WFMU: Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from March 31, 2023

Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from March 31, 2023

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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March 31, 2023: Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 44 - "The Wacky World of Spike Jones Tributes"

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Artist	Track	Year	Comments	Images	Approx. start time
MHLee	Merrily We Roll Along Theme				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bob Kerr and his Whoopee Band	Cocktails For Two	1992			0:01:11 (Pop-up)

Lee Presson and the Nails	Hotcha Cornia	2019			0:06:23 (Pop-up)
The Bobs	[I was a] Teenage Brain Surgeon	2005			0:09:22 (Pop-up)
Gísli Rúnar Jónsson	Sveita-hveiti-geit	1995	"Clink, Clink, Another Drink" in Icelandic. Google translate tells me it's "Country-wheat-goat".		0:12:24 (Pop-up)
Halli og Laddi, Gísli Rúnar Jónsson	Tygg-igg-úmmí	1976	"Blowing Bubble Gum" from Spike Jones in 1947.	Halli og Laddi Halli og Laddi	0:14:07 (Pop-up)

Joanie Bartels	Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny?	1980			0:18:56 (Pop-up)
Richard Ho'opi'i With Ledward Kaapana And George Kahumoku Jr.	Put the Dishes in the Sink	2014			0:21:42 (Pop-up)
Johnny Bond	Der Fuehrer's Face "Der Fuehrer's Face" by "Johnny Bond"	1942	Spike Jones actually plays a fairly straightforward version of this which he somehow managed to get out before the Disney film of the same name. I think the raspberries show this version has a Spike Jones influence.		0:23:37 (Pop-up)
The Red Clay Ramblers	Pat-Yat-Chee	2001			0:26:27 (Pop-up)

Banu Gibson	Strip Polka "Strip Polka" by "Banu Gibson"	2008	Actually had a couple of versions of this that seem closer to Spike Jones than the Andrew Sisters. I chose this one because the male vocalist yelling "take it off" is a Spike Jones thing.		0:32:28 (Pop-up)
Ralph Gunderman, David Lahm, Steve Kolodny	The Man On The Flying Trapeze	circa 2009	Doodles Weaver inspired version found on YouTube.		0:34:36 (Pop-up)
Byron Nilsson and Malcolm Kogut	Never Hit Your Grandma With a Shovel	2021	Live performance as part of a Tom Lehrer Tribute at Saratoga's Caffe Lena on April 9, 2021.		0:39:45 (Pop-up)

The Clams	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	1974	A band which had a single session featuring Tony Levin (yes, of King Crimson) and his brother Pete along with drummer Steve Gadd. Conceived as a Spike Jones tribute, the single got played as an example of bad record on WNBC but people loved it. This caused it to hit top 40, despite this no copies were pressed for the record buying public. This is the B-Side.		0:44:40 (Pop-up)
The Clams	Close To You "Close To You" by "The Clams"	1974			0:47:19 (Pop-up)
Rita Schneider	Pass the Biscuits Mirandy	2007	Rita seems to have covered a lot of Spike Jones songs.		0:49:47 (Pop-up)

