WFMU: Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from July 15, 2022

Listener comments!
	7:04am DJ GeorgyGirl: Hi, everyone! I'll be streaming MHLee's show today and hosting the chat :-)
	7:51am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Georgy!
	7:55am DJ GeorgyGirl: Hi Jan!
	7:55am DJ GeorgyGirl: We've been having server problems overnight so fingers crossed everything goes ahead as planned :-)
	7:57am Jan Turkenburg: Yes, I've read it. For the moment we have sound again.
	7:58am DJ GeorgyGirl: Excellent! :-)
	8:00am DJ GeorgyGirl: Here we go!
	8:00am DJ GeorgyGirl: Coming through okay?
	8:00am Jan Turkenburg: I'm hearing the mwra intro!
	8:00am DJ GeorgyGirl: Yay!
	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 :-)
	8:04am DJ GeorgyGirl: This music is precisely what I needed today :-)
	8:05am Jan Turkenburg: :-)
	8:06am DJ GeorgyGirl: Fingers crossed, today is my last contagious day so I can actually leave the house tomorrow!
	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
	8:06am DJ GeorgyGirl: This is fabulous!!!
	8:07am Jan Turkenburg: of it
	8:08am Jan Turkenburg: ah another yodling track for my collection!
	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!
	8:09am DJ GeorgyGirl: Hi MHLee!! :-) This music is wonderful :-)
	8:09am Jan Turkenburg: Hi MHLee! sorry to hear about the bus.
	8:11am Jan Turkenburg: Btw, Today I just found the archives of an audio antiquities show I didn't know about yet: wfmu.org...
	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
	8:12am DJ GeorgyGirl: Bonzos everywhere are rejoicing!
	8:13am DJ GeorgyGirl: @MHLee - I am thoroughly enjoying today's show :-)
	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!
	8:16am Jan Turkenburg: That's what atracts me to this period as well.
	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" :-)
	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 :-)
	8:19am Jan Turkenburg: And I love these old theatre organs too
	8:19am DJ GeorgyGirl: Me too! :-)
	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
	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.
	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
	8:24am DJ GeorgyGirl: That better?
	8:27am MHLee: Might just be my speaker
	8:27am DJ GeorgyGirl: It was a little low here so I upped the gain a bit for it :-)
	8:29am DJ GeorgyGirl: The vagaries of the English accent: Bahhklee Squaah ;-)
	8:30am DJ GeorgyGirl: I've been to Berkeley Square many a time but sadly never heard a nightingale there.
	8:32am DJ GeorgyGirl: Fun fact: Berkeley Square is in Mayfair, the most expensive property on the British Monopoly board ;-)
	8:33am DJ GeorgyGirl: Billy Cotton's sporting a rather magnificent waistcoat there!
	8:35am worldsworstrecords: Finally! I got the time sort of right!
	8:36am DJ GeorgyGirl: Hello Darryl! :-) Just in time for the Bonzos :-)
	8:37am worldsworstrecords: And for my favourite WWRRS Sinatra cut!
	8:37am worldsworstrecords: H Georgy! Hi Mason if you're still lurking!
	8:37am DJ GeorgyGirl: Lol!
	8:37am DJ GeorgyGirl: Better than "Night and Day", the disco version? ;-)
	8:37am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Darryl!
	8:37am worldsworstrecords: How are you feeling today, lovely?
	8:38am worldsworstrecords: Hi Jan!
	8:38am DJ GeorgyGirl: Still breathless but DEFINITELY better :-) Today should be my last contagious day, so I can escape tomorrow! Hooray!!
	8:39am worldsworstrecords: Yay!
	8:41am worldsworstrecords: I can hear Frank Muir singing this, shilling Ty-Phoo tea
	8:41am DJ GeorgyGirl: @Darryl - I was literally thinking of Frank Muir. Lol
	8:42am DJ GeorgyGirl: Activate Darryl Happiness!
	8:43am worldsworstrecords: This isn't Frank, maybe I'm misremembering? www.youtube.com...
	8:43am worldsworstrecords: Muir, not Sinatra...
	8:44am DJ GeorgyGirl: E-I-E-I-Daddy-o ;-)
	8:44am worldsworstrecords: It's still better than Mama Will Bark
	8:46am DJ GeorgyGirl: @Darryl - The voice is REALLY familiar!
	8:47am DJ GeorgyGirl: Armstrong and Miller ;-)
	8:47am worldsworstrecords: They did a brilliant send up
	8:49am DJ GeorgyGirl: Doesn't matter how old I get, the slightest hint of mud and that is what I sing :-)
	8:50am worldsworstrecords: This is brilliant!
	8:50am worldsworstrecords: Never hears this before... love it!
	8:51am worldsworstrecords: It sounds like a carbon copy of a Spike Jones recording though
	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 :-)
	8:51am worldsworstrecords: I'm so glad!
	8:52am DJ GeorgyGirl: Two weeks? Week and a half? I'm losing track of time. Lol
	8:52am worldsworstrecords: Apparent 'The Flies..' wasn't Spike Jones originally but Jack Hulbert
	8:53am DJ GeorgyGirl: Darryl will understand what I mean ... this music is making me want sardines on toast for tea :-)
	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 :-)
	8:56am worldsworstrecords: hahaha!
	8:56am worldsworstrecords: A mug of Ovaltine
	8:56am DJ GeorgyGirl: Mmmmmm :-)
	8:56am worldsworstrecords: Pikelets (crumpets), fish paste sandwiches...
	8:57am DJ GeorgyGirl: I'm getting quite emotional now. In a good way. :-)
	8:58am DJ GeorgyGirl: What an utterly delightful version that was <3
	8:59am DJ GeorgyGirl: MHLee - that was WONDERFUL!!! <3
	8:59am worldsworstrecords: That was so lovely... great show MHL!
	8:59am DJ GeorgyGirl: I'm sitting here crying like a lunatic. Lol
	9:00am Jan Turkenburg: delightful show, thanks MHLee!
	9:01am worldsworstrecords: Awww... better dry those tears before this evening, GG x
	9:01am DJ GeorgyGirl: I just sent the link to my friend Diane <3
	9:01am worldsworstrecords: Bye everyone!
	9:01am DJ GeorgyGirl: @Darryl - xx
	9:02am Jan Turkenburg: bye bye!
	9:03am DJ GeorgyGirl: Thank you MHLee!! <3
	9:17am MHLee: Thanks everybody for listening!
	👻 10:22am WR: We are all animals.
	👻 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.
	👻 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.
	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

Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from July 15, 2022

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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.

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July 15, 2022: Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 8 - "Man gave names to all the animals"

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

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Listener comments!
	7:04am DJ GeorgyGirl: Hi, everyone! I'll be streaming MHLee's show today and hosting the chat :-)
	7:51am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Georgy!
	7:55am DJ GeorgyGirl: Hi Jan!
	7:55am DJ GeorgyGirl: We've been having server problems overnight so fingers crossed everything goes ahead as planned :-)
	7:57am Jan Turkenburg: Yes, I've read it. For the moment we have sound again.
	7:58am DJ GeorgyGirl: Excellent! :-)
	8:00am DJ GeorgyGirl: Here we go!
	8:00am DJ GeorgyGirl: Coming through okay?
	8:00am Jan Turkenburg: I'm hearing the mwra intro!
	8:00am DJ GeorgyGirl: Yay!
	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 :-)
	8:04am DJ GeorgyGirl: This music is precisely what I needed today :-)
	8:05am Jan Turkenburg: :-)
	8:06am DJ GeorgyGirl: Fingers crossed, today is my last contagious day so I can actually leave the house tomorrow!
	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
	8:06am DJ GeorgyGirl: This is fabulous!!!
	8:07am Jan Turkenburg: of it
	8:08am Jan Turkenburg: ah another yodling track for my collection!
	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!
	8:09am DJ GeorgyGirl: Hi MHLee!! :-) This music is wonderful :-)
	8:09am Jan Turkenburg: Hi MHLee! sorry to hear about the bus.
	8:11am Jan Turkenburg: Btw, Today I just found the archives of an audio antiquities show I didn't know about yet: wfmu.org...
	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
	8:12am DJ GeorgyGirl: Bonzos everywhere are rejoicing!
	8:13am DJ GeorgyGirl: @MHLee - I am thoroughly enjoying today's show :-)
	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!
	8:16am Jan Turkenburg: That's what atracts me to this period as well.
	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" :-)
	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 :-)
	8:19am Jan Turkenburg: And I love these old theatre organs too
	8:19am DJ GeorgyGirl: Me too! :-)
	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
	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.
	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
	8:24am DJ GeorgyGirl: That better?
	8:27am MHLee: Might just be my speaker
	8:27am DJ GeorgyGirl: It was a little low here so I upped the gain a bit for it :-)
	8:29am DJ GeorgyGirl: The vagaries of the English accent: Bahhklee Squaah ;-)
	8:30am DJ GeorgyGirl: I've been to Berkeley Square many a time but sadly never heard a nightingale there.
	8:32am DJ GeorgyGirl: Fun fact: Berkeley Square is in Mayfair, the most expensive property on the British Monopoly board ;-)
	8:33am DJ GeorgyGirl: Billy Cotton's sporting a rather magnificent waistcoat there!
	8:35am worldsworstrecords: Finally! I got the time sort of right!
	8:36am DJ GeorgyGirl: Hello Darryl! :-) Just in time for the Bonzos :-)
	8:37am worldsworstrecords: And for my favourite WWRRS Sinatra cut!
	8:37am worldsworstrecords: H Georgy! Hi Mason if you're still lurking!
	8:37am DJ GeorgyGirl: Lol!
	8:37am DJ GeorgyGirl: Better than "Night and Day", the disco version? ;-)
	8:37am Jan Turkenburg: Hi Darryl!
	8:37am worldsworstrecords: How are you feeling today, lovely?
	8:38am worldsworstrecords: Hi Jan!
	8:38am DJ GeorgyGirl: Still breathless but DEFINITELY better :-) Today should be my last contagious day, so I can escape tomorrow! Hooray!!
	8:39am worldsworstrecords: Yay!
	8:41am worldsworstrecords: I can hear Frank Muir singing this, shilling Ty-Phoo tea
	8:41am DJ GeorgyGirl: @Darryl - I was literally thinking of Frank Muir. Lol
	8:42am DJ GeorgyGirl: Activate Darryl Happiness!
	8:43am worldsworstrecords: This isn't Frank, maybe I'm misremembering? www.youtube.com...
	8:43am worldsworstrecords: Muir, not Sinatra...
	8:44am DJ GeorgyGirl: E-I-E-I-Daddy-o ;-)
	8:44am worldsworstrecords: It's still better than Mama Will Bark
	8:46am DJ GeorgyGirl: @Darryl - The voice is REALLY familiar!
	8:47am DJ GeorgyGirl: Armstrong and Miller ;-)
	8:47am worldsworstrecords: They did a brilliant send up
	8:49am DJ GeorgyGirl: Doesn't matter how old I get, the slightest hint of mud and that is what I sing :-)
	8:50am worldsworstrecords: This is brilliant!
	8:50am worldsworstrecords: Never hears this before... love it!
	8:51am worldsworstrecords: It sounds like a carbon copy of a Spike Jones recording though
	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 :-)
	8:51am worldsworstrecords: I'm so glad!
	8:52am DJ GeorgyGirl: Two weeks? Week and a half? I'm losing track of time. Lol
	8:52am worldsworstrecords: Apparent 'The Flies..' wasn't Spike Jones originally but Jack Hulbert
	8:53am DJ GeorgyGirl: Darryl will understand what I mean ... this music is making me want sardines on toast for tea :-)
	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 :-)
	8:56am worldsworstrecords: hahaha!
	8:56am worldsworstrecords: A mug of Ovaltine
	8:56am DJ GeorgyGirl: Mmmmmm :-)
	8:56am worldsworstrecords: Pikelets (crumpets), fish paste sandwiches...
	8:57am DJ GeorgyGirl: I'm getting quite emotional now. In a good way. :-)
	8:58am DJ GeorgyGirl: What an utterly delightful version that was <3
	8:59am DJ GeorgyGirl: MHLee - that was WONDERFUL!!! <3
	8:59am worldsworstrecords: That was so lovely... great show MHL!
	8:59am DJ GeorgyGirl: I'm sitting here crying like a lunatic. Lol
	9:00am Jan Turkenburg: delightful show, thanks MHLee!
	9:01am worldsworstrecords: Awww... better dry those tears before this evening, GG x
	9:01am DJ GeorgyGirl: I just sent the link to my friend Diane <3
	9:01am worldsworstrecords: Bye everyone!
	9:01am DJ GeorgyGirl: @Darryl - xx
	9:02am Jan Turkenburg: bye bye!
	9:03am DJ GeorgyGirl: Thank you MHLee!! <3
	9:17am MHLee: Thanks everybody for listening!
	👻 10:22am WR: We are all animals.
	👻 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.
	👻 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.
	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

Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from July 15, 2022

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