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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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September 2, 2022: Two Hours of Unknown Crap: "MHLee Fills in for Don-O"
Special fill-in show for Don-O. This show features songs that are being searched for by an internet community that emerged alongside the subreddits r/themysteriousong
and r/lostwave. All song titles are used for query purposes but are unknown unless indicated otherwise.
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Artist | Track | Year | Comments | Images | Approx. start time |
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Unknown Artist | Curly Toes | Shared widely thanks to Irwin Chusid's Songs in the Key of Z, Volume 2. This tape had floated around for years with the original performer lost to time. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Miles Davis |
Red |
1989 |
0:02:57 (Pop-up) |
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Unknown Artist | The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet | Post-1983 | Covered extensively by Rolling Stone, numerous fake leads have appeared and tried to copywrite the song. The station has been identified as Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), the song has been discussed on German radio, and the model of synth which plays on it is believed to have been identified as a Yamaha DX7. | 0:05:24 (Pop-up) | |
Starscreamer | Union | SOLVED: Starscreamer - Union --- Appeared on the internet as a Radiohead recording. | 0:08:21 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown Artist | Chart Rundown | Appeared as a Alan Wilder/Depeche Mode bootleg. | 0:12:49 (Pop-up) | ||
Nihil Mali | Pink & Green | SOLVED: Nihil Mali - Pink & Green --- Possibly recorded off of WFMU, appears in a collection known as the Guglielm songs. | 0:17:42 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown Artist | John Peel's Unknown Indie Instrumental | 1982 | There are a number of unidentified tracks from John Peel's show. This one was broadcast on 17th March 1982 from BBC Radio One. | 0:20:26 (Pop-up) | |
Unknown Artist | Poor Christmas (Come On/Eyes of Love) | Recorded by a German listener off of likely NDR. The song was recorded as possibly being by a band called the Face. There is a hoax that purports this song is called "Carol". The lyrics are pretty hard to understand due to recording quality. Is it "rise of love" or "eyes of love"? | 0:22:54 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Miles Davis |
Yellow |
1989 |
0:27:11 (Pop-up) |
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Deadly Earnest and the Honky Tonk Heroes | Blues at Midnight | 1980 | SOLVED: Deadly Earnest and the Honky Tonk Heroes --- Allegedly recorded on a 8 hour tape of 105.7 Fm Cleveland Ohio in 1982. | 0:27:15 (Pop-up) | |
Unknown Artist | Chatswood Youth Song | 1997 | Chatswood Youth Centre (August 6, 1997) | 0:31:32 (Pop-up) | |
Unknown Artist | Johnny | 1983 | From the Italian show Guarda Domenica Sportiva 5 giugno in 1983. | 0:33:40 (Pop-up) | |
Unknown Artist | Trip To Rio | Recorded off FFN in Germany, title was suggested as "Trip to Rio" possibly by a band called Space Bazaar. | 0:36:41 (Pop-up) | ||
Station K | Feels Like A Wish | late 80s - early 90s | SOLVED: Station K - Feels Like A Wish ---Recorded in Recife, Brazil sometime from in 1991-93. | 0:38:09 (Pop-up) | |
Unknown Vocalist | Memory of You (Demo) | Written by Paul Barry, Gary Miller, Steve Torch, and Peter Waterman with Miller on backing vocal. Part of a collection of demos uploaded to a YouTube channel called Manis Studio which somehow acquired a few demos from here. This is an official title. | 0:41:14 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown Artist | Come Back (Your Eyes) | Unknown Italodance song, on bootleg compilation called 新歌热舞 专辑 359 (New Song Hot Dance Album 359). | 0:44:16 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Miles Davis |
White |
1989 |
0:50:37 (Pop-up) |
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Jonny Cohen | Maniac Laugh (Excerpt) | Unknown Artist - Hahaha / Laughing Song - SOLVED: Identified by marktrail from Discord as "Jonny Cohen - Maniac Laugh". Thanks Kurty! | |||
Unknown Artist | John Peel's Unknown Kenyan Record | 1973-ish | From October 1973. | 0:54:16 (Pop-up) | |
Unknown Artist | Aspiration | This was tagged as Godhead but the tag are often wrong with this uploader. This was in the Guglielm songs and possibly from WFMU. | 0:58:44 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown | Little By Little | Unknown 60's garage band acetate, possibly from New York area. Was first uploaded here. | 1:03:09 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown Artist | Unknown Acetate (Cynthia) | First upload Roots and Traces: Spurensicherung on Blogspot, and the only information on this one is that the cover had "a telephone number and a note (name) reading something like 'Maden' or 'Madeu'". | 1:06:22 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown Artist | Unknown Blues Jam | 196x | Off of a 1960s bootleg, no band is given. It's been suggested as the Firebirds/13 Flavors but that was not a live-band. There is a 4-track reel issue uncredited to them, but preformed by them that may solve this one. | 1:15:48 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: Miles Davis |
Orange |
1989 |
1:24:13 (Pop-up) |
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Unknown Artist | CIA | Recorded off CFNY-FM in the 1980s. Alan Cross, a well-known Canadian broadcaster, is looking to identify this. | 1:26:02 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown Artist | The Fallen King | AKA Fall of the King, recorded in the 1980s and believed to have originated off of Z-Rock in Cleveland. | 1:30:32 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown Artist | Light the Lanterns | This is a song about Martha's Vineyard and likely a reference to the book, "Illumination Night" by Alice Hoffman. | 1:33:53 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown Artist | Do Me Like You Did Last Night | 1973 | Recorded in Columbia Studio A in Nashville in 1973. | 1:37:02 (Pop-up) | |
Unknown Artist | No Working Name (Unknown Acetate 1) | There has been no effort to sleuth this one on the internet, but I found it uploaded to a Youtube Channel with no information. | 1:40:04 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: Miles Davis |
Green |
1989 |
1:43:03 (Pop-up) |
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Think Twice | You've Got My Heart | Solved song from Gernot Stadler's band, Think Twice. No other recording of this song is known to exist. | 1:46:18 (Pop-up) | ||
David Hunter and Walton Jones | Piece of Mind | 1969 | The infamous "The Candle Burns", Beatles outfake was found to have been played by WUSF (University of South Florida) in 1969 and credited to the Beatles as prank. An unedited version of an aircheck from the Beatles episode of "Undergroud Railroad" proved the origin and details of how it was recording are recalled of the Steve Hoffman Music Forums. | 1:49:55 (Pop-up) | |
Unknown Artist | My Pretty Doll | Recorded off college radio in Seville, Spain in the early-mid-2000s. | 1:53:31 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown Artist | Powerful | Appeared around 2001, falsely credited to George Harrison. | 1:56:16 (Pop-up) |
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Sorted by title letter. You might try to find yourself
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Can't remember the DJ, but someone was playing songs from Forgotify, the site that finds Spotify songs that haven't been played.
Not a good business model as ultimately self-defeating, but an intriguing idea.
forgotify.com
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