“Sir, I will have a (fruitful, productive) career in your (red-hot, successful) company.”
Hey, his English is a lot better than my Hindi.
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Tonight, an unidentified Ural Russian women’s folk choir on a Soviet studio set, circa 1962, provides us with a lamentation about something or other.
Any Russian speaking commenters/readers out there who can tell us what they’re singing about? I’m curious.
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I’ve always felt – still do – that tonight’s Tips music selection is best suited to the female voice, but the controlled strength and depth of feeling of tonight’s performer brings something different to an incredibly beautiful song: Here’s Luciano Pavarotti in a live performance of Ave Maria. Listen and weep.
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Tonight, Spanish-born/Cuban-raised bandleader Xavier Cugat squeezes, slaps, and tickles the cha-cha-cha out of his happy orchestra as they play a medley of Cerezo Rosa & Ni-Hablar (“Pink Cherry” & “Don’t Speak”).
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Tonight, a Swedish reporter interviews an angry wood grouse.
h/t Judith
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In May of 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy was elected as French President. Five months later, he divorced his wife Cécilia Attias, and four months after that he married former model Carla Bruni. Now, I don’t know if French actress Julie Gayet, the woman that current French President François Hollande was recently caught having an affair with, or his official partner Valerie Trierweiler (who was hospitalized after hearing of the affair), or Segolène Royal, the mother of his four children, do any singing, but Bruni does: here’s her sultry rendition of L’Amour. It’s a nice break from politics..
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Don’t you just hate it when a bull elephant charges your vehicle, flips it three times over a distance of 40 metres, and then, as the sort of coup de grâce to your lovely safari, tramples on it while his herd-mates are playing Shake dell’elfante? I sure do.
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In tonight’s musical diversion en route to the tips we dip into a little country music, with Melba Montgomery’s 1964 recording What’s Bad For You Is Good For Me.
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If you’re looking for Trouble, go talk to Elvis.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips, filmed live during a 2004 tribute to the late Gram Parsons, Keith Richards and friends take turns singing the Stones’ 1971 classic Wild Horses.
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The Cold Wet Steel gonna break your legs.. ♫
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Tonight, an impatient Renée & Renato, backed-up by a large and rather fierce orchestra, warn that It’s Now Or Never, and follow up with detailed instructions. Do as they say.
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Are you ready for some Mongolian contortionism? I can’t hear you! I said, do you want to see…
Nope – still can’t hear you. Must be the medium.
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‪In the land of the pale blue snow
Where it’s 99 below
And the polar bears are roaming o’er the plain
In the shadow of the pole
I will clasp her to my soul
We’ll be happy When The Ice Worms Nest Again… ♫
h/t maz2
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Tonight, we take a trip down memory lane as we watch Christina and the Smear Jobs performing their classic 2006 hit Harper, Harper, Shame on You!.
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Tonight, to help warm up our fingers and toes, we watch the Red Army Chorus and Band perform Марш артиллеристов (“The Artillerymen’s March”).

Gunners, Stalin gave the order!
Gunners, the Fatherland calls us!
To the hundreds of thousands of batteries
For the tears of our mothers,
For our Motherland: Fire! Fire!

Sorry it’s in Russian, but the only Canadian version I could find had Paul Martin giving the order, and the footage was of a Shriner’s parade.
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Uh-oh, There’s Frost on the Moon.
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Yesterday Phil Everly, the high-harmony half of the Everly Brothers, passed away at age 74. He is survived by his older brother Don. Tonight we listen to a 1960 recording of a classic song, written by Phil himself, called When Will I Be Loved.
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Born with an oversized head, one leg three inches shorter than the other, and a father who would later shun him for being homosexual, Little Richard was nonetheless able to successfully Bama Lama Bama Loo.
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Tonight Old Leather Lungs, Frankie Laine, belts out the stirring, über-manly anthem from Blazing Saddles.
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