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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 · 11d

It’s October, which can only mean that the Jukebox is even more Haunted than usual. Spooky rock’n’roll, rhythm & blues, doo-wop, rockabilly & more - enter if you dare…

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Haunted Jukebox #14: A Haunted Jukebox Halloween Hop (October 2025)

Welcome to the second annual Halloween Hop, where the Jukebox is even more Haunted than usual. Singing spooks, wailing witches, and jiving jack o' lanterns await - enter if you dare...

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 2h

Wow, the devil really does have all the best tunes.

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Slightly shit photograph of a TV playing the penultimate episode of Disenchantment. Satan stands on a battlefield outside a castle looking at the ground, Dagmar and Gomer exiting the frame in the centre of the background.

Subtitle reads: Come, Gomer. Let Satan go listen to his rare doo-wop records.

Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 9h

The sitcom my subconscious invented and put in there was pretty good, though, it’s a shame I don’t remember it well enough to write it.

Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 9h

Very relieved when I woke up and this guy hadn’t eaten any of the crazy stuff he did in my dream, and also that I wasn’t actually on a weird boat hotel on a very rough sea with me Mam and the world’s largest answerphone.

An opulently fluffy grey cat stretches luxuriantly at the end of a bed, and looks toward the camera.

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 9h

And a couple of Teds hiding in the background (no emoji cos the closest I could find was a vampire or an afro pick).

Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 18h

Signing off. Night night, ya weirdos.

The Precisions - Valley Of Tears

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Destinations - Valley of Tears - Mega Rare Detroit Doo Wop Ballad

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 18h

Just try and resist getting swept up in/dancing to this’un. I dares ya.

Lamar Morris - I Lost Someone

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Lamar Morris - I LOST SOMEONE (1964)

YouTube video by Anthony Reichardt

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t know what ‘vibes’ I was giving off, but the ‘50s clothes I wear every fuckin’ day are surely something of a clue?

Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 19h

Listening to this just reminded me of the time a very basic boy at one of my horrible office jobs told me he’d always assumed (on zero evidence) I was into opera.

Tony Harris - Chicken Baby, Chicken

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Harris, Tony - Chicken, Baby, Chicken - 1957

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 19h

Beginning to suspect that Dashiell Hammett was as perma-drunk as Nick & Nora Charles when he wrote The Thin Man, given how surprisingly easy it is to read while three sheets to the wind.

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 19h

Would ya look at the sax on this one?

The Four Buddies - Look Out

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FOUR BUDDIES LOOKOUT

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 20h

Fuck it, let’s boogie (away our collective sadness).

The Dominoes - Have Mercy Baby

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1952 Dominoes - Have Mercy Baby (#1 R&B hit for 10 weeks)

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 20h

But cats require so much less walking. When Smokey wants exercise, he just hurls himself up and down stairs and doesn’t expect me to join in. He’s a good guy.

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 20h

As it turns out, a great drinking song.

Sacha Distel - Scoubidou

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Sacha Distel - Scoubidou (des pommes et des poires et des...)

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 20h

My signature vodka. A real exclusive, only available right now in one bottle in an undisclosed location (my flat).

A letter R scratched into the condensation of a bottle of vodka which has been stored (correctly) in the freezer.

Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 21h

I really don’t know what he was plotting this time, but I’ll find out in time.

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 21h

People make a lot of fuss about drinking alone, but what am I supposed to do, give the cat vodka?

Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 21h

There are really only two jokes you can make about ol’ Chuck, and I made the less awful one the previous time I’d played him, cos it was Christmas and all.

Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 21h

I toned down the tasteless joke relating to this one considerably, for the record.

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 21h

Listening to playlist of everything I’ve played on Haunted Jukebox - obviously, I’d recommend you do too, but listen to actual shows for full daft jingles/tasteless jokes experience

Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go

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No Particular Place To Go

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 21h

Sometimes being a cat owner is feeling before seeing the intent gaze of two little eyes furiously staring at you rubbing moisturiser into your arse regions.

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 21h

That’s the edition of Halloween Party I have - of all the great cover art in those Fontana editions of Christie, it might be my favourite.

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 22h

Haven’t been doing Inktober this year (might do it a month late if I can be arsed at all), but here is a self-portrait in two panels which is among my favourites from last year’s efforts.

Panel one: A short female figure with glasses and terrible knees gathers wood into a pile on a desert island.

Panel two: The same figure, seen from some distance above, indicates with an arm the words FUCK OFF spelt out with sticks on the beach.

Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 1d

Haven’t heard this is so many years, but was v. pleased to see it come up on my iTunes. Suspect it might trigger quite the nostalgic rush for people in my age range, regardless of musical preference.

Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In L.A.

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Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in L.A. (Official Music Video) - Best Quality

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 1d

Also realised that it contains a disproportionate number of absolute heartbreakers, but a) that feels very November to me, and b) I have actually held back somewhat.

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not saying I’m a record-selecting witch, but I’m listening through the playlist for November’s Snakes and Roundabouts, and since I put it on, this mild early autumn night has begun to feel lot more wintry…

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