Favoriting Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from August 12, 2022 Favoriting

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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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Favoriting August 12, 2022: Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 11 - "Howling Harmonies"

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MHLee  Merrily We Roll Along Theme   Favoriting    
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Kristofer Maddigan 

Inkwell Isle Two (Piano)   Favoriting

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Raymond Scott and his New Orchestra  Get Happy   Favoriting 1941  Original theme to Merrie Melodies was a version of this song. 
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Farmer Al Falfa  Ye Olde Songs   Favoriting 1932  Complete episode of Teryrtoons. I am not sure who preforms the music. 
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Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra  Felix The Cat   Favoriting 1929   
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Kristofer Maddigan 

Treetop Trouble   Favoriting

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Russ Morgan (Jimmie Lewis, vocal)  The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down   Favoriting 1937   
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Irving Kaufman  Steamboat Bill   Favoriting 1919  Instrumental version used for theme to Steamboat Willie. 
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Frank Sinatra  The Woody Woodpecker Song   Favoriting 1948  Sometimes considered the worst Frank Sinatra recording. On Hit Parade and with Kay Kyser's having a number 1 hit with it, he had to sing it. 
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Kristofer Maddigan  Inkwell Isle Three   Favoriting 2017   
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Mae Questel and Rudy Vallee  Don't Take My Boop Oop A Doop Away   Favoriting 1931  Betty Boop's character and singing was based on Helen Kane who took her signing style from the black singer Esther Jones, which was revealed in a lawsuit against Fleisher Studios. Incidentally, Mae Questel was the second Betty but had also won a Helen Kane lookalike contest. 
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Cab Calloway  Minnie the Moocher   Favoriting 1932  From Betty Boop 
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Ira "Buck" Woods  You're Still My Baby, Baby   Favoriting 1946  From Tom and Jerry 
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Kristofer Maddigan 

Funfair Fever   Favoriting

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The Carl Stalling Project  Powerhouse and Other Cuts from the Early 50's   Favoriting 1990  Warner Bros cartoon scores. 
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Mel Blanc, Tony Anselmo  Hungarian Rhapsody (Dueling Pianos)   Favoriting 1989  From Who Framed Roger Rabbit. 
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Fantastic Plastic Machine  Mars Forever   Favoriting   Sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s. I recall seeing this one. 
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Hoyt Curtin  The Jetsons (Main Title)   Favoriting 1962   
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Mel Blanc  I Tell My Troubles to Joe   Favoriting 1952  There's a lot to digest with this song. Why is this song about drinking in a bar because you fight with your wife in Bugs Bunny's voice? 
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Bugs Bunny  What's Up Doc?   Favoriting 1950  Taken from an album called "Bugs Bunny on Broadway", film premiere was 1950. 
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Captain Paul & His Seafaring Band  I'll be Seeing You In the Movies   Favoriting 1959  “The Popeye Song Folio!” album by Captain Paul & His Seafaring Band uses songs released in 1936 under the same name but there is no Popeye preforming with Captain Paul. I believe the Billy Costello theme was included but most of the album is just Paul's Band. 
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All Bets Are Off   Favoriting

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Bernard Brown (Vocals Billy Bletcher and Cliff Nazzarro)  Merrily We Roll Along   Favoriting 1935  Parody from Billboard Frollics. Eddie Camphor and Rub-Him-Off played by Cliff Nazarro and Billy Bletcher. Features a joke about Cantor's many daughters. 
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WR:

Hi there, listening but busy at work so may not be able to comment much.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57am
MHLee:

Hi WR!
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worldsworstrecords:

Hi Mason! Hi WR!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03am
MHLee:

Hi Darryl!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09am
MHLee:

I never really thought how old Bill Grogan's Goat must be
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:12am
WR:

Hi Darryl.
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WR:

Yeah, haven't seen that Terrytoon cartoon in decades. Wonder if they have any credits on the cartoon itself. Probably not.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:19am
MHLee:

I've not watched much of the studio. I considered just doing the Merry Melodies featured songs for a couple of seasons but decided I'd try to feature more studios
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20am
MHLee:

I chose this version because the colorful arrangement
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worldsworstrecords:

It's great... very Spike Jones
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:20am
WR:

The vocal chorus is fun.
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worldsworstrecords:

Sinatra doing Woody Woodpecker was atrocious, but he did worse! mam Will Bark and that awful nonsense about mip map mop, bim bam broom
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:27am
WR:

I wonder how many different people recorded the Woody Woodpecker song before 1960.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:29am
MHLee:

That's a very good question. Good advertising.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30am
MHLee:

Mam Will Bark is so bad
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worldsworstrecords:

Must have been loads, WR: hadn't realised that the Woody Woodpecker Song was the first song from an animated short to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35am
MHLee:

Interesting they gave ghosts and monsters on the most explicitly druggy songs
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:36am
WR:

This Minnie the Moocher animation is so very good.
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worldsworstrecords:

I love classic Tom and Jerry - the MGM cartoons of the 30s and 40s
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38am
MHLee:

It's great. Really captures cab
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worldsworstrecords:

There's a great documentary, available on YOuTube, that shows how the Fleischer's copied Cab's movements for their cartoons
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41am
MHLee:

I've seen a few good documentaries on old cartoons on the youtube
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DJ Guin:

this may well be my fave stream prog ever
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DJ Guin:

only wish my brother Dan was here to enjoy it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51am
MHLee:

Hi DJ Guin. Thank you. Sometimes we need a little early morning chaos.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54am
MHLee:

I also found Mel Blanc singing mockney music hall songs
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:57am
WR:

OK, Trouble to Joe is a Mel Blanc song, but not from a cartoon, makes sense. I was wondering. LOL. Funny song.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:58am
WR:

Hi DG Guin, welcome.
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MHLee:

It seems Bugs Bunny might have been a default voice for him.
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DJ Guin:

my biggest issue with WB toons was the personality shift of Bugs and Daffy. Bugs with the side eye and Daffy becoming a miser. I mean. W.T actual F?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01am
MHLee:

Daffy must lose... it's the cosmic way.
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MHLee:

Thanks for listening everyone!
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worldsworstrecords:

Fun show, MHL!
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DJ Guin:

thanks MHLee! see ya soon!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:03am
WR:

Over already?!? Thank you MHLee. Great episode. will be re-listening to this one for sure.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18am
Jan Turkenburg:

Listening during breakfast. Interesting to learn the complete Betty Boop story.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:40am
Jan Turkenburg:

very enjoyable (again), thanks MHL!
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