WFMU: Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from November 25, 2022

Listener comments!
	♥ 7:38am MHLee: Hi everyone, bless the sun and Krys O. for the deliverance of this show.
	♥ 7:49am WR: Are you on holiday? Is Kry O again in getting the bits into the stream? Funny how on holiday Friday I more easily wake and be alert.
	♥ 7:53am Krys O.: G'mornin', all! The show will start soon.
	♥ 7:55am MHLee: Yes, WR. I am on holiday today. The playlist has been assembled by me though but Krys O. is making sure we can hear it.
	♥ 8:01am MHLee: Oh no, it cut out
	♥ 8:02am Krys O.: Sorry for the glitch. Butt wasn't connecting. There was a long lag. Had to restart the file.
	♥ 8:02am Krys O.: The robot did not want to relinquish the stream.
	8:03am TDK60: Merry morning.
	♥ 8:03am MHLee: That's been happening a lot recently
	♥ 8:04am MHLee: Hi TDK60
	♥ 8:04am Krys O.: I wonder if there is a gap of silence on your file that tricks the robot.
	♥ 8:05am Krys O.: TDK60, WR, and MHLee, hope you all had a peaceful holiday.
	♥ 8:07am MHLee: Thanks Krys O.
	♥ 8:08am Krys O.: The 1951 film On Moonlight Bay is sweet. I like Doris Day. She survived a lot.
	♥ 8:09am WR: I am totally doing very little this holiday. Indulging in World Cup and listening to and downloading music. Going to get flu shot today is the only quasi-responsilble activity I have planned.
	♥ 8:10am MHLee: I plan to get that and a covid booster tomorrow
	♥ 8:11am Krys O.: Thanks for getting vaxxed, MHLee and WR.
	♥ 8:13am MHLee: This song is also sung by Tiny Tim on the same album as the last song
	♥ 8:13am MHLee: It's from 1916
	♥ 8:13am Jan Turkenburg: Hi everybody!
	♥ 8:14am MHLee: Hi Jan!
	♥ 8:14am Krys O.: Tiny Tim's appearances on the Uncle Floyd show were really cool. He would wax poetic about the history of the songs and Floyd loved that. I recall that Michael Townsend Wright sang with him too. There's only one video of TT on UF on YouTube. The UF contingent is strict about uploads.
	♥ 8:14am WR: I was pissed off that when I got the new covid booster a few weeks ago that hospital I go to said that they did not yet have flu shots for general public. Oh well, they get to charge my insurance twice.
	♥ 8:14am Krys O.: Hello, Jan!
	♥ 8:16am MHLee: I hear a lot about UF in these chats. I'm not sure we had a comparable local tv show/
	♥ 8:16am Krys O.: That's a bummer, WR. I got my flu shot in September. They asked on the phone if I was over 65. I think they were out of the special vax for 65+ folks.
	♥ 8:17am Krys O.: My dad was a fan of Uncle Floyd. He was on UHF channel 68 in the NY/NJ area. My ex performed on the show as a musical guest 9 times. Might have been a record.
	♥ 8:18am WR: MHLee, you have consistently streamed enjoyable selections from "retro" bands that I had not known about or if I saw their records I snobbishly expected to be not worth hearing.
	♥ 8:19am Krys O.: Trad bands were big in the UK in the 60s. The Bonzos started off that way.
	♥ 8:20am MHLee: Part of the goal of this show, WR. I had a bunch of this stuff in my peripheral vision. I thought I'd see what I could do with it.
	♥ 8:21am Krys O.: It's a treat, MHLee.
	♥ 8:22am MHLee: Thanks Krys O.
	♥ 8:22am MHLee: That version of singing in the bathtub ended rather abruptly, didn't it?
	♥ 8:23am Krys O.: They ran out of wax?
	♥ 8:23am WR: I've watched some bits of Uncle Floyd online. Probably utoob but was some years ago, so not sure. At this point I would think they would want to have it on Archive dot org.
	♥ 8:25am Krys O.: @WR: You'd think they'd want to have it available for folks who weren't even born yet, but it was misguided of them, IMO, to report uploads. I think that might have been around the 20-aughts.
	♥ 8:25am MHLee: You know, my dad might run the equivalent show. He runs some Friday music show through a local university.
	♥ 8:25am Krys O.: On TV, MHLee?
