Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee | WFMU

MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" Helen Kane - "Dangerous Nan McGrew" [Betty Boop appeared in August and the film this ad is for is from June 1930.] The Carter Family - "John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man" Jim Kweskin & The Neo-Passé Jazz Band - "Staggerlee" [A real life event inspired tjhis song, and it did involve a Stetson hate.] Frank Crumit - "Abdul Abulbul Amir" Frank Luther - "A Gay Caballero" Gid Tanner And His Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichen - "Casey Jones" Jared Emerson-Johnson's One-Man Skeleton Revival - "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)" Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - "Superman" [Same year that Superman was syndicated and an animated cartoon was made, so I think it is about that Superman.] Red River Dave - "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight" [Red River Dave eventually became known for his "topical" songs that often were bad enough to get featured on the World's Worst Records. I've always liked this one though it is perhaps a little cheery?] Lead Belly - "Mr. Hitler" [Speaking of topical songs... and Lead Belly might fit the heroes and villains theme himself.] Woody Guthrie - "Pretty Boy Floyd" ['Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen"] Nashville Washboard Band - "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You" [Went unreleased. Possibly Frank Dalton on refrain.] Vernon Dalhart - "Frank Dupree" [This is the lesser known, Anglo-American (i.e. White) song inspired by the same murder that all the Betty and Dupree songs come from.] Teddy Grace - "Betty And DuPree" [An example of the better known song. There is a lot of history here. https://singout.org/betty-and-dupree-a-digital-compendium-part-1-duprees-diamond-blues/ | https://singout.org/betty-and-dupree-a-digital-compendium-part-2-the-classics/] Marie Bryant and Jackie Brown's Calypso Kings - "Sixty Minute Man" Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Washington at Valley Forge" [Live for Playboy After Dark] The Harmonaires - "Barnacle Bill the Sailer" TrioToons - "Merrily We Roll Along" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157001

Music behind DJ: MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:00:00] Eubie Blake - "Charleston Rag" ["The 86 Years of Eubie Blake is a 1969 studio album by ragtime pianist Eubie Blake and marks a reunion for Blake with his longtime collaborator, Noble Sissle. The album was recorded in three sessions, the first on December 26, 1968, followed by two more on February 6, and March 12, 1969." - Wikipedia | "Blake claimed in later life to have been born in 1883, but records published beginning in 2003—U.S. Census, military, and Social Security records and Blake's passport application and passport—uniformly give his birth year as 1887." - Wikipedia] [0:00:49] Terry Waldo - "Everything is Alright With Me" [0:06:00] Ian Whitcomb - "My Dead Dog Rover" [0:09:36] Scott Joplin - "Maple Leaf Rag" ["Joplin fell ill to syphilis around 1910, and this article, also from the Freeman, references Joplin’s losing battle. While this newspaper was published in 1916, Joplin struggled with dementia related to his syphilis as early as 1914, and he was hospitalized in January 1917 and died in April." - https://pages.stolaf.edu/americanmusic/2021/10/10/tracking-scott-joplins-career-through-primary-sources/] [0:11:54] Jelly Roll Morton - "The Crave" [0:14:07] Thomas Waller - "Ain't Misbehavin'" [0:18:42] Joe Turner And Pete Johnson - "Roll 'Em Pete" [0:23:23] Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Finger Buster" [Re-recording] [0:26:57] Luckey Roberts - "Pork and Beans" [0:29:45] Art Tatum - "Tiger Rag" [0:32:12] Sam Lovin' Theard and Cow Cow Davenport - "You Rascal You" [0:34:27] Helen Humes and Bill Doggett - "He May Be Your Man" [0:41:05] Will Bradley And His Orchestra Featuring Ray McKinley And Freddie Slack - "Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar (Pts 1 & 2)" [0:43:57] Joe Liggins - "Honeydripper" [Part 1 of 2] [0:49:05] Amos Milburn And His Aladdin Chickenshackers - "Boogie Woogie" [0:52:06] Fats Domino - "Barrel House" [0:54:55] Eddie Cantor - "Merrily We Roll Along" [0:57:23] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156776

MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" "Wingy" Manone and His Go-Group - "Flamingo" ["Manone lost his right arm in a streetcar accident when he was ten years old. He wore a prosthetic arm while on stage performing." - Discogs] [0:00:51] Anson Weeks and his Orchestra - "Strike Me Pink Melody (Pts 1 and 2)" [0:05:42] Carl Brisson - "A Pink Cocktail for a Blue Lady" [0:13:24] Eddie Cantor stars in "Strike Me Pink" - "Scene: "Are You A Man or Mouse?"" [0:16:51] Kevyn Dymond - "Mr. Apollo" [Also played by Miss Mei] [0:18:07] Les Frères Domergue - "Tickled Pink" [0:23:54] René Musette Orchestra - "Pink Penguins" [0:26:25] Wm. H. Ross - "Pretty As a Pink" [William H. Ross] [0:29:20] Martha Lou Harp and the Carolers - "Little Pink Toes" [0:32:25] Eddie Cantor stars in "Strike Me Pink" with Edward Brophy - "Scene: "Dominate the Situation"" [0:35:31] Buster Poindexter - "Pink Champagne" [0:40:02] Glenn Davis - "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" [0:43:03] Group-Forty Orchestra - "Pink Fizz" [0:45:55] Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman - "Calabash Pipe" [From "Strike Me Pink"] [0:48:42] Paul Franklin & His Orchestra - "Sporting Pink" [0:51:26] The Crawford Light Orchestra - "Hunting Pink" [0:53:23] Eddie Cantor stars in "Strike Me Pink" with Ethel Merman - "Scene: "Closing Scene"" [0:56:13] Eddie Cantor - "Merrily We Roll Along" [0:56:56] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156541

MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:00:00] The Swingin' Pops feat. Jennifer Kothe - "September" [Added late because of I switched one Tom Lehrer record for an obscure version.] [0:00:50] Louis Jordan - "September Song" [0:05:21] Bob Anderson's Oshkosh Seranders - "September In The Rain" [0:07:41] Pop Wagner with Butch Thompson and Angus Foster - "Shine On Harvest Moon" [0:10:29] Tiny Tim - "School Days (Take 2)" [On May 25, 1969, while in between shows at the Sherman House's College Inn nightclub in Chicago, Tiny Tim invited his friend and fan club president Rita McConnachie to his hotel room for a private concert. When Rita rolled her reel-to-reel tape recorder, Tiny grabbed his megaphone (to bring "back the sounds before the electrical system in an acoustic-alike way!") and ukulele and launched into a 36 song set. That day, Tiny put down on tape many songs he would not record elsewhere, happily warbling rarities from the turn-of-the-century, his favorite crooner material, and religious hymns] [0:13:23] Tom Lehrer - "Fight Fiercely, Harvard (1945 Version)" ["Starting with a press run of 400 copies of the then-novel 10" LP record format produced by Lehrer at his own expense, these records were sold in stores around Harvard Square." - Wikipedia] [0:17:02] Tom Lehrer - "Bright College Days" [0:18:22] The Hoosier Hot Shots - "That's What I Learned in College" [0:21:25] The Marx Brothers - "Professor Wagstaff Presents the Football Game" [0:23:39] Chucky from Kentucky - "What It Was, Was Football Part 1." [Weridly enough, Andy Griffith does the same bit but I thought this sounded like Don Knotts.] [0:26:11] Chucky from Kentucky - "What It Was, Was Football Part 2." [0:29:27] Marguerite Michaud - "The Football Song" [0:32:28] Bruce Johnston, The Sundowners Band - "Be A Hero You Gotta Be A Football Hero" [0:34:08] Peter Stampfel featuring Shelley Hirsch - "New Football Blues (feat. Shelley Hirsch)" [0:37:50] The Jesters - "I Want to Go To The Football Game" [0:40:01] Ted Wallace And His Campus Boys - "Football Freddy" ["Ted Wallace" was a pseudonym for bandleader and vocalist Ed Kirkeby. - Discogs Bandleader, songwriter and vocalist best known as the manager of Fats Waller. Kirkeby was one of the first managers at Columbia to record jazz and he organized the California Ramblers as an entity to record hot jazz, and he used several band pseudonyms for that purpose. In this regard, he sometimes created pseudonymous individual names with orchestras for recordings on which he sang. - Second Hand Songs] [0:42:26] Wild Bill Moore - "Football Boogie" [0:45:50] Les Elgart & His Orchestra - "Homecoming (Down the Road)" [0:50:53] Mickey and His Polkamasters - "Homecoming Waltz" [0:53:44] Evans and Rogers - "Sunny Side Up / Merrily We Roll Along" [0:56:19] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156321