In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips, recorded decades before the Austin Powers movies came out, British drummer Julien Covey and his groovy trousers launch into a sizzling rendition of Sweet Bacon. Huh!
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Tonight, we listen to the song that plays on endless auto-loop in the head of every special snowflake progressive extant.
It explains everything. It really does.
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Our last journey overseas in search of tips entertainment was such a big hit that tonight we return, this time to Slovenia, where Jožica Svete sings an al fresco version of an early Neil Diamond song made famous by The Monkees: here’s Lažnivka.
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A lot of what passes for country music these days consists of preening “look-at-me” male models singing overproduced and over-condensed/layered pop-rock with just enough country cliches and references thrown in to justify the moniker. In tonight’s amusements en route to the tips we listen to a kid in his early twenties named Mo Pitney who’s a real musician with a natural feel for the Nashville-style straight-up country music of decades past.
Filmed during a tribute to the late Ray Price, with Price’s family in attendance, here’s Pitney singing a Mel Street song called Borrowed Angel, and a Hank Cochran song that was a hit for Price in 1965 called Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me.
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Tonight The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra perform Christ the Lord is Risen Today.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips you wake up hungover and confused in the caravan of the traveler family Joyce, mortal enemies of the McGinleys, where one of the bellicose sons of legendary bare-knuckle fighter Big Joe Joyce will sing a nice song and tell ya a ting or two about da McGinleys before handing over your company to Big Joe himself, who will harangue you with his own songs, anecdotes, and stories, at which point the other sons will join in to forcefully try to convince you about something you don’t really understand, what with you being a completely disoriented foreigner and all.
Don’t disagree with anything they say, not about Ainey McGinley or anyone else; just stay in your seat and nod occasionally. They should all be asleep in about twenty to thirty-five hours.
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In our Friday night entertainment en route to the tips Pete Townshend sings English Boy.
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Tonight, in tribute to Canadian Senator Nancy Ruth, we drop the “g” and start Drinkin’ Champagne.
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There have been reports coming in from the territories that last night’s tips music selection seriously harshed people’s mellow and provoked a slew of assaults, so tonight we dial down the intensity a bit with Arthur Lyman’s relaxing version of a 19th-century Haitian song that would later have English lyrics added to it and become known as Yellow Bird.
There, that should do the trick. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips, English rockers Motörhead and lead singer Lemmy, aka the Hostess with the Mostest, strike you repeatedly about the head and neck with their sprightly rendition of Iron Fist.
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s….an assortment of anvils.
Better put on your Butch Goring helmets.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips a nimble-fingered fellow named André Constantino (I think he might be northern Italian, but I’m not sure) plays La valse à Pascale.
h/t Plainsdrifter
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Des scenes cruelles et excitantes! Des passions primitives — de l’amour sauvage!
Tips édifiants!

In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips Lonnie Johnson sings a lovely tune co-written by New Yorker Sam Coslow and Austrian composer/conductor Will Grosz called Tomorrow Night.
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Transfusion, transfusion / my red corpse-suckles are in mass confusion / never never never going to speed again… ♫
Slip the tips to me, Pip.

In tonight’s musical detour en route to the tips indie darlings Yo La Tengo perform Dylan’s chastened advice-song I Threw It All Away.
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Tonight we prepare for the tips thread by listening to a wonderfully soothing relaxation tape.
The audio is a bit quiet, so you might want to turn it up a bit.
h/t
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Tonight, a little Middle Eastern poetry for children.
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In tonight’s bouncy amusement en route to the tips Texan dudes The Gourds do a plucky rendition of rapper Snoop Dogg’s 1994 hit Gin and Juice.
(Twangy language warning.)
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Time to once again dance those tips into the comments.