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Rapidly Rotating Records
by Glenn Robison
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.
Episodes
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A "Beautiful" Edition of RRR # 1,356 July 12, 2026
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...
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A "Patriotic" Edition of RRR # 1,355 July 5, 2026
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...
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A "Felonious" Edition of RRR #1,354 June 28, 2026
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…
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A "Glorious" Edition of RRR August 14, 2005
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…
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A "BOOMing" Edition of RRR # 1,353 June 21, 2026
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…
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A “Hays-ee” Edition of RRR # 1,352 June 14, 2026
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.…
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A “Dearie” Edition of RRR # 1,351 June 7, 2026
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. Without his trademark battered top hat and clarinet you might not recognize the person above as bandleader,...
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A “Hoodoo” Edition of RRR # 1,350 May 31, 2026
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 what these rock formations at Bryce Canyon National Park are called? If not, you’ll find out in the third...
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A “Goofy” Edition of RRR # 1,349 May 24, 2026
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 person is? She’s Frances Belle Heenan, better known as “Peaches.” Peaches was at the heart of one…
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A “Blazing” Edition of RRR # 1,348 May 17, 2026
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 in blazes is there a photograph of a blaze emblazoned on the playlist? Everything on this week’s show is for no...
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A “Ragged” Edition of RRR # 1,347 May 10, 2026
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 Avalon in 1893 when it was referred to as “Rag City.” Find out why it was called that in the...
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A “Peach” of a Show! RRR # 1,346 May 3, 2026
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...
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A “Lunar” Edition of RRR # 1,345 April 26, 2026
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 the show, we no sooner have a set of rapidly rotating records about coming home from our…
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A “Crowded” Edition of RRR # 1,332 January 25, 2026
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 gentleman is? He’s British singer, songwriter, actor and entertainer Leslie Sarony. You’ll find…
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A “Tricky” Edition of RRR # 1,331 January 18, 2026
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...
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An “Apparel” Episode of RRR # 1,330 January 11, 2026
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 lovely ladies are? They’re Helen, Jane and Patti, The Pickens Sisters (from Georgia). They will...
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A “Typewritten” Edition of RRR # 1,329 January 4, 2026
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. Yeah, I thought this photo would get your attention! Do you know who this person is? She’s German dancer, pantomime,...
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The Final RRR (Of 2025, that is!) #1,328 December 28, 2025
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 Carl Frederick Ejanr Pedersen. If that doesn’t ring a bell, you may know…
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A “Reflective” Edition of RRR # 1,327 Dec. 21, 2025
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. Can you guess the subject of this photograph? It was taken around 1945 and is the mirror of the 200 Inch Hale Telescope...
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A “WCRF” Edition of RRR # 1,326 December 14, 2025
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...
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A “Grandpa Bob Effros” Edition of RRR # 1,325 Dec. 7, 2025
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...
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An “All Birthday” Edition of RRR # 1,324 Nov. 30, 2025
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...
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A “6 7” Edition of RRR # 1,323 November 23, 2025
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...
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A “Lone Ranger” Edition of RRR # 1,322 Nov. 16, 2025
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…
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A “Demented” Edition of RRR # 1,321 Nov. 9, 2025
“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...
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A “Ross Turner” Edition of RRR # 1,320 Nov. 2, 2025
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...
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A “Razing” Edition of RRR # 1,319 October 26, 2025
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...
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A “Royal” Edition of RRR # 1,318 October 19, 2025
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?…
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A “Cuckoo” Edition of RRR # 1,317 October 12, 2025
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,...
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A “Haul Ash” Edition of RRR # 1,316 October 5, 2025
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...
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An “On the Fritz” Edition of RRR # 1,315 September 28, 2025
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...
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A “Free Speech” Edition of RRR # 1,314 Sept. 21, 2025
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 and…
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A “Hot Stuff ” Edition of RRR # 1,313 Sept. 14, 2025
Hooghuys 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...
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A “Dictionary” Edition of RRR # 1,312 September 7, 2025
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...
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A “Tosca” Edition of RRR # 1,311 August 31, 2025
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...
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An “Awful” Edition of RRR # 1,310 August 24, 2025
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…
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A “Sandwich” Edition of RRR # 1,309 August 17, 2025
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...
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An “Up A Creek…” Edition of RRR # 1,308 August 10, 2025
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...
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A “Mudbug” Edition of RRR # 1,307 August 3, 2025
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…
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A 25th Anniversary Edition of RRR #1,306 July 27, 2025
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...
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A “Banish the Blues” Edition of RRR # 1,305 July 20, 2025
Guido 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…
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A “Parish The Thought” Edition of RRR # 1,304 July 13, 2025
Mitchell 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…
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A “Cotton Pickin'” Edition of RRR # 1, 303 July 6, 2025
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,...
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A “Naughty” Edition of RRR # 1,302 June 29, 2025
Clyde Doerr 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...
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A “Listening Party” Edition of RRR # 1,301 June 22, 2025
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,...
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A “Lighter Than Air” Edition of RRR #1,300 June 15, 2025
USS Los Angeles 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…
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A “Dornberger” Edition of RRR # 1,299 June 8, 2025
Charles Dornberger 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...
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A “Numeric” Edition of RRR # 1,298 June 1, 2025
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...
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A “Radio” Edition of RRR #1,297 May 25, 2025
RKO Radio Picture Logo Antenna Atop The World 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…
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How many episodes does Rapidly Rotating Records have?
Rapidly Rotating Records currently has 1000 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Rapidly Rotating Records about?
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.
How often does Rapidly Rotating Records release new episodes?
Rapidly Rotating Records is no longer actively publishing new episodes, but the existing catalog remains available.
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Who hosts Rapidly Rotating Records?
Rapidly Rotating Records is created and hosted by Glenn Robison.
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