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Rapidly Rotating RecordsA Correctly Numbered RRR # 1,278 January 12, 2025
Victor Silvester
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 dapper fellow is? He’s British bandleader Victor Silvester and you’ll hear him finish up the first segment of this week’s Rapidly Rotating Records all about counting. In other segments, we’ll do some spelling, celebrate Hoke Rice’s birthday, bask in the glow and have yet another edition of “One Thing in Common.” There’s lots of great music and int...2025-01-1400 min
Spirit of Scotland11 Victor BrierlyTo some, he’s been the ‘bad boy’ of whisky – the man who set himself up as the self-styled ‘thorn in the flesh’ of the industry. He would berate it for failing to exploit its potential as a tourist trap. He would attack the conservatism of the way whisky was presented – too much of the highland mist and leather arm chairs. He claimed it was aimed too much at the traditional drinkers and ignoring the younger generation, something he said it did at its peril. He was barred from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society for criticising it. And he’s used his tutored...2018-06-1006 min