Favoriting Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from March 31, 2023 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 March 31, 2023: Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 44 - "The Wacky World of Spike Jones Tributes"

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Bob Kerr and his Whoopee Band  Cocktails For Two   Favoriting 1992   
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Lee Presson and the Nails  Hotcha Cornia   Favoriting 2019   
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The Bobs  [I was a] Teenage Brain Surgeon   Favoriting 2005   
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Gísli Rúnar Jónsson  Sveita-hveiti-geit   Favoriting 1995  "Clink, Clink, Another Drink" in Icelandic. Google translate tells me it's "Country-wheat-goat". 
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Halli og Laddi, Gísli Rúnar Jónsson  Tygg-igg-úmmí   Favoriting 1976  "Blowing Bubble Gum" from Spike Jones in 1947. 
Halli og Laddi
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Joanie Bartels  Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny?   Favoriting 1980   
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Richard Ho'opi'i With Ledward Kaapana And George Kahumoku Jr.  Put the Dishes in the Sink   Favoriting 2014   
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Johnny Bond  Der Fuehrer's Face   Favoriting 1942  Spike Jones actually plays a fairly straightforward version of this which he somehow managed to get out before the Disney film of the same name. I think the raspberries show this version has a Spike Jones influence. 
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The Red Clay Ramblers  Pat-Yat-Chee   Favoriting 2001   
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Banu Gibson  Strip Polka   Favoriting 2008  Actually had a couple of versions of this that seem closer to Spike Jones than the Andrew Sisters. I chose this one because the male vocalist yelling "take it off" is a Spike Jones thing. 
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Ralph Gunderman, David Lahm, Steve Kolodny  The Man On The Flying Trapeze   Favoriting circa 2009  Doodles Weaver inspired version found on YouTube. 
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Byron Nilsson and Malcolm Kogut  Never Hit Your Grandma With a Shovel   Favoriting 2021  Live performance as part of a Tom Lehrer Tribute at Saratoga's Caffe Lena on April 9, 2021. 
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The Clams  The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face   Favoriting 1974  A band which had a single session featuring Tony Levin (yes, of King Crimson) and his brother Pete along with drummer Steve Gadd. Conceived as a Spike Jones tribute, the single got played as an example of bad record on WNBC but people loved it. This caused it to hit top 40, despite this no copies were pressed for the record buying public. This is the B-Side. 
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The Clams  Close To You   Favoriting 1974   
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Rita Schneider  Pass the Biscuits Mirandy   Favoriting 2007  Rita seems to have covered a lot of Spike Jones songs. 
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Bob Kerr and his Whoopee Band  Chloe   Favoriting 1992   
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The Stone Country Band  Silly Tunes   Favoriting 1983   
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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52am
Jan Turkenburg:

Just finished preparing FDL for monday, now listening in. Hi MHLee!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05am
Jan Turkenburg:

Ah! I was starting to get worried!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:06am
WR:

here we are
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06am
MHLee:

Sorry about that I feel back asleep for an hour apparently
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08am
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ MHLee @8:06
you're not the first one this happened to ;-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08am
MHLee:

There's actually a video of a performance of this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09am
MHLee:

The whole group is dressed ridiculously with prosthetic arms and everything else.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13am
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ Song: "Hotcha Cornia" by "Lee Presson and the Nails"
well done
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15am
MHLee:

This group is a Capella
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:16am
MHLee:

↳ Jan Turkenburg @8:13
Happy to have found them. More music for the Halloween specials as well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18am
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ Song: "Sveita-hveiti-geit" by "Gísli Rúnar Jónsson"
Mickey Katz! :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21am
MHLee:

Weirdly, Icelandic occurs more than once even if it's Gísli Rúnar Jónsson both times
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25am
MHLee:

This is an anomaly. I think this is the only time this song has been covered and Joanie's sole spike jones cover
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26am
MHLee:

Like the tribble episode of star trek
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34am
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ MHLee @8:26
I don't understand what you mean.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36am
MHLee:

↳ Jan Turkenburg @8:34
the song is like the trouble with tribbles in that it's about an animal reproducing to the point that people are trying to desperately get rid of them
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38am
Jan Turkenburg:

ah, I was thinking too deeply. :-)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:44am
WR:

↳ Song: "The Man On The Flying Trapeze" by "Ralph Gunderma...
quite fun.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47am
MHLee:

↳ WR @8:44
That was my last find
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:56am
WR:

↳ Song: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by "The Clams"
For some reason I could not even recall the original song via this version. Close to you, while given the full treatment, was still recognizable.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58am
MHLee:

↳ WR @8:56
I actually think I prefer the B side
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00am
Jan Turkenburg:

Thanks MHLee, fun show!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:00am
WR:

↳ MHLee @8:58
yes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01am
MHLee:

↳ Jan Turkenburg @9:00
Thanks for listening, Jan!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:02am
WR:

↳ Song: "Pass the Biscuits Mirandy" by "Rita Schneider"
Rita Schneider seems to have had extensive career but mostly self released.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:04am
WR:

And her sister was a yodel specialist. Interesting Aussies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04am
MHLee:

↳ WR @9:02
Might be worth tracking down the songs she's playing to see if there are any fun versions for this show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05am
MHLee:

Dingbats!!, Keep On Larfin', Birdbrain Ballads and three others, all recorded when she was in her 70s, were solid sellers, predicated on a premise of "You don't stop laughing when you get old; you get old when you stop laughing!"
Avatar 9:06am
DJ Guin:

bonus MHLee!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06am
MHLee:

Thanks for listening WR
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06am
MHLee:

And Dj Guin
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:07am
WR:

Thank you! MHLee!
  1:41am
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↳ Song: "Close To You" by "The Clams"
My favorite take off of "Close To You" is by David Alan Grier as Don "No Soul" Simmons in "Amazon Women on the Moon".
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