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Reader Tips

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are B. B. King, James Toney (love the Hammond, James), Mose Thomas, Lee Gatling, and Sonny Freeman performing Part I ¤ and II ¤ on Ralph Gleason‘s Jazz Casual show, in 1968. I particularly like their version of The Jungle, which begins at 05:55 into part one…

I work hard everyday,
From Monday through Friday night.
And the wages that they pay me,
I swear they’re very light.

They take out a little for the State,
And a little more for Uncle Sam.
How can I ever catch up,
And get myself out of this jam?

I’m gonna move to the jungle,
Way out in the woods.
Because the way things are here now,
I tell ya’ I ain’t doin’ myself no good.

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Reader Tips

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are the London Symphony Orchestra, featuring the great pianist Mr. Claudio Arrau (in his last great show at the age of ca. 85), performing Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Piano Concerto #5, II, III, IV, V, in E♭ major, Op. 73, Sir Colin Davis conducting. (And then he leaves the stage, for the last time.)

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Distinguished Lecture, Documentary & Interview Symposia

 
 

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week’s SDA distinguished lecture, documentary & interview symposium. This week, for your delectation, here is Dr. Michael Merzenich, neuroscientist and professor emeritus at UCSF, presenting his lecture On Rewiring the Brain (23:07).

For today’s symposium, Dr. Merzenich explains how your brain is always actively going on rewiring itself, how that rewiring is subject to your attention, and thus how your allocation of your attention resources is relevant to the future of your brain, to how you nurture your brain, and to your happiness, your wellbeing, your abilities, and your capacities; and how you are responsible for that.

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All of us long for home at some point in our lives. Home may be a far-away place peopled by loved ones now gone, full of familiar voices and kitchen smells, or it may be a place we’ve never even been to that improbably asserts itself in our persistent dreams as a completion of our love and all that we wish for.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio. Tonight, Irish band Planxty, led by singer Christy Moore, evokes this universal longing with a stirring and deceptively simple ballad. While the melodic line of each verse doesn’t resolve in the usual sense, this astute, hanging, circular structure imparts a sense of inevitable return.
It’s a song about a specific place that most of us have never seen, but through the alchemy of music and the words we end up longing for it as the singer does. Here it is, then, without further ado: Christy Moore sings his beautiful paean to his cherished and magical Cliffs of Dooneen.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the cold start and fitness-to-run check of the East Lancashire railway’s D5600 Locomotive ¤, at the Castlecroft yard, after a piston change in 2006 (9:59). Ahh, I love the smell of diesel clag in the morning. And if that’s too boring for those of you living the life of fast-paced glamour, sacrificing your freedom to Martha’s Sons, then you can always simply sit back and enjoy these lovely 14 megawatt trumpets 😉

Update: This one‘s for Snagglepuss in the comments.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Mr. Rick Wakeman and the boys performing Anne Boleyn, from his The Six Wives of Henry VIII album in 1973 (6:37). Personally, my favourite track from my copy of the vinyl here in the studio is Jane Seymour (4:51), though I figure it to be of rather less general audience appeal, even though I’m sure that if Bach had been able to pull off that section from 02:45 to 04:10, then he definitely would have put something like it in his Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565. The parishioners would have freaked out, man (which was the whole point of having thirty-two- foot pipes in the first place: hallucinations in the pews). Alas, J.S. didn’t have access to an appropriate ramp-frequency synthesizer in the church at that time. Hell, he didn’t even have a piano yet, and a saxophone would have been sacrilege.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is something you probably haven’t heard for a while: John Mills- Cockell on Arp and Moog synthesizers and keyboards, Doug Pringle on saxophone, bongos, guiro, and bells, and Alan Wells on congas and percussion, as Syrinx performing Tillicum (1971, 1:57) from their Long Lost Relatives album (a copy of the vinyl of which we have here in the studios), and which you will no doubt now recall was the theme song for the CTV network’s Here Come the Seventies show, which ran from 1970 through 1973.

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Reader Tips

Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio. Tonight we feature some social/political satire from Britain, in the form of a recurring series of sketches from the Armstrong and Miller Show, which premiered on BBC 1 in 2007. In these skits Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller superimpose the attitudes and dialect of stereotypical, modern-day, rights-entitled youths onto two RAF airmen in WWII. The absurdity of it all manages to be darkly instructive, caustic and amusing in equal measure.
Without further ado, then, here are Armstrong and Miller’s WWII RAF sketches parts 1, 2, and 5.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. It has been said by some that the most difficult discs to jockey are those of stand-up comedy, because it is so easy for some to take offense. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde said that “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they will kill you”. So, casting all caution to the wind, pace the risk, tonight, for your delectation, here is a medley of Mr. John Pinette performing his Stand-Up Comedy ¤, and Part II ¤. John’s Get Out of the Line! sketch, in part two, is, I think, brilliant, and his whole nay, nay shtick in part one is delightful. You know why it has a safety bar? Because it’s not safe!

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