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

Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from August 12, 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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August 12, 2022: Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 11 - "Howling Harmonies"

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Artist	Track	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
MHLee	Merrily We Roll Along Theme			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	Inkwell Isle Two (Piano)	2017		0:00:47 (Pop-up)
Raymond Scott and his New Orchestra	Get Happy	1941	Original theme to Merrie Melodies was a version of this song.	0:03:24 (Pop-up)
Farmer Al Falfa	Ye Olde Songs "Ye Olde Songs" by "Farmer Al Falfa"	1932	Complete episode of Teryrtoons. I am not sure who preforms the music.	0:06:26 (Pop-up)
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra	Felix The Cat	1929		0:11:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	Treetop Trouble	2017		0:14:45 (Pop-up)
Russ Morgan (Jimmie Lewis, vocal)	The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down	1937		0:17:27 (Pop-up)
Irving Kaufman	Steamboat Bill "Steamboat Bill" by "Irving Kaufman"	1919	Instrumental version used for theme to Steamboat Willie.	0:20:44 (Pop-up)
Frank Sinatra	The Woody Woodpecker Song	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.	0:23:34 (Pop-up)
Kristofer Maddigan	Inkwell Isle Three	2017		0:25:38 (Pop-up)
Mae Questel and Rudy Vallee	Don't Take My Boop Oop A Doop Away	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.	0:28:43 (Pop-up)
Cab Calloway	Minnie the Moocher "Minnie the Moocher" by "Cab Calloway"	1932	From Betty Boop	0:31:45 (Pop-up)
Ira "Buck" Woods	You're Still My Baby, Baby	1946	From Tom and Jerry	0:37:05 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	Funfair Fever "Funfair Fever" by "Kristofer Maddigan"	2017		0:39:55 (Pop-up)
The Carl Stalling Project	Powerhouse and Other Cuts from the Early 50's	1990	Warner Bros cartoon scores.	0:42:13 (Pop-up)
Mel Blanc, Tony Anselmo	Hungarian Rhapsody (Dueling Pianos)	1989	From Who Framed Roger Rabbit.	0:48:27 (Pop-up)
Fantastic Plastic Machine	Mars Forever		Sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s. I recall seeing this one.	0:50:22 (Pop-up)
Hoyt Curtin	The Jetsons (Main Title)	1962		0:52:29 (Pop-up)
Mel Blanc	I Tell My Troubles to Joe	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?	0:53:20 (Pop-up)
Bugs Bunny	What's Up Doc? "What's Up Doc?" by "Bugs Bunny"	1950	Taken from an album called "Bugs Bunny on Broadway", film premiere was 1950.	0:55:52 (Pop-up)
Captain Paul & His Seafaring Band	I'll be Seeing You In the Movies	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.	0:58:49 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	All Bets Are Off	2017		1:00:39 (Pop-up)
Bernard Brown (Vocals Billy Bletcher and Cliff Nazzarro)	Merrily We Roll Along	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.	1:02:03 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	👻 7:55am WR: Hi there, listening but busy at work so may not be able to comment much.
	7:57am MHLee: Hi WR!
	8:03am worldsworstrecords: Hi Mason! Hi WR!
	8:03am MHLee: Hi Darryl!
	8:09am MHLee: I never really thought how old Bill Grogan's Goat must be
	👻 8:12am WR: Hi Darryl.
	👻 8:16am WR: Yeah, haven't seen that Terrytoon cartoon in decades. Wonder if they have any credits on the cartoon itself. Probably not.
	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
	8:20am MHLee: I chose this version because the colorful arrangement
	8:20am worldsworstrecords: It's great... very Spike Jones
	👻 8:20am WR: The vocal chorus is fun.
	8:27am 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
	👻 8:27am WR: I wonder how many different people recorded the Woody Woodpecker song before 1960.
	8:29am MHLee: That's a very good question. Good advertising.
	8:30am MHLee: Mam Will Bark is so bad
	8:30am 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
	8:35am MHLee: Interesting they gave ghosts and monsters on the most explicitly druggy songs
	👻 8:36am WR: This Minnie the Moocher animation is so very good.
	8:38am worldsworstrecords: I love classic Tom and Jerry - the MGM cartoons of the 30s and 40s
	8:38am MHLee: It's great. Really captures cab
	8:39am worldsworstrecords: There's a great documentary, available on YOuTube, that shows how the Fleischer's copied Cab's movements for their cartoons
	8:41am MHLee: I've seen a few good documentaries on old cartoons on the youtube
	8:49am DJ Guin: this may well be my fave stream prog ever
	8:49am DJ Guin: only wish my brother Dan was here to enjoy it
	8:51am MHLee: Hi DJ Guin. Thank you. Sometimes we need a little early morning chaos.
	8:54am MHLee: I also found Mel Blanc singing mockney music hall songs
	👻 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.
	👻 8:58am WR: Hi DG Guin, welcome.
	8:58am MHLee: It seems Bugs Bunny might have been a default voice for him.
	9:00am 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?
	9:01am MHLee: Daffy must lose... it's the cosmic way.
	9:02am MHLee: Thanks for listening everyone!
	9:03am worldsworstrecords: Fun show, MHL!
	9:03am DJ Guin: thanks MHLee! see ya soon!
	👻 9:03am WR: Over already?!? Thank you MHLee. Great episode. will be re-listening to this one for sure.
	3:18am Jan Turkenburg: Listening during breakfast. Interesting to learn the complete Betty Boop story.
	3:40am Jan Turkenburg: very enjoyable (again), thanks MHL!

