Tonight we witness a real-world drama in which racing heart rates, dry mouths, and an unfamiliarity with the local dialect get in the way of successful communication.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips Steve’n’Seagulls carry on the Finnish tradition of homemade oddball cover tunes by taking a plucky flying leap at AC/DC’s Thunderstruck.
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It’s the finale of Humphrey And The Dumptrucks Theme Week. We conclude with their 1970 hit, “Six Days of Paper Ladies”. As a bonus track, the haunting and plaintive “Please Don’t Throw My Record In The Wastebin”.
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This one’s for you, Saskatoon! “North of College Drive” (1973), by Humphrey and The Dumptrucks. But it’s pretty bad, so maybe skip it and listen to this one instead.
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I know you’ve been waiting all day for this, and there’s no point in making you wait any longer – Humphrey And The Dumptrucks 1970 tune Another Storm. This one’s pretty good. No, really.
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Still going strong with Humphrey And The Dumptrucks Week! – “I didn’t come all the way to Calgary just to see you with another man.” Your tips in the comments.

Humphrey And The Dumptrucks Theme Week continues – yes it does! So, let down your hair and turn up the volume for Blackstrap Breakdown.
Watch carefully for the archival photo of our beloved mountain.
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Day two and we’re just getting rolling with Humphrey and The Dumptrucks Theme Week. This isn’t a bad little tune, actually – but I think someone else wrote it. “Alabama Girl”.
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In tonight’s Tips music, from the 1959 album A Touch of Tabasco, the late Rosemary Clooney and Cuban bandleader Pérez Prado hit the mambo button with a performance of Sway (¿Quién será?).
For those keeping track at home, the accompanying Rita Hayworth dance scene is from the 1941 film Blood and Sand (“Love flamed in the shadow of death!”).
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When tonight’s selection was recorded in 1972 Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show had all the friends that money could buy, but they couldn’t get their picture on the Cover Of The Rolling Stone.
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In tonight’s musical selection a talented young Texan named Sarah Jarosz performs an in-studio cover of Bob Dylan’s Ring Them Bells.
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Most people who aren’t hardcore music fans probably haven’t heard of husband and wife songwriting duo Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, but just about everyone is familiar with one or more of their songs, which include “Bye Bye, Love”, “Wake Up, Little Susie”, “All I Have to Do Is Dream”, “Love Hurts“, and tonight’s selection, as performed by the Osborne Brothers: Here’s Rocky Top.
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In tonight’s musical detour en route to the Tips we’re going to mix things up a bit with Jennifer Lopez’s 2001 dance-pop confection Play.
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Not just anyone can play the alphorn. You need a certain amount of room, for one thing, and a healthy set of lungs. In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, the mighty Alphorntrio URU blows Hegleren across the valley and into your speakers.
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An Open Letter to Critics of Israel.
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In 2008, prior to Paul McCartney’s scheduled performance in Israel, Sheikh Omar Bakri – the “Tottenham Ayatollah” – warned: “If he values his life Mr McCartney must not come to Israel. He will not be safe there. The sacrifice operatives will be waiting for him.”
McCartney (yeah, I know, he’s a vegan, and he smokes the dooby-doo) went ahead and played anyway, for the state of Israel’s 60th anniversary.
Here’s one of the more memorable songs from his days with Wings: The title track from the 1975 album Venus and Mars.
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Tonight’s installment in our pro-Israel artists week features Elton John, a regular visitor to Israel, who in 2010 said to his fans at a concert in Tel Aviv:

“Shalom! We’re so happy to be back here! Ain’t nothing gonna stop us from coming, baby!”

That’s the ticket. From the 1973 double-album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, here’s John and lyricist Bernie Taupin’s paean to working-class escapism: Roy Rogers.
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Wild-man rocker Ted Nugent in 2009:

Cease-fires and negotiations never last with terrorist scumpunks because evil, hateful terrorists do not want to live in peace: they worship violence and don’t see their opponents — be it us or the Israelis — as human beings. Hamas, Hizballah and other soulless people such as Iran’s Ahmadinijad apply vicious religious voodoo logic by believing killing non-Muslims, especially Jews, pleases Allah. Never forget these voodoo killers have vowed the complete destruction of Israel.

From back in his days with Amboy Dukes, here’s the Nuge singing Loaded for Bear.
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Prior to her 2010 concert in Israel Canadian performer Alanis Morissette was harassed by the usual assortment of groups pressuring artists to boycott Israel. She didn’t back down, saying that during her previous visit to Israel she “had a great time…professionally, spiritually, and emotionally”, and then she went ahead and played – after visiting the Western Wall – telling her audience:

“We love you, we’re with you — America, Canada, all of us.”

From 1995, here’s her catchy number one Billboard hit Hand In My Pocket.
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