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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll
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The devil in nylon hose.

Host and friendly ghost of Haunted Jukebox, a radio show for all your rock’n’roll/doo-wop/rockabilly/rhythm & blues needs, and Snakes and Roundabouts: eclectic music for mixed-up people.

https://www.mixcloud.com/RockinRachelRoll/
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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 13h
On the least Fridayish Friday of the year, I’m still going to recommend one of my own rock’n’roll shows to stir your sluggish post-festive hearts (partly because posting a Christmas one again seems unnecessarily cruel).

www.mixcloud.com/RockinRachel...

#musicsky #radio #DJ #nowspinning #nowplaying
Haunted Jukebox #15 (November 2025)
It's November again, and the nights have drawn in long, cold, and dark - but fear not - come dance around the bonfire of red-hot swingin' rock'n'roll, rhythm & blues, doo-wop, and rockabilly that is H...
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Slapped together a playlist of ~2 hours of what I’ve been playing tonight. Apparently I just cannot stop DJing, but you’ll have to imagine the usual semi-informative natter after every 2-3 songs.

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Friday 26th of December’25 - YouTube
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December 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Can’t believe I’ve never heard this in it before, but it’s just hit me that one of the things I love about this tune is that it sounds like a ska record before ska…[1/2]

Nappy Brown - Don’t Be Angry

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1955 HITS ARCHIVE: Don’t Be Angry - Nappy Brown
YouTube video by The45Prof
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December 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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It’s also always the moment for this song, one of my favourite doo-wop records of all time. I’m playin’ all the hits tonight.

The Valiants - This Is The Nite

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The Valiants - This Is The Nite 1957
YouTube video by Mr.DooWop
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December 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I know I’ve played this on Snakes and Roundabouts, and I’ve definitely shared it on here before, but it has never not been the moment for this song so far, right now being no exception.

Penny and the Quarters - You And Me

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Penny & The Quarters - You and Me
YouTube video by crowstuff
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December 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Nappy Brown taking you down a peg or two, you bloated, irritable, hungover mess. (It’s Boxing Day, I’m just assuming).

Nappy Brown - Baby I Got News For You

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Nappy Brown - "Baby I Got News For You"
YouTube video by David Fields
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December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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On the least Fridayish Friday of the year, I’m still going to recommend one of my own rock’n’roll shows to stir your sluggish post-festive hearts (partly because posting a Christmas one again seems unnecessarily cruel).

www.mixcloud.com/RockinRachel...

#musicsky #radio #DJ #nowspinning #nowplaying
Haunted Jukebox #15 (November 2025)
It's November again, and the nights have drawn in long, cold, and dark - but fear not - come dance around the bonfire of red-hot swingin' rock'n'roll, rhythm & blues, doo-wop, and rockabilly that is H...
www.mixcloud.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Boxing Day, Boxing Day, just me and the cat and a relaxing day (doesn’t actually appear in the lyrics, but should).

Elvis Costello - T.K.O. (Boxing Day)

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TKO (Boxing Day)
YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic
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December 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Christmas presents are great when you are unafraid to get highly specific when someone asks you ‘anything you want for Christmas?’.

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Two LPs: the Bear Family Nappy Brown compilation, That Man, and Dinah Washington - Back To The Blues Two books: Rhythm & Blues In New Orleans by John Broven, and Group Harmony: Behind The Rhythm And The Blues by Todd R. Baptista and a CD boxset, A Rhythm & Blues Chronology: 1949 on Rhythm & Blues Records
December 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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It’s so nice to be home, comfortable, and not being offered any more to eat or drink - kind of disappointing that I wasn’t even more ill, I could have had this all day.

Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster - You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To

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You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
YouTube video by Coleman Hawkins - Topic
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December 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Generally speaking, I am the most cynical grump of a fairly cynical and grumpy family, but as those of us left to ‘celebrate’ Christmas are such colossal Xmas miseries, I like to dress up, and irritate the others with whimsy on the big day.
Rachel, dressed as 1950s Santa Claus/Mrs Claus/one of them stands, with hair curled under a Santa hat, by a real Christmas tree covered in vintage decorations, and looks ready to make mischief.
December 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Happy birthday, Jesus
Jesus, it’s your birthday
Screenshot from the classic Simpsons episode Stark Raving Dad, with ‘Michael Jackson’ (Homer’s large white friend from the mental institution) and Bart sitting at the piano to sing a birthday song to Lisa.
December 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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I’m probably going to be on here intermittently today, but if you want some company (figuratively speaking, dealing with my own family is more than enough), there’s shitloads of me/my radio shows (festive or not) here:

www.mixcloud.com/RockinRachel...

#musicsky #radio #DJ #nowspinning #nowplaying
RockinRachelRoll
RockinRachelRoll is on Mixcloud. Listen for free to their radio shows, DJ mix sets and Podcasts
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December 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Merry Christmas from Smokey, he has eaten his fancy festive breakfast and gone straight back to bed. M’boy’s got the right idea.
A fluffy grey cat sits, entranced, and looking very sweet, under a real Christmas tree laden with baubles, tinsel (too high up for a very good non-climbing boy to reach), and multi coloured fairylights.
December 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Happy Christmas, I am feeling very rosy-cheeked and full (obviously I ate at least twice as much rice and peas as I first put on my plate).
Homemade jerk style chicken with equally homemade rice and peas on a white plate in an astonishing white part of my kitchen, with a can of Red Stripe on the bench behind it.
December 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Am I going to continue to shove both of my Christmas shows in your face this damp Christmas Eve? Apparently so, so you may as well give in now, and feast your little ears on some underplayed, deep cut, and just plain delightful Xmas tunes.

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December 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Sometimes I feel sorry for all the healthy people who’ll never know the sheer rakish decadence of smoking in the bath.
December 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Did I wash my hair in the shower this afternoon? Yes.

Have I let that stop me from having a luxury Christmas Eve bubble bath? Fuck, no.
December 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Just in case you’ve forgotten, it’s Christmas Eve, and thus can you allow me to rock’n’roll you into Christmas Day with an extra-long Haunted Jukebox stuffed with festive RnR, R&B, doo-wop, rockabilly, & all the trimmings.

www.mixcloud.com/RockinRachel...

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Haunted Jukebox #16: A Haunted Jukebox Christmas Party (December 2025)
Pull those crackers and jingle them bells, it's a bumper three-hour sleigh ride with Rockin' Rachel Roll, and a sackful of festive rock'n'roll, rhythm & blues, doo-wop, rockabilly, and more.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Feels like time.

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TV showing the title card for Bell Book and Candle (1958). The TV is surrounding by candles, tinsel, and other decorations.
December 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Can’t believe this is the year I finally got all the presents wrapped before it got dark on Christmas Eve - don’t even know what to do with myself now.
Drink, probably.
December 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The always-festive sounds of Prince Buster on the turntable today.

Prince Buster - Earthquake

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Prince Buster Earthquake
YouTube video by louis bertrand
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December 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Frankly, we could all stand to make the Yuletide gayer.
December 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Very much meant to do it last night, but that’s tonight’s Christmas Eve chicken marinating in the fridge, and I cannot wait. Expecting the picture will be flagged as adult content - it’s just too saucy...
A jar of Tropical Sun brand Jamaican jerk seasoning paste is held up to the light.
December 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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It’s Christmas Eve, and if yours is anything like mine, you’re ill, feeling bloody awful, & could do with something to get you through all those presents you still haven’t wrapped - SEARCH NO MORE, for I have it here:

www.mixcloud.com/RockinRachel...

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Snakes and Roundabouts #5 (December 2025)
Christmas cheer, beers, and jeers, from across the years - Rachel James Brown takes her usual pic'n'mix approach to the festive season, with a Snakes and Roundabouts jam-packed with Christmas songs an...
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December 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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I fell asleep earlier, for most of the third bad Netflix Christmas film in a row, I’m calling it Damaged Author With The Sex Eyes (And Also He Has A Cute Dog).
December 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM