WFMU: Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from June 24, 2022

Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from June 24, 2022

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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June 24, 2022: Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 5 - "Circus is what real life should be like. It's sincerity, feeling, emotions. All real. There are no lies in circus."
Quote by Princess Stephanie of Monaco

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
MHLee	Merrily We Roll Along Theme				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Circus Clown Calliope (Electric Lemon Record Co.)	Gloworm				0:01:39 (Pop-up)
The Limonaire 1900	Entry of the Gladiators				0:03:01 (Pop-up)
The Three Stooges	Tickets (from Three Little Twirps)		1943		0:06:30 (Pop-up)
Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Band	Old King Cole Medley March		1945		0:08:09 (Pop-up)
Circus Contraption	Carousel "Carousel" by "Circus Contraption"	Grand American Traveling Dime Museum	2005		0:11:54 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Live Circus "Live Circus" by "Tom Waits"	Glitter and Doom	2009		0:16:58 (Pop-up)
Eddie Cantor	The Man On The Flying Trapeze		1934		0:21:59 (Pop-up)
Groucho Marx	Lydia The Tattooed Lady		1940s		0:25:02 (Pop-up)
C.W. Stoneking	The Greatest Liar "The Greatest Liar" by "C.W. Stoneking"	Jungle Blues	2009		0:27:45 (Pop-up)
The Mills Brothers	Tiger Rag "Tiger Rag" by "The Mills Brothers"		1931		0:31:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Circus Clown Calliope (Electric Lemon Record Co.)					0:33:23 (Pop-up)
Monty Python	Vocational Guidance Counselor				0:35:00 (Pop-up)
Circus Contraption	The Animals Are Behind Bars	Our Latest Catalogue	2001		0:40:41 (Pop-up)
Disney Studio Chorus	Pink Elephants On Parade	Dumbo	1941	The Disney Studio Chorus appears to have been The Sportsmen. That low voice is likely Thurl Ravenscroft.	0:44:06 (Pop-up)
1920 Pneumatic Circus Calliope	Waiting on the Robert E. Lee				0:49:17 (Pop-up)
Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Band	Olympia Hippodrome/Go		1945		0:50:46 (Pop-up)
Judy Garland	Be A Clown "Be A Clown" by "Judy Garland"		1948		0:53:36 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Circus Clown Calliope (Electric Lemon Record Co.)					0:56:29 (Pop-up)
Diamond Jubilee Organ	Loony Tunes Medley				0:58:05 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:58am MHLee: Having minor tech issues
	8:01am MHLee: Sorry folks restarting the computer.
	👻 8:03am WR: At least the stream has been on brand for your program.
	8:06am MHLee: Refresh the stream
	👻 8:11am WR: darn, didn't refresh soon enough to hear your opening announcement. But yes, refreshed and hearing the circus music. Is Limonaire also a calliope? It is classic circus music.
	👻 8:14am WR: My partner is from Japan. Came to USA as an adult. Of all my childhood favorites, she enjoys the 3 Stooges the most.
	8:14am MHLee: The Limonaire I think is just a large pipe organ that is on wheels irc
	8:16am MHLee: The Stooges are a classic. I need to watch more of them to be honest though.
	👻 8:18am WR: There was percussion on the Limonaire cut, was wondering if it was one of those music machines with the drums and cymbals built in. Nice tie in of the Old King Cole medley including the 3 blind mice melody as was also in the 3 Stooges theme music.
	8:20am MHLee: I would say it's likely the limonaire has the drums built in it... there are a bunch of videos of it on vimeo and it seems to have no accompiest
	👻 8:25am WR: Thanks, will look up the limonaire on vimeo. There is a nice 3 Stooge complete collection DVD set. We have that. The transfers are well done and, crucial to my partner's enjoyment, there are well done English subtitles. It has a decent booklet but not a pricey deluxe package.
	8:26am MHLee: This was recorded in Jacksonville 2008 and released 2009
	👻 8:28am WR: I enjoy when I hear Tom Waits but I don't know his oeuvre. By that I mean I don't know many of his releases or what has been the progression of his career.
	8:32am MHLee: He starts out somewhere between Sinatra and Randy Newman
	👻 8:33am WR: Love Groucho, is this from a radio broadcast?
	8:34am MHLee: That's a Broadcast recording but not sure when it was released
	👻 8:38am WR: C W Stoneking is new to me, will check him out later, thank you for the link.
	8:39am MHLee: Discovered him on the Over the Garden Wall S/T
	👻 8:43am WR: I got a copy of Over the Garden Wall but haven't watched it yet. Just watched part of one episode.
	8:45am MHLee: The soundtrack is very good. Parts of it remind me of Tom Waits.
	👻 8:46am WR: The voice cast for OTGW is pretty amazing too.
	8:50am MHLee: That is true. It's a strange series to have been created
	8:51am MHLee: Dumbo is one of those Disney movies that I need to re-watch though that may be hard to do. I'm not sure Disney will broadcast it.
	8:52am MHLee: I wonder if the low voice is Thurl Ravenscroft
	8:57am MHLee: We'll go about 5 minutes over because of the connection issues.
	👻 8:58am WR: Thurl isn;t listed on the Wikipedia cast. It does say that Disney + has the full 1941 version of Dumbo with a warning about "outdated cultural depictions" and "racist minstrel shows".
	👻 9:03am WR: Was following the link for Circus Contraption. Seems to have ended in 2012. The bandcamp page says go to CD Baby for purchase of their CDs, but CD Baby stopped doing sales a year or more ago. Also there is something about 2 members being killed but the links are dead. Sombre. Another great episode MHLee. Thank you!
	👻 9:05am WR: And happy birthday Jan whenever you check in on this episode! LOL.
	9:05am MHLee: Thanks WR! Yeah, I read about that, 2014 shooting in the PNW. All their stuff is on Amazon.
	9:05am MHLee: Indeed! Happy birthday, Jan!
	9:06am MHLee: @WR looks like it was probably Thurl! www.discogs.com...
	👻 9:09am WR: Yes, looks like you are right, likely he was in the Sportsmen for that.
	👻 9:09am WR: Again, thank you, Laters.
	11:54am Jan Turkenburg: Hi MHLee, Listening from the archives now.
	11:36am Jan Turkenburg: Thank you, MHLee!
	2:50am Mr Fab: Diggin the archives here, too! you could probly do more circus episodes, I bet there’s plenty of other musics like this.

