Tonight, the Ramones are live in England generating steam heat with Blitzkrieg Bop.
h/t Jungle Jim
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Some trees are relative pushovers, but others are willing to fight for the right to be left alone…
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In tonight’s tips music, from the 1973 album Solid Air, the late John Martyn sings
Don’t Want To Know.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips we visit a medieval hospital in Dartmouth that offers a range of historic remedies at 21st Century prices.
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Tonight, some archival footage of an 18-year-old apple-cheeked Mary Hopkin, as the Welsh folk singer performs a version of a Russian song known in its English translation as Those Were The Days.
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Q: Was the advent of punk music necessary and inevitable?
A: Yes.
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Tonight, en route to the tips, a catchy old tune called Jamaica Farewell.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Sweden’s Towa Carson tells a musical story with the help of some charmingly choreographed dancers, as she sings The Drifters’ 1960 classic Sparta Sista Dansen.
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“If I ever meet the real world / I don’t know what I will dooo…” ♫
An instant classic from the magically conjured Oberlin College Choir.
h/t Good Finn
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips a crowd of happy, pink, flag-waving Brits commemorate a time of trial and victory, a time when there was still a “we” who could agree that We Must All Stick Together.
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Tonight, Sunshine Across Israel.
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Tonight Flamenco legend Lucera Tena, having retired from dancing, displays her castanet skills at the Auditorial Nacional de Música in Madrid during an orchestral performance of Gerónimo Giménez’s zarzuela Luis Alonso’s wedding.
h/t Judith A.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Finnish actress and singer Sinikka Sokka, the wife of former Chicago Blackhawks head coach Alpo Suhonen, performs Käki ja pöllö (“The Cuckoo and the Owl”). She’s quite good.
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And now, a few minutes of Don’t Worry Be Happy.
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Tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips will be Lee Titt’s short film Markets of Britain.
Remarkable stuff.
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Things you’ll never see during a famine, Volume 6,224.
h/t Terry Anderson
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Q: What do you get when you cross a pig with a spoiled toddler?
A: Any one of these.
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Oh go along mule / don’t you roll them eyes / You can change a fool but a doggone mule / is a mule until he dies… ♫
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Polish street punk band Awantura show up for a musical riot as they perform the choleric anti-Rachel Notley anti-communist song Czerwone Skurwysyny (“Red Bastards”).
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Axl Rose wants to hear some reggae.
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