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Artist	Track	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
MHLee	Merrily We Roll Along Theme			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	Inkwell Isle Two (Piano)	2017		0:00:47 (Pop-up)
Raymond Scott and his New Orchestra	Get Happy	1941	Original theme to Merrie Melodies was a version of this song.	0:03:24 (Pop-up)
Farmer Al Falfa	Ye Olde Songs "Ye Olde Songs" by "Farmer Al Falfa"	1932	Complete episode of Teryrtoons. I am not sure who preforms the music.	0:06:26 (Pop-up)
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra	Felix The Cat	1929		0:11:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	Treetop Trouble	2017		0:14:45 (Pop-up)
Russ Morgan (Jimmie Lewis, vocal)	The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down	1937		0:17:27 (Pop-up)
Irving Kaufman	Steamboat Bill "Steamboat Bill" by "Irving Kaufman"	1919	Instrumental version used for theme to Steamboat Willie.	0:20:44 (Pop-up)
Frank Sinatra	The Woody Woodpecker Song	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.	0:23:34 (Pop-up)
Kristofer Maddigan	Inkwell Isle Three	2017		0:25:38 (Pop-up)
Mae Questel and Rudy Vallee	Don't Take My Boop Oop A Doop Away	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.	0:28:43 (Pop-up)
Cab Calloway	Minnie the Moocher "Minnie the Moocher" by "Cab Calloway"	1932	From Betty Boop	0:31:45 (Pop-up)
Ira "Buck" Woods	You're Still My Baby, Baby	1946	From Tom and Jerry	0:37:05 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	Funfair Fever "Funfair Fever" by "Kristofer Maddigan"	2017		0:39:55 (Pop-up)
The Carl Stalling Project	Powerhouse and Other Cuts from the Early 50's	1990	Warner Bros cartoon scores.	0:42:13 (Pop-up)
Mel Blanc, Tony Anselmo	Hungarian Rhapsody (Dueling Pianos)	1989	From Who Framed Roger Rabbit.	0:48:27 (Pop-up)
Fantastic Plastic Machine	Mars Forever		Sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s. I recall seeing this one.	0:50:22 (Pop-up)
Hoyt Curtin	The Jetsons (Main Title)	1962		0:52:29 (Pop-up)
Mel Blanc	I Tell My Troubles to Joe	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?	0:53:20 (Pop-up)
Bugs Bunny	What's Up Doc? "What's Up Doc?" by "Bugs Bunny"	1950	Taken from an album called "Bugs Bunny on Broadway", film premiere was 1950.	0:55:52 (Pop-up)
Captain Paul & His Seafaring Band	I'll be Seeing You In the Movies	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.	0:58:49 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kristofer Maddigan	All Bets Are Off	2017		1:00:39 (Pop-up)
Bernard Brown (Vocals Billy Bletcher and Cliff Nazzarro)	Merrily We Roll Along	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.	1:02:03 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:55am WR: Hi there, listening but busy at work so may not be able to comment much.
	7:57am MHLee: Hi WR!
	8:03am worldsworstrecords: Hi Mason! Hi WR!
	8:03am MHLee: Hi Darryl!
	8:09am MHLee: I never really thought how old Bill Grogan's Goat must be
	👻 8:12am WR: Hi Darryl.
	👻 8:16am WR: Yeah, haven't seen that Terrytoon cartoon in decades. Wonder if they have any credits on the cartoon itself. Probably not.
	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
	8:20am MHLee: I chose this version because the colorful arrangement
	8:20am worldsworstrecords: It's great... very Spike Jones
	👻 8:20am WR: The vocal chorus is fun.
	8:27am 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
	👻 8:27am WR: I wonder how many different people recorded the Woody Woodpecker song before 1960.
	8:29am MHLee: That's a very good question. Good advertising.
	8:30am MHLee: Mam Will Bark is so bad
	8:30am 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
	8:35am MHLee: Interesting they gave ghosts and monsters on the most explicitly druggy songs
	👻 8:36am WR: This Minnie the Moocher animation is so very good.
	8:38am worldsworstrecords: I love classic Tom and Jerry - the MGM cartoons of the 30s and 40s
	8:38am MHLee: It's great. Really captures cab
	8:39am worldsworstrecords: There's a great documentary, available on YOuTube, that shows how the Fleischer's copied Cab's movements for their cartoons
	8:41am MHLee: I've seen a few good documentaries on old cartoons on the youtube
	8:49am DJ Guin: this may well be my fave stream prog ever
	8:49am DJ Guin: only wish my brother Dan was here to enjoy it
	8:51am MHLee: Hi DJ Guin. Thank you. Sometimes we need a little early morning chaos.
	8:54am MHLee: I also found Mel Blanc singing mockney music hall songs
	👻 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.
	👻 8:58am WR: Hi DG Guin, welcome.
	8:58am MHLee: It seems Bugs Bunny might have been a default voice for him.
	9:00am 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?
	9:01am MHLee: Daffy must lose... it's the cosmic way.
	9:02am MHLee: Thanks for listening everyone!
	9:03am worldsworstrecords: Fun show, MHL!
	9:03am DJ Guin: thanks MHLee! see ya soon!
	👻 9:03am WR: Over already?!? Thank you MHLee. Great episode. will be re-listening to this one for sure.
	3:18am Jan Turkenburg: Listening during breakfast. Interesting to learn the complete Betty Boop story.
	3:40am Jan Turkenburg: very enjoyable (again), thanks MHL!

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

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