	♥ 8:26am MHLee: Yes. He used to do radio as well, but currently teaches broadcasting on television
	♥ 8:26am Krys O.: Nice!
	♥ 8:27am Jan Turkenburg: o wow!
	♥ 8:32am MHLee: Robert Armstrong, R, Crumb, Bob Brozman, Terry Zwigoff
	♥ 8:32am WR: Those Singing Surfriders were hot. I could almost smell the pacific island breeze. I've been to Hawaii only as place to change plane on the way to Japan. Both times it was the middle of the night. Pre- 9/11 so we were allowed to go outside the terminal and come back in. So an after mid night smell and light breeze is my only direct experience with Hawaii.
	♥ 8:33am Krys O.: That's Terry Zwigoff on cello in that photo.
	♥ 8:34am MHLee: I've never been anywhere tropical
	♥ 8:35am MHLee: Terry Zwigoff also put together the Howard Armstrong film which I've been trying to get the soundtrack album for. Amazon is messed up and links to the wrong album when you try to purchase it.
	♥ 8:35am MHLee: That album is why I have a banjouke
	♥ 8:37am WR: Is that photo of a Crumbless Serenaders or is he cropped out? I like that they go all in with the Cheap Suit thing.
	♥ 8:37am Krys O.: I watched Louie Bluie a couple of years ago. It was on TCM.
	♥ 8:38am MHLee: @WR Crumbless, I can't find a half decent picture of them when he was in the band
	♥ 8:38am Krys O.: Looks like there are some copies available on Discogs, MHLee: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 8:39am MHLee: Might have to grab it. It's so cool. There are so few black-string band recordings.
	♥ 8:40am Krys O.: Crumb stopped playing with the band in 2006 apparently. Many photos online are from 2011 or so.
	♥ 8:41am MHLee: I understand this was a Hawaiian record label but this song is so closely related to country it's kinda fascinating
	♥ 8:42am WR: I've not yet seen Louie Bluie. I've been vaguely aware of it but haven't made the effort. Looks like making the effort will be rewarding.
	♥ 8:43am MHLee: The only songs I can play on uke are "My Four Reasons" from that soundtrack and the Lindberg Hop
	♥ 8:44am Krys O.: Jimmie Rodgers was a HUGE country music star from waaaay back.
	♥ 8:45am MHLee: I used to preform his in the Jail House now... you just reminded me I needed to find my bluegrass recordings
	♥ 8:45am MHLee: I choose this version because for some reason they have a weird organ replacing the steel guitar.
	♥ 8:46am Jan Turkenburg: What a lovely organ solo!
	♥ 8:48am Krys O.: Didn't know about Jerry Byrd. He recorded on Monument. I'll guess that my ex's dad, Bob Moore recorded with him.
	♥ 8:49am MHLee: Bob Moore was a bassist on a lot of those old nashville records wasn't he?
	♥ 8:51am Krys O.: Yes, he was part of the Nashville A-Team of session musicians and he had records of his own. He was also part-owner of Monument. Here's an interview where Bob mentions Byrd: www.artofslapbass.com...
	♥ 8:52am MHLee: I was a bass player in a bluegrass band.
	♥ 8:52am WR: LOL, when I worked in a record store in the early 70s we always stocked a few Alfred Apaka records along with the Don Ho records. Now that I'm not such a purist for raw trad I'm still not sure what I think of his singing.
	♥ 8:53am Krys O.: Bob Moore rarely played live, but he did back Elvis Presley on stage in Hawaii circa 1961.
	♥ 8:53am Krys O.: Thanks, MHLee. Twas a fun show!
	♥ 8:54am Jan Turkenburg: delightful episode, thnx MHLee!
	♥ 8:54am MHLee: Thank you! Still a couple more tracks.
	♥ 8:55am MHLee: Can't leave without Aloha Ae
	♥ 8:55am WR: Yes, lovely program, The only thing missing is a tropical fruit drink, but I guess that is on me, not the stream.
	♥ 8:55am Krys O.: Bob on bass with the Jordanaires behind Elvis: www.artofslapbass.com...
	♥ 8:56am MHLee: Nice picture.
	♥ 8:56am WR: Very interesting photo Krys!
	♥ 8:58am Jan Turkenburg: @MHLee 8:54, I know, but just in case I'm too late and find the playlist finished :-)
	8:58am TDK60: Thanks DJ MH.
