Tonight, singer Amanda Palmer (“sometimes known as Amanda ****ing Palmer“), one of Jian Ghomeshi’s first supporters after “the CBC finally created an interesting drama“, sings Oasis.
Progressive language/images/values/cliches warning.
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Tonight, acclaimed male vocal quartet The Hilliard Ensemble, sounding remarkably at times like a pipe organ than emits vowel tones, performs a Tudor period song called Absent I am.
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Tonight, we watch Adventures With Uncle Bobby, #5: Muskets.
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Tonight, we head Over The Next Hill with Johnny Cash and Anita Carter.
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Tonight, some rather somber music: Here’s Leonard Cohen’s 1969 recording of the WW II-era French song The Partisan.
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You can almost smell the salt water and the hibiscus flowers, and sniff the suntan lotion. From 1961, here’s Karl Hammel (sorry, I can find no info) singing Summer Souvenirs.
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In tonight’s lighter-than-air entertainment en route to the tips we listen to April March’s English language remake of Serge Gainsbourg’s Laisse tomber les filles: here’s Chick Habit.
France Gall’s original 1964 version here.
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Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers receives a heartfelt thank-you.
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Sincere condolences to the family of Corporal Nathan Cirillo. May he rest in God’s hands.

In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips Fred, a barbershop quartet from Marietta, Georgia who won the 1991 Dixie District Quartet Championship, perform the JJ Cale song Cocaine.
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Tonight we listen to the incomparable Arthur Rubenstein’s 1965 recording of Chopin’s Nocturne in in Eb minor, Op.9 No.2.
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“Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumour and the roar…” ♫
That there’s the Carter Family.
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Tonight you’re in for the biggest thrill ride of your life, as Ivor Cutler recounts Life in a Scots Sitting Room #2, Episode 1.
If you start hyperventilating, try breathing into a paper bag.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips the Liberal Women of Canada Ensemble sing We Want Justin.
Yes, I know, it’s annoying.
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“Hey Tom, you ever been to Tillsonburg?”
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Speakers’ Corner at London’s Hyde Park has been Logorrhoea Central since 1872. Tonight, we look at a sampling of the perspectives aired out on one particular day in 1986.
As the old saying goes, opinions are like apples: everybody has one. Or something like that.
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Tonight Nina Simone sings a spare, ethereal version of a song first written and recorded by the late Sandy Denny: here’s Who Knows Where The Time Goes.
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With all the trouble and fighting in the world it’s easy to forget sometimes that we did win life’s lottery by being born in Canada, and that there’s a lot to be thankful for. With that in mind, here’s Mary Chapin Carpenter singing her lovely Thanksgiving Song.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

No, it’s not Ogden Nash, it’s a loverly Joyce Kilmer po-em set to music: here are the dulcet voiced Sons of the Pioneers singing Trees.
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Max Baer was an American heavyweight boxer who won the world championship in 1934 by defeating the massive Primo Carnera, only to lose the title in his very first defense against against the “Cinderella Man,” James Braddock. Most boxing historians attribute his lackadaisical performance against Braddock to the fact that Baer, an amiable, confident extrovert (not unlike Jethro Bodine, the character his son would later play on The Beverly Hillbillies, only smarter) was more interested in women and carousing than training.
In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips, filmed the year before he won the title, the happy-go-lucky Baer, sporting the highest belt line you’ll ever see outside of a Florida retirement home, performs a song-and-dance routine with a gaggle of chorus girls in The Prizefighter and the Lady.
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