Bob Kerr and his Whoopee Band	Chloe	1992			0:55:03 (Pop-up)
The Stone Country Band	Silly Tunes	1983			0:58:35 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:52am Jan Turkenburg: Just finished preparing FDL for monday, now listening in. Hi MHLee!
	8:05am Jan Turkenburg: Ah! I was starting to get worried!
	👻 8:06am WR: here we are
	8:06am MHLee: Sorry about that I feel back asleep for an hour apparently
	8:08am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ MHLee @8:06 you're not the first one this happened to ;-)
	8:08am MHLee: There's actually a video of a performance of this
	8:09am MHLee: The whole group is dressed ridiculously with prosthetic arms and everything else.
	8:13am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ Song: "Hotcha Cornia" by "Lee Presson and the Nails" well done
	8:15am MHLee: This group is a Capella
	8:16am MHLee: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @8:13 Happy to have found them. More music for the Halloween specials as well.
	8:18am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ Song: "Sveita-hveiti-geit" by "Gísli Rúnar Jónsson" Mickey Katz! :-)
	8:21am MHLee: Weirdly, Icelandic occurs more than once even if it's Gísli Rúnar Jónsson both times
	8:25am MHLee: This is an anomaly. I think this is the only time this song has been covered and Joanie's sole spike jones cover
	8:26am MHLee: Like the tribble episode of star trek
	8:34am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ MHLee @8:26 I don't understand what you mean.
	8:36am MHLee: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @8:34 the song is like the trouble with tribbles in that it's about an animal reproducing to the point that people are trying to desperately get rid of them
	8:38am Jan Turkenburg: ah, I was thinking too deeply. :-)
	👻 8:44am WR: ↳ Song: "The Man On The Flying Trapeze" by "Ralph Gunderma... quite fun.
	8:47am MHLee: ↳ WR @8:44 That was my last find
	👻 8:56am WR: ↳ Song: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by "The Clams" For some reason I could not even recall the original song via this version. Close to you, while given the full treatment, was still recognizable.
	8:58am MHLee: ↳ WR @8:56 I actually think I prefer the B side
	9:00am Jan Turkenburg: Thanks MHLee, fun show!
	👻 9:00am WR: ↳ MHLee @8:58 yes
	9:01am MHLee: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @9:00 Thanks for listening, Jan!
	👻 9:02am WR: ↳ Song: "Pass the Biscuits Mirandy" by "Rita Schneider" Rita Schneider seems to have had extensive career but mostly self released.
	👻 9:04am WR: And her sister was a yodel specialist. Interesting Aussies.
	9:04am MHLee: ↳ WR @9:02 Might be worth tracking down the songs she's playing to see if there are any fun versions for this show
	9:05am MHLee: Dingbats!!, Keep On Larfin', Birdbrain Ballads and three others, all recorded when she was in her 70s, were solid sellers, predicated on a premise of "You don't stop laughing when you get old; you get old when you stop laughing!"
	9:06am DJ Guin: bonus MHLee!
	9:06am MHLee: Thanks for listening WR
	9:06am MHLee: And Dj Guin
	👻 9:07am WR: Thank you! MHLee!
	1:41am ?: ↳ Song: "Close To You" by "The Clams" My favorite take off of "Close To You" is by David Alan Grier as Don "No Soul" Simmons in "Amazon Women on the Moon".

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Artist	Track	Year	Comments	Images	Approx. start time
MHLee	Merrily We Roll Along Theme				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bob Kerr and his Whoopee Band	Cocktails For Two	1992			0:01:11 (Pop-up)

Lee Presson and the Nails	Hotcha Cornia	2019			0:06:23 (Pop-up)
The Bobs	[I was a] Teenage Brain Surgeon	2005			0:09:22 (Pop-up)
Gísli Rúnar Jónsson	Sveita-hveiti-geit	1995	"Clink, Clink, Another Drink" in Icelandic. Google translate tells me it's "Country-wheat-goat".		0:12:24 (Pop-up)
Halli og Laddi, Gísli Rúnar Jónsson	Tygg-igg-úmmí	1976	"Blowing Bubble Gum" from Spike Jones in 1947.	Halli og Laddi Halli og Laddi	0:14:07 (Pop-up)

Joanie Bartels	Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny?	1980			0:18:56 (Pop-up)
Richard Ho'opi'i With Ledward Kaapana And George Kahumoku Jr.	Put the Dishes in the Sink	2014			0:21:42 (Pop-up)
Johnny Bond	Der Fuehrer's Face "Der Fuehrer's Face" by "Johnny Bond"	1942	Spike Jones actually plays a fairly straightforward version of this which he somehow managed to get out before the Disney film of the same name. I think the raspberries show this version has a Spike Jones influence.		0:23:37 (Pop-up)
The Red Clay Ramblers	Pat-Yat-Chee	2001			0:26:27 (Pop-up)

Banu Gibson	Strip Polka "Strip Polka" by "Banu Gibson"	2008	Actually had a couple of versions of this that seem closer to Spike Jones than the Andrew Sisters. I chose this one because the male vocalist yelling "take it off" is a Spike Jones thing.		0:32:28 (Pop-up)
Ralph Gunderman, David Lahm, Steve Kolodny	The Man On The Flying Trapeze	circa 2009	Doodles Weaver inspired version found on YouTube.		0:34:36 (Pop-up)
Byron Nilsson and Malcolm Kogut	Never Hit Your Grandma With a Shovel	2021	Live performance as part of a Tom Lehrer Tribute at Saratoga's Caffe Lena on April 9, 2021.		0:39:45 (Pop-up)

