Accompanied by images from Ukraine, here’s English folk band Mumford & Sons’ stirring After the Storm.
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So: you’ve been hired to be the MC at a sales awards presentation for a local fireplace company, but the security guards at the country club venue refuse to open the remote-control gate because you’d insulted them a few days earlier, and then, when you’re trying to get in by climbing over the wrought-iron fence, you impale your foot on a spike, losing several pints of blood, and then…
I’m sure we’ve all had days like that.
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There are a lot of jealous-lover murder ballads in old-style country music, but you rarely hear a song that fleshes out both the grotty details of the unendurable circumstance and the narrator’s absurdly pitiable and unsound thought processes in the moments before the precipitous action — let alone one that details these for (black) humorous effect: Here’s the sublimely funny Robbie Fulks performing I Just Want To Meet The Man in front of a mostly credulous, and therefore perhaps slightly confused, audience.
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Tonight Jimmy Stewart, Katherine Hepburn, Edward G. Robinson and other big names of the day promote the American Brotherhood of Christians & Jews in a 1940 short film called The American Creed.
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How does a supporter of a university’s anti-Israel boycott and divestment resolution react when she sees the resolution defeated? Let’s find out!
That is fun to watch.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips we get a chance to vicariously stand in the great outdoors without any gloves or toques, as Anderson Family Bluegrass performs an al fresco version of a song written by Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers called Harbor of Love.
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Do you know Bo Diddley? Kinda squat, wore glasses? Bo Diddley certainly did: Here’s Bo Diddley singing his 1955 number one hit single Bo Diddley (not to be confused with his 1957 single “Hey! Bo Diddley”, which also used his signature Bo Diddley beat.)
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Gold medals in two consecutive Olympics for both the men and women’s hockey team — I think that calls for a little Stompin’ Tom.
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Tonight we put modern music in old clothes, as Croatian cellists Luka Sulic & Stjepan Hauser perform a song by Australian screech-rockers AC/DC in front of a scandalized – perhaps 18th century – audience: Here are 2Cellos sawing off a performance of Thunderstruck.
h/t Glen
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She’s a cute little dear / who can hold her beer / that Beer Drinking Mama of mine… ‪♪‬
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Is it too late to vote for him?
Rats.
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Tonight we shepherd you into the tips thread with 19th century Belgian composer Henri Vieuxtemps’ turbulent but romantic Élégie for Viola and Piano, Op. 30.
For those keeping score at home, it’s in F minor.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips, a WWII-era short film, Mitzi Mayfair, Carole Landis and Martha Raye are three self-described ‘hot chicks’ who’ve been through the mill; they’ve traveled all over the world, and learned a lot of different things, but there’s one thing that no guy has been willing to tell them: What the heck does “SNAFU” mean?
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips we listen to Schüpferi-Meitli, the winners of SRF’s (Swiss Radio and Television’s) amateur “Alpenrose” contest: From left to right, here are Silvia and Anita Bucher (a florist and a cook respectively) and hand-organist Daniel Waser (a carpenter by profession) performing Has Juize im Bluet.
I don’t know what the song title means; Google Translate just spits it back verbatim. Hans? Are you out there?
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips we listen to Sister Janet Mead’s rock version of the The Lord’s Prayer, which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974.
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Tonight we watch in-studio footage of Bob Marley (his father was a white British ex-naval officer, I just found out) and The Wailers, as they perform a Marley song that was a hit for Johnny Nash in 1967: Here’s Stir It Up.
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It’s Valentine’s Day (at the time of this posting), so have a hot cup of Hoffee, ladies, and jump in David Hasselhoff’s car. Because it’s too far to walk on your own.
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Tonight’s tips video may be of most interest to car buffs, as we watch some fairly good-quality rear-window footage of a drive down Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, 1935.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips William Boyd, as the fictional character Hopalong Cassidy, tells the story of America’s forest fire-preventin’ bear Little Smokey.
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Tonight we commemorate the recent fifty-year anniversary of the Beatles’ arrival in America with a later, alternate recording of Yellow Submarine.
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