Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday Edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight’s musical selection, from the “corny-but-hard-not-to-laugh” category, sees Jim Stafford on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour performing his song Cow Patti.
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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday Edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, in keeping with the political season, we present for your enjoyment and consideration a song, from Bob Dylan’s 1983 album Infidels, which warns of the guy with the “harmonious tongue” who emerges from nowhere to “catch you when your troubles feel like they weigh a ton.”
Here it is, then: Bob Dylan’s Man Of Peace.
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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight’s musical selection examines one of the more difficult questions for any civilized society, namely, what is an appropriate punishment for a flap-mouthed, mammering, rump-fed ratsbane? What manner of recompense should we extract from such a hedge-born, bat-fouling puttock? Should he be keelhauled by his uncles, or scarped on his boil? Should we put him in the scupper with the hose-pipe on him, or flack him on the grummies with a wrought-iron lunger?
There are no easy answers. Perhaps it’s best to defer here to legendary nautical hardbody-turned songwriter Rambling Syd Rumpo, aka Kenneth Williams, as he asks the enduring musical question “What Should We Do With A Drunken Nurker?” in part one of his rollicking Sea Shanty Medley.
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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday night edition of Late Nite Radio.
The Great Bailout Gravy Train is a long one — you can’t even see all the way to the end of it — and as it disappears into endless congressional tunnels, no one knows exactly where that freight of goods will end up; the only thing you can be sure of is that it’s all going somewhere.
In tonight’s musical selection Bob Dylan assures various and sundry that they’re all going to meet at that Million Dollar Bash.
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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday night edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight we sail east through the Strait of Gibraltar, almost run aground on Tunis — apparently the captain values retsina more than the lives of his passengers — and land on the Greek island of Kalymnos, where we look back to Florida to pay tribute to the tsabouna, a shepherd’s instrument that has been played on the Greek Islands for over 2,000 years.
To play the tsabouna one must blow hard into a carefully selected part of a dead goat until the entire goat is inflated, squeeze with all your might until the goat begins to sing, and then use your fingers to serially choose, in rapid succession, from the six available note-holes drilled conveniently in one of it’s hooves.
Difficult to play but easy to listen to, the sound of a well-played tsabouna is irresistible, as you’ll see around the 1 minute 30 second mark of the video. So here then, without further ado, Nikitas Tsimouris plays the old chestnut the tsabouna.
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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday night edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your listening pleasure, Liam Clancy performs a lovely, emotional, transcendent interpretation of Bob Dylan’s Girl From The North Country.
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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday edition of Late Night Radio. In tonight’s musical selection the Reverend F.W. McGee and Arizona Dranes march, on everyone’s behalf, and with exemplary vigor and resolve, through the valley of the shadow. It’s an unusual duet in that the two seem almost to be engaged in a musical dispute with each loudly insisting on his/her own quite different interpretation of the song; what quickly becomes clear is that they are fellow soldiers simply advancing in common cause from two strong flanks.
Here then without further ado, a musical singularity and a great performance from 1930: Arizona Dranes and Rev. F.W. McGee singing Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room.
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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday edition of
SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your listening pleasure, we present
Jonathan Richman singing Roadrunner.
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Good evening, EBD here. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Late Nite Radio.
Tonight’s musical selection is from Australian Nick Cave’s album No More Shall We Part. At first glance it might seem a political song, or some sort of ironic commentary on the so-called religious right, but it’s not; the real subject of the song is a particular feeling, a desire for communion, which the idiosyncratic Cave has artfully made one with the song itself. Time-bound identity-politic struggles are noted, but then duly rejected — spat out — as anathema to the prayed-for state of grace, while idealized, nostalgic, almost pastoral politics are summoned in the present tense, as a prayer, against all odds; in both cases it’s the feeling — the desire for a state of grace — ordering the words around. Politics in reverse, really.
Here, for your entertainment, Nick Cave sings God Is In The House.
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Good evening, EBD here. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio.
During the 1972 Munich Olympics a group of terrorists from Lebanon, Syria and Jordan entered the Athlete’s Village under cover of darkness; less than twenty-four hours later, 11 Israeli athletes were dead. I bring this up for a reason: I’m guessing that a lot of SDA commenters of a certain age remember how our schoolmates, teachers, friends, neighbours, and our journalists, were uniformly heartsick and appalled at the unjustifiable and inhuman brutality.
A lot has changed in the intervening 37 years. If a similar incident were to occur now, legions of people, including journalists, would launch into a discussion on the matter of Israel and in so doing obviate, almost incidentally, the matter of the volitional and moral agency of those who murdered the innocent athletes. This approach, which endlessly rationalizes inhuman brutality, typically flies under the banner of enlightenment and compassion. As Daniel Pearl’s father Judea wrote in the WSJ:

“Somehow barbarism, often cloaked in the language or ‘resistance,’ has gained acceptance in the most elite circles of our society. The words ‘war on terror’ cannot be uttered today without fear of offense. Civilized society, so it seems, is so numbed by violence that it has lost its gift to be disgusted by evil. I believe it all started with well-meaning analysts, who in their zeal to find creative solutions to terror decided that terror is not a real enemy, but a tactic.” (emph. mine)

Tonight’s musical selection, written by Noel Coward, and banned by the BBC, is a dark satire on the rationalizations of the British anti-war movement. WWII was still raging at the time the song was released in 1943 but, since the Battle of Britain had ended, Cowards’ naive, earnest character was moved to declare with disarming blitheness and no small measure of self-congratulation that “the war is over,” and to advocate for forgiveness and warm relations with their newfound would-be friends.
Coward could not possibly have known the extent to which the voices he satirically appropriated would later become mainstream, or that his topical, contemporary song was a harbinger of things to come.
Here it is, then: Noel Coward singing Don’t Let’s Be Beastly To the Germans.
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Welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight for your listening pleasure we present Gillian Welch singing Gram Parson’s Hickory Wind.
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Welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your amusement, we present Robbie Fulks singing Cigarette State.
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Good evening, EBD here, welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, a real treat for SDA opera buffs: we present Der Holle Rache, aka the Queen of the Night’s Vengeance Aria, from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
Opera fans typically love to while away their evenings debating which performer’s version of any given aria is the best one, so tonight we give you two quite different versions of the Queen of the Night Aria, one by French Coloratura Natalie Dessay and one by Florence Foster Jenkins so that SDA readers may decide for themselves which version is best for them. Feel free to discuss the matter, just not in the thread. If you feel it necessary to comment, remember that musical preferences are strictly a matter of taste, so please avoid heated arguments, profanity and all-caps. In my personal opinion, both versions of the aria are exemplary in their own way.
So, grab your opera glasses and work up a persistent scratchy cough, we’re off: first, Der Holle Rache as sung by French coloratura Natalie Dessay, and then by the remarkable Florence Foster Jenkins.
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Good evening, welcome to SDA Late Night Radio.
On New Year’s Day, after more than a thousand cars were set on fire in France, mostly in the, how you say, banlieues, French security forces described the previous evening as having been ‘rather calm’ and ‘without major incident.'” Oui, tout va tres bien, tres bien, cela n’est rien.
Tonight, for your delectation, we present a musical tribute to the certain je ne sais quoi that has had a huge effect on Canadian politics, particularly on our government contracting….procedures. I am referring, of course, to the Gallic shrug. So without further ado, here’s Ray Ventura et ses Collegiens performing Tout Va Tres Bien, Madame La Marquise.

Good evening, EBD here. Welcome to SDA Late Night Radio, Wednesday edition. Tonight for your entertainment The Pogues join together with The Dubliners on Irish tv to sing Irish Rover.
Amusing note: near the end of the song, at approx. 3:46, the Pogue’s singer Shane McGowan (he’s the guy between the ears) and the combined members of the two bands spring a surprise ending on the Dubliner’s singer Ronnie Drew. Cracks me up every time.
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Welcome to SDA Late Night Radio.
Tonight we are a nation at a crossroads, facing one of the most troubling and uncertain times in Canada’s history. While many of us have been having sleepless nights over the unjust, almost horrifying scenario being played out, it’s almost impossible to comprehend the weight on Stephen Harper’s broad shoulders tonight as he fights for the nation he loves.
Time for a sing-along, then. One of the real bright spots in these dark times has been the stirring, most unwavering iron support for our prime minister that continues to come from that rare and valued group – conservative women. I invite the SDA army, including Dolly, Marie, soccermom and the inestimable Jema54, to stand up and sing along on the final chorus of tonight’s selection in a way that will be heard by Stephen Harper all the way over there in Ottawa.
He surely needs to hear that you continue to Stand By Your Man no matter what may come, right at the time when he needs it most.
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Good evening, EBD here. Welcome to Vitruvius’ SDA Late Nite Radio.
Several weeks ago I had the good fortune to see American songwriter Lucinda Williams performing live in a small local venue. By the end of the two-and-a-half hour concert I knew I’d witnessed something very special. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Ms. Williams singing the title track from her 1998 release Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.
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Welcome to SDA Late Night Radio, home of the ever-gracious Vitruvius. In keeping with the thoroughly eclectic nature of his entertaining selections, tonight we cross the briny North Atlantic, run aground on the rocks, then scramble ashore to watch a performance of one of the truly inspiring national anthems extant, Norway’s lovely Ja, vi elsker dette landet — “Yes, we love this country.”
It’s helpful and well worth it to read the English translation (verses one, seven and eight) while watching. Note also (unsung) verses three and four, and imagine the thrill of singing them at, say, a Winter Olympics biathlon medal ceremony.
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