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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.

Friday 8 - 9am (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting July 15, 2022: Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 8 - "Man gave names to all the animals"

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Circus Clown Calliope (Electric Lemon Record Co.) 
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Kay Kyser (Gloria Wood & Harry Babbitt)  Woody Woodpecker   Favoriting
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Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds  Mbube   Favoriting
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C.W. Stoneking  Talkin' Lion Blues   Favoriting
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Hal Swain And His Band  Hunting Tigers Out in India   Favoriting
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Billy Jones & Ernest Hare  Go 'long Mule   Favoriting
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Eddie Layton  Alley Cat   Favoriting
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Peter Stampfel  Whistler and His Dog   Favoriting
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Sibyl Sanderson Fagan  The Bird & Saxophone   Favoriting
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Music behind DJ:
Circus Clown Calliope (Electric Lemon Record Co.) 
What d' Ye Mean You Lost Yer Dog   Favoriting
 
New Vaudeville Band  A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square   Favoriting
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Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians  Pink Elephants   Favoriting
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Billy Cotton & His Band  Horsey, Horsey (Don't You Stop)   Favoriting
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The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band  Ali Baba's Camel   Favoriting
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The Muppet Show - British Chap  The Gnu Song   Favoriting
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Frank Sinatra  Ol' MacDonald   Favoriting
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Flanders & Swann  The Hippopotamus Song (live)   Favoriting
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Ray Starita & His Ambassadors Band  The Flies Crawled up the Window   Favoriting
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Spike Jones and his City Slickers  The Glow Worm   Favoriting
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John Lithgow  The Inchworm   Favoriting
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Music behind DJ:
Circus Clown Calliope (Electric Lemon Record Co.) 
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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:04am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Hi, everyone!
I'll be streaming MHLee's show today and hosting the chat :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:51am
Jan Turkenburg:

Hi Georgy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:55am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Hi Jan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:55am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

We've been having server problems overnight so fingers crossed everything goes ahead as planned :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:57am
Jan Turkenburg:

Yes, I've read it. For the moment we have sound again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:58am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Excellent! :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Here we go!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Coming through okay?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00am
Jan Turkenburg:

I'm hearing the mwra intro!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Yay!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:02am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

I see we have a New Vaudeville Band track coming up - I saw them live in concert many moons ago and they were fabulous :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:04am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

This music is precisely what I needed today :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:05am
Jan Turkenburg:

:-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:06am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Fingers crossed, today is my last contagious day so I can actually leave the house tomorrow!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:06am
Jan Turkenburg:

Ah, I played this Mbube track at the end of susna a week ago. Must be one opf the oldest recordings
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:06am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

This is fabulous!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:07am
Jan Turkenburg:

of it
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:08am
Jan Turkenburg:

ah another yodling track for my collection!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:08am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

You're getting a shopping list! :-)
  8:08am
MHLee:

Hi, everyone. My flight was delayed so I missed my bus. Won't be leaving again for hours. Thanks so much, GG!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:09am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Hi MHLee!! :-) This music is wonderful :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:09am
Jan Turkenburg:

Hi MHLee! sorry to hear about the bus.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:11am
Jan Turkenburg:

Btw, Today I just found the archives of an audio antiquities show I didn't know about yet: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:12am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Citizen Kafka!!! Very much missed <3
  8:12am
MHLee:

CW Stoneking is in the pilot of Over the Garden Wall, where I find him
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:12am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Bonzos everywhere are rejoicing!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:13am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

@MHLee - I am thoroughly enjoying today's show :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:15am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

When I was a child, I was OBSESSED with music from the 20s and 30s. Everyone seemed to be having so much fun :-)
  8:16am
MHLee:

That's true!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:16am
Jan Turkenburg:

That's what atracts me to this period as well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:17am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

The golden age of radio fascinates me as well - there's such a sense of pioneer spirit and "anything is possible" :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:18am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Chris bought a music magazine today, and Pavement are on the cover, with one of the band sporting a WFMU t-shirt :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19am
Jan Turkenburg:

And I love these old theatre organs too
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Me too! :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

This makes me think of childhood trips to the seaside :-)
  8:19am
MHLee:

Originally i had another cat song "What Does the Pussy Cat Mean When He Says Meow" or something very close from the Happiness Boys we just heard but it contains a very weird line about spaghetti with an anti-Italian slur... and Go on Mule seemed fun
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:20am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

@MHLee - I loved Go On Mule! :-)
  8:21am
MHLee:

This is off an album where Peter Stampfel recorded one song for every year in the 20th century.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:22am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Citizen Kafka had the most outrageous archive collection of acetates from the 20s and 30s. A time when recording companies would rock up in a field in Pig Holler Creek in the middle of nowhere, set up their equipment and record ANYONE for a fee. And then they'd bugger off again. So, Kafka had 1000s of these acetates of vocal groups. Fascinating stuff.
  8:23am
MHLee:

Might want to to turn this one up to hear the whistling seems to have have recorded poorly
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:24am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

That better?
  8:27am
MHLee:

Might just be my speaker
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:27am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

It was a little low here so I upped the gain a bit for it :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:29am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

The vagaries of the English accent: Bahhklee Squaah ;-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:30am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

I've been to Berkeley Square many a time but sadly never heard a nightingale there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:32am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Fun fact: Berkeley Square is in Mayfair, the most expensive property on the British Monopoly board ;-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:33am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Billy Cotton's sporting a rather magnificent waistcoat there!
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worldsworstrecords:

Finally! I got the time sort of right!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:36am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Hello Darryl! :-) Just in time for the Bonzos :-)
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worldsworstrecords:

And for my favourite WWRRS Sinatra cut!
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worldsworstrecords:

H Georgy! Hi Mason if you're still lurking!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:37am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Lol!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:37am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Better than "Night and Day", the disco version? ;-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:37am
Jan Turkenburg:

Hi Darryl!
Avatar 8:37am
worldsworstrecords:

How are you feeling today, lovely?
Avatar 8:38am
worldsworstrecords:

Hi Jan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:38am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Still breathless but DEFINITELY better :-) Today should be my last contagious day, so I can escape tomorrow! Hooray!!
Avatar 8:39am
worldsworstrecords:

Yay!
Avatar 8:41am
worldsworstrecords:

I can hear Frank Muir singing this, shilling Ty-Phoo tea
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:41am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

@Darryl - I was literally thinking of Frank Muir. Lol
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:42am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Activate Darryl Happiness!
Avatar 8:43am
worldsworstrecords:

This isn't Frank, maybe I'm misremembering? www.youtube.com...
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worldsworstrecords:

Muir, not Sinatra...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:44am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

E-I-E-I-Daddy-o ;-)
Avatar 8:44am
worldsworstrecords:

It's still better than Mama Will Bark
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:46am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

@Darryl - The voice is REALLY familiar!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:47am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Armstrong and Miller ;-)
Avatar 8:47am
worldsworstrecords:

They did a brilliant send up
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:49am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Doesn't matter how old I get, the slightest hint of mud and that is what I sing :-)
Avatar 8:50am
worldsworstrecords:

This is brilliant!
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worldsworstrecords:

Never hears this before... love it!
Avatar 8:51am
worldsworstrecords:

It sounds like a carbon copy of a Spike Jones recording though
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:51am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

I've spent the last two weeks feeling like absolute bilgewater, and between Darryl on Wednesday and MHLee today, I'm cheering up tremendously :-)
Avatar 8:51am
worldsworstrecords:

I'm so glad!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:52am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Two weeks? Week and a half? I'm losing track of time. Lol
Avatar 8:52am
worldsworstrecords:

Apparent 'The Flies..' wasn't Spike Jones originally but Jack Hulbert
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:53am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Darryl will understand what I mean ... this music is making me want sardines on toast for tea :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:55am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

I feel like I've just had my Sunday bath, I'm in my clean pyjamas and slippers, and I'm about to have my tea before bed. It's a lovely, comforting feeling :-)
Avatar 8:56am
worldsworstrecords:

hahaha!
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worldsworstrecords:

A mug of Ovaltine
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:56am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Mmmmmm :-)
Avatar 8:56am
worldsworstrecords:

Pikelets (crumpets), fish paste sandwiches...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:57am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

I'm getting quite emotional now. In a good way. :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:58am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

What an utterly delightful version that was <3
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

MHLee - that was WONDERFUL!!! <3
Avatar 8:59am
worldsworstrecords:

That was so lovely... great show MHL!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

I'm sitting here crying like a lunatic. Lol
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00am
Jan Turkenburg:

delightful show, thanks MHLee!
Avatar 9:01am
worldsworstrecords:

Awww... better dry those tears before this evening, GG x
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:01am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

I just sent the link to my friend Diane <3
Avatar 9:01am
worldsworstrecords:

Bye everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:01am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

@Darryl - xx
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02am
Jan Turkenburg:

bye bye!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:03am
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Thank you MHLee!! <3
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:17am
MHLee:

Thanks everybody for listening!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:22am
WR:

We are all animals.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:34am
WR:

Was not aware of the song "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" until seeing the adaptation of Gaiman / Pratchett Good Omens. So I don't have well established concept of the song. Still the New Vaudeville Band version seems to make efforts to include any tic they can from their hit Winchester Cathedral, or maybe they did the same tics all the time.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:04pm
WR:

Outstanding episode. Great listen and several threads to follow up on. I learned of Inch worm from John Coltrane recording. Now want to hear more song versions.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:08pm
MHLee:

You're right about "A Nightengale'... interestingly of the some of the New Vaudeville Bands they get awfully close to the Kinks
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