WFMU: Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from September 23, 2022

Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from September 23, 2022

Merrily We Roll Along is a mish-mash of high energy lunacy, reverence, and irreverence for forgotten pop stars, love for Saturday morning cartoons, and exploration of the side of Bandcamp where I seem to be the only one purchasing. Bringing to you the odd and the upbeat from a growing collection of pre-rock novelties, classic and neo-Vaudeville, jug bands, polka, klezmer, and more at the convenient hour of 8-9 AM EST, Merrily We Roll Along starts the day off with a little light-hearted musical tomfoolery cut with an occasional comedy sketch. It's organic, free-range, cheese with the occasional onion thrown in.

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September 23, 2022: Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 17 - "Dance to the Music"

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Artist	Track	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
MHLee	Merrily We Roll Along Theme			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	Don't Deal With the Devil (Instrumental)			0:00:49 (Pop-up)
The Hampton Street Coffee Grinders	Jackson Stomp	2014		0:01:48 (Pop-up)
Holy Modal Rounders	Crowley Waltz	1964		0:04:39 (Pop-up)
Frank Yankovic	Blue Skirt Waltz "Blue Skirt Waltz" by "Frank Yankovic"	1949		0:06:12 (Pop-up)
Carson Robison and His Pleasant Valley Boys	Turkey In The Straw	1945	Calls by Lawrence V. Loy	0:09:06 (Pop-up)
Arthur Collins	I Get Dippy When I Do The Two Step	1909		0:11:46 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Jerry Lee Lewis	In The Mood "In The Mood" by "Jerry Lee Lewis"	1960	As "the Hawk"	0:14:06 (Pop-up)
Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan	That Baboon Baby Dance	1912		0:15:32 (Pop-up)
Lee Morse And Her Blue Grass Boys	'Taint No Sin (To Dance Around In Your Bones)	1930		0:17:54 (Pop-up)
Memphis Jug Band	Lindberg Hop (Overseas Stomp)	1928		0:21:24 (Pop-up)
Peter Stampfel	Charleston "Charleston" by "Peter Stampfel"	2021		0:23:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	Victory Tune "Victory Tune" by "Kristofer Maddigan"			0:25:33 (Pop-up)
Billy Murray	Stumbling "Stumbling" by "Billy Murray"	1922		0:26:43 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington	It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)	1932	Ivie Anderson vocal	0:29:27 (Pop-up)
Washboard Rhythm Band	Swing Gate "Swing Gate" by "Washboard Rhythm Band"	1933		0:32:34 (Pop-up)
C.W. Stoneking	We Gon' Boogaloo "We Gon' Boogaloo" by "C.W. Stoneking"	2016		0:35:52 (Pop-up)
Tiny Tim, Gary Lawrence And His Sizzling Syncopators	Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?	1982	There's a music video for this which I mistakenly thought was from 1992.	0:39:12 (Pop-up)
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox	Dancing Queen	2018	Feat. Gunhild Carling	0:43:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Fats Waller	Ain't Misbehavin' "Ain't Misbehavin'" by "Fats Waller"			0:46:34 (Pop-up)
Peter Dawson	The Floral Dance "The Floral Dance" by "Peter Dawson"	1934		0:49:46 (Pop-up)
Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees	Why Dance?	1931		0:52:57 (Pop-up)
Russ Columbo	Save the Last Dance for Me	1932		0:55:52 (Pop-up)
Evans and Rogers	Sunny Side Up/Merrily We Roll Along	2009		0:59:18 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	8:00am DJ Guin: MHLee! as I live and breathe
	♥ 8:01am MHLee: Hello DJ Guin
	♥ 8:03am MHLee: It's such a different style of banjo playing than the Scruggs style.
	♥ 8:20am MHLee: television phone? What does that mean in 1930?
	♥ 8:23am MHLee: en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 8:31am Jan Turkenburg: Hi MHLee and DJ Guin. Sorry, I was so caught up in my upcoming hellraiser special series, I forgot about time.
	♥ 8:31am Jan Turkenburg: I see I missed out on a lot of great stuff
	♥ 8:32am MHLee: You get to catch Duke Ellington though
	♥ 8:32am Jan Turkenburg: :-)
	♥ 8:33am MHLee: Duke Ellington, Fred Rodgers, Bo Didley, and I are all alumni of the same music fraternity
	♥ 8:37am MHLee: Really love how convincingly this song sounds like an earlier era. Stoneking in general is like that.
	♥ 8:44am Jan Turkenburg: This PMJ version works for me too.
	♥ 8:46am MHLee: Sometimes PMJ pulls it together. It helps Scott is a very good ragtime pianist.
	♥ 8:50am Jan Turkenburg: I don't like everything by PMJ as well, but I can't hear in Tiny Tim what you do. Music works in strange ways depending how one's brain is wired, or something.
	♥ 8:51am Jan Turkenburg: I really love this rendition of the Floral Dance.
	♥ 8:52am MHLee: Peter Dawson recorded this much earlier as well. I think he redid it about 15 years later.
	♥ 8:54am MHLee: There's a wealth of Rudy on archive.org, including his 1960s comedy album. His 1960s music album, with covers of Winchester Cathedral, pop songs, and some brand new songs is on Bandcamp.
	♥ 8:54am Jan Turkenburg: My first encounter with this piece was when the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band had a hit with it. Really strong memories about a frost period and skating on the ponds of Vinkeveen where I lived and about my virtually tone-deaf grand mother who really liked this record. I can still see her smile when i hear that melody.
	♥ 9:00am MHLee: That's sweet. I have a similarly obscure memory of the William Tell Overture by Spike Jones. I guess there was a VCR release of the Spike Jones show which features it synced to a horse race with comedic shots of a horse in a stall. I watched it at my grandparents' house but had forgotten about it until I accidentally encountered the song.
	♥ 9:01am MHLee: The video on youtube is not the same one, someone assured me that was the case when I said I remembered some different elements.
	♥ 9:02am Jan Turkenburg: Thanks MHLee, I will certainly listen to the first half in the archives.