	♥ 8:59am MHLee: Thanks TDK60
	♥ 9:00am MHLee: This is tremendously fun
	♥ 9:00am Krys O.: Very provocative percussion.
	♥ 9:01am MHLee: That's all folks!
	♥ 9:02am WR: Thank you MHLee! Thank you Krys!
	♥ 9:02am MHLee: Thanks so much Krys!
	♥ 9:02am Krys O.: Glad to help!

Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from November 25, 2022

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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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November 25, 2022: Merrily We Roll Along: Episode 26 - "Real (Fake) Hawaiian Holiday"

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Artist	Track	Year	Comments	Images	Approx. start time
MHLee	Merrily We Roll Along Theme				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Merrie Melodies	Hawaii Aye Aye "Hawaii Aye Aye" by "Merrie Melodies"	1964			0:02:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Les Baxter And His Orchestra	Moon Moods	1947			0:05:10 (Pop-up)
American Quartet	Moonlight Bay "Moonlight Bay" by "American Quartet"	1912			0:05:11 (Pop-up)
Tiny Tim	My Rose of Waikiki "My Rose of Waikiki" by "Tiny Tim"	2016			0:09:05 (Pop-up)
Johnny Pineapple and his Waikiki Wildcats!!!	O'Brien Is Tryin' to Learn to Talk Hawaiian	2006			0:12:17 (Pop-up)
The Temperance Seven	Ukulele Lady	1989?	This is the version without Peter Sellers after some more research.		0:15:17 (Pop-up)
King Benny Nawahi	Singin' in the Bathtub	1929			0:19:24 (Pop-up)
Sol K. Bright's Hollywaiians	Honolulu How Do You Do?	1934			0:22:03 (Pop-up)
Andrew Bright, Al Kealoha Perry & His Singing Surfriders	Hawaiian Cowboy	1940			0:25:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Les Baxter And His Orchestra	Jungle River Boat				0:28:14 (Pop-up)
R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders	Hano Hano Hawaii	1993			0:30:49 (Pop-up)
Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys	Yiddish Hula Boy	2006			0:34:26 (Pop-up)
Jimmie Rodgers	Everybody Does It in Hawaii	1929			0:37:34 (Pop-up)
Naughty Abbie with Hawaiian Orchestra	Princess Poo-Poo-Ly Has Plenty Papaya	1940s	On 49th State label		0:40:12 (Pop-up)
Hawai'i Calls Orchestra & Chorus	Hapa-Haole Hula Girl	1975?	Hawaii Calls was a long running radio program of Hawaiian music presented by Webley Edwards. Hapa-Haole has two meaning: 1. a mixed race Hawaiian 2. Hawaiian music with English lyrics.		0:43:26 (Pop-up)
Paul Page, Jerry Byrd	Little Grass Shack In Kealakelua, Hawaii	1956		Jerry Byrd Jerry Byrd	0:45:07 (Pop-up)
Alfred Apaka	Lovely Hula Hands "Lovely Hula Hands" by "Alfred Apaka"	1959	Regular on Hawaii Calls, passed away from sudden heart attack.		0:47:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: George De Fretes and His Royal Hawaiian Minstrels	Hula Girl				0:50:10 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley	Blue Hawaii "Blue Hawaii" by "Elvis Presley"	1961	Song originates in the 1937 Bing Crosby movie Waikiki Wedding. .		0:53:19 (Pop-up)
Spike Jones & His City Slickers	Hawaiian War Chant (Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai)	1946	Kāua I Ka Huahuaʻi is the proper name of the song and it's not a war chant but a secret lover's rendezvous.		0:55:57 (Pop-up)
Werner Müller and His Orchestra	Aloha Oe	1963			0:58:39 (Pop-up)
Looney Tunes	Acrobatty Bunny "Acrobatty Bunny" by "Looney Tunes"	1946			1:00:43 (Pop-up)
Marco De Cave	Merrily We Roll Along	2020			1:01:05 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 7:38am MHLee: Hi everyone, bless the sun and Krys O. for the deliverance of this show.
	♥ 7:49am WR: Are you on holiday? Is Kry O again in getting the bits into the stream? Funny how on holiday Friday I more easily wake and be alert.
	♥ 7:53am Krys O.: G'mornin', all! The show will start soon.
	♥ 7:55am MHLee: Yes, WR. I am on holiday today. The playlist has been assembled by me though but Krys O. is making sure we can hear it.
