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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

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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.

Language:

English


Episodes
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Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 169 - "September Songs" from Sep 19, 2025

9/19/2025
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

Duration:01:06:38

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Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 167 - "It's A Woman's World" from Sep 12, 2025

9/12/2025
MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:00:00] Congress-Woman Malinda Jackson Parker - "Elizabeth (In Honor of President Tubman's Mother)" [0:00:43] Duncan Sisters - "The Baby Sisters Blues" [0:04:34] The DeZurik Sisters (The Cackle Sisters) - "I Left Her Standing There (With A Doo-Dad In Her Hair)" [0:06:59] Country Girl Kay - "Mocking Bird Valley" [0:09:20] Les Paul & Mary Ford - "Mockin’ Bird Hill" [0:11:39] Jimmie Grier & His Orchestra and The Boswell Sisters - "Rock and Roll" [0:13:49] The Andrew Sisters - "The Telephone Song" [0:16:37] The DeJohn Sisters - "(My Baby Don't Love Me) No More" [0:19:03] Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen - "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out" [0:22:43] Sophie Tucker With Ted Shapiro & His Orchestra - "He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday" [0:26:11] Cora Green - "I'll Tell The World (You're All The World To Me)" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cora_Green] [0:29:05] Dee Settlemier with Oliver's Hot Five - "Georgia Grind" [0:30:43] Bessie Smith And Her Blue Boys - "Alexander's Ragtime Band" [0:34:18] Alberta Hunter - "Your Bread May Be Good But It Ain't As Good As Mine" [0:37:19] Company B Jazz Band - "Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)" [0:39:50] Doris Day & Les Brown Orchestra - "Booglie Wooglie Piggy" [0:44:38] Marilyn Monroe - "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" [0:47:39] Lee Morse - "Careless Love" [0:52:45] Evans and Rogers - "Sunny Side Up / Merrily We Roll Along" [0:55:53] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156064

Duration:01:06:46

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Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 166 - "In Old King Tutankhamen's Day " from Sep 5, 2025

9/5/2025
MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:00:00] Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo - "Egyptian March" [0:01:59] Evans and Rogers - "Old King Tut" [0:06:11] Golden Gate Orchestra (California Ramblers) - "Pharaoh Land" [0:09:16] Lyman's California Ambassador Orchestra - "Queen of Egypt" [0:12:15] Douglas Byng - "I'm A Mummy (An Old Egyptian Queen)" [0:15:34] uncredited - "King Tut" [0:21:55] Margie Rae - "Queen of the Nile" [0:25:43] Edison Concert Band - "Dance of the Nile Maidens" [0:30:34] Louisiana Rhythm Kings - "There's Egypt in Your Dreamy Eyes" [0:40:40] Harry Roy and His Dance-Orchestra at the Mayfair Hotel, London - "When It's Thursday Night In Egypt" [0:40:41] Kapelmeister Stern mit seiner Künstlerkapelle vom Hotal Adlon, Berlin - "Pharaoah!" [0:41:08] Regimental Band of The Republic - "Egypt" [0:04:03] Frankie Mullec and His Orchestra - "Pyramid Polka" [0:44:23] Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - "Pyramid" [0:45:21] Buddy De Franco and his Orchestra - "Pyramid" [0:48:27] Harry A. Yerkes' Dance Orchestra - "Mystic Nile" [0:51:04] The Regent Classic Orchestra - "In the Mystic Land of Egpyt" [0:53:34] Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo - "Egyptian March (Reprise)" [0:56:35] Eddie Cantor - "Merrily We Roll Along" [0:57:10] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155857

Duration:01:06:33

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Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 166 - "Any Old Street, Any Old Town" from Aug 29, 2025

8/29/2025
MHLee - "Merrily We Roll Along Theme" [0:00:00] John Lithgow, Madeleine Peyroux - "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" [0:02:04] Louis Prima - "Basin Street Blues / When It's Sleepy Time Down South" [0:04:55] Ivory Joe Hunter - "Seventh Street Boogie" [0:09:11] Charlie Spand, Blind Blake - "Hastings Street" [0:11:58] Art Hodes Columbia Quintet - "103rd Street Boogie" [0:15:16] Eddie Calvert And His Golden Trumpet - "Mystery Street" [0:20:19] Monroe Silver - "The Shiek Of Avenue "B"" [0:23:02] Ernest Butcher - "Peaceful Street" [0:25:54] Howard Armstrong - "State Street Rag" [0:29:13] Madame Riviere's Hawaiians - "Fort Street" [0:32:02] Memphis Jug Band - "Beale Street Mess Around" [0:35:43] Triple Trouble Ragtime Band - "Beale Street Mama" [0:38:41] Darrell Fischer and His "Log Jammers" - "Main Street" [0:44:16] Temperance Seven - "Twelfth Street Rag" [0:47:21] The Bay City Seven - "Decatur Street Tutti" [0:50:39] Dutch Swing College Band - "Annie Street Rock" [0:53:23] Evans and Rogers - "Sunny Side Up / Merrily We Roll Along" [0:56:17] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155621

Duration:01:06:51