Tonight, a reprise presentation of a song that pleases listeners completely: The McGarrigle sisters’ rendition of Log Driver’s Waltz.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.

Tonight, a vaguely familiar face is unemployed, on the lam, and trying to rebuild his life…
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.

If you listen to enough modern rock and metal music, what with the shredding/blasting guitar sounds and distortion pedals and stomp-boxes and so on, it can be a real eye opener to re-listen to the surprisingly smooth and clean sounds of the earlier hits of the Rolling stones, and to hear the extent to which they favoured finesse and musicality over brawn. As exhibit A, here’s a remastered version, using a clean transfer from the master tape, of the original Under My Thumb.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

Tonight, in what is merely the latest installment of our relentless, hammering campaign to forcefully deliver the big-time entertainment we all so desperately crave, Georgette Plana positively stomps it with La fille du bédouin.
Back of the net.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

When dramatic, stock-ticker type music is no longer enough to spice up the recap of the day’s top stories, it’s time for Newsdancer.
The comments are open for your tips.

Tonight, we see what they were doing with taxpayers’ money back in 1967: here’s The Canadian Pavilion.
That would be the pavilion you walk into to find out about the country outside its doors.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.

Some of us who heard (or sang) choice bits of tonight’s tips music selection when we were kids probably thought it was another jokey schoolyard parody of unknown provenance, like the ones that had Popeye living in a garbage can and the Batmobile losing its wheels, but it was in fact a real WWII song. Because the words are tacked onto the melody of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” the choruses are often mistakenly sung as “Glory! Glory!” when they should be “Gory! Gory!” Tonight’s version is mostly true to the gory original, but with an occasional “Gory glory” — which works too.
Gruesomely detailed and macabrely lighthearted, here’s the American paratrooper song Blood On The Risers.
h/t David W.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.

Spinal Tap had nothing on Ultimate Spinach: here’s Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess.
Cosmic.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.

In tonight’s tips video the Asian kids aren’t buying it.
Bless them.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.

In tonight’s FIFA-themed entertainment, Norwegian singer Wenche Myhre dances up a storm in a performance of Er Steht Im Tor.
Goooooaaal !!
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

I like meat, you like meat. Fortunately, people like the Peterson Farm Bros are Takin’ Care Of Livestock. Every day.
h/t Wayne R.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips

In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips, Hoosier S.H. Dudley and Canadian tenor Harry Macdonough (plus two unidentified vocalists starting on the second chorus) harmonize on a jaunty 1908 recording of Red Wing.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

When tonight’s video was first posted on YouTube, Larvik Håndballklubb, a women’s handball team from the Norwegian city of Larvik, hadn’t lost a match in over eleven years. Tonight, we see how they handle the far more challenging game of Electroshock Handball.
(Note: If you don’t speak Fjordy you’ll want to click on the closed captioning button under the video.)
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.

Tonight, Noël Coward’s melancholy ode to the Half Caste Woman.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

Tonight, just to mix things up a bit, I decided to dub my own vocal onto the vocal-less soundtrack of an Isaac Hayes concert: here’s Shaft.
Almost indistinguishable from the original, IMO.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

Tonight, to ease you into the tips, here’s a nice little summer tune from Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66: Pretty World.
The comments are open.

If there’s one particular genre of music that gets short shift in our tips music selections it’s heavy metal. Tonight, in the interest of rectifying this lingering injustice, we watch Ken Kunihiro of the Japanese band Poetic Assassin recording the vocal track for Inverti In Darkness.
Let it be a lesson to us all.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.

There are more than a few ham-handed, overly-literal, or pretentiously angular versions of Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies, and indeed the spare, exposed, unadorned quality of the work makes it a good litmus test for pianists, separating those with a genuine spiritual feeling for music from the proverbial “typists” who achieve renown for playing difficult scores without a missed note, even as they slash their way through it with the sustain pedal stomped to the floor.
Parisian Anne Queffélec has an eloquent, expressive touch, and a real affinity for Satie. In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips we listen to her genuinely lovely and intuitive interpretation of Trois Gymnopédies.
Enjoy.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

Whether they’re competing in the ironic T-off, the MySpace photo sesh, the music collection bragathon, or the civilian judgement competition, silver is the new gold in the Hipster Olympics.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

In tonight’s passing amusement en route to the tips Dutch group Teach In and their Austrian-born lead singer Getty Kasper perform the winning entry from the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest, the solemn and esoteric Ding-A-Dong.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.