard. 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 better–musical era. Just click the link

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. 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, of our listeners will know the significance of those numbers, but listen to the fourth segment of the show and you’ll find out. Marcy Klauber and Bob Larkan will be having birthday segments. We’ll also do some row, row, rowing and hear some ragtime songs. 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 better–musical era. Just click the link above to listen streaming online and/or download for listening at your convenience. THANKS FOR LISTENING! ENJOY THE SHOW! Segment 1: Marcy Klauber I Get The Blues When It Rai

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. 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 […] The post A “Lone Ranger” Edition of RRR # 1,322 Nov. 16, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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. […] The post A “Demented” Edition of RRR # 1,321 Nov. 9, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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 name is Ross Turner. He’s not a composer, lyricist or instrumentalist, so you may wonder why his […] The post A “Ross Turner” Edition of RRR # 1,320 Nov. 2, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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 violinist and bandleader Marek Weber and his is one of four birthdays we’ll be celebrating on this […] The post A “Razing” Edition of RRR # 1,319 October 26, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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 cow wearing a cowbell as the featured image on this week’s playlist for the show? Well, you’ll […] The post A “Royal” Edition of RRR # 1,318 October 19, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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 common cuckoo bird as the featured image on this week’s playlist for the show? Well, it’s actually […] The post A “Cuckoo” Edition of RRR # 1,317 October 12, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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 cowboy is? He’s Bill Boyd and he’s not just a “drug store” cowboy, but the real thing. He was born […] The post A “Haul Ash” Edition of RRR # 1,316 October 5, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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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. 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 […] The post A “Free Speech” Edition of RRR # 1,314 Sept. 21, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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 some of the world’s […] The post A “Hot Stuff ” Edition of RRR # 1,313 Sept. 14, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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 fellows are? They’re the pioneering western swing band The Light Crust Doughboys and you’ll hear three of their records in […] The post A “Dictionary” Edition of RRR # 1,312 September 7, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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 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 […] The post A “Tosca” Edition of RRR # 1,311 August 31, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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’s legendary violinist Maud Powell, at the turn of the century one of the finest, and most […] The post An “Awful” Edition of RRR # 1,310 August 24, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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 submarine sandwich featured in the playlist for this week’s show? Well, because a sub sandwich was in the […] The post A “Sandwich” Edition of RRR # 1,309 August 17, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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 spinach featured in the playlist for this week’s show? Well, because for no particular reason we have a […] The post An “Up A Creek…” Edition of RRR # 1,308 August 10, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.

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 little fella, taking a defiant pose, is known by many names depending on where in the country you are, but are most commonly called […] The post A “Mudbug” Edition of RRR # 1,307 August 3, 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.