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Artist	Track	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
MHLee	Merrily We Roll Along Theme			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	Don't Deal With the Devil (Instrumental)			0:00:49 (Pop-up)
The Hampton Street Coffee Grinders	Jackson Stomp	2014		0:01:48 (Pop-up)
Holy Modal Rounders	Crowley Waltz	1964		0:04:39 (Pop-up)
Frank Yankovic	Blue Skirt Waltz "Blue Skirt Waltz" by "Frank Yankovic"	1949		0:06:12 (Pop-up)
Carson Robison and His Pleasant Valley Boys	Turkey In The Straw	1945	Calls by Lawrence V. Loy	0:09:06 (Pop-up)
Arthur Collins	I Get Dippy When I Do The Two Step	1909		0:11:46 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Jerry Lee Lewis	In The Mood "In The Mood" by "Jerry Lee Lewis"	1960	As "the Hawk"	0:14:06 (Pop-up)
Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan	That Baboon Baby Dance	1912		0:15:32 (Pop-up)
Lee Morse And Her Blue Grass Boys	'Taint No Sin (To Dance Around In Your Bones)	1930		0:17:54 (Pop-up)
Memphis Jug Band	Lindberg Hop (Overseas Stomp)	1928		0:21:24 (Pop-up)
Peter Stampfel	Charleston "Charleston" by "Peter Stampfel"	2021		0:23:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	Victory Tune "Victory Tune" by "Kristofer Maddigan"			0:25:33 (Pop-up)
Billy Murray	Stumbling "Stumbling" by "Billy Murray"	1922		0:26:43 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington	It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)	1932	Ivie Anderson vocal	0:29:27 (Pop-up)
Washboard Rhythm Band	Swing Gate "Swing Gate" by "Washboard Rhythm Band"	1933		0:32:34 (Pop-up)
C.W. Stoneking	We Gon' Boogaloo "We Gon' Boogaloo" by "C.W. Stoneking"	2016		0:35:52 (Pop-up)
Tiny Tim, Gary Lawrence And His Sizzling Syncopators	Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?	1982	There's a music video for this which I mistakenly thought was from 1992.	0:39:12 (Pop-up)
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox	Dancing Queen	2018	Feat. Gunhild Carling	0:43:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Fats Waller	Ain't Misbehavin' "Ain't Misbehavin'" by "Fats Waller"			0:46:34 (Pop-up)
Peter Dawson	The Floral Dance "The Floral Dance" by "Peter Dawson"	1934		0:49:46 (Pop-up)
Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees	Why Dance?	1931		0:52:57 (Pop-up)
Russ Columbo	Save the Last Dance for Me	1932		0:55:52 (Pop-up)
Evans and Rogers	Sunny Side Up/Merrily We Roll Along	2009		0:59:18 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	8:00am DJ Guin: MHLee! as I live and breathe
	♥ 8:01am MHLee: Hello DJ Guin
	♥ 8:03am MHLee: It's such a different style of banjo playing than the Scruggs style.
	♥ 8:20am MHLee: television phone? What does that mean in 1930?
	♥ 8:23am MHLee: en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 8:31am Jan Turkenburg: Hi MHLee and DJ Guin. Sorry, I was so caught up in my upcoming hellraiser special series, I forgot about time.
	♥ 8:31am Jan Turkenburg: I see I missed out on a lot of great stuff
	♥ 8:32am MHLee: You get to catch Duke Ellington though
	♥ 8:32am Jan Turkenburg: :-)
	♥ 8:33am MHLee: Duke Ellington, Fred Rodgers, Bo Didley, and I are all alumni of the same music fraternity
	♥ 8:37am MHLee: Really love how convincingly this song sounds like an earlier era. Stoneking in general is like that.
	♥ 8:44am Jan Turkenburg: This PMJ version works for me too.
	♥ 8:46am MHLee: Sometimes PMJ pulls it together. It helps Scott is a very good ragtime pianist.
	♥ 8:50am Jan Turkenburg: I don't like everything by PMJ as well, but I can't hear in Tiny Tim what you do. Music works in strange ways depending how one's brain is wired, or something.
	♥ 8:51am Jan Turkenburg: I really love this rendition of the Floral Dance.
	♥ 8:52am MHLee: Peter Dawson recorded this much earlier as well. I think he redid it about 15 years later.
	♥ 8:54am MHLee: There's a wealth of Rudy on archive.org, including his 1960s comedy album. His 1960s music album, with covers of Winchester Cathedral, pop songs, and some brand new songs is on Bandcamp.
	♥ 8:54am Jan Turkenburg: My first encounter with this piece was when the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band had a hit with it. Really strong memories about a frost period and skating on the ponds of Vinkeveen where I lived and about my virtually tone-deaf grand mother who really liked this record. I can still see her smile when i hear that melody.
	♥ 9:00am MHLee: That's sweet. I have a similarly obscure memory of the William Tell Overture by Spike Jones. I guess there was a VCR release of the Spike Jones show which features it synced to a horse race with comedic shots of a horse in a stall. I watched it at my grandparents' house but had forgotten about it until I accidentally encountered the song.
	♥ 9:01am MHLee: The video on youtube is not the same one, someone assured me that was the case when I said I remembered some different elements.
	♥ 9:02am Jan Turkenburg: Thanks MHLee, I will certainly listen to the first half in the archives.

Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from September 23, 2022

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