Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Eddie Quillan as Mr. Ellery Queen, Wade Boteler as Inspector Queen, et al., in the 1936 moving picture: The Mandarin Mystery, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, & VIII, which was based on The Chinese Orange Mystery novel by Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay, and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Mr. Stan Getz, with Albert Dailey, George Mraz, et al, performing Antonio Carlos Jobim‘s famous bossa nova, Wave ¤, in Copenhagen, ca. thirty years ago (4:29). Tonight’s SDA LNR cheese selection is Ticklemore, a lovely young spring version of which I acquired earlier today. Thanks, Debbie & Mark, this really is a delightful cheese! Give your goats a pat on the head for me, won’t you?

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Mr. Buddy Guy, with Mr. B.B. King and his band, performing I Can’t Quit You Baby&nbsp¤, at B.B’s Blues Club (2:59).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is a short documentary on the Ekranoplan KM ¤, also known as the Caspian Sea Monster (which was about 1/3 longer than a Boeing 747), ca. 1965, and on related ground- effect vehicles such as the A-90 Orlyonok (10:59). And, for the record, the magic moment in this video is at 08:47 et seq., featuring a Lun-class Ekranoplan ca. 1987.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, and building on last night‘s Leroy Van Dyke show, here are Mr. Van Dyke and the boys performing Walk on By in 1961 (2:05), which some have called the biggest country single of all time, or at least based on various charts and sales numbers, anyway. Unfortunately, I don’t have handy access to Leroy’s unforgettable If a Woman Answers (Hang Up the Phone), or his You May Be Too Much for Memphis, Baby, or even his Who’s Gonna Run the Truck Stop in Tuba City When I’m Gone?, so I guess this will have to do. What’s that you say, the audio and the video are out of sync? Well, yes, of course, that’s part of what makes it so charming. And, besides, check out Leroy’s tie, man. Absolutely brilliant.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the famous agricultural journalist Mr. Leroy van Dyke performing Auctioneer, in 1956 (2:48). Interestingly, perhaps, Auctioneer sold over 2.5 million records. How much would you bid for that? But wait, there’s more. Here, veritably straining your delectation, is footage from the Top Livestock Auctioneers Competition, in 2008 (5:14). Personally, I like Mr. Ty Thompson, from Billings, Montana, best. By the way, that’s called the Auction Chant. What a species 😉

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Now that we’re starting our second year of SDA LNR officially hosting Reader Tips, I’m going to try changing the format of SDA LNR slightly, in that rather than have a seven-day cycling “topic” schedule, for now we are going to experiment for a while with (a) a few days in a row on the same topic, and (b) random jumps to different topics. In part this is because variety is the spice of life, and in part it’s because our wholesale resources here in the studio have become better aligned to this new approach, whereas a year ago they were better aligned to the cyclical schedule. Needless to say, DJ EBD’s Wednesday night SDA LNR show is independent of this DJ Vitruvius plan for the other days of the week.

Anyway, building on last night’s show and rule [a] supra, tonight, for your delectation, and in honour of SDA LNR listener Hello Birdy‘s appreciation of Jewish humour in last night’s comments, here are two shows by C. Israel Lutsky, who performed as the Yiddisha Philosopher from 1931 to the mid-’60s. Lutsky took to the air daily with letters from listeners seeking advice. He replied with spoonfuls of folk wisdom and dollops of abuse. Firstly, from station WEBR, Miami, Florida, we have his essay, in English, On Jewish Humor, and secondly, from his classic series of A Letter To the Yiddisha Philosopher “advice columns”, on station WEBD in New York, this one in Yiddish with English subtitles, The Boy Should Be Told. That last one is really the best (the antecedents are to provide context), so if you only have time to listen to Israel once, listen to that last one.

