No foxholes to hide in / from hurt that is flyin’ all around / A scene of many battles / our home’s a Battleground.. ♫
That’s country warbler LaWanda Lindsey.
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Come for the crackly recording, stay for the vintage photos: From 1930, here’s the Humphries Brothers’ Good Old Summer Time.
Ahh, yes, summer….
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Richard Thompson (guitar and vocal), Eliza Carthy (violin), and The Band’s Garth Hudson (accordion) perform a live version of the traditional English Folk song “The Cuckoo” (or “The Cuckoo Bird”), but one that’s based lyrically and melodically more on Appalachian claw-hammer banjo player Clarence Ashley’s 1929 recording as heard on Harry Smith’s seminal Anthology of American Folk Music than on the older traditional English versions. From 2001, here’s Coo Coo Bird.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Cheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Eric Clapton, and English guitar legend Albert Lee put a little extra zip into Don Williams’s laid-back 1978 hit Tulsa Time.
Some might call it light rock ‘n’ roll. I call it a head-bobber.
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A b***h-slap is a blow, often launched reflexively rather than with malice aforethought, that is delivered with either the front or the back of one’s open hand – it has to be an open hand – with the intention of humiliating or getting the attention of, rather than injuring or incapacitating, the deliveree. Tonight, for your viewing pleasure, here’s Hollywood Bitchslaps, Part Two.
Hey, c’mon, it’s free.
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Tonight’s amusement en route to the tips comes in the form of a colourful Air France travelogue from 1949 showcasing the sunny and warm Côte d’Azur.
h/t Judith
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Tonight we watch, and listen to, the original – and unaired – Bonanza theme song as sung by the Cartwrights themselves in the pilot episode. It’s all a bit….off-kilter, somehow.
Don’t worry about Dan Blocker’s horse; I’m sure he was fine after a little liniment and a rubdown.
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I think most of us have days where we just don’t give a rat. In Valencia, Spain, though, they have a special day where citizens not only give a rat, they throw them at total strangers. On the street.
There’s a lesson in there somewhere.
h/t
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Tonight, country music legends Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty team up to sing the tender ballad You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly.
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In our Saturday night entertainment en route to the tips we listen to Scottish singer and guitarist Edwyn Collins’ biggest hit, a song with a guitar riff so simple and catchy that it essentially serves as the chorus of the song. From 1994, here’s A Girl Like You.
We are not responsible for any injuries if you decide to dance along at home.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips Australia’s Perch Creek Family Jugband lively up the streets of Edinburgh with a performance of the traditional American stomper Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms.
h/t
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Tonight, via one of those Superbowl ads we generally don’t get to see in Canada, we take a look at the newest variant of those trendy, so-called “designer mutts” like goldendoodles, cockapoos, and puggles: Behold the pint-sized but fearsome Doberhuahua.
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Tonight, a very special treat for all you insect–loving sinophiles, as a vibrating dance troupe from Beijing performs their best Fierce Insect Interpretation.
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Pete Seeger, arguably America’s most successful and beloved promoter of communist ideals, died yesterday, but his history, including what Ed Driscoll describes as his “totalitarian trifecta“, has been dutifully covered up for years now under a never-ending hagiographic wave of star-studded accolades and presidential tributes. As Mark Newgent at the Baltimore Examiner puts it, “When you speak out against communism you get booed, when you’re a cheerleader for its mass murderers you get a Kennedy Center tribute…”
Funny how that works.
Tonight’s tips music selection isn’t Seeger’s most overtly political song by any means, but it perfectly exemplifies the insufferably pious tone that fairly oozed from his pores. Get ready to squirm: Here’s Little Boxes.
You’re welcome.
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Your selection for this evening is the catchy 6th Avenue Heartache(2005) by the Wallflowers. Your tips in the comments.

A little something for a chilly night – Colder Weather by the Zac Brown Band.
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They don’t make highly regimented drinking songs like they used to. I think the tiny bottles helped.
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Tonight’s Tips entertainment, accompanied by some snappy music from the era (or thereabouts), consists of archival footage from the 1920s. Gratuitous pulchritude warning.
It’s the warning that’s gratuitous, btw, not the pulchritude.
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Tonight’s tips entertainment, a pure pop confection from The Four Seasons, was a number one hit in both the UK and the US. Drummer Jerry Polci takes the lead vocal on this one, with the great Frankie Valli singing the bridge: From 1975, here’s December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night).