SDA reader Duke wrote yesterday: “While I hope I am truly wrong, I can’t help but get the feeling that the stupid here in Ontario is just overwhelming and the Liberals will slither back in. Perhaps it may be appropriate to have Gordon Lightfoot on standby to play Alberta Bound.”
Good call.
Hopefully Liberal/NDP supporters from the rest of the country will now relocate to Upper Canada, where the streets are paved with jobs.
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Tonight, a disarmingly affable libertarian-leaning journalist named Michelle Fields talks to participants at an Affirmative Action Rally.
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Via commenter Plainzdrifter, here’s Tennessee Ernie Ford performing a heartfelt rendition of the centuries-old American classic Shenandoah.
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Twenty-five years before Hanks Williams’ disconsolate narrator, speaking to himself in an empty room, told his jilting lover that a time will come when she’ll be blue, Sophie Tucker rest-assured the man who gave her the old heave ho that there’ll come a time when he’ll regret it: Here’s After You’ve Gone.
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Tonight we listen to a recording of Enoch Powell’s 1976 speech on Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community: part I, part II, and part III.
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Is tonight’s Tips music selection like a you-know-what machine, or is it more like a rolling stone? We’ll have to let James and Bob sort it out.  (h/t)
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Three-year-old chestnut stallion California Chrome has a chance to become the first Triple Crown winner in 36 years when he takes to the track later today in the 146th running of the one-and-a-half mile Belmont Stakes. To commemorate the occasion, here’s Tommy Roe’s tribute song California Chrome.
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The sound quality isn’t great, but it’s a lovely song: Here’s Israeli tenor Maksim Levinsky singing an old Yiddish Lullaby written by Abraham Goldfaden called Rozhinkes mit Mandlen (“Raisins and Almonds”).
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Tonight we listen to a stunning remake of the dramatic opening fanfare from Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra, more commonly known as the theme music from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
h/t Gord
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips Porter Wagoner, a former butcher by trade, learns the Cold Hard Facts of Life.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper honours the memories of the victims of communism.
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In tonight’s short detour en route to the tips Willie Nelson is joined by Paul Simon and the über-lovely Edie Brickell, Simon’s wife, in a performance of the wistful Fred Rose composition Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.
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Tip the light fandango with Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale (1967).

What do you get when you take a great song with melody and lyrics that perfectly complement each other, add an elegantly simple instrumental arrangement, and hand the mic to a vocalist with a masterful sense of phrasing? A timeless, enduring classic: Co-written by vocalist Ben E. King and the songwriting team of Leiber & Stoller (“Jailhouse Rock”, “On Broadway”, “Spanish Harlem” and many others), here’s King’s 1961 hit Stand By Me.
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Tonight, in a clip from the 1942 war film Aleksandr Parkhomenko, legendary Russian actress Faina Ranevskaya (who once quipped that “optimism is lack of information”) treats us to a smoky performance of Cruel Romance.
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Morgan Freeman is known for his resonant baritone speaking voice, but that’s only because our atmosphere doesn’t contain enough (insert inhalation sound here) helium.
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Some men glance first at a woman’s lips. Other might look at her shoes, or her…collarbone. Tonight, in a case of content over style, The Contours (“Do You Love Me”) Look At The Purse.
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Without music, what would life be? Without a song or a dance, what are we? So I say Thank You For The Music.
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Tonight County Clare-born fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill play an understated instrumental that sounds simultaneously like a meditation, a lament, a celebration of pride, and a preparation for battle. Named in honour of the music of a late Irish fiddle master, here’s Seán Ryan’s Jigs.
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A British wag once dismissed country music as nothing more than “gilted spouses complaining whilst drunk.” There’s some truth to that, but country lyrics often address real-world relationship issues in ways that other forms of music don’t. Here’s a good example: The star-studded Notorious Cherry Bombs‘ marriage-themed complaint It’s Hard to Kiss the Lips At Night That Chew Your…
There are five more words in the title.
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