The Clams	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	1974	A band which had a single session featuring Tony Levin (yes, of King Crimson) and his brother Pete along with drummer Steve Gadd. Conceived as a Spike Jones tribute, the single got played as an example of bad record on WNBC but people loved it. This caused it to hit top 40, despite this no copies were pressed for the record buying public. This is the B-Side.		0:44:40 (Pop-up)
The Clams	Close To You "Close To You" by "The Clams"	1974			0:47:19 (Pop-up)
Rita Schneider	Pass the Biscuits Mirandy	2007	Rita seems to have covered a lot of Spike Jones songs.		0:49:47 (Pop-up)

Bob Kerr and his Whoopee Band	Chloe	1992			0:55:03 (Pop-up)
The Stone Country Band	Silly Tunes	1983			0:58:35 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:52am Jan Turkenburg: Just finished preparing FDL for monday, now listening in. Hi MHLee!
	8:05am Jan Turkenburg: Ah! I was starting to get worried!
	👻 8:06am WR: here we are
	8:06am MHLee: Sorry about that I feel back asleep for an hour apparently
	8:08am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ MHLee @8:06 you're not the first one this happened to ;-)
	8:08am MHLee: There's actually a video of a performance of this
	8:09am MHLee: The whole group is dressed ridiculously with prosthetic arms and everything else.
	8:13am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ Song: "Hotcha Cornia" by "Lee Presson and the Nails" well done
	8:15am MHLee: This group is a Capella
	8:16am MHLee: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @8:13 Happy to have found them. More music for the Halloween specials as well.
	8:18am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ Song: "Sveita-hveiti-geit" by "Gísli Rúnar Jónsson" Mickey Katz! :-)
	8:21am MHLee: Weirdly, Icelandic occurs more than once even if it's Gísli Rúnar Jónsson both times
	8:25am MHLee: This is an anomaly. I think this is the only time this song has been covered and Joanie's sole spike jones cover
	8:26am MHLee: Like the tribble episode of star trek
	8:34am Jan Turkenburg: ↳ MHLee @8:26 I don't understand what you mean.
	8:36am MHLee: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @8:34 the song is like the trouble with tribbles in that it's about an animal reproducing to the point that people are trying to desperately get rid of them
	8:38am Jan Turkenburg: ah, I was thinking too deeply. :-)
	👻 8:44am WR: ↳ Song: "The Man On The Flying Trapeze" by "Ralph Gunderma... quite fun.
	8:47am MHLee: ↳ WR @8:44 That was my last find
	👻 8:56am WR: ↳ Song: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by "The Clams" For some reason I could not even recall the original song via this version. Close to you, while given the full treatment, was still recognizable.
	8:58am MHLee: ↳ WR @8:56 I actually think I prefer the B side
	9:00am Jan Turkenburg: Thanks MHLee, fun show!
	👻 9:00am WR: ↳ MHLee @8:58 yes
	9:01am MHLee: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @9:00 Thanks for listening, Jan!
	👻 9:02am WR: ↳ Song: "Pass the Biscuits Mirandy" by "Rita Schneider" Rita Schneider seems to have had extensive career but mostly self released.
	👻 9:04am WR: And her sister was a yodel specialist. Interesting Aussies.
	9:04am MHLee: ↳ WR @9:02 Might be worth tracking down the songs she's playing to see if there are any fun versions for this show
	9:05am MHLee: Dingbats!!, Keep On Larfin', Birdbrain Ballads and three others, all recorded when she was in her 70s, were solid sellers, predicated on a premise of "You don't stop laughing when you get old; you get old when you stop laughing!"
	9:06am DJ Guin: bonus MHLee!
	9:06am MHLee: Thanks for listening WR
	9:06am MHLee: And Dj Guin
	👻 9:07am WR: Thank you! MHLee!
	1:41am ?: ↳ Song: "Close To You" by "The Clams" My favorite take off of "Close To You" is by David Alan Grier as Don "No Soul" Simmons in "Amazon Women on the Moon".

Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from March 31, 2023

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