
Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee | WFMU
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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.
Location:
Jersey City, NJ
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Website:
https://wfmu.org/playlists/A3
Episodes
May 30, 2025: Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 154 "I Often Dream of Trains" from Jun 6, 2025
6/6/2025
MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:00:00]
Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra - "Dream Train" [0:00:48]
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo - "Casey Jones Special" [0:05:24]
Jack Mudurian - "The Wabash Cannonball" [0:08:20]
Die Geschwister Pfister - "Take the "A" Train" [0:08:36]
The Mudbug Stompers - "Train Robbing Blues" [0:11:25]
Memphis Jug Band - "I Packed My Suitcase, Started To The Train" [Female vocals by Jennie Clayton] [0:15:04]
Mint Julep Jazz Band - "It Takes A Long Long Train With A Red Caboose (To Carry My Blues Away)" [0:19:41]
Pat Boone - "Crazy Train" [0:25:05]
Peter Grudzien - "The Longest Train I Ever Saw / Give The Fiddler A Dram" [0:29:28]
Red River Dave - "Little Red Caboose Behind the Train" [Another tragedy backed by Frank Novak and The Sourwood Mountain Boys] [0:33:33]
The Delmore Brothers - "Freight Train Boogie" [0:36:37]
Jamaica Johnny og hans Calypso Boys - "Last Train to San Fernando" [Discogs says "Born in Surinam; so he's not from Jamaica. They usually called him Nelis Liefeld. He was discovered in Holland as a bongo player-singer by Dutch songwriter Melle Weersma. He started his musical career with the orchestra of Juan Serrano, but he got best known for his version of the skiffle hit "Last train to San Fernando" in 1957."] [0:41:01]
Norman Rose - "Train to the Zoo (Side 1)" [Features Pete Seeger and The Weavers.] [0:44:44]
Norman Rose - "Train to the Zoo (Side 2)" [0:48:05]
Jack Mudurian - "Wabash Cannonball" [0:52:04]
Carl Martin - "Railroad Blues" [Fiddler for Howard Armstrong] [0:52:35]
Danville Dan - "Train to Danville" [Really Bob Coltman on Fonotone (Joe Bussard's) 78 Label.] [0:55:25]
Keith & Rusty McNeil - "I Don't Like No Railroad Man" [0:58:47]
Eddie Cantor - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:59:18] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152816
Duration:01:06:54
Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 153 "Big Joe Turner" from May 30, 2025
5/30/2025
MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme"
Big Joe Turner - "Shake, Rattle And Roll"
Joe Turner And Pete Johnson - "Roll 'Em Pete" [Pete Johnson on piano, sometimes considered the first Rock'n'roll song.]
Big Joe Turner with Willie "The Lion" Smith - "Careless Love"
Joe Turner with Bill Moore's Lucky Seven - "Mad Blues"
Wynonie "Mr. Blues" Harris and "Big Joe" Turner - "Battle Of The Blues, Part 1"
Wynonie "Mr. Blues" Harris and "Big Joe" Turner - "Battle Of The Blues, Part 2"
Music behind DJ:
Big Joe Turner - "Low Down Dog" [Recorded a couple of times under different names]
Big Joe Turner - "Morning Glory"
Joe Turner with Flennoy Trio - "Oo-Ouch-Stop"
Big Joe Turner accompanied by Dave Bartholomew And His Orchestra - "Lucille" [Dave Bartholomew is the co-writer on most of Fats Domino's outpiut.]
Joe Turner - "Honey Hush" [Apparently recorded in a radio station WDSU with scourged together band]
Joe Turner - "You're the Cream in My Coffee" [This seems to be a misidentification labelling on CD which I repeat here. This is probably this Joe Turner.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/310288-Joe-Turner... it's doesn't help Joe Turner preformed jazz with Count Basie and small jazz combos.]
Big Joe Turner with Bill Haley's Comets - "Corrina, Corrina" [Orfeon/Dimsa Records out of Mexico]
Joe Turner, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Clark Terry - "Mornin', Noon, and Night"
Big Joe Tuner, Roomful of Blues, Dr. John - "I Want a Little Girl"
Eddie Cantor - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme"
- "bonus track" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152563
Duration:01:07:03
Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 152 - "Three Years" from May 23, 2025
5/23/2025
MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:00:00]
The Memphis Jug Band - "Sugar Pudding" [0:00:49]
King Bennie Nawahi - "Singin' in the Bathtub" [0:05:14]
The Four Aces - "Garbage Man" [0:07:39]
Charlie Poole & His North Carolina Ramblers - "I'm the Man Who Rode the Mule Around the World" [0:10:18]
The Jazz-O-Harmonists - "Snake Hips (A Jungle Jazz)" [0:13:40]
Frank Petty Trio - "Pino Pantaloni "The Salami and Sausage Man"" [0:18:56]
Baby Gramps Trio - "Breakfast Blues" [0:21:50]
Tom Waits - "Ice Cream Man" [0:26:27]
Russ Chandler - "Syncopatin' Shuffle" [0:29:36]
Ice Cream in A Mug - "Button Up Your Overcoat" [0:32:36]
Hoagy Carmichael - "The Monkey Song" [0:35:08]
Jim Gill - "Laughing' in Rhythm" [0:37:49]
The Elliott Brothers - "In the Mood" [0:42:23]
The Four Clefs - "I Like Pie I Like Cake" [0:45:13]
Spike Jones and His City Slickers - "The Glow Worm" [0:48:06]
Bernard Cribbins - "Gossip Calypso" [0:51:14]
Hal Swain And His Band - "Hunting Tigers out in Indiah" [0:53:24]
The Pasadena Roof Orchestra - "Looney Tunes" [0:56:11] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152363
Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 151 - "The Swinigin' Sixties" from May 16, 2025
5/16/2025
MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:00:00]
The Beatles - "Honey Pie" [0:00:49]
Dave Van Ronk and The Ragtime Jug Stompers - "You's A Viper" [0:04:34]
Napoleon XIV - "Let's Cuddle Up in My Security Blanket" [0:07:06]
Rudy Vallee - "My Blue Heaven" [0:08:49]
Spike Jones and the Band That Plays for Fun - "Knock, Knock, Who's There?" [0:10:58]
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions - "On the Road Again" [0:13:32]
Dutch Swing College Band - "Milord" [0:16:24]
The Patron Saints - "Do You Think About Me? - Live" [0:18:43]
Alberts - "Morse Code Melody" [0:23:28]
The Bonzo Dog Band - "By A Waterfall" [0:25:46]
Flanders & Swann - "A Transport of Delight" [0:29:00]
Tiny Tim - "Hello, Hello" [0:31:24]
Nancy Sinatra - "Button Up Your Overcoat" [0:34:53]
Alan Price Set - "Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear" [Live BBC] [0:37:13]
Tom Lehrer - "Folk Song Army" [0:39:19]
Donovan - "Car Car (Riding in My Car)" [0:41:30]
Even Dozen Jug Band - "Overseas Stomp" [0:42:59]
Dr. West’s Medicine Show and Junk Band - "The Old Fruit Peddler" [0:44:44]
Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band - "I'm Satisfied With My Gal" [0:47:18]
The Temperance Seven and Peter Sellers - "Ukelele Lady" [0:51:21]
New Vaudeville Band - "I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet" [0:54:06]
Mrs. Miller - "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" [0:56:26]
Triotoons - "Merrily We Roll Along (Theme form "Merry Melodies")" [0:58:44] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152138