	♥ 8:01am MHLee: Oh no, it cut out
	♥ 8:02am Krys O.: Sorry for the glitch. Butt wasn't connecting. There was a long lag. Had to restart the file.
	♥ 8:02am Krys O.: The robot did not want to relinquish the stream.
	8:03am TDK60: Merry morning.
	♥ 8:03am MHLee: That's been happening a lot recently
	♥ 8:04am MHLee: Hi TDK60
	♥ 8:04am Krys O.: I wonder if there is a gap of silence on your file that tricks the robot.
	♥ 8:05am Krys O.: TDK60, WR, and MHLee, hope you all had a peaceful holiday.
	♥ 8:07am MHLee: Thanks Krys O.
	♥ 8:08am Krys O.: The 1951 film On Moonlight Bay is sweet. I like Doris Day. She survived a lot.
	♥ 8:09am WR: I am totally doing very little this holiday. Indulging in World Cup and listening to and downloading music. Going to get flu shot today is the only quasi-responsilble activity I have planned.
	♥ 8:10am MHLee: I plan to get that and a covid booster tomorrow
	♥ 8:11am Krys O.: Thanks for getting vaxxed, MHLee and WR.
	♥ 8:13am MHLee: This song is also sung by Tiny Tim on the same album as the last song
	♥ 8:13am MHLee: It's from 1916
	♥ 8:13am Jan Turkenburg: Hi everybody!
	♥ 8:14am MHLee: Hi Jan!
	♥ 8:14am Krys O.: Tiny Tim's appearances on the Uncle Floyd show were really cool. He would wax poetic about the history of the songs and Floyd loved that. I recall that Michael Townsend Wright sang with him too. There's only one video of TT on UF on YouTube. The UF contingent is strict about uploads.
	♥ 8:14am WR: I was pissed off that when I got the new covid booster a few weeks ago that hospital I go to said that they did not yet have flu shots for general public. Oh well, they get to charge my insurance twice.
	♥ 8:14am Krys O.: Hello, Jan!
	♥ 8:16am MHLee: I hear a lot about UF in these chats. I'm not sure we had a comparable local tv show/
	♥ 8:16am Krys O.: That's a bummer, WR. I got my flu shot in September. They asked on the phone if I was over 65. I think they were out of the special vax for 65+ folks.
	♥ 8:17am Krys O.: My dad was a fan of Uncle Floyd. He was on UHF channel 68 in the NY/NJ area. My ex performed on the show as a musical guest 9 times. Might have been a record.
	♥ 8:18am WR: MHLee, you have consistently streamed enjoyable selections from "retro" bands that I had not known about or if I saw their records I snobbishly expected to be not worth hearing.
	♥ 8:19am Krys O.: Trad bands were big in the UK in the 60s. The Bonzos started off that way.
	♥ 8:20am MHLee: Part of the goal of this show, WR. I had a bunch of this stuff in my peripheral vision. I thought I'd see what I could do with it.
	♥ 8:21am Krys O.: It's a treat, MHLee.
	♥ 8:22am MHLee: Thanks Krys O.
	♥ 8:22am MHLee: That version of singing in the bathtub ended rather abruptly, didn't it?
	♥ 8:23am Krys O.: They ran out of wax?
	♥ 8:23am WR: I've watched some bits of Uncle Floyd online. Probably utoob but was some years ago, so not sure. At this point I would think they would want to have it on Archive dot org.
	♥ 8:25am Krys O.: @WR: You'd think they'd want to have it available for folks who weren't even born yet, but it was misguided of them, IMO, to report uploads. I think that might have been around the 20-aughts.
	♥ 8:25am MHLee: You know, my dad might run the equivalent show. He runs some Friday music show through a local university.
	♥ 8:25am Krys O.: On TV, MHLee?
	♥ 8:26am MHLee: Yes. He used to do radio as well, but currently teaches broadcasting on television
	♥ 8:26am Krys O.: Nice!
	♥ 8:27am Jan Turkenburg: o wow!
	♥ 8:32am MHLee: Robert Armstrong, R, Crumb, Bob Brozman, Terry Zwigoff
	♥ 8:32am WR: Those Singing Surfriders were hot. I could almost smell the pacific island breeze. I've been to Hawaii only as place to change plane on the way to Japan. Both times it was the middle of the night. Pre- 9/11 so we were allowed to go outside the terminal and come back in. So an after mid night smell and light breeze is my only direct experience with Hawaii.
