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Rapidly Rotating Records
Author: Glenn Robison
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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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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. 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 […]
The post An “On the fritz” Edition of RRR # 1,315 September 28, 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. 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.
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 be celebrating four birthdays; those of Julie Wintz, Juan Llossas, Clark Kessinger and Earl Granstaff. Actually five birthdays, because this […]
The post A 25th Anniversary Edition of RRR #1,306 July 27, 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 vaudeville star, accordionist and composer Count Guido Pietro Deiro and he starts off this week’s show with […]
The post A “Banish the Blues” Edition of RRR # 1,305 July 20, 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? A clue is in the title of this week’s show. He’s lyricist Mitchell Parish and although he’s been […]
The post A “Parish The Thought” Edition of RRR # 1,304 July 13, 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 a photograph of a cotton field the featured image on thsi week’s Rapidly Rotating Records playlist? Well, because in addition to playing […]
The post A “Cotton Pickin'” Edition of RRR # 1, 303 July 6, 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. For this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, we’re back to our usual format and will be having a vocabulary lesson and a “rhythm” segment. […]
The post A “Naughty” Edition of RRR # 1,302 June 29, 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. On this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, we have no birthday salutes and no segment topics. We are, however, having a “listening party” where […]
The post A “Listening Party” Edition of RRR # 1,301 June 22, 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 the airship USS Los Angeles in Lakehurst, New Jersey on August 25, 1927 when, due to changing weather and wind […]
The post A “Lighter Than Air” Edition of RRR #1,300 June 15, 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 multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer, Charles Dornberger and he’s getting a birthday segment on this week’s show. In […]
The post A “Dornberger” Edition of RRR # 1,299 June 8, 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. Listeners of a certain age==that is to say my age–may recognize this figure as the personification of the famous “bouncing ball.” The bouncing ball is […]
The post A “Numeric” Edition of RRR # 1,298 June 1, 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 graphic of a giant radio transmitter tower atop the world for this week’s edition of Rapidly Rotating Records? Well, because […]
The post A “Radio” Edition of RRR #1,297 May 25, 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 sign for the Shady Lady Ranch announcing this week’s episode of Rapidly Rotating Records? Well, you’ll find out in the […]
The post A “Shady Lady” Edition of RRR # 1,296 May 18. 2025 appeared first on Glenn Robison's Rapidly Rotating 78 RPM Records.