It might be hard for today’s yoots to believe, but there was a time not so very long ago when helicopter parents were in the minority and nanny-state busybody fascists had yet to fully sink their hooks in. Tonight, we have moving pictures to prove it: From 1933, here’s Toddlers’ Punch Up in Palm Springs. What a ducky spectacle! Hit her again, Tommy!
That’s the sort of thing parents would say back then.
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Tonight we’re treated to a spellbinding tale of courage under fire, as told by Brian Williams’ great-grandfather Commander McBragg.
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Tonight, acoustic guitar wizard Leo Kottke takes us to the tips with his reinvention of the traditional Appalachian fiddle song Cripple Creek.

It’s hard to top last night’s tips music so I’ll have to dip into the ol’ bookmarks for the third-stringers: Here’s Frank Peter Zimmermann, accompanied by an unidentified pianist, performing the Largo from Bach’s Violin Sonata in G major, BWV 1019.
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I wouldn’t normally link to the YouTube channel that tonight’s video is on – it’s whacko conspiracy theory central – but it’s the only place I could find footage of a particular musical performance on BBC that is nothing less than extraordinary.
It’s the future of music. If it’s not to your taste, go here.
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Tonight’s amusement en route to the tips is a proper football fight song, one that contains words like “albeit” and “nonetheless.”
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‪Every kiss you give me is thrilling
In a way I’d go for you so
Oh, My Sweet Tooth Says I Wanna,
but My Wisdom Tooth Says No… ♫
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The love song Plaisir d’amour, written in 1784 by French composer Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, is instantly familiar to people who’ve never even heard it because extended passages of its melody have been filched so often over the years. Tonight we have three renditions of the original, as sung by French actress Brigitte Bardot, Canadian actress/singer Catherine McKinnon, and Nana Mouskouri.
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On January 30, 1972, British troops opened fire on unarmed civilians in Derry, Ireland during a civil rights march, killing 14. Sunday Bloody Sunday is a tribute to the victims, by U2.
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(Whoops! This post was written some time ago and scheduled. Sorry for the double RT threads, and for stepping on your toes, EBD).

In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips former long-term Senator from North Carolina Sam Ervin delivers a perfunctory homily about friendship before launching into Bridge Over Troubled Water.
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In tonight’s diversion en route to the tips legendary calypsonian Mighty Sparrow treats us to a uniquely Trinidadian song about milk prices, taxi fares, politics, and wooden clubs: here’s No Doctor No.
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When the music moves you, shake it, move it, No Matter What Shape Your Stomach’s In.
Much better than a diet.
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International music superstar Demis Roussos passed away yesterday at the age of 68. Although the bearded Greek was not very well known in North America, his relaxed, swarthy confidence and vaguely new-age persona helped make the romantic Kaftan King a beloved sex object to millions of jet-setting, toe-ring-wearing European women who were attracted to him like sand to massage oil.
In tonight’s tips music selection Roussos, who was a Gemini, puts the inspirational theme from Chariots of Fire to words in a song called Race to the End.
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Tonight, New York jam-band Spin Doctors manage to get the last word in with Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong.
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Tonight, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of Sir Winston Churchill, we watch archival footage of the public outpouring of grief and respect, as a nation mourns.
Also, a very good Telegraph video: How Britain honoured its wartime leader.
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If earnestly political anti-war folksongs are at one end of the musical spectrum, The Pipkins’ 1970 earworm Gimme Dat Ding is on the other. So it does have that going for it.
h/t Kate
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips, from the Irish comedy Father Ted, we take a few moments to familiarize ourselves with Craggy Island’s hard-drinking Irish priest Father Jack.
Feck warning.
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Tonight’s tips music was posted here five years ago but removed from YouTube almost immediately thereafter. Back online now (h/t eastern paul), this memorable rendition of a centuries-old traditional song from the British Isles is worth another listen: From 1963, here’s Anne Briggs’ hauntingly beautiful a cappella version of She Moved Through The Fair.
Quick note on the lyric: In the first verse, the word that Briggs (and other artists) pronounce as “kind” should be kine, the Middle English word for “cows.”
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Dr. Ralph Stanley advises you to Let Your Light Shine Out.
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What’s that you’re screaming? Sorry, ma’am: once you’re strapped in, there’s no going back.
h/t peterj
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