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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 · 9d
It’s November and the nights are drawing 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 Haunted Jukebox.

www.mixcloud.com/RockinRachel...

#musicsky #radio #DJ #nowspinning #nowplaying
Haunted Jukebox #15 (November 2025)
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Late Inktober day 10, ‘sweep’. Another one that was a bit better as a pencil sketch, and I was going to do a chimney sweep instead, but to be honest, I’m knackered tonight.
Line drawing of a fashion illustration from the 1950s of a woman in a sweeping dress with hat and gloves.
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Had this stuck in my head for the past hour - no idea why, but I’m not complaining.

Desmond Dekker & The Aces - 007

m.youtube.com/watch?v=kpVx...

#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning
Desmond Dekker & The Aces - 007 (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Trojan Records Official
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November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Great bouncy doo-wop number with a guitar sound which somehow feels both very of its time, and like a harbinger of ‘British Invasion’ things to come - it’s got kind of a Merseybeat flavour to it, to my ears.

The Prodigals - Marsha

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#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning
Prodigals - Marsha - Late 50's Doo Wop Rocker
YouTube video by PJDooWop
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November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
This dreamy thing is presumably not named after Dickens’ second Christmas story, the bizarre, depressing follow-up to A Christmas Carol.

The Chimes - The Chimes

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#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning
Chimes - The Chimes - KILLER West Coast Doo Wop Ballad
YouTube video by PJDooWop
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November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
Late Inktober, day 9, ‘heavy’.
Black and white illustration of a candle next to a mullioned, deep set window on a rainy night, the candle highlighting the raindrops on the panes of glass closest to the flame. To the right, in the foreground is a heavy curtain with a tasselled tie-back.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
Another Askey & Murdoch comedy next: The Ghost Train (1941). There are few things on film that will make me cackle more heartily than Kathleen Harrison drunkenly shouting ‘KNOBS!’.

#filmsky #nowwatching
Colour poster for The Ghost Train (1941), featuring a camply terrified Arthur Askey
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
Get this a lot on local buses, but somehow managed to escape it on every train last time I was in London (September). Might have accidentally taken the train to the ‘50s again, like. It happens.
watsoncomedian.bsky.social Mark Watson, in November @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 1d
Both legs of this London-Brighton trip, there’s been someone watching videos for the full hour with no headphones in. Now, you hear people complain about this a lot. And I accept I’m 45. And the world changes. But I’d really love to be able to slam custard pies in these guys’ faces.
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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#nowwatching I Thank You (1941) an old favourite of mine with a star-studded cast (if you’re a fan of British comedy actors of the ‘30s and ‘40s, anyway).

#filmsky
Publicity still of Richard ‘Stinker’ Murdoch, Moore Marriott, and Arthur Askey in I Thank You (1941)
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Some top-shelf Sunday night doo-wop.

The C-Quins - My Only Love

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#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning
My Only Love by The C-Quins
YouTube video by The Four Seasons And Me
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November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
Been out solving mysteries (to the corner shop on a rainy night).
Blurred black and white image of a silhouetted figure in hat and long coat reflected on a brick wall. Black and white image of rain falling past a streetlamp on the corner of an alley between two brick houses of different late 19th/early 20th century styles. Black and white image of a streetlamp, distorted by lens flare overlooking a rain-soaked back lane, with a street of terraced houses, only one window lit, in the background. Black and white image of an almost bare autumn tree lit from behind by a streetlamp.
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
Would quite like to send Blanche out to take the little scrotes still setting off fireworks tonight (in the pissing rain, fuck’s sake) a peg or two.

Blanche Thomas - You Ain’t So Such A Much

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Blanche Thomas - You Ain't So Such A Much
YouTube video by jukeboxjamrevue
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November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
And it ain’t no lie

#musicsky
Cinema marquee style lightbox sits on top of a bookcase containing books on music, with stacks of record label specific compilation CDs. The letters have been arranged to read DOO WOP TIL I DIE
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
Dear Rock ‘n’ Roll Santa,

Please go back to 1956 and bring one back for me.

Love, Rachel

P.S. Chimney is now blocked, please use window. Will leave your usual glass of whisky out.
sherilyn.bsky.social Sherilyn Connelly @sherilyn.bsky.social · 2d
Houston Post, November 8, 1956.

Just Arrived At Joske's!

ELVIS PRESLEY AUTOGRAPHED RECORD PLAYER

$32.95

RCA Victor's 45 rpm take-it-with-you portable record player, bound in blue denim, signed the by master of rock 'n roll.

Big bonus: two Long Play 45 rpm records of Elvis Presley favorites!
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
Late Inktober day 8, ‘reckless’.
Ink illustration of a pub sign for a pub called Ye Olde Shipwreck (minus the ‘reck’ part), featuring part of a ship listing badly in large, stylised waves, under clouds in a similar style.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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In case you feel like dusting off your dancing shoes

Jimmy McGriff - A Thing To Come By

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JIMMY McGRIFF A thing to come by
YouTube video by funkgetier
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November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Great bit of DC doo-wop from a group who sadly only cut a few records - one each as The Marvels, The Marvells, and The Senators.

The Marvells - Come Back

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#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning
MARVELLS COME BACK
YouTube video by Orlando Nicola
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November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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It’s a dark, miserable November night - liven it up with some explosive rock’n’roll, doo-wop, rhythm & blues, and rockabilly on the radio. (Warning: contains trace amounts of what remains of DJ’s heart and soul).

www.mixcloud.com/RockinRachel...

#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning #radio #DJ
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
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
Something to make you cry. Or not, I don’t know where your heads are at.

The Four Tunes - Old Fashioned Love

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#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning
Old Fashioned Love (Remastered)
YouTube video by The Four Tunes - Topic
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November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
More fireworks tonight, starting, appropriately enough, when this came on.

Dorellik (Johnny Dorelli) - Arriva La Bomba

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#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning
Arriva La Bomba ~ Dorellik
YouTube video by Metropolitan Soul @MetropolitanSoul
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November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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A swingin’ good time.

Papa Albert French & His Original Tuxedo Jazz Band (Blanche Thomas lead vox) - Bald Headed Beulah

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#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning
Papa French & Blanche Thomas --- Bald Headed Beulah
YouTube video by CookieLoca
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November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
Oh, to be a cigarette in that man’s mouth.
Still of Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, sat in his office with a cigarette between his lips.
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
Or do whatever you fucking like. I’m going to drink too much and watch The Maltese Falcon again.

#filmsky
Black and white photograph - in the background, in focus, a TV showing the title card of The Maltese Falcon (1941). In the foreground, from right, out of focus glass of whisky held up to the light.
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
It’s a dark, miserable November night - liven it up with some explosive rock’n’roll, doo-wop, rhythm & blues, and rockabilly on the radio. (Warning: contains trace amounts of what remains of DJ’s heart and soul).

www.mixcloud.com/RockinRachel...

#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning #radio #DJ
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
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
hauntedjukebox.bsky.social
It’s awfully nice of all these people to watch #totp on a Friday, so I can get on with watching old episodes of Sherlock Holmes and shouting at the adverts.
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Well, that explains the cloud of smoke coming from the recording booth.

Vince Castro with The Tonettes - Bong Bong (I Love You)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=xox6...

#musicsky #nowplaying #nowspinning
Vince Castro - Bong Bong - Killer NYC Doo Wop
YouTube video by PJDooWop
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November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM