The drinking of the beer was the easiest part of tonight’s performance. Very impressive!
h/t William F
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Tonight, the recorded voice of Sir Winston Churchill is paired with the London Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Nimrod from English composer Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations.
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Tonight the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra helps us celebrate Kate’s long awaited return with a performance from Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Major op. 6 no. 1 .
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Tonight, English-born comic John Oliver, in his role as host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, takes a look at America’s farcical Civil Forfeiture laws. (h/t)
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips the Dinning Sisters, three midwestern belles with an ear for sweet harmony, send us to the tips with their rendition of When The Bloom Is On The Sage.
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A 59-year-old father with no criminal record has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with no chance of parole after he fired a single warning shot to dissuade a rampaging “youth” in his home.
h/t John Galt

Do you find yourself plagued by houseguests – perhaps they’re your in-laws – who’ve long overstayed their welcome? Tonight, as a public service, we teach your parakeet to drive them out of the house.
Guaranteed to work or double your money back.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips, filmed live on Norwegian TV, Michael Winslow plays the Led Zep classic Whole Lotta Love on his…mouth.
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Tonight, in a clip from the 1975 documentary Heartworn Highway, the late Townes van Zant, sitting in his trailer in Austin with his girlfriend and a doleful Uncle Seymour Washington, sings the haunting Waitin’ Around To Die.
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Tonight we have a very, very special presentation for you, as Artists for a Better City perform their magnum opus We Need Olivia.  (h/t)
You are very, very welcome.
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Dude can sing! Filmed in-studio during the recording of the compilation/tribute album The Art of McCartney, here’s Vincent Furnier, better known as Alice Cooper, performing a faithful rendition of Eleanor Rigby.
h/t Kate
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You never know exactly where a Loudon Wainwright III song is going, but he does, and he always takes you with him: Here’s Man and Dog.
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New York born Bernard Herrmann was a prolific award-winning composer of musical scores for films, including Citizen Kane and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, but he is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock. In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips we listen to an extended version of Herrmann’s theme music from the 1960 horror-thriller Psycho.
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WaPo columnist: “Weight is the new rape.”

Tonight, the Three Stooges engage in a little fraternal ultraviolence.
h/t Plainzdrifter
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips we listen to vocalist Bobby McFerrin’s solo performance of Blackbird.
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J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers’ only hit is simple in writing and execution, but it’s catchy and memorable: From 1964, here’s the car-radio hors d’oeuvre Last Kiss.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips Detroit born and raised Nathaniel Mayer invites you to visit The Village of Love.
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Longtime SDA reader Bunbury, who is a dreadful invalid, writes “Would you be so kind as to post a video showing a bunch of Russians in cowboy hats riding through a hilly temperate broadleaf forest while singing a song from ‘Oklahoma?'”
Because of his extraordinary bad health, I will do just that: Here are members of the cast of the Moscow Operetta Theatre performing The Farmer And The Cowman.
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Anyone out there need a Do-Wacka-Do? I ask, because Roger Miller has one.
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