Tonight’s tips video, from the historic Film Australia collection (now administered by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia), is the short 1963 documentary Darwin The Friendly City.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips we take a blinking goggle at Susan Maughan before as she sings Give Me A Chance.
Later, some guy starts singing something.
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Fred Williamson is back, and there’s going to be Hell Up in Harlem.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips we pay a musical visit to Le restaurant chinois. J’ai faim!
I’m not sure what’s going on at the 1:05 mark.
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In tonight’s tips music The Pogues cover Eric Bogle’s 1971 classic, written from the point of view of a soldier who fought in the Gallipoli Campaign: Here’s The Band Played Waltzing Matilda.
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Long before Evel Knievel and his Snake River Canyon jump, there was Fred Osborne..
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips former featherweight boxer and early calypsonian Neville Marcano, aka Growling Tiger, sings Money is King. (Lyrics here).
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Tonight, a Hymn to the Genius of Idi Amin, a man whose basic dictatorship allowed him to turn his wife’s head around on a dime.
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J.S. Bach had remarkably nimble fingers for a big man. Tonight, in a recording of a 1969 performance, the also nifty-fingered Glen Gould, accompanied by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra under the conductorship of Vladimir Golschmann, thrums his way though Bach’s Concerto for Piano No. 2 in E Major, BWW 1053: III. Allegro.
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It was a Surfin’ Tragedy, and a musical debacle of sorts.
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Tonight’s amusement en route to the tips features a little communist era Czech entertainment, as Yvonne Přenosilová performs Trocha mýdla postačí, which, according to Google Translate, means “A Little Soap is Sufficient.”
Bonus: Eva Pilarová and Edita Štaubertová do laundry the old-fashioned way while singing a song about the Vltava river.
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‪♪‬ When the Going is Smooth & Good, many many people will be your friend… ♫
That’s William Onyeabor.
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At times like these the old-fashion quality of sincerity, when combined with hopefulness and an almost childlike absence of cynicism, can reignite the heart like nothing else.
Let it glow: Here are The Seekers performing the bestselling single in the UK in 1965, I’ll Never Find Another You.
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Some readers — well, one — thought Nancy Sinatra got short shrift last night, and he has a point: her lovely harmony part was overshadowed by Frank’s voice. In tonight’s springtime amusement en route to the tips she’s on her own, front and center, as she sings Lee Hazlewood’s carefree pop confection Sugar Town.
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Tonight, Something Stupid.
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And the winner of the “Songs You’ll Only Listen To Once” award is…(envelope please)… former NHL player and current New York Rangers assistant general manager Jim Schoenfeld’s rendition of All Along the Watchtower.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips The Kropotkins, a swampy-sounding ensemble (featured earlier here) whose members include Columbia neuroscientist David Sulzer and Moe Tucker of the Velvet Underground, play Truckstop Girls.
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You gotta laugh: Dogs Who Fail at Being Dogs.
h/t Osumashi Kinyobe
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The Hammond organ never sounded quite so Hammondy as it did when Lars Tiselius und Seine Rhythmusgruppe recorded Mr. Sandman.
Why don’t we get to hear that sort of music in doctors’ waiting rooms and such? Why? Why?
There are no easy answers.
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Tonight, a non-musical tips video: Why College Campuses Are Insufferable, in 2 minutes.
Bonus annoyance: Karen Finney.
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