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
MHLee	Merrily We Roll Along Theme				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Circus Clown Calliope (Electric Lemon Record Co.)	Gloworm				0:01:39 (Pop-up)
The Limonaire 1900	Entry of the Gladiators				0:03:01 (Pop-up)
The Three Stooges	Tickets (from Three Little Twirps)		1943		0:06:30 (Pop-up)
Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Band	Old King Cole Medley March		1945		0:08:09 (Pop-up)
Circus Contraption	Carousel "Carousel" by "Circus Contraption"	Grand American Traveling Dime Museum	2005		0:11:54 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Live Circus "Live Circus" by "Tom Waits"	Glitter and Doom	2009		0:16:58 (Pop-up)
Eddie Cantor	The Man On The Flying Trapeze		1934		0:21:59 (Pop-up)
Groucho Marx	Lydia The Tattooed Lady		1940s		0:25:02 (Pop-up)
C.W. Stoneking	The Greatest Liar "The Greatest Liar" by "C.W. Stoneking"	Jungle Blues	2009		0:27:45 (Pop-up)
The Mills Brothers	Tiger Rag "Tiger Rag" by "The Mills Brothers"		1931		0:31:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Circus Clown Calliope (Electric Lemon Record Co.)					0:33:23 (Pop-up)
Monty Python	Vocational Guidance Counselor				0:35:00 (Pop-up)
Circus Contraption	The Animals Are Behind Bars	Our Latest Catalogue	2001		0:40:41 (Pop-up)
Disney Studio Chorus	Pink Elephants On Parade	Dumbo	1941	The Disney Studio Chorus appears to have been The Sportsmen. That low voice is likely Thurl Ravenscroft.	0:44:06 (Pop-up)
1920 Pneumatic Circus Calliope	Waiting on the Robert E. Lee				0:49:17 (Pop-up)
Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Band	Olympia Hippodrome/Go		1945		0:50:46 (Pop-up)
Judy Garland	Be A Clown "Be A Clown" by "Judy Garland"		1948		0:53:36 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Circus Clown Calliope (Electric Lemon Record Co.)					0:56:29 (Pop-up)
Diamond Jubilee Organ	Loony Tunes Medley				0:58:05 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:58am MHLee: Having minor tech issues
	8:01am MHLee: Sorry folks restarting the computer.
	👻 8:03am WR: At least the stream has been on brand for your program.
	8:06am MHLee: Refresh the stream
	👻 8:11am WR: darn, didn't refresh soon enough to hear your opening announcement. But yes, refreshed and hearing the circus music. Is Limonaire also a calliope? It is classic circus music.
	👻 8:14am WR: My partner is from Japan. Came to USA as an adult. Of all my childhood favorites, she enjoys the 3 Stooges the most.
	8:14am MHLee: The Limonaire I think is just a large pipe organ that is on wheels irc
	8:16am MHLee: The Stooges are a classic. I need to watch more of them to be honest though.
	👻 8:18am WR: There was percussion on the Limonaire cut, was wondering if it was one of those music machines with the drums and cymbals built in. Nice tie in of the Old King Cole medley including the 3 blind mice melody as was also in the 3 Stooges theme music.
	8:20am MHLee: I would say it's likely the limonaire has the drums built in it... there are a bunch of videos of it on vimeo and it seems to have no accompiest
	👻 8:25am WR: Thanks, will look up the limonaire on vimeo. There is a nice 3 Stooge complete collection DVD set. We have that. The transfers are well done and, crucial to my partner's enjoyment, there are well done English subtitles. It has a decent booklet but not a pricey deluxe package.
	8:26am MHLee: This was recorded in Jacksonville 2008 and released 2009
	👻 8:28am WR: I enjoy when I hear Tom Waits but I don't know his oeuvre. By that I mean I don't know many of his releases or what has been the progression of his career.
	8:32am MHLee: He starts out somewhere between Sinatra and Randy Newman
	👻 8:33am WR: Love Groucho, is this from a radio broadcast?
	8:34am MHLee: That's a Broadcast recording but not sure when it was released
	👻 8:38am WR: C W Stoneking is new to me, will check him out later, thank you for the link.
	8:39am MHLee: Discovered him on the Over the Garden Wall S/T
	👻 8:43am WR: I got a copy of Over the Garden Wall but haven't watched it yet. Just watched part of one episode.
	8:45am MHLee: The soundtrack is very good. Parts of it remind me of Tom Waits.
	👻 8:46am WR: The voice cast for OTGW is pretty amazing too.
	8:50am MHLee: That is true. It's a strange series to have been created
	8:51am MHLee: Dumbo is one of those Disney movies that I need to re-watch though that may be hard to do. I'm not sure Disney will broadcast it.
	8:52am MHLee: I wonder if the low voice is Thurl Ravenscroft
	8:57am MHLee: We'll go about 5 minutes over because of the connection issues.
	👻 8:58am WR: Thurl isn;t listed on the Wikipedia cast. It does say that Disney + has the full 1941 version of Dumbo with a warning about "outdated cultural depictions" and "racist minstrel shows".
	👻 9:03am WR: Was following the link for Circus Contraption. Seems to have ended in 2012. The bandcamp page says go to CD Baby for purchase of their CDs, but CD Baby stopped doing sales a year or more ago. Also there is something about 2 members being killed but the links are dead. Sombre. Another great episode MHLee. Thank you!
	👻 9:05am WR: And happy birthday Jan whenever you check in on this episode! LOL.
	9:05am MHLee: Thanks WR! Yeah, I read about that, 2014 shooting in the PNW. All their stuff is on Amazon.
	9:05am MHLee: Indeed! Happy birthday, Jan!
	9:06am MHLee: @WR looks like it was probably Thurl! www.discogs.com...
	👻 9:09am WR: Yes, looks like you are right, likely he was in the Sportsmen for that.
	👻 9:09am WR: Again, thank you, Laters.
	11:54am Jan Turkenburg: Hi MHLee, Listening from the archives now.
	11:36am Jan Turkenburg: Thank you, MHLee!
	2:50am Mr Fab: Diggin the archives here, too! you could probly do more circus episodes, I bet there’s plenty of other musics like this.

Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from June 24, 2022

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