Prego, prego, anywhere you may go
Make each day be a day full of fun!
If there’s a game or a girl to be won,
Do it with a Bing! Bang! Bong! ♫
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“They’re battling their bodies, the demands of modern traffic, and people who think they’re a menace on the road…”
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So, it’s finally come to this.
h/t
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Jerry Woods of Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra is darn well spoken, and handsome, and Smart.
Spicy vocabulary advisory.
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Tonight we kick off the weekend tips threads with some light vintage Euro-pop, as Dutch group Shocking Blue and lead singer Mariska Veres perform their signature hit Venus.
If you prefer, here’s a bonus track from Veres’ father, the Hungarian gypsy violinist Veres Lajos.
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Aaargh! Two tips posts written and ready to go, two deleted videos. Fortunately, in a pinch, there’s always the snazzy Cambodian Funk Yodeling.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips you are treated to a sound-and-colour extravaganza royale, as El Bimbo dance-launches Bimbo Jet.
Nope. I can’t figure it out either.
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In an unprecedented speech last month Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi blamed Islamic clerics for promoting violence and intolerance, and called for “a religious revolution” within Islam.
Today,

Egypt’s military said …it had launched airstrikes against ISIS-affiliated militants in Libya after a video purporting to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages surfaced Sunday.

In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips Madeline Kahn and Harvey Korman squeeze out a billowy rendition of Indian Love Call.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips, contemporary country artist Carrie Underwood is joined by by Vince Gill as she belts out a modern yet reverential performance of the old hymn How Great Thou Art.
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Exclusive BBC audio of the moment gunman opened fire during the free speech debate at the Krudttoenden café in Copenhagen.
No trigger warning.

Iggy Pop is Bored.
He’s the Chairman of the Bored.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips a vigorous group of young Russians who call themselves “White Gold” belt out Варенька in Red Square.
h/t marc in calgary
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Q: Hark, what groovy music radiateth from yonder convent?
A: Why, it’s Frances Mary Hunter Gordon & Choir of Girls from the Convent of the Sacred Heart singing Creed.
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Tonight we cross the great briny to listen to some finger-snappy French avant-garde pop music from the 1960s, as Brigitte Fontaine dips and bobs her way through Comme Rimbaud. (Lyrics here.)
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London tube drivers have voted to strike over the firing of a colleague who was twice found ‘drunk at the wheel’.

In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips British rock guitarist Joe Brown picks up his ukulele and covers Motörhead’s Ace of Spades. And I like it.
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Tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips brings the funny as it reinvigorates a tired meme: Hitler Finds Out About Brian Williams.
h/t Me No Dhimmi
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Bob Dylan’s latest album Shadows in the Night is a collection of Frank Sinatra songs — or rather, a collection of Bob Dylan covers of songs that Frank Sinatra covered. When I saw the song “Why Try to Change Me Now” on the track list I thought I’d probably be skipping that one because Sinatra’s version is so good;  &nbspI ended up leaving it on endless auto-repeat instead. It’s that good.
Alas, like most of Bob’s oeuvre it’s not available on YouTube or other sites, so, from 1959, here’s Frank Sinatra, backed by a small orchestra arranged by Percy Faith, singing Why Try to Change Me Now.
You gotta hear Bob’s though..
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Before W. Lee O’Daniel (aka “Pappy” O’Daniel) became a state senator and Governor of Texas he used his nose for promotion and his ear for musical talent to assemble a pretty decent Texas swing band called W. Lee O’Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys. As you’ll hear in tonight’s selection, the musicianship wasn’t bad, but the smooth-and-easy vocals of Leon Huff, “The Texas Songbird” who would later be known for his work with western swing legend Bob Wills, are outstanding: here’s Please, Pass The Biscuits Pappy!.
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