	♥ 8:33am Krys O.: That's Terry Zwigoff on cello in that photo.
	♥ 8:34am MHLee: I've never been anywhere tropical
	♥ 8:35am MHLee: Terry Zwigoff also put together the Howard Armstrong film which I've been trying to get the soundtrack album for. Amazon is messed up and links to the wrong album when you try to purchase it.
	♥ 8:35am MHLee: That album is why I have a banjouke
	♥ 8:37am WR: Is that photo of a Crumbless Serenaders or is he cropped out? I like that they go all in with the Cheap Suit thing.
	♥ 8:37am Krys O.: I watched Louie Bluie a couple of years ago. It was on TCM.
	♥ 8:38am MHLee: @WR Crumbless, I can't find a half decent picture of them when he was in the band
	♥ 8:38am Krys O.: Looks like there are some copies available on Discogs, MHLee: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 8:39am MHLee: Might have to grab it. It's so cool. There are so few black-string band recordings.
	♥ 8:40am Krys O.: Crumb stopped playing with the band in 2006 apparently. Many photos online are from 2011 or so.
	♥ 8:41am MHLee: I understand this was a Hawaiian record label but this song is so closely related to country it's kinda fascinating
	♥ 8:42am WR: I've not yet seen Louie Bluie. I've been vaguely aware of it but haven't made the effort. Looks like making the effort will be rewarding.
	♥ 8:43am MHLee: The only songs I can play on uke are "My Four Reasons" from that soundtrack and the Lindberg Hop
	♥ 8:44am Krys O.: Jimmie Rodgers was a HUGE country music star from waaaay back.
	♥ 8:45am MHLee: I used to preform his in the Jail House now... you just reminded me I needed to find my bluegrass recordings
	♥ 8:45am MHLee: I choose this version because for some reason they have a weird organ replacing the steel guitar.
	♥ 8:46am Jan Turkenburg: What a lovely organ solo!
	♥ 8:48am Krys O.: Didn't know about Jerry Byrd. He recorded on Monument. I'll guess that my ex's dad, Bob Moore recorded with him.
	♥ 8:49am MHLee: Bob Moore was a bassist on a lot of those old nashville records wasn't he?
	♥ 8:51am Krys O.: Yes, he was part of the Nashville A-Team of session musicians and he had records of his own. He was also part-owner of Monument. Here's an interview where Bob mentions Byrd: www.artofslapbass.com...
	♥ 8:52am MHLee: I was a bass player in a bluegrass band.
	♥ 8:52am WR: LOL, when I worked in a record store in the early 70s we always stocked a few Alfred Apaka records along with the Don Ho records. Now that I'm not such a purist for raw trad I'm still not sure what I think of his singing.
	♥ 8:53am Krys O.: Bob Moore rarely played live, but he did back Elvis Presley on stage in Hawaii circa 1961.
	♥ 8:53am Krys O.: Thanks, MHLee. Twas a fun show!
	♥ 8:54am Jan Turkenburg: delightful episode, thnx MHLee!
	♥ 8:54am MHLee: Thank you! Still a couple more tracks.
	♥ 8:55am MHLee: Can't leave without Aloha Ae
	♥ 8:55am WR: Yes, lovely program, The only thing missing is a tropical fruit drink, but I guess that is on me, not the stream.
	♥ 8:55am Krys O.: Bob on bass with the Jordanaires behind Elvis: www.artofslapbass.com...
	♥ 8:56am MHLee: Nice picture.
	♥ 8:56am WR: Very interesting photo Krys!
	♥ 8:58am Jan Turkenburg: @MHLee 8:54, I know, but just in case I'm too late and find the playlist finished :-)
	8:58am TDK60: Thanks DJ MH.
	♥ 8:59am MHLee: Thanks TDK60
	♥ 9:00am MHLee: This is tremendously fun
	♥ 9:00am Krys O.: Very provocative percussion.
	♥ 9:01am MHLee: That's all folks!
	♥ 9:02am WR: Thank you MHLee! Thank you Krys!
	♥ 9:02am MHLee: Thanks so much Krys!
	♥ 9:02am Krys O.: Glad to help!

Merrily We Roll Along with MHLee: Playlist from November 25, 2022

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