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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


Episodes
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Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 162 - "What Remains of Tom Lehrer" from Aug 1, 2025

8/1/2025
Music behind DJ: MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" Tom Lehrer - "Introduction" [0:02:24] The Queen's Six & Hrólfur Vagnsson - "Poisoning Pigeons" [0:05:32] Tiny Tim - "I Hold Your Hand in Mine, Dear" [0:09:14] Fred Wedlock - "Vatican Rag" [0:10:21] Cincinnati Dancing Pigs - "When You Are Old and Gray" [0:12:09] Pete Seeger - "The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be" [0:15:38] Palle Krabbe & The Crab Blues Band - "The Old Dope Peddler" [0:16:59] Steve Goodie - "The Hunting Song" [0:21:41] Adam Kay & Amateur Transplants - "Pollution" [0:22:54] Felix Janosa - "Wernher von Braun" [auf Deutsch] [0:27:20] Brobdingnagian Bards - "Irish Ballad" [0:28:45] Páll Óskar & Milljónamæringarnir - "Masó Tangó" [Icelandic] [0:31:32] Porr - "Lars Ekborg" [Swedish] [0:34:19] Mikko Perkoila - "Hei mami hei" [Finnish] [0:36:46] Byron Nilsson - "National Brotherhood Week" [0:40:04] Tom Ross - "I Wanna Go Back To Dixie" [0:42:55] Maria Kesselman - "La Vie En Rose / Fly Me to the Moon / I Got It from Agnes (Live)" [0:47:19] Tony Goldmark and Jacob Martin - "We Will All Go Together When We Go" [0:54:02] Warner Bros Orchestra - "Merrily We Roll Along" [0:57:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154599

Duration:01:06:56

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Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 160 - "Everyday People" from Jul 25, 2025

7/25/2025
MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:00:00] The Harlem Hamfats - "The Garbage Man" [0:02:01] Frank Crumit - "The Girl Friend" [0:04:27] Harold Broussard - "Hobo Man" [From Beware of the Blog, Possibly as Pops and His Key Notes] [0:07:37] John Lithgow - "The Laughing Policeman" [0:10:19] The Vagabonds - "Angelina (The Waitress at the Pizzeria)" [0:12:56] Roosevelt Sykes - "Candy Man Blues" [0:16:04] Tom Waits - "Ice Cream Man" [0:18:41] Big Joe Turner - "Ice Man Blues" [0:21:36] Baldwin Bergerson and Ensemble - "Washer Woman (Carib Song)" [0:25:38] The Browns - "The Old Lamplighter" [0:28:38] Tom Lehrer - "The Old Dope Peddler" [0:30:56] Bob Kerr and his Whoopee Band - "The Tap Dance Man" [0:32:43] Mel Tormé - "Ballerina" [0:35:41] The Crawford Light Orchestra - "Personal Secretary" [0:40:29] Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees - "The Girl in the Little Green Hat" [0:43:10] Guy Marks - "The Little Shoemaker" [0:46:29] Kay Kyser And His Orchestra - "The Fuddy Duddy Watchmaker" [0:48:43] Lee Morse - "Mail Man Blues" [0:51:52] Evans and Rogers - "Sunny Side Up / Merrily We Roll Along" [0:54:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154380

Duration:01:06:50

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Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 160 - "Meat and Bread" from Jul 18, 2025

7/18/2025
MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:00:00] Roy Brown And His Mighty-Mighty Men - "Butcher Pete Pt. 1" [0:00:45] Roy Brown And His Mighty-Mighty Men - "Butcher Pete Pt. 2" [0:03:15] Joe Thomas, His Sax & Orchestra - "Raw Meat" [0:06:49] Edgar Hayes and His Orchestra - "Fat Meat 'N Greens" [0:09:48] Fred Lane with Ron 'Pate's Debonairs - "Meat Clamp Conduit" [0:12:20] Big Bill Broonzy - "Pig Meat Strut" [Unissued Take] [0:14:03] Kansas Joe McCoy - "Meat Cutter Blues (Alt Take)" [0:17:06] Memphis Minnie - "Pig Meat On the Line" [0:20:09] [0:22:45] Memphis Seven - "Grunt Meat Blues" ["Blues group, that recorded four titles (two of which remain unissued) for Columbia in Chicago, Illinois, in 1947." - Discogs] [0:23:52] Vicki Morgan With Nelson's New Orleans Trio - "Swingaroo" [Only release, wrong side recorded in archive.org] [0:26:34] Victor Zembruski And His Orchestra - "What's Cooking, Mary! (Maryna Gotuj Pirogi)" [0:29:11] Marais & Miranda - "How Lovely Cooks The Meat" [0:31:56] Spike Jones And His City Slickers - "Shortnin' Bread" [0:36:31] C.W. Stoneking - "She's a Bread Baker" [0:38:24] Lonnie Johnson with Elmer Snowden - "Jelly Roll Baker" [0:41:38] Sam Mayo - "Bread and Marmalade" [0:46:19] The Adcock Family - "Baker's Breakdown" [Fonotone Records, Joe Broussard's (Mono Only) Label] [0:48:52] Alberta Hunter - "Your Bread May Be Good But It Ain't As Good As Mine" [Unissued Take] [0:51:55] Eddie Cantor - "Merrily We Roll Along" [0:54:33] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154214

Duration:01:05:22

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Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 159 - "Presents Lee Morse" from Jul 11, 2025

7/11/2025
MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:00:00] Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys - "'Tain't No Sin (To Dance Around In Your Bones)" [0:00:47] Miss Lee Morse And Her Blue Grass Boys - "Everybody Loves My Baby" [0:06:07] Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys - "Ukelele Lady" [0:09:01] Miss Lee Morse And Her Blue Grass Boys - "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby" [0:11:39] Miss Lee Morse and Her Bluegrass Boys - "Want a Little Lovin'" [0:14:30] Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys - "He's Still My Baby" [0:17:17] Miss Lee Morse - "To-night You Belong To Me" [0:20:11] Lee Morse - "Side by Side" [0:24:14] Lee Morse and her Southern Serenaders - "Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs off the Moon" [0:27:30] Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys - "Ain't He Sweet?" [0:29:48] Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys - "If You Want The Rainbow (You Must Have The Rain)" [0:32:53] Music behind DJ: Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys - "I'm An Unemployed Sweetheart (Looking For Somebody To Love)" [0:36:10] Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys - "It's The Girl!" [0:39:42] Music behind DJ: [LEE MORSE, SINGER, DIES Appeared on Stage and Radio – Composed Many Songs ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 16 (AP) – Lee Morse, blues singer of the Nineteen Twenties and Thirties, died today . Her age was 50. She was the wife of Ray Farese, communications operator for the city fire and police bureaus. Miss Morse starred in “Artists and Models” and “Hitchy Coo” in New York in the Twenties. She started her radio career with “The Blue Grass Boys” an orchestra that included Glenn Miller, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman. She composed many songs including “Shadows on the Wall” and Don't Even Change a Picture on the Wall.” Also surviving her is Glenn Taylor, a brother, who was formerly the Democratic Senator from Idaho. He ran for Vice President on the Progressive ticket in 1948. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- She was 57. The NYT Times had also run another obituary more than 20 years earlier for her,] [0:43:06] Lee Morse - "Careless Love" [0:47:21] Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys - "Don't Even Change A Picture On The Wall" [0:49:57] Norah Jones, Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks - "If You Want The Rainbow (You Must Have The Rain)" [0:52:45] George Daugherty & The Sydney Symphony - "Warner Bros. Fanfare / Merrily We Roll Along" [0:56:10] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153851

Duration:01:06:52