Update: A number of listeners are reporting that they are unable to tune in to the streaming audio formats used in tonight’s broadcast. I do apologize, and I’m a little sad too, because this means I won’t be able to use the Yiddish Radio Project, with its excellent Yid-O-Matic Yiddish to English translator, in future shows. Oh well, for those of you with radios that have been able to receive tonight’s transmissions, you may want to explore the other fine offerings that are available at the Yiddish Radio Project outside of the scope of SDA LNR.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here are excerpts from the inimitable Mr. Jackie Mason‘s Lecture & II from the occasion of his being awarded a fellowship in the Oxford Union Society in 1992.

By the way, ladies and gentlemen, tonight’s a year now, already, since SDA Late Nite Radio first officially hosted Reader Tips, in what was soon to become a regular affair. Who would have thought? On the other hand, tonight’s SDA LNR cheese selection is Colston Bassett Stilton, surely one of the finest cheeses ever.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time television show, here are the great Mr. Walter Brennan, as Grandpa Amos McCoy, and the Real McCoys, performing Go Fight City Hall, II, & III in 1959 (about 22 minutes).

There’s something very good in that performance.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here are Pingu performing their 7-11¤ classic (4:17).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night open music show, here are The Clovers performing Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash (3:19).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are Louis Armstrong and his All Stars, featuring Trummy Young, Peanuts Hucko, Billy Kyle, Mort Herbert, and Danny Barcelona, performing When The Saints Go Marchin’ In, in La Bussola-Focette, Italy, in 1959 (4:53).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are Mariss Jansons and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra performing, a capella, Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov‘s funeral service for male choir Γ (7:45).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here is Dr. Walter Lewin, professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is well known for his M.I.T. OpenCourseWare lectures for their first and second physics courses: 8.01 ~ Classical Mechanics and 8.02 ~ Electricity and Magnetism. Prof. Lewin is also well known for his shtick, his love of his subject matter, and his devotion to his students’ quest for knowledge. Before digging further into 8.01 and 8.02, you might like to check out this interview with Walter.

Needless to say, I’ve watched all 72 lectures, totaling about sixty hours (partly because I like them better than many other so-called forms of entertainment, partly for old-times’ sake, and partly because they apply every day to every-day life), and while it’s difficult to pick favourites, I will say that one of my favourite lectures is 8.01-28: Hydrostatics, Archimedes’ Principle, & Bernoulli’s Equation, in the Goldilocks sense: it’s not too hot, it’s not too cold: it’s just right (sort of like my lecture on the 30’th anniversary of the Peng-Robinson Equation of State). Anyway, without further ado, here are the lectures:

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time television crime-detective show, here are Jack Webb as Sergeant Friday, et al, in The Big Bounce, II & III episode of Dragnet (1955).

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here is Mr. Stephen Gordon Hendry, MBE, performing his ninth Perfect 147 Score & II in his competitive career, at the 1999 World Snooker Championship. In this case the big question is, for £157,000: What about the pink?

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night open music show, here are Béla Fleck and the Flecktones performing Big Country (8:05). Fleck has received Grammy nominations for country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical, folk, spoken word, composition, and arranging. To date, he is the only artist to receive nominations in so many categories.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are Woody Herman & his Swingin’ Herd, with Paul Fontaine, Gerry Lamy, Bill Chase, Dave Gale, Billy Hunt, Phil Wilson, Henry Southall, Bob Rudolph, Sal Nistico, Jackie Stevens, Bobby Jones, Frank Hittner, Nat Pierce, Chuck Andrus, and Jake Hanna, performing Taste of Honey (1963, 3:24).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performing Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Herbert Von Karajan conducting (35:50).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here from Trains Unlimited is their most excellent Steam Trains, II, III & IV documentary. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the Union Pacific 3985, a four-cylinder simple articulated 4-6-6-4 Challenger type of steam locomotive owned by Union Pacific Railroad, shown in the image to the right, and which is shown in the videos, and there is a lovely twist at the end of the videos, involving the 4-8-4 UP 844. Interestingly, perhaps, the UP 3985 locomotive, which was built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, New York, is currently the largest operational steam locomotive in the world.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.